york times," the administration's decision to call the police on a vietnam war protest in 1968 was "a serious breach in the ethos of the university.". in 2007, there was a similar encampment style protest set up in the very same area of columbus campus. columbia's response then was to hook up lights for the encampment and to invite the protesters to sleep in common spaces indoors to escape the cold. columbia's campus is the site of major protests all the time. for some reason, the school decided to crackdown on this one. why the change? why the double standard for this particular protest? the day before columbia university president minouche shafik asked the nypd to intervene, she was in washington, d.c. being questioned by republicans in congress about plans of anti- semitism on campus as a group of jewish faculty at columbia wrote in a public letter,