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i know i am late on this one, but on April 1st, more than a few of us here at the University of Florida rallied on our school president's door step at Tigert Hall to send a message to the community, state(especially old governor Bush!) and the rest of the country that we are taking this AFFIRMATIVE ACTION thing seriously!
it is especially important that we are proactive, whever we are becaue at an internationally renown school like UF that is bringing all kind of research dollars and claiming that diversity is an important issue, we don't always see those in leadership positions following what their words are saying. We are 44,000+ deep at UF, but less than 5,000 are African-Americans; the incoming class of Blacks dropped for real once Gov. Bush instated that ONE FLORIDA plan. the incoming classes of African Americans seriously dropped and has barely rebounded. We need to rally together and let our voices be heard, whever we are! We actually started a petition on campus to try to get our university president to take a STAND on affirmative action, hoping that as a leader of such a prestigious public univserity that he will persuade others in leadership to do the same! holla!
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