SARASOTA, Fla. — The campus was on edge, with more than a dozen police and a bomb-sniffing dog on patrol and rumors spreading that far-right militias were on their way.
Outside an auditorium, a few protesters held up signs declaring: "NO HOSTILE TAKEOVER!"
The focus of the controversy was Christopher Rufo, the most prominent of six conservatives recently named trustees at New College of Florida by the state's governor, Ron DeSantis, as part of his war on "woke."
