Florida State students buck PC trend, vote to keep statue of slave-owning school founder
Dave Huber - Assistant Editor •October 23, 2016
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By an overwhelming margin in a campus-wide referendum, students at Florida State University voted to keep an historical statue on campus, despite its connection to American slavery.
FSU News.com reports that almost three-quarters of those voting favored maintaining the statue of Francis Eppes, one of the university’s founders and grandson of Thomas Jefferson, in front of the school’s Westcott Building. It was erected in 2002.
The question was put forth as follows:
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