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UF Alumni Reflect On Black Thursday And The Black Student Experience By Audrey Mostek April 14, 2021 Betty Stewart-Fullwood was among the 100-plus Black students who left the University of Florida after the administration’s response to their demands for better treatment in 1971. “It was the principle of the matter,” Stewart-Fullwood recalled Tuesday during a virtual panel discussion commemorating the 50th anniversary of the campus protests commonly known as Black Thursday. “I needed to walk out, even though I came back.” Three times on Thursday, April 15, 1971, groups of Black Student Union members entered Tigert Hall in an attempt to speak with then-UF President Stephen C. O’Connell. The BSU wanted, among other things, UF to enroll and hire Black students and faculty, create a minority affairs department, and “the fair and equal treatment of our Black brothers and sisters” on staff at the university. ....
‘Everything Started Going Crazy’: North Florida Girl Scouts Selling Cookies Amid A Pandemic By Audrey Mostek February 5, 2021 Ambassador Darian Pisano of Troop 107 in Gainesville loves selling Girl Scout Cookies. Her first season, 10 years ago, she found that selling 1,000 boxes would mean a free week of camp. Most Girl Scouts sell 200-300 boxes a season, but Darian reached her goal. Last year, the 17-year-old junior at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School sold 3,504 boxes. “This year, because of everything, my goal is only 1,500 again,” she said recently. By everything, Darian means trying to sell cookies during the coronavirus pandemic. In-person booth sales of Girl Scout Cookies typically happen January to March. ....