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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Cries of cronyism as DeSantis bids to place rightwing ally at top university

Randy Fine speaks at Cambridge Christian school in Tampa in May as Ron DeSantis stands nearby.
Randy Fine speaks at Cambridge Christian school in Tampa in May as Ron DeSantis stands nearby. Fine is behind much DeSantis’s ‘slate of hate’ legislation. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

Barely three months have passed since Florida Atlantic University gained national prominence during an unlikely run to the final four of the March Madness men’s college basketball championship.

They were heady times for Florida’s fifth largest public university, a 30,000-student campus in Boca Raton that prides itself on a claim to be the most diverse seat of higher education in the state.

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