President Barack Obama speaks at the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (Greg Lindstrom / Camera file photo)
If you go What: Campaign rally featuring President Barack Obama
When: Gates open at 10 a.m.; Obama expected between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Where: Norlin Quad, University of Colorado campus, Boulder
Tickets: Free tickets available from campaign offices at 2206 Pearl St., Boulder; 1159 13th St., Boulder; 1811 Hover St., Longmont; 1110 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville; 6821 W. 120th Ave. Unit C, Broomfield
Info: colorado.edu
Anyone planning to attend President Barack Obama's campaign rally at the University of Colorado on Sunday should be prepared for security checkpoints, street and parking lot closures, and strict rules prohibiting liquids, weapons and large cameras on Norlin Quad, Boulder campus officials announced Friday.
CU released a list of security measures and campus closures in connection with Obama's return to campus on Sunday. Officials say the president -- who gave an address at the Coors Events Center in April -- will speak on the west end of Norlin Quad sometime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
No overnight camping on campus will be allowed leading up to the rally, and security screening for those who picked up tickets at local campaign offices this week will begin near the Hellems Arts and Sciences building at 10 a.m. Sunday.
No backpacks will be permitted, and all smaller bags will be subject so search, CU officials said.
Prohibited items include containers, bottles, cans, liquids, signs, umbrellas, guns, knives, pocket knives, multi-tools, mace, pepper spray, sharp objects of any kind, other weapons and other hazardous items. Small cameras are permitted, but single-lens reflex cameras and long lenses are not.
CU officials stressed that, due to the warm weather, attendees should stay hydrated. And since attendees will not be allowed to carry water bottles onto the quad, the university is setting up water stations around the grassy field.
On Sunday, no vehicles will be allowed on 18th Street between Euclid and Colorado avenues and on Colorado Avenue between 18th Street and Libby Drive. Macky Drive and Pleasant Street also will be closed.
Parking on campus will be free and available on a first-come, first-serve basis, though several parking lots will be closed to public access.
Beginning at 11:30 tonight, CU will close lots 208, 209, 243, 269, 310, 360, 374, 380, 384 and 386. Cars left in those lots were to be towed to lot 131 at Marine and 18th streets.
In addition, Balch Fieldhouse, Eaton Humanities, Woodbury, Old Main, University Theatre, Ekeley Sciences, Macky Auditorium, McKenna Languages, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies, Hale Science, Koenig Alumni Center, Guggenheim Geography and Hellems Arts and Sciences will be closed from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Norlin Library will be closed throughout the day Sunday.
Sewell Hall will be restricted to that dorm's residents from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
CU cautions that there will be "a large presence of Secret Service and local law enforcement" in and around those buildings and that campus access will be difficult starting Saturday afternoon via roadways and pedestrian paths.
Source: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21444410/cu-boulder-announces-security-measures-closures-president-obamas?source=rss
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