A message from campus authorities went out Tuesday afternoon to alert University of Utah students of increased police presence, relocated classrooms and barriers near the Social and Behavioral Science Building on Wednesday.
In anticipation of tension surrounding the event, the university’s 40-member police force will patrol the campus, as they do during sporting events, and will be supplemented as needed by officers from the Salt Lake City Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol, said U. spokesman Christopher Nelson.
Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and former editor-at-large of Brietbart News, was invited by the Young Americans for Freedom student group.