School Republicans at Stanford College are involved about makes an attempt by "leftists" to undermine a go to by Mike Pence scheduled for Thursday night. However two protest organizers say they don't seem to be in search of a confrontation.

The deliberate protests are the newest in what's been a contentious effort to convey the previous vice chairman below the Trump administration and outstanding social conservative to the college in Palo Alto, California. The college's Undergraduate Senate had earlier blocked the Stanford School Republicans' request for funding to convey Pence to campus out of security and different issues, however the group later prevailed, in keeping with The Stanford Each day.

"Resistance to our occasion is totally futile, and we sit up for having a profitable occasion," the Stanford School Republicans mentioned by way of Twitter Tuesday. The group has additionally complained that "leftists have been ripping down our flyers in a determined try and undermine the occasion" and its members have been "plastering your entire campus."

Pence's occasion speech is titled "Learn how to Save America from the Woke Left."

Pence at Dole Funeral
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives for the funeral service of the late former Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) at Washington Nationwide Cathedral on December 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Drew Angerer/Getty Photographs)Drew Angerer/Getty Photographs

However others at Stanford say Pence has a extra troubling message and have mounted a counter-protest for his campus go to.

Ritwik Tati and Eva Astrid Jones, two first-year college students, advised Newsweek they organized the protest due to what they describe as Pence's homophobia and being a part of an administration that has focused marginalized teams.

"Stanford is without doubt one of the most elite, science-based establishments on this planet," mentioned Tati.

"Pence is anti-science," Tati added, citing the vice chairman's stance on local weather change.

They mentioned they're anticipating about 100 individuals to come back to the protest that can present an area the place individuals they are saying have been marginalized by Pence can share their experiences and know they're supported by different college students.

"My purpose is to point out college students at Stanford that that is our dwelling," mentioned Jones. "And that hate like Mike Pence, hate just like the Stanford School Republicans aren't simply going to be ignored."

She mentioned it is "threatening" to convey somebody to Stanford who has been concerned with insurance policies which have adversely affected Black, Brown, Muslim, ladies, LGBTQ and low-income college students.

Each careworn that the protest won't be violent or confrontational, much like occasions which have performed out on different school campuses.

Walker Stewart, a board member for Stanford School Republicans, advised Newsweek in an electronic mail that they have been anticipating a small group of protesters who "will do little to disrupt the occasion."

"We're anticipated a packed crowd excited to see the VP converse – with over 200 college students on the waitlist there may be clearly pleasure surrounding the occasion," he mentioned.

He dismissed criticisms of Pence by protesters as a method utilized by "the left" to "smear conservatives as bigots and construe our speech as violence to keep away from really partaking with conservative concepts on a stage taking part in area."

Whereas the protest is just not anticipated to be confrontational, a variety of individuals reacted with outrage on Twitter that the previous vice chairman was talking at Stanford.

Person Toby Rhinehorn wrote: "Pence has by no means been proper about something. He means white, Christian hypocrisy abs ignorance. That is not conventional values."

"Oh do go on about "conventional" values with out sounding like a racist homophobe from 1955," Twitter consumer John Stark tweeted.

Person @LookingUp52 wrote: "Is that this a joke? Is Benedict Arnold the opening act."

Since leaving workplace, Pence has been criticized by former President Donald Trump for not searching for to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. As Pence is considered mulling a presidential run, a ballot of Republicans not too long ago discovered that Pence could not have overturned the outcomes.

Replace 2/17/22, 4:30 p.m. ET: This story has been up to date to incorporate remark from Stanford School Republicans.