A leader of ’68 protest at Columbia sees ‘enormous’ parallels today

By Phil Cornell

Students at Columbia University protesting a war they consider unjust and intolerable? That must sound awfully familiar to Mark Rudd, who more than a half-century ago similarly confronted authority while a student at the Ivy League school and can still sound like a radical firebrand.

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