FAU Owls' Stadium Name Has Become A Controversy

Last Tuesday, Florida-Athletic University sold the naming rights to it's on-campus stadium for $6 million to the GEO Group. The GEO Group, run by CEO George Zoley who earned his bachelor's and master's from FAU, is a company that operates private prisons around the world. If you've been to their Wikipedia page, you'd see they've also gotten a lot of controversies over the years. Unless, of course, you visited the day of the announcement, when the "Controversies" section was replaced with more positive comments with "our" and "we" in the sentences. The changes were first done by an "Abraham Cohen," who just happens to share the name with a GEO spokesperson (who was also at one time an FAU student body president and on the Board of Trustees), and later changes were from an anonymous account with a GEO IP address. The same day, a petition started to remove the name from what was now being nicknamed "Owlcatraz." And Monday, a student group calling themselves the "Stop Owlcatraz Coalition" held a sit-in with 40 students in President Mary Jane Sanders office. Sanders agreed to a one-hour meeting with students this Friday, defending GEO but admitting "I don’t know everything about this company."