The Student Voice

Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele.

Demonstrations at Columbia University and other campuses require a response that neither ignores the worst excesses nor infringes on students’ right to speak.

The tent cities will eventually go away, one way or another, but this passion for the Palestinian cause will endure.

That one hour achieved something. It introduced me to non-cooperation. Mahatma Gandhi had used it against the British. Now I understood it.