Hundreds of University of Florida students held protests this week criticizing the anticipated appointment of Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., to lead the school.
by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, called Sasse “right for the University of Florida” and “right for the state of Florida.”
“While the president of the university isn’t going to decide things like gay marriage or other things like that, his main job is representing the university,” Smith said. “It’s much more the symbolic representation, that he doesn’t represent the student body and the diverse faculty.” The appointment seems to have inflamed a broader sense of exclusion felt by LGBTQ students at the university, according to Alex Noon, the president of OUTLaw, the unaffiliated LGBTQ organization for the law school.
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