If you are a college administrator, and you cannot handle student protests during the last few weeks of classes before summer break, it's time to find a new job.
Seriously, that's not a failure, it's a damned moral collapse, a complete abdication of all responsibility to your students.
It's especially sad to see it happen at Columbia, which used to have a good journalism school. It won't after this, that's what happens when you choose the governor over your students.