.IF COLUMBIA EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION'S head of state, Minouche Shafik, assumed that pro-Palestinian demos will decline after she contacted New york city City police on April 18th, she was wrong. The outdoors tents are back and protesters are emboldened: in the very early hours of April 30th they utilized a college structure, blocked its own doors and curtained a flag reading "intifada" coming from its own front view. Due to the fact that the beginning of the battle in Gaza there have actually been actually demonstrations at colleges around The United States and also, at many of them, arrests. Students claim, occasionally rightly as well as in some cases mistakenly, that they are actually exercising their free-speech liberties. What policies govern protest and also pep talk on campus?