I'd suggest that, while admirable in many ways, the administration's statement speaks more to its fears about what is happening on some other campuses, than what is actually happening at COA. (And that their anxious apprehension elides the role of counter protestors and police in inciting violence at other campuses.) In this respect, the COA students are ahead of the administrators - by demonstrating their commitment to the COA ethos of local action, in the spirit of the humanities' emphasis on justice and compassion, and the sciences' emphasis on coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence.
I'd suggest that, while admirable in many ways, the administration's statement speaks more to its fears about what is happening on some other campuses, than what is actually happening at COA. (And that their anxious apprehension elides the role of counter protestors and police in inciting violence at other campuses.) In this respect, the COA students are ahead of the administrators - by demonstrating their commitment to the COA ethos of local action, in the spirit of the humanities' emphasis on justice and compassion, and the sciences' emphasis on coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence.