.IF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S president, Minouche Shafik, believed that pro-Palestinian demonstrations would certainly subside after she consulted New York Metropolitan area authorities on April 18th, she was wrong. The tents are back and militants are emboldened: in the very early hours of April 30th they filled a college property, barred its doors as well as draped a flag analysis "intifada" coming from its frontage. Given that the begin of the war in Gaza there have been actually objections at colleges all over America and, at most of them, detentions. Trainees say, at times rightly as well as occasionally wrongly, that they are exercising their free-speech rights. What policies regulate objection and also pep talk on campus?