"I don't think we are a fair campus," Lyon said. "I'll say that and I don't mind saying that. Do you think we would invite Bill Clinton? No, I don't think we would. We're the campus that projects closeness to Republicans, and so we only invite Republicans.

"We have had Sean Hannity speak on campus, at the football stadium. Could we let Michael Moore speak on campus? No, we wouldn't.

"We're definitely a one-party campus."

Hawkins believes Cheney has changed in the past four years from a moderate pragmatist to an extremist driven by the Iraq war and has appeared willing to do anything to create his version of a secure country.

Instead, "I think he has done more to undermine U.S. security than any other individual in the past four years," Hawkins said.

The president of the BYU College Republicans, David Lassen, said he hopes the visit generates discussion among students.

"One of our main purposes is to get students involved in any political activity at all," he said. "This will stir up some conversation and some controversy, but probably less than other places."

Lassen said Republican students are excited about the visit.

"I think both President Bush and Dick Cheney have stepped away from some conservative ideology I agree with, but on the whole I still support them in a lot of ways and definitely prefer them to some Democratic alterna- tives we've been presented."

White House spokeswoman Megan McGinn said Cheney spoke last year at graduation exercises for Louisiana State University, the Naval Academy and his high school alma mater, Natrona High in Casper, Wyo.

Cheney is scheduled to appear at another graduation this spring, but the White House did not release the school's name.

"The vice president is looking forward to attending BYU's commencement ceremony," McGinn said.

BYU policy limits political protests on campus. If a large anti-war protest develops, it likely would be off campus.

Provo supported BYU Police Thursday when the Soulforce Equality Riders, a 25-member gay activist group, protested on the edge of campus.

"I don't think we've considered the logistics of a very large protest," said Wayne Parker, Provo's chief administrative officer."

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