This has been one of the most wild things about the universities responses to these protests. Most of them are breaking their own internal rules with the way they’re responding! Most universities have both a student government and faculty senate (staff can get fucked) and at most universities those two bodies have to be consulted at some level before you can do things like call in outside cops and mass suspend/expel students.

Rules are there to hollow out your fucking soul through continuous interaction with bureaucratic committees where almost everyone there, doesn't want to be there. So it just grinds down any suggestions into limp biscuits.