From Charlottesville to Gainesville to a College Town Near You, Campuses Brace for More Tumult

[Gator88NE]

Kent Fuchs, the president of the University of Florida, was in the living room of his stately campus residence last fall when he saw the first televised images of a parade of terror unfolding in another college town further north.

There were protesters. Counterprotesters. Angry confrontations. The night sky was lit by tiki torches in the grips of young white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. And later a car, recklessly roaring toward the crowd, killed a counter-demonstrator named Heather Heyer and injured others.

“Oh God, that is headed here,” Mr. Fuchs recalls thinking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/us/from-charlottesville-to-gainesville-how-colleges-manage-speakers-like-richard-spencer.html

[SouthFloridaMom9]

President Fuchs did an amazing job all things considered. He was truly stuck between a ‘rock and a hard place.’ As a parent I appreciated his leadership and thoughtfulness.

The city of Gainesville and Alachua County and all of Florida law enforcement - they did a great job too.