Anyone with an internet connection is familiar with the trope of the supposedly fragile, liberal college student. These students, were told, are intellectually fragile, uninterested in debate, and against free speech.

This line of logic, while extremely convenient for discrediting nascent and historically-suppressed causes, obscures other concrete actions that actually do hinder freedom of expression.

Fordham Universitys recent decision to override the United Student Governments decision to approve a new club, Students for Justice in Palestine, is merely one example.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had been applying for official club status since Nov. 2015. The United Student Government (USG) approved the request nearly one year later on Nov. 17, 2016, and the University overrode USG to veto the club the following month.

While this is hardly as flashy as a student protest over a controversial speaker, its important that it not be ignored.