OREM, Utah — As donations continue to come in for a proposed memorial to honor Charlie Kirk on Utah Valley University’s campus, a student-led petition is now gathering signatures in opposition to the effort.

UVU senior Mary Jackson says this past week has brought more people than she’s ever seen to campus.

“There’s nothing that can quite describe when your home becomes a headline,” said Jackson. “I heard the gunshot. I was running with the crowds, with everyone else.”

Jackson was quick to condemn the violence she had seen unfold.

“We wrote this petition, knowing that we’re coming from a place of experience and we are grieving very intimately with the people who were there,” Jackson added.

But she feels that the artwork of Charlie Kirk’s likeness would not represent them as a universit

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