Schneider: Campuses returning to the theater of the absurd

In the late 1960’s, then-law professor Robert Bork noticed an amusing phenomenon on the Yale University campus. Student protesters would notify the media of an upcoming demonstration, but if no television cameras appeared, the protest would be canceled on the spot. As Bork wrote in his book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” in one instance when the media failed to show, students posted a notice reserving their right to be disruptive at a later time, “thus nicely combining the fervor of revolutionaries with the caution of legal draftsmen.”