The line to get into Anita Hill’s lecture at the University of Utah started to form at 4 p.m. — three hours before she was scheduled to speak Wednesday.
By 5 p.m., hundreds of people were there, winding down the sidewalk and wrapping around the building. Most of those who got there after 6 p.m. were too late to make it inside. Before Hill’s speech started at 7 p.m., all 600 seats were filled and dozens of people stood against the walls of the auditorium.
“We tried to fit as many people in as we could in line with fire codes,” said Megan Dipo, spokeswoman for the Tanner Humanities Center, which hosted the event.