Do you think it's a coincidence that the crackdown at Columbia happened the day after its president, Minouche Shafik was being grilled by the same right wingers at the congress whose questions caused the fall of other university presidents before her? And Shafik, being Egyptian born, was in a worse situation than the other presidents who at least did not have "she's an Arab" strike against them.
I don't know anything about her. She may have been a right wing nutso to begin with, but being put in that position, I believe she realized she had to make a hard right turn to save her a$$, which she did, and she came crashing down on the students. And now other presidents are following suite because God forbid, if you let protests continue you may be called on by the congress and Stefanik may end your career too.
Fascism lives off of little choices people make to align themselves with the authorities in order to maintain their lifestyle at first, then over time, just so that they can live another day.
No call to action. No outrage. Just an observation. I may be wrong about the dynamics that took place at Columbia, obviously since I don't have an inside view of how things went down.