How colleges are changing their rules on protesting

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, students now must receive approval from the administration before they can protest. Rutgers University students will need to acquire a permit from the school. And at Indiana University, students may no longer engage in what school leaders call "expressive activity" between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Across the country, some universities have enacted a wave of new rules and tightened restrictions around protest and speech in an effort to avoid a repeat of the spring semester, when thousands of people were arrested at protests and encampments prompted by the Israel-Hamas war. The rules vary from campus to campus, but they generally set limits on when and where protests can occur, and clearly prohibit encampments.

In many cases, universities say the policy changes are minimal or simply clarify existing rules. Some attorneys said...