College Dorm Decorations Become a Front in the Campus Free Speech Wars

Dorm door decorations are emerging as the next battleground in the fight over academic freedom and free speech at Barnard College (NY).  As at many schools, Barnard students often use their dorm doors to display a bit of personality. A walk around the freshman dorms early this week found sorority pledge signs, Lunar New Year decorations and a pinned-up loose-leaf paper asking: “Who’s your celebrity crush?” But students had also posted stickers and slogans supporting the Palestinian cause and naming the war in Gaza as a genocide. “Zionism is terrorism,” one student’s door sticker said.