WASHINGTON -- A University that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) attended is dropping the powerful senator’s name from a campus building after school officials said it caused branding issues.

Officials at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, decided to attach Reid’s name to the school’s Outdoor Engagement Center in 2011, hoping that it would help raise money for the center.

“The new naming caused some branding issues for the Outdoor Engagement Center, because people didn’t necessarily associate Harry Reid with outdoor engagement," Jennifer Burt, an SUU spokeswoman, told The Huffington Post. "It was impacting a center that had already been functioning and thriving. The name itself, it just caused some identity issues.”

SUU was also facing pressure from some Cedar City residents, who raised at least $40,000 to have Reid’s name removed from the cente

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