It’s too early to know the full effect of enhanced restrictions placed on campus protests and demonstrations last month by the California State University and University of California systems. In most cases, classes are just under way, and the intensity of protest is not yet where it stood during last spring’s wave of pro-Palestinian actions.
But multiple interested groups, including faculty, students, labor organizations and, in one case, the American Civil Liberties Union have already expressed concern that the policies may be applied unfairly, singling out some campus demonstrations over others. That all speaks to the potential fallout of such behemoth systems essentially reacting to one particular set of protests.
