.IF COLUMBIA COLLEGE'S president, Minouche Shafik, believed that pro-Palestinian demos would subside after she consulted Nyc Metropolitan area police on April 18th, she was wrong. The camping tents are back and militants are emboldened: in the early hours of April 30th they occupied an university property, blocked its doors and also curtained a flag reading "intifada" coming from its own fau00e7ade. Because the start of the battle in Gaza there have been demonstrations at colleges around The United States as well as, at most of them, detentions. Students claim, occasionally appropriately as well as in some cases wrongly, that they are actually exercising their free-speech legal rights. What policies govern demonstration and also speech on university?