.IF COLUMBIA COLLEGE'S head of state, Minouche Shafik, assumed that pro-Palestinian demos would certainly decline after she consulted The big apple Area police on April 18th, she was wrong. The tents are actually back and protesters are actually inspired: in the early hours of April 30th they filled an university property, blocked its doors and also curtained a banner reading "intifada" from its front. Because the begin of the war in Gaza there have actually been demonstrations at colleges all over The United States and also, at a lot of them, apprehensions. Students point out, occasionally appropriately and occasionally wrongly, that they are exercising their free-speech civil liberties. What policies control demonstration and also speech on university?