Steve Orlando Quotations

We have had talks with the city of Jacksonville. We did pretty soon after the incident happened. It's all under discussion right now. A lot of things are on the table.

It clarified the situation. We have said all along that we have the authority. The ball is sort of in their court now.

We are the trustee. We will do our very best to carry out our responsibilities. We'll have to see how everything works out in court.

Today's the deadline. Are we going to start throwing people out? Of course we're not.

Unfortunately, part of what's making it difficult to fulfill our responsibilities is that they won't let us on the property.

We're not going to be canceling classes. If a student wants to work out something with their instructor, that's entirely up to him and that's fine.

This (ruling) puts us essentially back to where we were before the judge's order, which means we still consider ourselves the trustee. So we'll go forward with trying to carry out those responsibilities.

We like what we see with what they are doing. We are impressed with it. What they have done so far seems to be headed in the right direction.

Bo Diddley won't be in the parade this year. As far as the president goes, the president happens to be a Bo Diddley fan. But this a student production, and if this is the students' decision, then he supports it.

Some people may have thought so, but there wasn't that guarantee.

It made it seem like it would be very simple to set off an explosion and breach the reactor, when in fact 50 tons of concrete surround it. It's our understanding that not only would it survive a truck bomb but also a plane crash (into the reactor). The facility is safe and solid. It has a 46-year history of safety.

It was mayhem, but it was happy mayhem.

If you're a researcher at another institution, and you see that we're doing the same quantity of work and the same caliber of work as researchers at these other institutions, you're going to think of the University of Florida differently.

He's said at a couple occasions before that tailgating isn't a problem. It's a matter of binge and underage drinking, and those problems haven't come up at tailgating.

The kids coming in today have little to no recollection of it. That's ancient history to them.

All the local police agencies will have their plans in place. They'll have a presence there just to be there and make sure everybody does what we expect them to anyway: behave themselves and celebrate the right way without any problems.