.IF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S head of state, Minouche Shafik, assumed that pro-Palestinian demos would subside after she hired New York City police on April 18th, she was wrong. The outdoors tents are back and protesters are emboldened: in the early hours of April 30th they occupied a college property, barred its own doors and draped a flag analysis "intifada" from its frontage. Since the start of the war in Gaza there have actually been protests at educational institutions throughout America as well as, at many of them, apprehensions. Pupils point out, sometimes appropriately and in some cases mistakenly, that they are exercising their free-speech legal rights. What plans regulate protest and pep talk on school?