Well, yes. And?
And Oxford University has no interest in doing this. Same with their alumni donors who have made clear they want the statue to stay. Rhodes was a racist scumbag, but he was a racist scumbag who is also a benefactor of the university and of thousands of people that have studied on his scholarships.
Students are free to write essays denouncing him, hold protests under the statue or do whatever else they want including petitioning for the statues removal. Oxford and Oriel college are then free to then ignore the students. Oxford is not a student run democracy nor should it be.
I don’t believe any of those facts are in dispute. The question is whether the college should ignore the students, not whether they can.
Monuments don’t have to inspire anything to be offensive and deserve removal. They can simply be a reminder of continual suffering and/or honoring a person and their ideology that continues to harm people to this day. Your short-sightedness on this subject is typical of people who think that just because a statue is up, it deserves to stay up forever.
Empowering the perpetual full time victim class does no good. The statues should stay for that reason alone.
Do you have any evidence that the people calling for its removal are “perpetual full time victims”?
It’s my expert opinion that those who have nothing better to do but whine about statues, flags, portraits, who or what is on money, state names, street names, and monkeys on a shirt are perpetual victims. And this is Great Debates is it not? Have you seen some of the debate winning tactics employed by the modern youth?
And your understanding of preservation laws in England are
LOL, there is no perpetual victim class. 
Just because you heard it on Fox doesn’t mean its true, or that it ever existed. There are legitimate reasons to remove things like Confederate statues. Each one should be judged on its own merits, not because you think it fits a narrative cooked up in the Roger Ailes’ dungeon
Wasn’t Rhodes gay? I bet if the university students hear that he was a pioneer in gender identity issues, their protests will mysteriously fade away. 
You give the whining PC crew an inch they’ll take a fathom.
Next they’ll be coming for your tributes to David Duke and Pol Pot!
Or you give the inch that any reasonable person should give because we shouldn’t have Confederates being honored on public land
No. Never give an inch. First Jefferson Davis than Thomas Jefferson. That’s how the left works. Incrementalism while simultaneously ridiculing the very concept.
“Masada will not fall again.”
Remains to be seen.
“Whining PC Krew” is the name of my Wu Tang Clan tribute band!
I would possibly agree with removing the Rhodes statue if it was on public land or on a government office, but its not. Oxford is a private university
Yes and, then again, no. Oxford runs itself but it does receive government funding (although their endowment is so large they could do without and likely not suffer). There are only 5 private universities in the UK and Oxford is not one of them.
Also, there’s that whole Royal Charter business…
Oxford gets only 15 percent of its income from the government, its considered a “public university” in the UK, but it any other country it wouldn’t be. In particular the government doesn’t own the land or the buildings.
Remind me again, which country is Oxford in?