VALDOSTA – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally Monday at Valdosta State University, but campus Event Services may have violated its own policies when it rented the school’s P.E. Complex to the Trump campaign.

A letter distributed this week by a VSU student questioned whether VSU violated policy when renting the facility for the Feb. 29 rally.

In the letter, Quinten Sabré Sims expressed distrust in VSU’s administration and questioned the fairness of renting the school’s P.E. Complex to the Trump campaign.

“There are countless organizations on the campus that attempt to reserve the Complex and are subject to months of preparation and money,” Sims said.

VSU Event Services require student organization requests to rent facilities to be submitted two weeks in advance, but emergency reservations can be made 48 hours before an event.

But VSU’s Event Services manual stipulates “major events” held by outside organizations must be made 90 days in advance, and rental agreements must be signed two weeks before the event.

Applicants must submit a request to Event Services four (4) weeks in advance of the event. For all conferences, workshops, camps, or major events, requests must be submitted at least ninety (90) days in advance.

Upon approval of the request, applicants must sign the appropriate rental agreement and return it to Event Services within two weeks.

A VSU spokesperson confirmed to Valdosta Today that a contract with the Trump campaign was signed Monday, just seven days before the scheduled rally.

Valdosta Today has reached out to VSU to determine when the Trump campaign requested the facility, if the renting of the P.E. Complex was expedited for the Trump campaign, if the campaign has partnered with a student organization to possibly qualify for an emergency reservation or if any other guideline was used to approve the event.

VSU had not responded to requests for that information as of Friday morning.

The rally, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday, is not a campus-sponsored event.

Groups not affiliated with the university must pay $2,000 to use the P.E. Complex for a half-day and $4,000 for a whole day, according to the Event Services manual.

Sims said his fraternity honors Trump’s First Amendment right to free speech and does not wish to disrupt the rally.

“The problem that the student body has is that such a short notice in reserving the complex does not seem consistent with the guidelines that many of us face when trying to reserve the same venue, and if the guidelines were changed, the student body was not notified of the changes made,” Sims said.

Valdosta Today will continue to follow this story and will report additional information as it becomes available.