University of Missouri reviews rule for campout protests

A committee that formed in January conducted the review after the Concerned Student 1950 group spent a week in tents on the university's Columbia campus in November, The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1WBCxVc ) reported.

There is a health and safety concern, said Bob Jerry, a law professor and chairman of the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Protests, Public Spaces, Free Speech and the Press.

The goal of the committee, made up of students, faculty and administrators, is to make all the campus and system rules that pertain to public spaces and free speech easily accessible for the community.