The Division of Student Life has informed students in writing that speech, signs, and expressing viewpoints are permissible.
Amplifiers, indoor demonstrations, camping, disruption, threats, and violence are forbidden, and students who violate the rules face suspension and a ban from campus.
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier stands out for expelling three students and answering the student demand for divestment from Israel by citing the school's official procedures: "The university will not take policy positions unless they directly affect the operating of the university.... calling for BDS, for a boycott of Israel, is inconsistent with institutional neutrality. So from our values point, we're not going to go there."
How many Middlebury College students were suspended for shouting down Charles Murray and violence that left a distinguished Middlebury professor seriously injured? Zero.
How many Stanford Law School students were suspended for shouting down Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan? Zero again.
Washington College students who shouted down invited speaker and Princeton University Professor Robert George? See above.
Real consequences must be part of the equation for the students and faculty in the encampments.
The career consequences of a year-long suspension or an expulsion that remains indelibly on the student's record is something else.
A petition from the University of Pennsylvania encampment pleading that there be no disciplinary action against the students shows the obvious.
Moving forward, rather than entrusting the student code of conduct to the student assembly under the gutless supervision of student life staff, a trustee committee, in consultation with those entities, must oversee the necessary revisions to maintain order.
At orientation, administrative staff must then present the code of conduct to incoming students.
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