There are a lot of opinions both ways on this issue, so as someone who was there, I'm just going to point out a couple things which seem to have been misrepresented. The first is that the police arrived about twenty or thirty minutes after "quiet hours" began at Tent University, which means no music or loud discussion was to happen for the rest of the night to avoid disturbing the surrounding neighborhood. Many people seem to think that Tent University was disturbing the peace and that everyone was chanting loudly before the police came, but actually, people were just discussing quietly and getting ready to go to sleep, and nobody was in the street. At that point, the event was hardly 'disruptive.' What the police stated when they came, and what the arrested students were actually charged with, was "unlawful assembly," even though that area is a free speech and assembly zone according to the official campus rule book. The question of whether students should have nonviolently resisted arrest in defense of their First Amendment rights is up to you.