Left: UVU student Adam Aubade participates in a sit-in with fellow students against DHS. (Tess Crowley, Deseret News) Right: Chalk-art at UVU anti-ICE protests depicts ICE agent being shot in the head.
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Since it became the site of the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September of 2025, Utah Valley University has seen an unprecedented surge of left-wing extremism within its student body.
Evidence obtained by The Cougar Chronicle shows how a large network of student clubs and off-campus organizations have spent the months following the shooting perpetuating extremist propaganda, violent rhetoric, and even the harassment of conservative students on UVU campus.