It is with a heavy heart that I acknowledge that the takeover of the bucolic lawns at Columbia University campus to protest suffering in Gazahas its origins in the anti-Vietnam protests on the campus in 1968. As a 1968 graduate of the university who joined the majority of our class in walking out on formal graduation ceremonies taking place in front of Butler Library to participate in our own graduation ceremonies at the nearby Cathedral of St. John the Divine, I know what legitimate protest means. The war, along with aproposed Columbia gymnasium a segregated, lower-level entrance for limited …