PRESIDENT REAGAN visits UNR President of the United States Ronald Reagan spoke at the University ' s Leadership Seminar Thursday, October 7. President Reagan ' s was the first Presidential visit to Reno since President Lyndon Johnson ' s visit in 1964 and the first ever to the University campus. Preparations for the President ' s visit began over a week before he arrived. Dozens of secret service agents flew in to decide what would be safest for the President. By Thursday, the day of the speech, over one hun- dred secret servicemen were on and around the campus, providing the most extensive security UNR had ever seen. The President ' s welcome was no less extensive. Many students had spent hours and days preparing to welcome the Presi- dent. The UNR marching band was lining up to get set up on the quad at 6:30 am, although they wouldn ' t play their welcome for the President for nearly five hours. Many ASUN senators and their friends were up even earlier. At 5am they began putting up the last of their posters and banners saluting the President. For several days these students had been stuffing napkins, and painting posters, and distributing tickets for the visit. Although the Presi- dent ' s speech was free and open to the public tickets were required at the gate. Tickets were available, howev- er, for nearly anyone who wanted one. Students who came in large groups (such as the Greek houses) were seated together. Several days before President Reagan arrived on campus, sorority and fraternity representa- tives, along with dorm students, attended a meeting with University officials in which they were briefed and given tickets for special seating. They were asked to distribute the tickets to their houses ' members, but especially to those who would cheer. Others could get tickets, but not in preferred seating. Anyone who wanted to protest the President ' s visit could, but, unlike the cheerers, he had to register with the Dean of Students. Two groups did register — The African Students Association and the Progressive Student Alliance — and were told when and where they could protest. They ended up in between the Student Union and Thompson Student Services, the 25
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