Talk:Stephen C. O'Connell

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    [edit] Regarding Race

    "He safely led the University through a turbulent period of anti-war and racial protests."

    This seems pretty revisionist. Here's a quote from a Gainesville Sun article:

    "In 1971, the Black Student Union protested low black enrollment at UF by conducting a sit-in in O'Connell's office. Sixty-six students were arrested.

    When O'Connell did not grant them complete amnesty, prompting a third of UF's black students and several black faculty members left the university."

    http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20040727/NEWS/107270055

    68.214.96.70 (talk) 15:45, 17 April 2008 (UTC)DK