The police have regularly been called in to squelch student protests over the past century.Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College Columbia University has become the epicenter of student protests over the war in Gaza. In the following Q&A, Stefan Bradley, a history professor at Amherst College and author of the 2009 book “Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s,” touches on the similarities and differences between the protests of the 1960s and now. How do protests now differ from those of 1968?Similarities lie in students’ opposition …
