UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Students supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump erected a wood wall around the school’s flagpole to spark a conversation about the election and were met with Hillary Clinton supporter shouting through megaphones.

Penn State’s Bull Moose Party erected the makeshift wall in front of the university’s “Old Main” around noon as a symbol of why they support the Republican candidate. The event, planned weeks in advance, invited students to write their thoughts about the election on the wall in hopes of sparking a political discussion ahead of next week’s vote, the Centre Daily Times reports.

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“Surrounding the American flag, that symbolism is the major purpose of our demonstration. To say, ‘We’re not just building a wall to build a wall. We’re building a wall to protect this land, to protect this country, and to protect this flag,” Bull Moose spokesman Chris Baker told WJAC.

Protecting the United States is the main reason Bull Party members support Trump, Baker said, and the roughly 20 members who turned out for the event Monday were focused on engaging their classmates in civil discussion about an important decision.

“It’s one week until the election, and it’s the first day of November,” he said. “I don’t think people realize how quickly this decision is coming. It’s seven days before we choose the next president. This is kind of like a shock factor that we need to make this choice.”

“I want open discussion for everyone,” he added. “ … We are a group for discussion. We want people to come up and talk to us and have cordial debate. If we wanted to be in people’s faces we would have built this on Pollock Road to be divisive.”

About 20 minutes into the demonstration two Penn State employees – Mike Miller and Jenn Grossman-Leopard – ordered the group to take down the wall, to which Baker refused, citing his First Amendment rights, the Times reports.

Students supporting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also showed up to counter protest, using megaphones that are against school policy to agitate the situation.

“We got plenty of positive feedback as well as not-so-positive feedback from the “tolerant left.” This included destruction of our wall (which is technically private property,) disrupting the peace with a megaphone (and not leaving when asked to by administration…let it be clear that the Bull-Moose Party did not approach administration on the left’s actions,) and other unmentionable acts,” according to the Penn State Women For Trump Facebook page, which included a video of students trashing Trump signs.

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“In this country we do not discriminate; in this country we stand for freedom and equality,” social justice student Ricardo Rojas shouted at Bull Moose members during the rally. “This garbage right here stands for none of that.”

At one point in the confrontation, Penn State Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims intervened and met with Rojas, Baker and Bull Moose Party Chairman Robert Morss to prevent things from getting out of hand.

“I was disgusted,” student Wahdae Elliot, a Clinton supporter, told WJAC. “I totally don’t agree with Trump or anything he has to say.”

“It’s very offensive and if anyone else were to do that, there would be a lot more backlash,” said Jailyn Beaufort, who also supports the Democratic candidate.

Bull Moose Party members defended themselves against the accusations of discrimination and stood firm in their support of Trump.

“We just want legal immigration. We’re not against immigrants at all,” student Elliot Salazarjersid said. “We’re all immigrants.”

“As far as my friends, I know they’re proud of and appreciate what we’re doing,” Morss said. “People who don’t really have a say in this election are kind of neutral. Folks that are against the Bull Moose Party or Donald Trump, I invite (them) just like this wall is doing to have a discussion and let’s talk about policies. Let’s talk about who these candidates are. It’s all polite. It’s all cordial.”

One of the reasons for the wall demonstration was to show that Trump’s supporters aren’t abusive hillbillies or thugs as they’re portrayed in the media.

“When I became chairman of this club, the biggest thing I put forth with my platform was quiet professionalism,” Morss said. “There’s a huge stigma about Trump supporters that they’re just like cavemen and are violent, and that’s not the case.”

“You can support him and not feel ashamed,” Baker said. “You can come up and talk to us. You can come inside (the wall) and talk to us. We want people to not be afraid to support a candidate they want to support.”

School officials issued a statement about the event, which concluded without any reports of violence.

“The University respects students’ right to free speech and will not interfere when ideas are expressed in a peaceful manner,” the statement read. “Our policies do prevent people from building structures on University property or using any amplified audio devices like megaphones. After being alerted, both groups agreed to abide by University policies as they continued their demonstration.”