The president of Florida State University is asking the school to conduct an internal review amid growing support to change the name of its football stadium.
“I’ve been following with great interest the petitions circulating on social media that Doak S. Campbell, FSU’s president in 1947 during its transition from the Florida State College for Women, resisted integration and asking that his name be removed from the stadium that bears his name,” FSU President John Thrasher said in a statement on Twitter.
“I have asked Athletics Director David Coburn to immediately review this issue and make recommendations to me.