Yesterday’s protest was peaceful, with no repeat of last week’s scuffles

Campus observers put the crowd at 75 or so, with one suggesting that as demonstrations go “it was a bit of a fizzer,” which will be what the university hoped for.

The issue that inspired the protest, the university’s accepting Chinese Government funding for its Confucius Institute is not live, for now. But a boil-over in Hong Kong would put the PRC funded CI back on the campus agenda.