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DeSantis appoints six ultraconservatives to the school’s Board of Trustees, including Christopher Rufo, the right-wing activist behind attacks on Critical Race Theory, and Matthew Spalding, who would go on to play a leading role in Project 2025.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>But conquering a school is not the same as running it. The college community mounts a fierce resistance, exposing what they see as the new administration’s cruelty, incompetence, and corruption. Meanwhile, the administration enacts policies meant to transform the culture and the campus, and the college begins to change before our eyes. As the tension mounts, students and faculty battle to preserve the school’s unique character and the integrity of the academic program—all the while warning the rest of the nation, “Your school is next.” At a raucous performance of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, students sing “Don’t dream it, be it,” but we fear they are doing the Time Warp on the deck of the Titanic. 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