At Columbia University, students weigh in on surrounding protests

Students here were among the first to embrace the pro-Palestinian campus encampment movement, which has spread to a number of universities across the United States. Despite Columbia's status as an epicenter of the student demos, the majority of its thousands of students are not camped out in tents, and have a variety of opinions on the matter, which has upended their spring semester. With heated protests now having roiled his prestigious New York university for days, international student Naranjan Patkar believes "the campus should be open...