Students protest University of Florida presidential finalist Ben Sasse's visit to school - CNN

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Students astatine the University of Florida protested the sojourn of Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska – the apt caller president of the assemblage – to the schoolhouse Monday.

Students protested Sasse during an unfastened forum connected the university’s field successful Gainesville connected Monday afternoon, according to the university’s newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator. Sasse plans to resign from the Senate by the extremity of the twelvemonth to instrumentality a occupation arsenic the president of the University of Florida, CNN reported past week

Sasse was scheduled to big 3 unfastened forums Monday afternoon, according to the university’s website.

According to the Independent Florida Alligator, Sasse near a forum astir 15 minutes aboriginal astatine which constituent astir 300 protesters entered the ballroom wherever the lawsuit was taking place.

Protesters called Sasse homophobic and racist, The Independent Florida Alligator reported.

Video obtained by CNN shows protesters chanting “Hey hey. Ho ho. Ben Sasse has got to go,” during Sasse’s visit.

Last week, the university’s statesmanlike hunt committee voted unanimously to sanction Sasse as its sole finalist for president of the university, a root told CNN. Sasse would regenerate Kent Fuchs, who is leaving the presumption aft 8 years to go a prof astatine the school.

Sasse was president of Midland University, a Lutheran wide arts schoolhouse successful Nebraska, earlier his predetermination to the Senate successful 2014.

Ethan Eibe is simply a sophomore astatine the University of Florida who was covering the protestation for the Independent Florida Alligator. He told CNN that helium talked to respective radical who participated successful the protest.

“Many are acrophobic with Sasse’s past comments that amusement helium is not successful favour of same-sex matrimony and abortion. When it comes to a assemblage arsenic divers arsenic UF, students wide don’t consciousness helium is simply a bully fit,” Eibe told CNN Monday. “They see him a governmental appointee essentially. They judge it’s a atrocious look connected the committee of trustees that named him the sole finalist retired of 700 candidates.”

The University of Florida would not remark connected Sasse’s sojourn to the schoolhouse Monday.

Meanwhile, CNN has reached retired to Sasse’s bureau but has not received a response.

According to the university’s handbook, the president serves arsenic the main enforcement serviceman of the schoolhouse and oversees each assemblage activities.