Colleges Brace for Tumult in 2018 as White Supremacists Demand a Stage

FILE-- Members of a Florida Highway Patrol quick response team outside the venue where Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader, spoke on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla., Oct. 19, 2017. More than 1,000 police officers converged on the ground, in the air, on the roofs — and there was plenty of soul-searching about the role of public universities as incubators of ideas, even those that are unpopular. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)