It will be held April 4 on Brigham Square, BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said, adding LDS Church leaders' invitation to Cheney still stands, and the speech will take place.

"We recognize on any given day and any given subject that there are many diverse views, and there are diverse views on this situation as well," Jenkins said. "We recognize that members of our campus community are entitled to their opinions."

That recognition is exactly what Diane Bailey, president of the College Democrats, wants.

"We're not protesting Cheney's invitation, we're protesting his policies," she said Thursday. "I hope it stirs political debate and that students think of their own opinions if they support Cheney's policies. We want him and others to know there's an opposition voice to his policies. We're not just a campus of conservative Republican students."

While "protest Cheney, not the invitation" may be the College Democrats' official stance, Bailey recognizes some in her group would prefer the vice president not to come to campus. They cite Cheney's support of torture as a form of interrogation, his involvement in the Valerie Plame affair and his "instilling fear in the American public that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons at a time when that information was highly uncertain," she said.

However, Bailey wants to keep the protest solely "for students and by students."

"We don't want to be hijacked by extremist causes and political agendas," she said.

The announcement that Cheney would speak came last week, and was quickly followed by online petitions created by several professors and students. The petition, which has been signed by more than 1,500 people, can be found at http://cheneyspeech.blogspot.com.

The College Democrats would like to have another protest the day of Cheney's visit, but have not decided on a location and have yet to receive school permission. The student club would like to protest next to the Marriott Center, where Cheney will speak, but school leaders worry about security.

"The administration has been very accommodating about both protests," Bailey said. "For the 26th, they said they won't stick us in the pool or some back closet. I'm sure we can come up with a place we both agree with."