.IF COLUMBIA COLLEGE'S head of state, Minouche Shafik, believed that pro-Palestinian demos would certainly go away after she consulted New York City police on April 18th, she mistook. The outdoors tents are back as well as militants are inspired: in the early hours of April 30th they occupied an university building, barred its doors and draped a banner reading "intifada" from its own front view. Considering that the start of the war in Gaza there have been actually objections at colleges throughout America and, at much of all of them, detentions. Students mention, in some cases appropriately as well as in some cases mistakenly, that they are exercising their free-speech civil liberties. What plans govern protest as well as pep talk on campus?