This is CBS I on the World.

This is CBS I on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

This is CBS I in the World.

I'm John Bachelor.

Harry Siegel, senior editor at the city an online

journal I recommend also a columnist for the New York Daily News takes me in a time

machine to April 1968, my youth. I was in New Jersey reading on the school

newspaper about an upset at Columbia University that I'd visited once or twice during football

contests and to hang out at the bars, the West End Bar, the Golden Rail. Those were the days when Columbia was an isolated pleasure dome

for what was the 50s and 60s collegians and what was turning into the flower people, the dropouts, the people of

marijuana and draft resistance and protest the Vietnam War and civil rights.

Harry, a very good evening to you reading the story in the city.

Dozens of police officers swarm Columbia University campus breaking up a encampment where pro-Palestinian demonstrators had slept overnight, demanding

the university divest from companies and interests that supported Israel.

It was time for flashback, Harry.

You think it's possible to have flashback for a campus protest?

It was as if I was, you know, 20 years old again and reading this on Columbia campus there's something magical about

that it tracks protests righteous protests let's stay in them in the present

before I I have a flashback to 1968. The issues here are the police

entered the campus with the permission of the president I believe that's

important and that there were more than a hundred arrests. I do not see a report in

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