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As protesters return to UW-Madison and UWM, new policies spark free speech concerns

The first two weeks of the fall semester looked nothing like the last two weeks of the spring semester at Wisconsin’s largest universities.

The tents have not returned. The news cameras have largely vanished. The police no longer seem perpetually parked near the pro-Palestinian encampments that were fixtures of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee campuses in May.