DeSantis gives college conservative reformation

Republican Floridia Governor Ron DeSantis, has been in the headlines again. DeSantis targeted New College, a small public liberal arts college.

New College is special in its origins and history. It was founded by civic leaders in 1960 and is known for its inclusivity and diversity.

DeSantis has replaced trustees of the college with ultraconservative individuals, who forced out the college’s president and replaced them with DeSantis’s former education commissioner, Richard Corcoran. One of their first actions was to nearly double Corcoran’s salary compared to his predecessor. This behavior should not come as a surprise.

Last year DeSantis pushed for the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in which public schools could not discuss gender or sexuality. This was a clear attempt to censor and criminalize transgender and queer individuals

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DeSantis specifically targeted New College due to its leftleaning politics.

DeSantis is running for presidency, on a conservative platform. New College was underfunded by the state, but that may change as it shifts to more right-wing ideologies and practices.

Critical race theory, transgenderism and queer existence are “ideologies” DeSantis is against and refuses to allow to be “taught” in schools. Critical Race Theory is just acknowledging our history and the institutional racism in our nation.

There is no reason for him to stop from doing the same in K-12 schools. While the phrase “knowledge is power” feels rudimentary, it still applies to all aspects of life. What is being taught in schools, no matter the grade, will shape the next generation. Imagine if Hitler was no longer discussed in schools because “it happened in the past” and “it may upset some.” How would we learn from history?

Upper level education is even more important.

K-12 is funded by the local community through taxes, while colleges are not. This allows colleges to have better resources and overall better education. Better education creates an informed and powerful population.

DeSantis wants us to be ignorant. He wants our racist history, and current racist systems, to be forgotten and ignored. DeSantis wants to ostracize the “other” in our society — queer, trans, non-white and so on.

What can SUNY Plattsburgh students do?

There is not much students can do to directly affect Florida. New York is unlikely to follow DeSantis’s lead, as the state is largely Democratic. However, if DeSan-

Cianciulli also told her to write plenty of letters and postcards to send to friends and family once she arrived in Pola. Before she left, Setti visited Cianciulli one last time. That choice sealed her fate.

Setti visited Cianciulli with much joy. To celebrate, Cianciulli offered her a glass of wine. Unbeknownst to Setti, it had been drugged. Setti fell unconscious, upon which Cianciulli took the opportunity to kill her. She used an axe to kill Setti. She brought the body to a closet, before she cut it into nine pieces. Setti’s blood was drained into a basin.

Cianciulli wrote in her memoir, “An Embittered Soul’s Confessions,” confessing to how she disposed of Setti: “I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.”

It is uncertain, but Cianculli may have received Setti’s life savings, adding up to 30,000 Italian lira.

Cianciulli’s second victim was also a familiar face to the killer. Sep. 5, 1940, Francesca Soavi met Cianciulli. Cianculli spun a story that there was a teaching job for Soavi abroad.

Cianciulli once again instructed Soavi to write letters to family and friends, but delay their mailing. Soavi met Cianciulli one last time before her departure. Again, Soavi was fed drugged wine, killed with an axe and was turned into tea cakes.

Cianciulli had one final victim. A former opera singer, Virginia Cacioppo. Cacioppo was tired of her daily toil, and paid Cianciulli 50,000 lire to help her find a way to the big city. Cacioppo wanted the hustle and