Eduardo Cuevas of USA Today reports the case of “Columbia University Professor of Japanese Cultural History, Gregory Pflugfelder. Residing in an apartment opposite the campus, he stepped out and decided to film the interaction of the NYPD with the student protesters without entering campus grounds or interfering. Why is it lost on so many University administrators that dialogue is always more effective than discord to address the demands of its student body? The Guardian has an excellent piece about the few schools which chose the former. Police brutality and the suppression of Constitutional rights did not occur as a result.
