.IF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S president, Minouche Shafik, presumed that pro-Palestinian demonstrations would certainly decline after she contacted Nyc City police on April 18th, she was wrong. The outdoors tents are back and also protesters are emboldened: in the early hours of April 30th they utilized an university property, blocked its doors and also draped a flag reading “intifada” from its own front view. Because the beginning of the war in Gaza there have actually been actually demonstrations at universities all over The United States as well as, at much of them, arrests.
Students say, occasionally appropriately and also often incorrectly, that they are exercising their free-speech civil liberties. What plans govern protest and speech on campus?