Columbia Sends In the N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Protesters in Tent City

But for Columbia University, the encampment was anything but an Eden. The university’s president, Nemat Shafik, fresh from a congressional hearing in which she had pledged to enforce the university’s rules on protests, tried to get the students to stand down. When they did not, she decided to break with a decades-long norm in the university’s approach to quelling protests. She gave the police a green light to come in. “The current encampment violates all of the new policies, severely disrupts campus life, and creates a harassing and intimidating environment...