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Call It Woodrow Wilson Stad... Oh, On Second Thought, Never Mind
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Remember this controversy at the University of Maryland over the name of the football stadium? Now, the school president is recommending that the name of Byrd Stadium be changed because Curley Byrd, the honoree and former school president, was a rabid segregationist. The thing is, if you want to use the "consider his transgressions in light of his times" argument, he was a segregationist -- no black students in HIS school, no sir -- into the 1950s, maintaining that black students go to Morgan State and what became Maryland Eastern Shore while the College Park campus remained white. So times were changing and he didn't. Change the name. (Washington Post)
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