Mood flips at Columbia U after quashing of latest protest, Trump pressure takes hold

The attempted takeover of a library at Columbia University by anti-Israel protesters last week was shut down fast and decisively by law enforcement, and the feeling among students on campus is that any further disruption — or any repeat of last year’s chaotic campus encampments — will not be tolerated among the university’s new leadership and will be quickly squashed. 

There was a somber and uneasy mood outside the university the day after the protest, with the vast majority of students...