Source: In These Times
by Kathryn Joyce
“On the evening of May 17, under a billowing white tent overlooking the sunset on Sarasota Bay, a titan of business, a self-made man, stood before a sea of ungrateful punks, trying to impart some wisdom. Joe Ricketts, founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, was talking about his boyhood paper route, the lean years while he built his first company and the importance of hard work when the graduating class of the New College of Florida — the small, unorthodox honors college of the state’s public university system — drowned him out with raucous chants of ’Free Palestine.’ On stage, Ricketts turned to New College President Richard Corcoran and sorrowfully said, ‘They don’t care. I hate it, but they really don’t care what I have to say.’ Corcoran gripped his elbow: ‘“We will win, Joe.’ Ricketts nodded. ‘“You will win.'” (12/09/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-college-florida-republicans-higher-ed