Columbia University Hasn’t Learned Anything Since 1968

Whitney Alese
ZORA
Published in
4 min readMay 1, 2024

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Columbia University students, angered by the United States’ involvement in war half a world away, took over their campus buildings in protest in late April.

Except this is not 2024.

This was in 1968, 56 years away from the day students on the same campus would do the same to protest the indiscriminate violence in Gaza inflicted by the government…

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Whitney Alese
ZORA
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Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.