Petitions Push for Renaming of UF, FSU Facilities

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According to the Orlando Sentinel, Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium and Florida’s Stephen C. O’Connell Center have become the subjects of petitions seeking to change their names because of their namesakes’ segregationist beliefs.

The recent push comes as part of a renewed movement against racial injustice in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. College athletics has become a hotbed for the continued conversation, in part because many prominent student-athletes are Black. 

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