utbagpiper
Banned
I spoke with a representative of the UVU police department and was told that the current policy is posted on their main page. I asked him whether or not open carry with a conceal permit is permitted and he said yes, but you will be sited with disorderly conduct if the department receive calls of concern.
Doesn't that still conflict with Utah's disorderly conduct law?
Yes it does.
And this is where we are back to intimidation on their part. If they don't actually have a policy banning OC, they will do their best to convince you that if you OC bad things will happen. They will do their best to intimidate you into not OCing.
If you are looking for them to tell you that they are perfectly happy with you OCing on campus and into class, you'll have a very long wait.
If your reaction to a police officer telling you to cover your gun is to either comply, or to react with hostility of various forms, you probably won't be able to OC very long. They will be able to hit you with a Disorderly Conduct or similar charge based on your "additional behaviors" that gave a cop something to articulate beyond your just having a gun.
If, however, in the face of an authority figure like a cop telling you to cover your gun you can calmly, politely, civilly yet forcefully decline to do so for lack of any legal requirement...if you can even accept a bogus citation peacefully and civilly knowing the judge is going to have no choice but to toss it, you can probably OC quite fine.
That doesn't mean some liberal English lit, professor, or victims' study professor isn't going to decide s/he really dislikes the way you write your papers, making it hard for you to get an easy A. But for math, science, and engineering classes professors tend to have less leeway to decide whether your answers were correct or not. Either you found the correct integral for 5x^3 or you didn't.
If you are looking for someone to tell you that nobody is going to object to you OCing, OCing (off the job, out of uniform) is probably not for you. And there is nothing wrong with that so long as you are ok CCing. Nothing says gun owners have some duty to OC.
If you want to OC, you need to adopt the correct mindset of learning the laws very clearly and then being confident and firm--while being consummately polite, professional, and civil--in asserting your rights when someone attempts to intimidate you into surrendering your rights.
All the best.
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Charles