Jayleigh Totten came to New College because she wasn’t happy on her team at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City, a Division II school where students were expected to attend church twice a week.
The athletes were brought to campus at the indirect behest of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who seized on New College — which he has criticized as a “Marxist commune” — as an ideal political target.
To DeSantis, who often invoked New College during his stump speeches in the Republican presidential primary, the school was a symbol of his assault on left-leaning academia, the athletes a harbinger of a new conservative era.
Amy Reid, the faculty chair and director of the embattled gender-studies program who also serves on the board, told me that many student athletes were surprised to find, upon arrival, that their intended majors — business, sports management, communications — were not offered.
Totten tried to be respectful of everyone she met, but many returning students reported that some of the male athletes, especially, were having a hard time accommodating difference — they pointed and laughed if someone was dressed in high goth or in gender-nonconforming ways.
Chavez helped start the New College chapter of Turning Point U.S.A., a national group founded by Charlie Kirk, a prominent defender of Donald Trump who amplifies the lie that President Biden’s election was fraudulent.
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Jayleigh Totten came to New College because she wasn’t happy on her team at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City, a Division II school where students were expected to attend church twice a week.
The athletes were brought to campus at the indirect behest of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who seized on New College — which he has criticized as a “Marxist commune” — as an ideal political target.
To DeSantis, who often invoked New College during his stump speeches in the Republican presidential primary, the school was a symbol of his assault on left-leaning academia, the athletes a harbinger of a new conservative era.
Amy Reid, the faculty chair and director of the embattled gender-studies program who also serves on the board, told me that many student athletes were surprised to find, upon arrival, that their intended majors — business, sports management, communications — were not offered.
Totten tried to be respectful of everyone she met, but many returning students reported that some of the male athletes, especially, were having a hard time accommodating difference — they pointed and laughed if someone was dressed in high goth or in gender-nonconforming ways.
Chavez helped start the New College chapter of Turning Point U.S.A., a national group founded by Charlie Kirk, a prominent defender of Donald Trump who amplifies the lie that President Biden’s election was fraudulent.
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