Remembering literary critic Helen Vendler; student journalists covering protests at Columbia
Student journalists at Columbia University have extensive ongoing coverage of the Gaza solidarity encampment, ongoing negotiations between student representatives and school administrators over the protests, and the academic boycott of Columbia and Barnard, which more than 1,400 academics support. The campus radio station, WKCR is covering the protests live, and has been offering on-the-ground reporting for more than a week. (Earlier this week, Columbia public safety officers tried to take students off the air during a live broadcast.) In an op-ed in the Spectator, Oren Root writes of the