Columbia University is increasingly acting in accordance with the Trump administration's wishes, but with little to show for it so far.

After a group of students stormed the school’s library and refused to leave last week, the president of the university called in the New York Police Department (NYPD), leading to almost 80 arrests. More than 65 students have been suspended and 33 people were barred from campus over their participation.

While praise came quickly from the White House, hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding paused by the government was not restarted and members of the Columbia community are denouncing the school's actions, which also include giving into the administration's original demands for the funding but so far seeing nothing in return.

"I think what happened was enormous overreaction by the university and by the New York City Police Department,” said Michael Thaddeus, professor of mathematics at Columbia and vice-president of the........

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