How Columbia University's complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
It's a historical connection many Columbia students involved in this month's protests are acutely aware of.
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It's a historical connection many Columbia students involved in this month's protests are acutely aware of.
Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change. Administrators were under pressure to get things back to normal. Police came onto the Columbia University campus and made arrests.
NEW YORK — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. Police brought in to make arrests. At
University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses nationwide these days and even internationally aren't new ground for students at the Ivy League school. “When you’re going to Columbia, you know you’re going to an institution which has an honored place in the history of American protest,” said Mark Naison, professor of history and African & African American Studies at Fordham University and himself a participant in...
Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change. Administrators were under pressure to get things back to normal. Police came onto the Columbia University campus and made arrests.