vanderbilt issued what are believed to be the first expulsions of student protesters related to demonstration stemming from the october 7th hamas attack on israel. from vanderbilt to nyu to columbia to the university of michigan to pomona, schools are saying, basically, look, this is not about free speech. you have a right to speak up. you have a right to demonstrate. what you don t have is a right to harass and disrupt. that s what s really been impeding these university s core mission, which is to educate your students. you can t have an environment that is constantly disrupted, where students are subject to harassment, with they re spin upon, yelled at, where graduation ceremonies, or like the incident i wrote about at my alma mater, the university of michigan, this honors convocation that was supposed to be this lovely, celebratory