Cypress Hill [ tickets ] will perform their April 2nd show at Dixie College in St. George, UT as scheduled, it was announced Saturday (3/27). The show, which was initially cancelled by the college over security concerns, became the centerpiece of a national free speech debate after the promoter of the show, Soularium Music, cited free speech issues in a lawsuit filed against the college on Wednesday.

Dixie College representatives initially cited a potential lack of security personnel for the cancellation, noting that the concert coincides with the city's annual flood of Spring Break revelers. In normal circumstances, the city's police force provides some security staffing for the college's concerts, but officers will be deployed elsewhere on the night of the show.

Soularium president Mark Comer argues that security was never an issue. He plans to provide a security staff of 40 to 50, even though the college requires only 30 staffers per their show agreement. "The last thing we are ever going to argue is security," he said. "We want to make sure this is a great show and there are no problems," Comer told the St. George Spectrum.

St. George Police Chief Bob Flowers counters that his concern from the beginning has not been staffing inside the venue, but security outside once the show lets out.

In their defense against suggestions that their audience could be volatile, Cypress Hill issued a statement via their web site, saying in part, "The public record clearly demonstrates that any suggestion that the group's fans provide a threat to the public safety is patentedly (sic) false."

The lawsuit against the college is still in place while the promoter determines whether further actions on the part of the college serve to keep the show happening.

Soularium's arguments that the school's agenda in cancelling the show was based on content more than security concerns is not being denied entirely by the college. In a statement issued Saturday announcing that the show would go on, Mark Peterson, Dixie College's director of public relations said, "Through this process we have learned that the performers and their music may be incongruent with prevailing community standards. Even then, it falls within the boundaries of established constitutional law."