When police raided a protester encampment at Columbia University last week, the students at Yale were ready, tracking every minute of the chaos that followed with their smartphones on social media.

If students at the New York City Ivy League school were going to risk arrest, they would, too. By the next morning, Yale demonstrators had pitched their own tents. On a Zoom call that day, more than 200 students from dozens of other colleges across the country were strategizing on how they could replicate Columbia’s protest.

Secret meetings, social chatter: How Columbia students sparked a nationwide revolt By Tim Craig, Hannah Natanson and Richard Morgan, The Washington Post, April 26, 2024