University of Tampa Students Excited by Motorcade, Not So Much by Biden

TAMPA—A visit to a university by a Democratic president who espouses a slate of progressives policies, including student loan debt relief, should—as the stereotype goes—spur a frenzy of starry-eyed support by “woke” youth indoctrinated by leftist ideologues.
But when President Joe Biden came to the University of Tampa on Feb. 9—the first stop of a planned national tour to push his administration’s initiatives—there may have been more consternation among students about chlorine levels at the Benson Alex Riseman Aquatic Center than what he had to say.
There were no cheering mobs waving signs, chanting slogans, or marching about protesting in plurals rather than proper gender pronouns on the 8,300-student campus wedged into downtown Tampa….}

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