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Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk to Speak at UF HE WILL SPEAK at Followed by a 30-Minute Q&A Line, Allen Said We Inform. You Decide. www.alligator.org VOLUME 114 ISSUE 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 Not officially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida YOM KIPPUR All Trump Jr. tickets given out STUDENTS PREPARE to run from 10 a.m. until holders will likely end TO WATCH SPEECH, 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Uni- up watching the speech PROTEST versity Auditorium box Thursday night, some offi ce. said they have other plans By Alex DeLuca and Juan Suarez, a 25-year- for their ticket stubs. old UF urban planning Arielle Hernandez, a Ana Escalante master’s student, picked 19-year-old UF architec- Alligator Staff Writers up a ticket for the free ture sophomore, has a event. Suarez is looking ticket but isn’t planning The UF Student Body forward to hearing what on attending the event, is preparing for Donald the speakers say about she said. Hernandez Trump Jr. and Kimberly the president’s 2020 cam- wants one less seat to be Guilfoyle’s Gainesville ar- paign, he said. fi lled. rival. “We’ve [Republicans] “I just wouldn’t feel The University Audito- been kind of thrown off to safe in that environment,” rium box offi ce is out of the side a lot, and you can she said. tickets. About 840 tick- feel that a lot, for exam- Now that all tickets ets were distributed by ple, here on campus,” he have been distributed, 2 p.m., said Henry Fair, Sam Thomas / Alligator Staff said. “I think that events students are looking for ACCENT Speakers Bureau Yosef Glaser, a 21-year-old rabbinical student from Chicago, reads from his prayer like this kind of demon- alternative ways to attend chairman. Ticket distribu- book Tuesday before the Yom Kippur ceremony begins. Glaser is studying to be a rabbi strate that level of support the speech. Daniel Shin, a tion for Thursday’s speak- and came to Gainesville to help with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. He said it is that we have on campus.” ing event was scheduled customary to read a verse from the prayer book aloud to yourself before the ceremony. While many ticket SEE REACTIONS, PAGE 3 Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk to speak at UF HE WILL SPEAK AT followed by a 30-minute Q&A line, Allen said. A student ID is Coloradoan. UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM session, said Sarah Allen, the not required to attend. Katie O’Sullivan, a 19-year- NOV. 12 UF Turning Point USA vice Kirk’s rental rate for the old history and political science president and a 19-year-old auditorium is discounted due sophomore and member of By Ashley Lazarski and telecommunications sophomore. to the organization’s non-profi t Students for Bernie Sanders, said Jordyn Kalman Kirk is not being paid by UF. status, Allen said. Kirk’s message would not identify She said Turning Point UF is Renting the space in the with college students who are not Alligator Staff Writers excited to host its founder. University Auditorium costs right-wing. The Turning Point USA “He stands for free speech, free $400, according to the University “UF needs to include left-wing founder will speak at UF next markets, the second amendment Auditorium Rental Policy voices on campus because having and limited government and it Manual. Allen said she could not two conservative speakers in month. Kirk Charlie Kirk, the conservative will be fantastic to see those disclose the total rental cost of a row is overkill,” she said. non-profi t’s founder, will stop principles be shared on the UF the speaking event. “Students need to be exposed to at the University Auditorium on campus,” Allen said. Kirk’s presence at Colorado new, intellectually honest ideas [email protected] Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. as part of his Tickets are available through State University in February 2018 because that’s the purpose of @jordynkalman Culture War Tour. Turning Point UF’s Facebook sparked clashes between white being in an academic setting like [email protected] Kirk will present for an hour, page. Any unclaimed seats will nationalists and Antifa protestors, UF.” @ashleylazarski be given to the standby seating according to local newspaper the Gainesville paints crosswalks rainbow to celebrate Coming Out Day THE COLORFUL CROSSWALKS by the Hippodrome Theatre in celebration ed crosswalks are expected to be done by Austin prior to moving to Gainesville and ARE DOWNTOWN of National Coming Out Day. Friday, in time for the annual Gainesville experienced the divisiveness that the move The annual awareness day was desig- Pride Parade and Festival next weekend. to install rainbow crosswalks caused in By Melissa Hernandez nated by the Human Rights Campaign in Painting began Tuesday at the intersec- back 2014 both with downtown church- Alligator Staff Writers 1988 to “promote a safe world for LGBTQ tion of Northeast 1st Street, with half the es and the public at large,” Ed Brewer, a individuals to live truthfully and openly.” crosswalk already sporting the colors of member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Rainbow crosswalks have been in cities The Pride Community Center of North Cen- the rainbow. But, not everyone is in favor wrote in an email to City Commissioner around the country from Atlanta to Seattle tral Florida approached city commissioners of the new crosswalks. Adrian Hayes-Santos. to New York. This week, Gainesville will with the idea earlier this year, and it was Some members of Holy Trinity Episco- Brewer added the city did not consult add itself to the list. approved unanimously, said City Commis- pal Church have reached out to city com- with the church prior to approving the The city’s Public Works Department sioner David Arreola. missioners to express their opposition, de- change, referring to it as “an illegal gov- started painting the crosswalks at North- The community center also set up a Go- scribing the pride fl ag as “divisive” and “a ernment action and in contravention of the east First Street and Northeast First Ave- FundMe fundraiser seeking $7,000 for the political symbol.” nue by City Hall, and Southeast First Street costs of painting the crosswalks. The paint- “From a personal viewpoint, I lived in SEE RAINBOW, PAGE 3 Is Trump Jr., Guilfoyle’s speech legal? Gators demonstrate ‘next man up’ Local lawyers explain the law behind the speech, pg 5 FOLLOW US ONLINE FOR UPDATES It may be cliche coachspeak, but Kyle Wood thinks UF can make it a reality, pg 11 Another on-campus sexual battery reported University Police are looking for the man, pg 4 @FloridaAlligator @TheAlligator_ @TheAlligator @alligator_newspaper 2 ALLIGATOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 Today’s Weather VOLUME 114 ISSUE 21 ISSN 0889-2423 Not offi cially associated with the University of Florida Published by Campus Communications Inc., of Gainesville, Florida NEWSROOM 352-376-4458 • Fax: 352-376-4467 Editor Amanda Rosa, [email protected] AM PM Engagement Managing Editor Tranelle Maner, NOON [email protected] Digital Managing Editor Kelly Hayes, [email protected] HIGH LOW Have an event planned? 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