Texas State University administrator Brenda Rodriguez threatened to call police on a fired professor after he joined a campus protest, according to a recording shared with The Chronicle. The dispute centers on the university’s policy limiting expressive activities on campus to Texas State students and employees, while restricting unaffiliated protest activity to designated spaces or requiring approval. The fired professor, Thomas Alter, had previously been reinstated with a court restraining order after a due-process dispute related to a comment made during an online socialism conference. The confrontation on March 30 has reignited questions about whether broad “time, place, and manner” restrictions are being enforced in a way that could chill First Amendment activity. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is challenging the policy in court, arguing it is unconstitutional, while attorneys note enforcement may still be defensible if restrictions are content-neutral.