It’s getting harder to tell the difference between students and thugs. Columbia University at Morningside Heights (once a place for eagles, but no one knows when anymore), increasingly careless of its admissions, a place of liberal education; now, the last week of April, the harvest is early.
On Tuesday, April 23, a group of professional grievance-seekers with the fanciful name “Students for a Democratic Society,” tired of persuasion, tired (at nineteen) of democratic process, tried to cancel the construction of a new university gym in Morningside Park by illegally seizing the area. Because the park is actually the border between the university above and Harlem below, SAS (Student Afro-American Society—for Negroes only) permitted a discrimination long since canceled in the rest of the university and joined in the waves of assault. After a melee of intolerant students and tolerant (up to a point) police, they were driven from the site—anarchy repelled by law. In their nomenclature, Police Brutality.
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