.IF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S head of state, Minouche Shafik, thought that pro-Palestinian demonstrations will subside after she consulted New York Area police on April 18th, she was wrong. The camping tents are actually back and also protesters are emboldened: in the very early hrs of April 30th they occupied an university property, blocked its doors and curtained a flag analysis "intifada" coming from its fau00e7ade. Because the begin of the battle in Gaza there have actually been actually objections at educational institutions across America and, at a lot of them, arrests. Pupils state, occasionally appropriately and sometimes wrongly, that they are exercising their free-speech rights. What policies regulate protest and also pep talk on university?