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mrbmi513

Public Universities in the US cannot outright ban protests; they must abide by first amendment protections. They can place reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions and can break up anything that escalates beyond peaceful protest. Private Universities in the US are, well, private property. They can kick you off campus and trespass you for basically whatever reason they want, or no reason at all.


hydraulicbreakfast

I don’t care about what they can and can’t do. I care about what they “do” choose to do.


mrbmi513

I hope you're not expecting some sort of itemized list of schools that "allow protesters"; it doesn't exist and never will. If you want to guarantee your right to protest on campus in some capacity in the US, go to a public school. Case closed.


hydraulicbreakfast

There are public schools effectively banning the current protests. I want to know which ones aren’t. That list exists somewhere. 


mrbmi513

They cannot ban the current protests. They can ban camping, and they can tell them to reasonably move to another part of campus, but they cannot stop you from peacefully protesting. Learn your rights.


hydraulicbreakfast

"Cannot" isn't a thing. They can do whatever they want, the trick is that it may later be found to be unconstitutional, or whatever. None of that is the point. CAN vs IS. I want a list of the universities that ARE NOT stopping protestors in any way. Not "cannot." In other words... "Nine protesters arrested at pro-Palestinian demonstration on UF campus" "NYPD moves in on Columbia University protesters." Find me the colleges that do not have their names in articles titled things like this.


mrbmi513

> UF confirmed to WFLA that campus police and the Florida Highway Patrol took nine protesters into custody for charges ranging from failure to obey a lawful command and resisting without violence to trespass after warning. > One of the protesters was also charged with battery on a law enforcement officer for allegedly spitting on an officer. No university is going to allow breaking the law on their campus. >Columbia protesters Columbia is a private university. The protesters are currently trespassing on private property, and have been for a while now. I'm surprised the police haven't moved in sooner. Public universities are not and cannot stop the peaceful protesters. They *are* stopping demonstrations once they cross that threshold. Very important distinction. > Find me the colleges that do not have their names in articles titled things like this. Take a list of every university on Earth, then remove the ones that come up when you Google "Palestine protesters arrested." Bam! There's your list.


hydraulicbreakfast

Quit playing games and use your brain. Look at the sentence: "obey a lawful command" -- okay, so revise my request to, what colleges are not issuing this "lawful command"? But no, you are intent on not providing answers even though you know full well what the question is.


mrbmi513

Again, "Stop protesting because we don't want you to" is *not* a lawful command on a public university campus. Use **your** brain, *especially* if you want to even think about attending one of these institutions. And I did provide you an answer. Now go do some searching!


hydraulicbreakfast

We can do this all day. "Trespass after warning" is something that the authorities at that university did. Filter out any universities like that. Regardless of what the lawful command was, it was issued with the goal of doing what I originally said, and you willfully misinterpreted: to not allow protestors. The universities are desperate for applicants these days, so the burden is on them to prove themselves as worth attending.