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Yes, there was student unrest, student anxiety, student concern and you would hope that the day would never come in a university where that would not be the case because if it isn't a vigorous, volatile, debating, challenging kind of atmosphere around here, I think you're a dead institution.
William Friday Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Cindy Cheatham, December 18, 1990; Southern Oral History Program, Interview L-0049, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, Interview L-0049
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- 1990
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