Despite an anonymous chalking on campus advertised for a Ku Klux Klan meeting in the Brickyard Wednesday night, the Brickyard was empty at 8 p.m., except for a passersby walking to and from D.H. Hill Library.

Since there was no criminal act committed, instead of a chalking violation, Campus Police Capt. Jon Barnwell said it was not an issue the police would pursue other than to gather information to give to the University.

If a group similar to the KKK were to obtain a Brickyard permit, Barnwell said it would be allowed to meet there because of free speech issues, but Carmen Hewitt, a junior in business management, said sometimes free speech issues should be reconsidered.

“The Brickyard is our main communal area,” she said.

Hewitt said allowing a group that could speak harshly toward certain people could be dangerous “when that freedom of speech is harmful to someone.”

But Joseph Heil, a senior in textile engineering, said he understood that free speech needs to be respected, even if it offends.

“It’s shocking, but [it could bring] a legal or a free-expression rights fiasco to try to go on history or past judgment to give justification for prejudice against groups,” he said.

It would be difficult to ignore the history of an offensive group like the KKK, Heil said, and he thinks the Brickyard should be reserved for only student and University organizations.