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kwassa

(23,340 posts) Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:16 PM Dec 2015

Byrd Stadium to become Maryland Stadium after regents' vote.

Source: Baltimore Sun

The University of Maryland's stadium will have a new name for the home of Terrapins football: Maryland Stadium.

The university system's Board of Regents voted 12 to 5 Friday to strip the Harry C. "Curley" Byrd Stadium of its name, following a student-led push to find a new moniker for the facility. Byrd is known as a segregationist who opposed racial integration in the early days of the civil rights movement. Others point to the development of the university during his nearly 20-year tenure as president.



Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-byrd-stadium-vote-20151211-story.html

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Byrd Stadium to become Maryland Stadium after regents' vote. (Original Post) kwassa Dec 2015 OP
Really? Five asshats voted to keep the segregationist's name on the stadium? Scuba Dec 2015 #1
Byrd did a lot to build the university .... kwassa Dec 2015 #2
 

Scuba

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1. Really? Five asshats voted to keep the segregationist's name on the stadium?
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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 07:56 AM
Dec 2015

Good on the other twelve.

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kwassa

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2. Byrd did a lot to build the university ....
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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 05:57 PM
Dec 2015

It is a bit like Woodrow Wilson. While positive in many ways, Byrd was an outrageous racist.

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