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Cal Poly’s rules and costs for Charlie Kirk memorial

September 29, 2025

Charlie Kirk

By KAREN VELIE

Following the death of Charlie Kirk, supporters in San Luis Obispo County planned to hold a memorial at one of the public areas at Cal Poly. A request the administration appeared to support before throwing in mutiple roadblocks and a large bill.

A lone gunman shot and killed Kirk on Sept. 10. The next day, local Turning Point USA leaders reached out to Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong with plans to hold a memorial on campus.

Armstrong’s office voiced support before administrators began appearing to obstruct plans to have a memorial in an outdoor area shortly after Kirk’s death.

In the past, campus administrators have permitted pro-Palestinian members of the community to gather in public places at no cost. Rules for public gatherings at Cal Poly include no identity-concealing masks and time and place restrictions.

But in regards to the planned Kirk memorial, campus administrators wanted it held in a classroom or inside the Performing Arts Center at a cost of $5,000, with no availability until Sept. 29, according to several attendees at a meeting with promoters and campus staff. Administrators voiced safety concerns regarding anti-Kirk protestors.

The Kirk vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Sept. 29 at the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly, said Nina Spinello, president of Turning Point’s SLO County Activism Hub. More than 3,000 attendees are expected.

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No Palestinian group has been given the PAC for free. $5,000 is a reasonable rental fee for an event like this. Much ado about nothing.


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The “palestine group” was too busy interrupting traffic, and getting arrested at Mott Gym…


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Just tell Cal Poly it’s the BLM or Rainbow people, and then it will be free with all the security you could ask for.


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How many memorials are on campus for blm? Or the rainbow people you worry about?


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They aren’t dead


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Yet


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“Administrators voiced safety concerns regarding anti-Kirk protestors.”


Which administrators? Names and titles please. Why not just tell the anti-Kirk protestors that they will be summarily expelled from Cal Poly if they show up to protest. Let’s see how committed they REALLY are.


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Did Kirk attend Csl Poly? A memorial for what?


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For rejecting shooting of innocent people! It’s that simple! I’m glad Cal poly are doing this and every educational institution should support the rejection of Charlie Kirk’s shooting and any other person! He was talking to students and listening to their thoughts.


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Hate to break it to you. Kirk was a podcaster who never listened to students. He went to campuses because he knew his mediocre style of debate typically sounded smart while dealing with poorly prepared students. When he was faced with actual facts and intelligence he would fold. He was not there to educate.

Should he have been shot? Of course not. Mass shooting are happening more and more in This country. Will there be memorials placed for all those people on campus?

Kirk was an another victim of the radicalized rightwing that should be designated as a terrorist organization in this country.


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Uh, the radical leftist Tyler Robinson who was a homosexual whom was intimately involved with his “transitioning” roomate…FAR, FAR, VERY FAR from right-wing ideology-radicalized or not!!!!


His own mother said he was leaning far LEFT in the past couple years!!!! HIS OWN MOTHER!!!


TRY AGAIN!!!!


10

You caught me! Was generalizing making sweeping accusations without any proof! Thought that’s how it’s done?


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Hate to break it to you. Kirk debated at Oxford Union and made his opponents look childish and churlish.


9

And? Are all Oxford students master debaters? Kirk certainly wasn’t.


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To be fair, maybe the taxpayers or students should not fund anything other than education. In real life, it seems everything is a civil matter and you need to hire a lawyer. Ever try to get the Fish and Wildlife do their job or the County Enforcement or the Regional Water Quality Control Board too? Just see a septic tank dumping into a trout stream and you will learn what these costly agencies will do. Zero is the answer.


2

Maybe the administration knows something we don’t, the students have learned to respond physically rather than intellectually to opposing believes.A sad mentality for state university students.


51

Universities have been a hot spot for political upheaval and protests leading to conflict for centuries. This belief that somehow they are now somehow this new hot spot for violence and conflict is absurd. What is new is a growing hatred of academia by MAGA.


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There’s no hatred by MAGA you can say there’s hatred everywhere and the fault is the educational institutions allowing that to happen by indoctrinating students more than educating them. It’s about time to put a stop on politics and intervening with families. Life was much better when everyone had their place. Schools for education and learn about being a good citizen and love of country. But instead now everything is allowed hate hate hate! Let’s all respect each other


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Sure…after you just stated “Kirk was an another victim of the radicalized rightwing that should be designated as a terrorist organization in this country.”


Keep it up you’re doing great!


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#DeathToTheDemoNcratParty

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Not centuries, since the beginning of the downfall in the sixties when the media started thinking for the simple minded.


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I agree


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Charge 5000 for free speech, as opposed to allowing free speech in and outdoor setting and hiring security personnel to put leftist rioters in handcuffs. Got it.


31

The assassin’s veto


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One should note that Poly has a newly minted Senior Assistant Vice Associate President of Public Safety (or some other nonsense bureaucratic title), as well as a new Provost. Interesting that these types of restrictions show up right after both have just taken power. No cost associated with free speech for pro-palestinian protestors, but high costs for those wanting to attend a memorial for Charlie Kirk. If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.


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