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Records: Pro-Palestine protests drove university policy changes
Campus, local and state police arrived on the VCU campus — where students had gathered for a pro-Palestine demonstration — at 8:30 p.m. April 29. An unlawful assembly was declared just 13 minutes later, sparking a confrontation between officers and protestors like student activist Sereen Haddad, shown here being knocked down by police just before 9 p.m.
At least 10 public Virginia universities, including VCU, have tightened their rules governing students’ use of campus space in response to pro-Palestine protests by students. In some cases, the rules were revised shortly after demonstrations.
State and university officials have said the changes were unrelated to the protests’ messaging or timing, but VPM News obtained hundreds of pages of communications that shed light on the links between the protests and the policy changes.
BizSense Beat: Affordable housing development boom in Richmond?
BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.
This week, Richmond BizSense reporter Mike Platania and Benjamin Dolle of VPM News discuss a boom in proposals for new affordable housing developments in the city of Richmond.
