Columbia Repeats the Mistakes of Protests Past
The editor of the student newspaper in 1968 compares then and now. Plus: The consequences of the anti-TikTok law.
A student protester at Columbia University is forcibly removed from the campus on April 30, 1968, by New York City police.
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I’ve been watching the events at Columbia University the past few weeks with a sense of déjà vu. I was the editor of the student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, in the spring of 1968. Fifty-six years ago, on April 30, the administration there called in the New York Police Department to break up a student protest that had shut down the campus.