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The Florida Board of Governors has VETOED the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida’s next President. The bad news is the UF board cleared him. He's a weak admin who was all about CCP in biolabs, full wokeness, DEI initiative promulgating, etc.
https://x.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1930004946650313081

Ono also mandated the dangerous and defective jab for many thousands of students in his time as university president in Canada and Michigan.

In what can best be described as the academic equivalent of a hostage video, Dr. Ono disavowed nearly every statement, program, and position he’d previously endorsed— blaming them on other people, old data, or the fact that he’s “an immunologist” and therefore not responsible for understanding, believing in, or explaining anything outside a petri dish.

Pressed on why he once praised a task force that declared “whiteness is an obstacle to inclusive excellence,” Ono clarified that he no longer stands by those words. Or those ideas. Or that task force. Or apparently anything he said prior to about 18 months ago. It was the same for vaccine mandates (“hard to say”), anti-racism (“not my specific area”), and the climate crisis (“I didn’t have the data back then”).

At one point, he even backed off his own field of study, claiming he never reviewed the clinical data on covid mandates, despite being —get this— an immunologist. ...

At one point, when pressed about a quote from last October, he conveniently replied, “I don’t remember what I was saying at that time.” When pressed on whether he would mandate vaccines again, immunologist Ono said he “doesn’t have enough data” to make that decision.

You almost felt bad for the guy. Almost. Then you remembered he was about to be handed $3 million a year to lead Florida’s flagship university and steer its students through the minefields of science, speech, and social values— armed, apparently, with an empty pipette, a DEI-induced blind spot, and a memory card corrupted by progressive firmware.