I support the right of students at Columbia University, and other colleges, to protest. They must understand they are protesting on private space.
What I also find interesting is how many of them see their right to protest, and right to free speech. The First Amendment gives us a right to free speech, but it doesn’t specify what exactly is meant by freedom of speech.
Defining what types of speech should and shouldn’t be protected by law, has been left to the courts. Clearly free speech has its limits.
Obscene material such as child pornography, plagiarism of copyrighted material, defamation, or threats, aren’t allowed. Also not protected under the First Amendment is speech inciting illegal actions, or soliciting others to commit crimes.