ABSTRACT
Universities, like nations, have an abiding need to maintain peace, quiet, and orderly processes of governance. For the university administrator, this translates basically into the role of an enabler for a safe and secure environment where scholars can pursue their academic interests without disruption, the foremost objective being how to best govern an institution that rests on the various uncertainties of a viable marketplace of ideas. Implicit in the idea of a university as a “market place of ideas” is that it is also an incubator of dissent where youth fresh from the cloister of the home can test the boundaries of their new-found liberties.
