University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Photo: of UAA Photo: Courtesy of Committee First UF-FSU Football Game Gators stomp Seminoles 21-7 in Gainesville. UF Officially Intergrates UF officially opens its doors, African Americans in 1958. There is a slow but minority enroll into the university 1967 President O ' Connell Steer UF Through Turbulent Time Stephen C. O ' Connell is the first UF alumnus to serve as president of the university. Campus unrest reaches its peak nationwide in the spring of 1968. Numerous demostrations, both peaceful and are held to protest the Vietnam War, and racial and feminist issues.

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During Reitz time as president, is spent on campus construction. of that money goes to the Health Science C enter and teaching hospital (now Shands),which admitted its first tient ill 1958. built to to honor, and killed in World War I and II. The that minutes Was coin in 1979. Photo:Diana world war l War II at the of Florida. The GI Bill that applies to woolen education. By Are are women . •

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Photo: lane Klimenko 1971 Black Thursday Protest By fall of 1970 there are still 343 American students, who experience a sense of alienation in a white campus. A sit-in at the president ' s office in April culminates in the arrests of 66 students. When O ' Connell refuse to grant ) to the demonstrators, approximately one-third of the black students and several black faculty members the university. Marston Assumes UF Presidency Econo mic inflation and the oil crisis cause to restrict use of and President Robert Marston cannot depend solely on state money and from the private sector. 1984 Criser Presidency Strengthens UF n 1985. UF is added to he Association of Universities, a high-education comprising of he top 63 public and institutions in North