I witnessed the campus crisis at Columbia University in 1968, and shocked to see history rhyme in ’24

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“Violent solution follows failure of negotiations.” 

So read the headline in Columbia University’s student newspaper, the Spectator – not on April 30, 2024, but rather April 30, 1968.

As a student at the university’s business school at the time, I’m now shocked to see that my alma mater’s leaders didn’t learn the lesson of their own history. They deserve the most blame for the mayhem that has engulfed one of America’s most prestigious schools, and if they don’t own it and act accordingly, Columbia’s future is bleak indeed.

At Columbia University in April 1968, a professor finds an entrance blocked during student sit-ins.

I vividly remember the campus crisis of ’68, which bears many similarities to that of today. Then, as now, a large group of students and outside agitators swarmed the university to protest the issue of the day. They fell into two camps – one opposing the Vietnam War, the other opposing the construction of a nearby gym on racial grounds.

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Yet while the proximate causes differed, the modus operandi was the same: harangue and attack peaceful students before occupying buildings.

I was on the receiving end of their vitriol. To mimic the business

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