Views of the campus protests are too broad — and too narrow

Protests on the campus of Columbia University escalated on Monday when students broke into and occupied a building on campus, hours after a deadline set by school administrators for shutting down an encampment had come and gone. The university’s original effort to disband the encampment — inviting New York police officers to enter the campus and break it up — triggered a backlash, spurred enormous media attention and inspired a surge in similar encampments at other schools.