On 16 September, the New College of Florida announced plans to commission a statue of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and organiser who was fatally shot on 10 September while speaking at Utah Valley University in the city of Orem. New College is a public liberal-arts school in Sarasota, Florida. (At Florida Atlantic University, an art history professor was put on leave after she re-posted others' comments about Kirk's past statements.) The New College of Florida, the only public liberal-arts college in the state, was one of the first institutions attacked by DeSantis's education laws. Republican officials in Oklahoma have proposed legislation that would require every public university in that state to building a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza" that includes a statue of Kirk, or face monthly fines, according to The Guardian .