More than 2,300 people — including Brigham Young University students and alumni and members of the Mormon Church — have signed a petition asking that Vice President Dick Cheney not deliver the university’s commencement address this month.

According to the Associated Press, critics of the vice president say he would not set a good example for the 30,000-student university’s graduates. The critics are concerned by Mr. Cheney’s ties to the use of faulty intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, as well as by the Valerie Plame case, in which Ms. Plame’s role as an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative was leaked by Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby.

Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU’s business school, is one of the organizers of the petition, which has been circulated online for more than a week. He said the university had “a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do.” He added: “Cheney just doesn’t measure up.”

A university spokeswoman said administrators were working to find a location for protesters who are planning a demonstration on the day of the vice president’s speech. “We recognize that members of our campus community are entitled to their opinions,” she said. —Lawrence Biemiller