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The End of a Journey

by Reginald Stuart , October 19, 2006

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Rita Sanders Geier was the original plaintiff in a 1968 lawsuit seeking to eliminate Tennessee’s dual system of higher education. Nearly 40 years later, her case comes to a satisfactory conclusion.

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“a terrific job”
I left the country for two weeks the day after the settlement was announced and was unable to respond to Mr. Stuart's phone call asking for my views, but I think he has well captured the mood of various stages in this very complex case. Mr. Gonzalez did a terrific job, and for the first time in its history Tennessee State is in a position to compete and to become truly Nashville's public university. The ball is now in its court. (One minor factual correction--half of my group of interveners, which included five faculty and five students, had never been affiliated with UT-Nashville. They were TSU employees or students, equally concerned that the promises of the merger were not being fulfilled.)

-H. Coleman McGinnis.
Nashville, TN



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