UW president Ana Mari Cauce is urging students and the public to avoid the University of Washington on Saturday for fear a rally in Red Square might turn violent.
"This week, UWPD obtained credible information that groups from outside the UW community are planning to join the event with the intent to instigate violence,” she wrote in email and blog post warning students to stay away.
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“I believe that those people have the right to have their demonstration but I just don't want it to be on the campus because it promotes violence,” said earth sciences student Tore Landble.
Communications student Liz Turnbull added, “I really want to be a journalist so I think I'll probably go because I want to see what happens. I don't know, it's really interesting. Obviously, we've proven that a lot of dangerous things can happen here.
In Red Square tomorrow, the UW chapter of College Republicans will hold a rally with Joey Gibson - Founder of the Vancouver Washington group called Patriot Prayer.
President Chevy Swanson today won a temporary restraining order forcing the UW to hold off from imposing a $17,000 security fee. Later hearings will determine whether the College Republicans will have to pay a fee at all.
“There's a sort of ‘hecklers veto’ going on in which we're not really being charged because we're doing anything we're being charged because other people hear what we are saying and get mad and they as individuals cause damage.
Our camera was there in August, when pushing and shoving broke out at a rally Patriot Prayer held in downtown Seattle.
What does Swanson hope to accomplish tomorrow? “Well, we would have proved that we have a voice and that the right can protest.”
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