U. aims to avoid 'police state' atmosphere on campus for Shapiro speech

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah plans to roll out a ramped-up police presence Wednesday night for conservative speaker Ben Shapiro, following a model it learned after sending a team to see how the University of California, Berkeley, handled a similar speech earlier this month.Though the U. doesn't have a history of free speech protests and violence like Berkeley, a liberal bastion and the birthplace of the American free speech movement, officials at Utah's flagship university didn'