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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Columbia University goes to hybrid learning, letting students be virtually in class for

the rest of the semester after the school's leadership clears a

Gaza protest encampment with more than a hundred arrests but fails to prevent it from

reforming. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member,

Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassal.

Dozens of tents last week occupied a green space

outside of Columbia's main library in New York City,

an area that protesters had dubbed the Gaza Solidarity

encampment. But finally finally the president of Columbia University,

Manus chafique, called in the NYPD.

Here is part of what she said.

We work hard to balance the rights of students to express political views with the need to protect

other students from rhetoric that amounts to harassment and discrimination.

We updated our protest policy to allow demonstrations on very short notice and in prime locations in the

middle of campus while still allowing students to get to class and labs and libraries to operate.

The current encampment violates all of the new policies, severely disrupts campus life,

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