Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.
Stanford promptly apologized to U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan after he was shouted down by a student mob, but Riley Gaines is still waiting for anything resembling an apology from San Francisco State University.
A Stanford dean who went viral for allowing students to heckle a conservative federal judge speaking at the school has said she should have tried harder to calm the situation.