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  34. <title>Was UVA justified in forcefully clearing pro-Palestine encampment?</title>
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  44. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="586" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?fit=1024%2C586&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="On a grassy area, a line of dozens of police officers in riot gear holding shields face off against people dressed in civilian clothing." decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=1024%2C586&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=768%2C440&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=1536%2C879&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=1200%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=1568%2C898&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=400%2C229&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?resize=706%2C404&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?fit=1024%2C586&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105630" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/fallout-from-uvas-police-action-on-pro-palestine-protest-continues/image-13/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image.jpeg?fit=1600%2C916&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,916" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;On Saturday, UVA leaders called in a multi-agency police task force to clear a pro-Palestine encampment. Within days, dozens of faculty and student groups put out statements condemning the police action.&lt;/p&gt;
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  46. <p>After weeks of trying to explain his reasons for calling in State Troopers in riot gear to clear pro-Palestine protest, hundreds of faculty and students remained outraged by President Jim Ryan’s decision.</p>
  47. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/was-uva-justified-in-forcefully-clearing-encampment/">Was UVA justified in forcefully clearing pro-Palestine encampment?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  51. <p>Despite multiple attempts by University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and other UVA leaders to explain why they chose to for forcefully <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/05/police-forcefully-clear-encampment-near-university-chapel-detain-protesters">clear</a> a pro-Palestinian encampment on Grounds, many UVA students and faculty remain convinced that university leaders acted inappropriately.</p>
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  55. <p>The days since the May 4 clearing have been marked by debates among UVA administrators, students and professors regarding Ryan&#8217;s decision to use police force, as well as different retellings of the events that transpired.</p>
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  59. <p>Most recently, the university’s Faculty Senate <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/05/faculty-senate-calls-for-an-external-review-of-may-4-clearing-of-encampment">passed</a> a motion calling for <a href="https://facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-independent-and-external-university-wide-institutional-review">an external review</a> of the events leading up to the May 4 encampment clearing.</p>
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  63. <p>Senators’ positions on the events ranged from inquisitive to scathing. Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Faculty Senator and associate professor in the Medieval Studies program, proposed an unsuccessful motion to denounce the events of the encampment clearing. He said that the motion would not condemn any individuals involved in the decision-making process, but send the message that the Faculty Senate did not support the use of violence on grounds against an unarmed group of peaceful protesters.&nbsp;</p>
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  67. <p>&#8220;I think that the way to approach it is to merely say that this is what happened, and exclusively to say that we as members of the faculty senate won’t stand for this happening on our Grounds, and we stand alongside those who have been hurt,&#8221; said Ramirez-Weaver.</p>
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  76. <p><em>Charlottesville Tomorrow collaborated with the Cavalier Daily to report this story. The student journalists of the independent, nonprofit news organization at the University of Virginia have been reporting on the protests and got first-hand accounts of many of the facts you read here.</em></p>
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  91. <p>Other senators were less convinced that the university had acted inappropriately. But most agreed that an external review was necessary.</p>
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  95. <p>The Faculty Senate is a group of elected and appointed professors tasked with representing university faculty and advising the President and the Board of Visitors. While the Senate’s motion does not bind the UVA to take any action, university Spokesperson Bethanie Glover, said &#8220;university leaders agree that a review should be conducted and are evaluating next steps.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
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  99. <p>Glover did not share further details about the potential review, including whether it will be conducted externally from UVA and what timeline it will follow.&nbsp;</p>
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  103. <p>Ryan and other administrators attended the Faculty Senate meeting. While some Senators asked them questions about their decisions, others gave statements decrying the administration’s decision to use state police force to clear the encampment. Some also expressed confusion with the explanations administrators gave in the days after.</p>
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  107. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-attachment-id="105468" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/img_5303-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5303.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714835535&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5303" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment. What followed was a joint operation between multiple police agencies to clear tents, remove protesters and, ultimately, push the large crowd that grew off campus.&lt;/p&gt;
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  112. <p>More than 50 officers from Virginia State Police and other local police departments cleared the encampment May 4. After a tense standoff between police and protesters lasting more than two hours, state troopers in riot gear formed a line around it and an officer with a megaphone instructed all protesters to clear the area or be arrested for unlawful assembly. The protesters refused to move. Shortly before 3 p.m., the university declared the encampment an unlawful assembly, and state police raised their shields and began to march on the roughly three dozen protesters who remained there.&nbsp;</p>
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  116. <p>In a series of coordinated waves, officers used riot shields and pepper spray to force protesters out of the area. As they advanced, officers dismantled tents and pushed multiple protesters to the ground, restraining some using zip-ties. Officers <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/ryan-other-uva-leaders-provide-new-details-demonstrations-arrests">detained</a> a total of 27 people, including 12 students, according to UVA Chief Operating Officer Jennifer &#8220;J.J.&#8221; Wagner Davis. Charges against many of those arrested, including multiple people charged with trespassing and one charged with attempted assault, have since been <a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/charges-dropped-against-several-arrested-at-uva-protest/article_7f457128-1307-11ef-865a-1f877d5612d5.html#:~:text=Although%20she%20was%20among%20the,alumni%2C%20were%20charged%20with%20trespassing.">dropped</a>.</p>
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  120. <p>As officers continued to press the crowd in the direction of university Avenue, the police perimeter separating onlookers from protesters became less clear. Some folks in the crowd used bottled water to flush the eyes of those who had been pepper sprayed. Some onlookers on a nearby hill cheered in support of the clearing, while others yelled at officers in disapproval. The crowd ultimately dispersed after police pushed protesters and onlookers to university Avenue, which was closed to traffic for at least part of the day.</p>
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  124. <p>Ryan has offered numerous explanations for why he decided to clear the encampment. At the virtual town hall he and other university leaders held on May 7 to answer questions, he said that administrators decided to clear the encampment after protesters refused to take down their tents, despite being informed that the tents were a violation of university policy.</p>
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  129. <iframe title="UVA Virtual Town Hall with President Jim Ryan and University Leadership" width="780" height="439" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tl8-8PsY9Ng?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  130. </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A virtual town hall held by UVA President Jim Ryan and his leadership team where they answer questions about their decision to forcefully clear a pro-Palestine protest from Grounds.</figcaption></figure>
  131.  
  132.  
  133.  
  134. <p>&#8220;Individuals in the demonstration were given multiple opportunities on Saturday to comply with university and police directives, first to take down the tents, and then to clear and leave the area, and they refused to do so,&#8221; Ryan said.</p>
  135.  
  136.  
  137.  
  138. <p>He also addressed the apparent confusion about the order to remove the tents. At some point, protesters and the faculty liasing for them found a document on the university&#8217;s Environmental Health and Safety website that exempted recreational tents from prohibited structures.&nbsp;</p>
  139.  
  140.  
  141.  
  142. <p>The document was wrong, Ryan said. The policy that linked to the document with the exemption banned the use of tents without permits entirely. He said someone in the university administration removed the exemption from the document the morning of May 4 to address that inconsistency.&nbsp;</p>
  143.  
  144.  
  145.  
  146. <p>&#8220;Someone on our team — and I&#8217;m not sure that this was the right judgment — at 9:30 or so on Saturday, decided to remove that so that those rules were consistent with policy,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s no doubt that law enforcement have the ability, and exercise that ability, to prohibit tents. And I don&#8217;t think there was any confusion among the protesters about whether tents were allowed either.&#8221;</p>
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  149. <div class="wp-block-image">
  150. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="520" data-attachment-id="105325" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/koriprice_20240501_015/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1709&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1709" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kori Price&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714576827&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024 Kori Price Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="KoriPrice_20240501_015" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Students protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Gaza filled a grassy area near the University of Virginia chapel on May 1 in a ongoing, overnight demonstration. The protest began Tuesday, April 30 and showed no signs of stopping. UVA officials and police met with the protesters early on to ensure they were following all UVA policies. Among those polices are: no structures, no holes in the ground and no signs attached to trees or objects. This sign attached to a several hundred year old tree was quickly flagged by officials, who told protesters to remove it. They complied.&lt;/p&gt;
  151. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015.jpg?resize=780%2C520&#038;ssl=1" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree. Attached to the tree is a sign that reads, &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" class="wp-image-105325" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-1024x683.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Students protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Gaza filled a grassy area near the University of Virginia chapel on May 1 in an ongoing, overnight demonstration. The protest began Tuesday, April 30 and showed no signs of stopping. Kori Price/Charlottesville Tomorrow <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Kori Price/Charlottesville Tomorrow</span></figcaption></figure></div>
  152.  
  153.  
  154. <p>Several faculty members who were at the scene told Charlottesville Tomorrow that the decision to act with such force appeared to be a massive escalation.</p>
  155.  
  156.  
  157.  
  158. <p>Protesters had actively refused to remove tents from the site, despite multiple instructions from police to do so. But they were not dangerous, said Ramirez-Weaver, who proposed the unsuccessful motion to condemn the events.</p>
  159.  
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  161.  
  162. <p>&#8220;[An external review] doesn’t begin to call to task the inadequate use of force, the aggressive use of force and what I think is unequivocally — and I don’t find it problematic at all [to say] — an asymmetric display of excessive force against our students,&#8221; Ramirez-Weaver said.&nbsp;</p>
  163.  
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  165.  
  166. <p>Ryan disagreed.</p>
  167.  
  168.  
  169.  
  170. <p>He and other UVA leaders felt that the situation at the encampment was escalating Saturday morning and that it could get out of hand, he said at the virtual town hall. They listed several reasons. One was that protesters actively resisted UVA Police&#8217; initial attempts to remove their tents.</p>
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  173.  
  174. <p>&#8220;The exercise of peaceful civil disobedience by people like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi has a long and honorable tradition,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;But the key is that it is peaceful. So part of what we were thinking with the students was they were going to engage in civil disobedience and when the university police showed up they would voluntarily get arrested. That’s what we thought would happen. And it didn’t.&#8221;</p>
  175.  
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  177.  
  178. <p>Instead, when UVA Police entered the camp to try and take down tents, the protesters locked arms and held out umbrellas to physically block officers from getting to their tents. The line was not stationary. As officers tried to get around them they moved quickly in unison to block their way.</p>
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  182. <p>Timothy Longo, associate vice president for safety and security and chief of the university Police Department, said that protesters used those umbrellas &#8220;in an aggressive manner.&#8221;</p>
  183.  
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  185.  
  186. <p>At some point during the encounter, an officer said one of the protesters tried to assault him. The protester was quickly arrested, the officers retreated, and Ryan decided to call in Virginia State Troopers.</p>
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  189.  
  190. <p>This moment was caught on video by the Cavalier Daily.</p>
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  195. <iframe title="UVA Police officers try to remove tents" width="780" height="439" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qz3T80UStG4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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  199.  
  200. <p>That moment was a tipping point, Ryan said. But he also said other things factored into his decision. One was that four men dressed in black, wearing helmets and carrying large backpacks were seen at the encampment. Ryan said that law enforcement identified two of them as having participated in violent acts elsewhere in Virginia, although officials will not say who they are or give any other information about their previous activities.&nbsp;</p>
  201.  
  202.  
  203.  
  204. <p>The other issue was that the protesters were using social media to try and encourage more people to come to the protest. Ryan said he feared that the encampment would grow in size, bringing more tents and more potentially dangerous individuals along with it — and this motivated him to clear the demonstration.</p>
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  206.  
  207.  
  208. <p>&#8220;I know many have and will continue to question our decisions, and I will always second guess myself — it’s impossible not to,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;These were very hard calls — excruciatingly hard — but we tried to make the best decisions we could under very difficult and volatile conditions. And we made those decisions with an eye toward the safety of our entire community.&#8221;</p>
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  213. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about the pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds</h3>
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  219.  
  220. <p>Following Ryan&#8217;s town hall, many students and faculty maintain that the university’s decision to use force was unjustified. Some UVA faculty who were present at the encampment before and during the police clearing <a href="https://twitter.com/VonkLevi/status/1788244167916654670?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">hosted</a> a virtual event Thursday titled &#8220;An Honest Town Hall,&#8221; where speakers presented their own timeline of Saturday’s events and answered questions from attendees.&nbsp;</p>
  221.  
  222.  
  223.  
  224. <p>Levi Vonk, assistant professor in the university’s Global Studies program and one of the faculty town hall organizers, was present at the encampment as a faculty liaison. He said that he and many other faculty members boycotted the Ryan&#8217;s virtual town hall, largely because administrators did not explain how the audience questions they answered were selected, which motivated them to host their own.</p>
  225.  
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  227.  
  228. <p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t feel like [the university’s event] was in the spirit of a town hall. A town hall is a democratic space where everyone in the community can come together and hash out a problem, voice their concerns and try to address them,&#8221; Vonk said. &#8220;That’s not what this was. It was a university broadcast.&#8221;</p>
  229.  
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  232. <p>Speakers at the faculty town hall challenged multiple claims that UVA administrators made about the events of Saturday, including Longo’s assertion that protesters wielded umbrellas aggressively around UVA Police officers. Associate Professor of History Fahad Bishara, who was also present at the encampment as a faculty liaison, said protesters used umbrellas not as weapons, but to protect themselves.</p>
  233.  
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  235.  
  236. <p>&#8220;They were not meant to be an offensive weapon at all,&#8221; Bishara said. &#8220;Given that the protesters were ultimately pepper sprayed, one might understand why an umbrella might be a useful device.&#8221;</p>
  237.  
  238.  
  239.  
  240. <p>Faculty speakers challenged Ryan’s claim that four men with helmets and large backpacks were present at the encampment. Multiple faculty said that they did not see any protesters who fit that description. Assistant Professor of English Laura Goldblatt, who was also present at the encampment as a faculty liaison, said Longo never mentioned these men in the multiple conversations she and other faculty had with him Saturday, despite the dangers he claimed they posed.</p>
  241.  
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  243.  
  244. <p>&#8220;I should say that on Friday evening especially, there were many, many children around playing tag and having a good time,&#8221; Goldblatt said. &#8220;That would have been a moment to say, ‘these children are at risk.’ And there was no mention of that.&#8221;</p>
  245.  
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  247.  
  248. <p>In addition to the faculty town hall, dozens of faculty members have signed statements decrying the university’s response to the encampment, including groups of professors from the College of Arts &amp; Sciences and the School of Education and Human Development. According to a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Molly Conger, student organizations, groups of faculty and individual professors have cumulatively written more than 60 statements and open letters condemning UVA&#8217;s response to the encampment.</p>
  249.  
  250.  
  251.  
  252. <p>In a statement <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GOR_uEixyyeBst3rzv4avgw6Eeir8ROYSbZQQcEmjCA/edit">signed</a> by more than 40 faculty members as of the time of publication, professors in the Department of History said that the use of &#8220;militarized police&#8221; to clear the encampment violated the university’s commitment to free inquiry and expression.</p>
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  256. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" data-attachment-id="105464" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/544c74dc-58b5-44ad-9e80-ac35c712c74cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1536,2048" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;A University of Virginia statement Saturday said there were 25 arrests in a multi-agency police action against a pro-Palestine protest encampment.&lt;/p&gt;
  257. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1" alt="Police officer lead a person in a t-shirt, hands tied behind his back, dow a stairwell, while others look on." class="wp-image-105464" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 900w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=706%2C941&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original-768x1024.jpeg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Officers <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/ryan-other-uva-leaders-provide-new-details-demonstrations-arrests">detained</a> a total of 27 people, including 12 students in a multi-agency police action against a pro-Palestine protest encampment. Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Courtesy of Adrienne Dent</span></figcaption></figure></div>
  258.  
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  260. <p>&#8220;The drastic move to end a peaceful protest with militarized police, rather than reason, put a swift end to any form of deliberation, debate, and democratic process,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;It violated our commitment as an educational institution to seek understanding and discourage mindless compliance.&#8221;</p>
  261.  
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  263.  
  264. <p>Associate Professor of History Erik Linstrum, one of the statement’s signatories, said the letter also calls for the UVA to provide more information about why they decided to clear the encampment using the level of force that they did. Linstrum said that while he could not speak on behalf of other signatories, he found the explanations given by administrators at May 7’s town hall troubling. In particular, he said that he did not support Ryan’s explanation that fears of the encampment expanding motivated the him to take police action.</p>
  265.  
  266.  
  267.  
  268. <p>&#8220;That’s not how the First Amendment works. You don’t get to break up protests because you think they might get bigger,&#8221; Linstrum said. &#8220;The last part of the letter is pressing for more answers, more transparency [and] more accountability, and I think we’ve not had nearly enough of that yet.&#8221;</p>
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  271.  
  272. <p>In addition to issuing group statements, a small number of faculty critical of the administration’s actions also stepped down from their positions on university-run task forces and committees. Oludamini Ogunnaike, assistant professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6m3jEcOoH2/?igsh=MWFsMTI1bWljNTVuMQ%3D%3D&amp;img_index=1">resigned</a> from the university’s Religion, Diversity and Belonging task force Sunday. The university <a href="https://provost.virginia.edu/subsite/religious-diversity-and-belonging">created</a> the task force, which comprises students, professors and university administrators, with the goal of ensuring that the university is welcoming to people of all faiths and cultures. In his resignation statement, Ogunnaike said that while he believes the task force has done good work dealing with issues of religious discrimination at the university, the administration’s use of police force Saturday went against the task force’s mission.</p>
  273.  
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  276. <p>However, not all faculty statements have criticized the administration. More than 50 professors from the UVA School of Law <a href="https://www.cbs19news.com/story/50779678/uva-law-school-faculty-support-president-ryans-actions-may-4">signed</a> on to a letter addressed to the university’s Faculty Senate, released May 10 expressing their support for Ryan.</p>
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  280. <p>&#8220;We, members of the Law School faculty, write to express our strong support for President Jim Ryan,&#8221; the letter begins. &#8220;While some of us may have different views on the police response to clearing the protest encampment on Grounds on Saturday, May 4, we all agree that President Ryan and his leadership team made the decision to intervene with the best interests of the university, the student and the wider UVA community in mind.&#8221;</p>
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  284. <p>The letter went on to say that Ryan, himself a UVA Law alumnus, is a friend to many in the Law School. It said that Ryan has successfully led the university through multiple difficult events, including the Nov. 13, 2022 <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2022/11/three-fatalities-two-injuries-reported-following-active-shooter-at-culbreth">shooting</a> that killed three UVA students and the white supremacist Unite the Right <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2017/08/unite-the-right-rally-protests-in-downtown-charlottesville-turns-deadly">rally</a> in 2017.</p>
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  288. <p>In addition to discourse among faculty, dozens of student organizations have also published statements decrying the university’s clearing of the encampment Saturday.</p>
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  292. <p>The statements are some of the only public responses from UVA students. Many of the student protesters have declined to speak with media since the protest began. Charlottesville Tomorrow reached out to dozens of students online who had posted about being at the protest when it was cleared, and in person on the campus. Only two responded, but neither of them wished to be named.</p>
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  296. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-attachment-id="105465" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/img_5294/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714835215&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5294" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-105465" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Pro-Palestine protesters face off against Virgnia State troopers on Saturday, May 4. Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow</figcaption></figure>
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  300. <p>In a joint statement <a href="https://www.instagram.com/muatuva/p/C6mS15cul1_/?hl=en">authored</a> May 5, nine Contracted Independent Organizations on Grounds, including Muslims United, Black Student Alliance and Asian Student Union, wrote that the university’s decision to deploy state police in riot gear violated students’ rights to free speech and neglected student safety.</p>
  301.  
  302.  
  303.  
  304. <p>&#8220;There is no room for such injustice and suppression at our university,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;May 4th’s events have shown a blatant disregard for the rights of students to express dissent.&#8221;</p>
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  308. <p>Among the numerous student statements was a letter <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6m_PcbOfbB/?igsh=MWlhNDY4bXJ2Z2V2dw==">signed</a> by residents of 45 of the university’s 54 Lawn rooms. These rooms are located in the Academical Village, which comprises the buildings Jefferson designed for the university’s original campus and includes the Rotunda. Lawn rooms are reserved for students in their final year of undergraduate study, and are intended to <a href="https://studentaffairs.virginia.edu/lawn-application">recognize</a> unselfish service to the university and Charlottesville communities.</p>
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  312. <p>In the letter, Lawn residents condemned the arrest of student protesters and demanded that the university administration return those arrested to Grounds without threat of punishment. One signatory, who requested to remain anonymous, said that the university should hold themselves accountable for brutalizing students in a place where they are meant to be safe.</p>
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  315.  
  316. <p>&#8220;There were so many ways this could have been deescalated, and the University just chose the most violent path,&#8221; the Lawn resident said. &#8220;I hope that they can act in ways in the future to try and earn back the trust of students, but they definitely do not have it right now.&#8221;</p>
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  320. <p><em>Tamica Jean-Charles and Angilee Shah contributed to this report.</em></p>
  321. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/was-uva-justified-in-forcefully-clearing-encampment/">Was UVA justified in forcefully clearing pro-Palestine encampment?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  328. <title>Charlottesville Police Department releases 2023 annual report</title>
  329. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-police-department-releases-2023-annual-report/</link>
  331. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessie Higgins]]></dc:creator>
  332. <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 16:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  336. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105714</guid>
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  338. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="The wall of a brick building is pictured from below. On it are the words, &quot;Charlottesville Police Department.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=400 400w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="81611" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/independent-police-association-criticizes-police-chief-city-replies-by-lambasting-police-units-officers/corona_mk131-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2048,1365" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585654706&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Corona_MK131" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;Mike Kropf / Charlottesville Tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;
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  340. <p>Homicides went up, while overall crimes against individuals went down.</p>
  341. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-police-department-releases-2023-annual-report/">Charlottesville Police Department releases 2023 annual report</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  343. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="The wall of a brick building is pictured from below. On it are the words, &quot;Charlottesville Police Department.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?resize=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=400 400w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="81611" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/independent-police-association-criticizes-police-chief-city-replies-by-lambasting-police-units-officers/corona_mk131-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Corona_MK131-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2048,1365" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585654706&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Corona_MK131" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;Mike Kropf / Charlottesville Tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;
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  345. <p>The Charlottesville Police Department released its annual report for 2023.</p>
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  349. <p>The report details crime rates, complaints against officers, department staffing and budget, among other data.</p>
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  357. <p>&#8220;Despite unprecedented challenges, including having thirty sworn vacancies and a drastic increase in gun violence, we have remained focused on being community partners in safety,&#8221; Police Chief Michael Kochis wrote in the report&#8217;s introduction. &#8220;We began 2023 with a significant increase in [crimes against the person] specifically in the area of gun violence. Between the months of January and March, we experienced three homicides and were responding to, on average, one shots fired call a day.&#8221;</p>
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  361. <p>The data shows that the number of reported crimes against individuals dropped between 2022 and 2023. But the number of homicides went up. There were six last year, up from two in 2022, and zero in 2021.</p>
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  370. <p><a href="https://charlottesville.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/252">You can read the full report here</a>.</p>
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  379. <div class="wp-block-cover is-light" style="padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim" style="background-color:#e6f4f4"></span><img decoding="async" width="780" height="780" data-attachment-id="83861" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/style-guide/landtexture/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=2000%2C2000&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,2000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="LandTexture" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=780%2C780&amp;ssl=1" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-83861" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1568%2C1568&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  380. <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here-choose-stories-directly-related-or-from-the-same-category">More about the Charlottesville Police Department</h3>
  381.  
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  385. </div></div>
  386.  
  387.  
  388. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-police-department-releases-2023-annual-report/">Charlottesville Police Department releases 2023 annual report</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  394. <item>
  395. <title>Teacher retention, stability top priorities for Charlottesville High School’s new principal</title>
  396. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/teacher-retention-stability-top-priorities-for-charlottesville-high-schools-new-principal/</link>
  398. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamica Jean-Charles]]></dc:creator>
  399. <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 16:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
  400. <category><![CDATA[How we learn]]></category>
  401. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105711</guid>
  402.  
  403. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="512" height="512" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person smiles for a portrait in front of a brick wall." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105712" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/teacher-retention-stability-top-priorities-for-charlottesville-high-schools-new-principal/image-1-7/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="512,512" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Starting July 1, Justin Malone, principal of Jackson-Via Elementary School, will be Charlottesville High School’s newest principal.&lt;/p&gt;
  404. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  405. <p>Current Jackson-Via Elementary School Principal Justin Malone will lead the high school starting July 1.</p>
  406. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/teacher-retention-stability-top-priorities-for-charlottesville-high-schools-new-principal/">Teacher retention, stability top priorities for Charlottesville High School’s new principal</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
  407. ]]></description>
  408. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="512" height="512" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person smiles for a portrait in front of a brick wall." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105712" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/teacher-retention-stability-top-priorities-for-charlottesville-high-schools-new-principal/image-1-7/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="512,512" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Starting July 1, Justin Malone, principal of Jackson-Via Elementary School, will be Charlottesville High School’s newest principal.&lt;/p&gt;
  409. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-1.png?fit=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  410. <p>Justin Malone, currently serving as principal at Jackson-Via Elementary School, is set to be Charlottesville High School’s new principal come July 1.</p>
  411.  
  412.  
  413.  
  414. <p>This marks Malone’s return to CHS, where he previously served as an assistant principal from 2013 to 2017. Prior to his time at CHS, Malone began his career as a special education teacher in Greene County and advanced to leadership positions within the school division.</p>
  415.  
  416.  
  417.  
  418. <p>&#8220;CHS is a special place to me,&#8221; said Malone, who <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/7de65b75-0f40-4346-a6d9-797260c6b5b2.pdf">beat out 43 other applicants</a> for the position.</p>
  419.  
  420.  
  421.  
  422. <p>The search for a new CHS principal began in November, when Rashaad Pitt resigned to focus on his family and health. His departure coincided with the CHS teacher sick-out, in <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-high-students-and-teachers-at-their-breaking-point-with-fights-lockdowns-and-adults-trespassing-on-campus/">which around 10 teachers &#8220;coordinated a sick-out day&#8221; in protest of the rise in student violence</a> within the high school, according to Amanda Korman, spokesperson for City Schools in an email to Charlottesville Tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
  423.  
  424.  
  425.  
  426. <p>Kenneth Leatherwood, a former CHS principal who retired in 2012, has served as interim principal since Pitt&#8217;s departure. </p>
  427.  
  428.  
  429.  
  430. <p>Charlottesville Tomorrow spoke with Malone about his experience and goals for the role. </p>
  431.  
  432.  
  433.  
  434. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Charlottesville Tomorrow: How does it feel to be back at CHS?</strong></h2>
  435.  
  436.  
  437.  
  438. <p><strong>Malone:</strong> It feels good to be back at CHS, really exciting for me. It&#8217;s a special place to me. It has been since I first started working there in 2013. And it&#8217;s held a special place in me professionally and as a part of my family dynamic. Our children were pretty young when I was working there. We would go to the athletic events, choir performances, orchestra performances as family dates and family experiences. The idea of being back so close to it, it&#8217;s very exciting.</p>
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  442. <section class="wp-block-group alignleft is-style-default in-story-related has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(112deg,rgb(204,233,233) 0%,rgb(230,244,244) 100%)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained">
  443. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about Charlottesville High School</h3>
  444.  
  445.  
  446. </div></section>
  447.  
  448.  
  449.  
  450. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What do you expect to accomplish within your first year as principal?</strong></h2>
  451.  
  452.  
  453.  
  454. <p><strong>Malone: </strong>I think there&#8217;s a stability that I&#8217;d like to help to make sure is felt and understood at CHS. That same stability is the kind of thing that all schools want, to know that we&#8217;re functioning in a stable manner. Specifically, what&#8217;s on my mind right now is the freshmen transition. I want to give consideration to their transition through thoughtful mentoring and establishing a transition mentoring experience over time. I&#8217;m also focusing on building out leadership capacity and empowerment of our students to help them become mentors and student leaders. There&#8217;s ambition around that. It&#8217;s going to start with how we can make sure we&#8217;ve developed a thoughtful, successful and sustainable program for our incoming freshmen.</p>
  455.  
  456.  
  457.  
  458. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What are some immediate changes or actions you want to make at CHS?</strong></h2>
  459.  
  460.  
  461.  
  462. <p><strong>Malone:</strong> An early priority is to work toward being fully staffed. I don&#8217;t think I have an up-to-date sense necessarily of what their staffing profile is right now, but a fully staffed building is a significant priority. And then I think more broadly would be building relationships that are fostered through spending time with the staff at CHS, specifically working with our school counseling team.&nbsp;</p>
  463.  
  464.  
  465.  
  466. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What else have you done in education? How do you think it will help you in this role?</strong></h2>
  467.  
  468.  
  469.  
  470. <p><strong>Malone:</strong> I started in Greene County as a special education teacher at Greene Elementary School and then I became a special education coordinator and an administrator at one of their elementary schools. I went to Old Dominion University for my undergrad and master&#8217;s in early childhood education. I later went to University of Virginia to get my doctorate in education.</p>
  471.  
  472.  
  473.  
  474. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Student safety and teacher retention are some of the bigger challenges CHS is facing now. How do you aim to address those in your role?</strong></h2>
  475.  
  476.  
  477.  
  478. <p><strong>Malone:</strong> Well, the priority is always going to be safety for all the humans that come to Charlottesville High School. So in terms of addressing it, I think that would probably be one of those areas where I would want to review an audit. There would be a constant audit and examination of those features to make sure that we are as safe as we possibly can be. What experiences have we had throughout this whole year, and maybe even specifically since the news hit back in November.</p>
  479.  
  480.  
  481.  
  482. <p>By all accounts, there seems to have been a stabilization of recruitment, a sense of knowing what systems that we have in place, and our sense of accountability for that has improved.</p>
  483.  
  484.  
  485.  
  486. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Do you anticipate any significant differences working with high school rather than elementary school students?</strong></h2>
  487.  
  488.  
  489.  
  490. <p><strong>Malone</strong>: Certainly I&#8217;ve given that quite a bit of thought. I&#8217;ve put my mind in the place of actually thinking about what&#8217;s similar as opposed to what&#8217;s different. I think one possible advantage that I have as it relates to thinking about leaving from elementary to high school — I&#8217;ve worked for many years out of high school. And so I have a sense of the scale and a sense of the scope, just in terms of a building having four times as many people in it as we have here. I think that&#8217;s maybe more of a stamina transition than I think. What&#8217;s actually been on my mind is less about what&#8217;s different and sort of like, again, what do I anticipate. I think there are so many similarities and commonalities between elementary school or high schools, and even middle schools.</p>
  491. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/teacher-retention-stability-top-priorities-for-charlottesville-high-schools-new-principal/">Teacher retention, stability top priorities for Charlottesville High School’s new principal</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  498. <title>City Schools budget has gone up this year, but not as much as Board members hoped</title>
  499. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-schools-budget-has-gone-up-this-year-but-not-as-much-as-board-members-hoped/</link>
  501. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamica Jean-Charles]]></dc:creator>
  502. <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 18:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
  503. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  504. <category><![CDATA[How we learn]]></category>
  505. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105695</guid>
  506.  
  507. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="489" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person in a teal blouse stands in front of a podium." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?w=1692&amp;ssl=1 1692w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=768%2C367&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1536%2C734&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1200%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1568%2C749&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=400%2C191&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=706%2C337&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105696" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-schools-budget-has-gone-up-this-year-but-not-as-much-as-board-members-hoped/screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1-59-20-pm/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1692%2C808&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1692,808" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screenshot 2024-05-15 at 1.59.20 PM" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Renee Hoover, director of finance for Charlottesville City Schools, presented the amended budget for 2025 at the May 2 Charlottesville City School Board meeting at Charlottesville High School. City Schools hoped to get an additional $9 million from the city, but instead got $7 million.&lt;/p&gt;
  508. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=780%2C372&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  509. <p>"We had to make some tough decisions," said Lisa Larson-Torres, chair of the Charlottesville City School Board.</p>
  510. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-schools-budget-has-gone-up-this-year-but-not-as-much-as-board-members-hoped/">City Schools budget has gone up this year, but not as much as Board members hoped</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  512. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="489" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person in a teal blouse stands in front of a podium." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?w=1692&amp;ssl=1 1692w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=768%2C367&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1536%2C734&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1200%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=1568%2C749&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=400%2C191&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?resize=706%2C337&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1024%2C489&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105696" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-schools-budget-has-gone-up-this-year-but-not-as-much-as-board-members-hoped/screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1-59-20-pm/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=1692%2C808&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1692,808" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Screenshot 2024-05-15 at 1.59.20 PM" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Renee Hoover, director of finance for Charlottesville City Schools, presented the amended budget for 2025 at the May 2 Charlottesville City School Board meeting at Charlottesville High School. City Schools hoped to get an additional $9 million from the city, but instead got $7 million.&lt;/p&gt;
  513. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-1.59.20 PM.png?fit=780%2C372&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  514. <p>Charlottesville City School Board is short on its fiscal year 2025 budget.</p>
  515.  
  516.  
  517.  
  518. <p>The City of Charlottesville — the biggest contributor to City Schools budget — passed its fiscal year 2024-2025 budget, and allocated a total of $74 million to City Schools. That&#8217;s $7 million more than the city allocated last year. But City Schools said it&#8217;s not enough.</p>
  519.  
  520.  
  521.  
  522. <p>City Schools asked for an additional $9 million for a slew of new positions, projects and a few miscellaneous expenses.&nbsp;</p>
  523.  
  524.  
  525.  
  526. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that we&#8217;re not going to have all the personnel we&#8217;re going to need to meet our students&#8217; needs,&#8221; <a href="https://youtu.be/ecXOdOsApQw?si=RLf2FRmgk5wK6qq4&amp;t=2907">said Chris Meyer, a Charlottesville City School Board member, at a May 2 meeting</a>.&nbsp;</p>
  527.  
  528.  
  529.  
  530. <p>City Schools&#8217; overall budget, <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/3437/2024_budget_book_exec_summary-reduced_file_size.pdf">which was $106.8 million in 2024</a>, is funded by state and federal money, and special revenue — such as tuition from Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Educational Center —&nbsp; but the majority of its budget comes from the city.</p>
  531.  
  532.  
  533.  
  534. <p>The city contributed $67 million to City Schools&#8217; overall budget for 2024.</p>
  535.  
  536.  
  537.  
  538. <p>For the 2025 budget, Charlottesville City School Board went back and forth on how much it wanted from the City. At the start of budget season, City Schools wanted to ask for an additional $12 million. City Schools then considered asking for $6 million before eventually upping that request to $9 million.</p>
  539.  
  540.  
  541.  
  542. <p>The City agreed to give an additional $7 million, which brings its total contribution to $74 million. City Schools&#8217; current amended budget for 2025 is about $118.8 million.&nbsp;</p>
  543.  
  544.  
  545.  
  546. <p>That was the best the city could do, said Mayor Juandiego Wade.</p>
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  551. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about City Schools budget</h3>
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  556.  
  557.  
  558. <p>&#8220;We gave as much as we could without raising taxes even more and balancing the other priorities,&#8221; he said to Charlottesville Tomorrow. &#8220;It was a very difficult decision and the Council had a lot of discussions among the Council and the School Board.&#8221;</p>
  559.  
  560.  
  561.  
  562. <p>The $7 million increase for City Schools is one of the many large expenses the city plans to make in 2025. The city&#8217;s amended budget now includes salary increases for all city employees, renovations for Buford Middle School and Walker Upper Elementary School, collective bargaining efforts and affordable housing commitments, said City Councilor Michael Payne.</p>
  563.  
  564.  
  565.  
  566. <p>Getting an additional $7 million, instead of the requested $9 million, from the city doesn&#8217;t create as big of a gap as it seems. The state&#8217;s projected contribution to City Schools&#8217; budget went up by $1.4 million in early March, <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/06f22777-2a36-4a45-852b-b172f5953b4c.pdf">according to the budget presentation at the May 2 meeting</a>. That leaves the gap at $628,000.</p>
  567.  
  568.  
  569.  
  570. <p>But that could also change, according to Renee Hoover, director of finance for City Schools. The General Assembly met for a special session and updated the state budget on Monday. The updated state budget includes increased funding to K-12 schools, but as of Wednesday morning the amount City Schools will receive had not been released by the General Assembly.</p>
  571.  
  572.  
  573.  
  574. <p>We &#8220;hope the state budget once passed would provide additional resources to schools,&#8221; said Payne.</p>
  575.  
  576.  
  577.  
  578. <p>Besides that, CCS could also get some additional money from the city&#8217;s personal property taxes and real estate taxes. If the revenue the city pulls from those two taxes increases from one year to the next, the city will give the school district 40% of that increase, <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/07eeb1c0-fe73-4242-a3dc-084f468dab63.pdf">according to the Feb. 1 City School&#8217;s budget presentation</a>. It doesn&#8217;t always happen, but since 2015, increases in funds have ranged from $1.6 million to $4.2 million. And this year, the city increased those tax rates, which means that more money is likely.</p>
  579.  
  580.  
  581.  
  582. <p>City Schools also received less money than it hoped from other funding sources. Every two years, localities are given a <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/data-policy-funding/school-finance/budget-grants-management/composite-index-of-local-ability-to-pay">local composite index (LCI) score,</a> according to Beth Cheuk, spokesperson for City Schools. The score determines how much the city is able to contribute to its public schools. The higher the score, the less the state contributes to the locality and subsequently the school division. Charlottesville&#8217;s score went up in 2024, meaning City Schools will receive $1.1 million less in state funding.</p>
  583.  
  584.  
  585.  
  586. <p>City Schools will also get less funding from other revenues — such as grocery sales taxes and remaining COVID-19 funds — which adds up to $2.9 million loss in revenue, <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/07eeb1c0-fe73-4242-a3dc-084f468dab63.pdf">according to a February budget presentation from City Schools</a>. The additional revenues ended, Superintendent Royal Gurley said at a Feb. 1 meeting. Unlike LCI-generated funds, the others were created or implemented to assist with school funding for a short period of time.</p>
  587.  
  588.  
  589.  
  590. <p>The <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/ebf66beb-327b-4d98-bbfd-fe50eb7aafaf.pdf">$9 million request</a> to the city was to fund 21 new positions and some miscellaneous expenses, including:</p>
  591.  
  592.  
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  594. <ul>
  595. <li>One care and safety assistant;</li>
  596.  
  597.  
  598.  
  599. <li>One special education instructional assistant at Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center (CATEC);</li>
  600.  
  601.  
  602.  
  603. <li>Six reading and math specialists and interventionists;</li>
  604.  
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  606.  
  607. <li>Six site based substitute teachers;</li>
  608.  
  609.  
  610.  
  611. <li>Seven teachers;</li>
  612.  
  613.  
  614.  
  615. <li>Funding for the <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-new-charlottesville-school-gives-some-teens-a-different-way-to-learn-at-night/">Knight School</a>;</li>
  616.  
  617.  
  618.  
  619. <li>And money for other expenditures such as collective bargaining relations, stipend increases for special education instructional assistants software and increased tuition reimbursements.</li>
  620. </ul>
  621.  
  622.  
  623.  
  624. <p>City Schools will still pursue many of the items — such as site-based substitutes and English as a Second Language teachers — without increasing its budget. The school division does this a number of ways. It will either decrease the overall expense of a single item, shift specific matters to other expenditure budgets (such as the prevention and intervention fund) or use funds from its fund balance, or a savings account-esque pool of money City Schools can use for one-time expenses.</p>
  625.  
  626.  
  627.  
  628. <p>By doing all of that, City Schools shaved off more than $1 million of its budget.&nbsp;</p>
  629.  
  630.  
  631.  
  632. <p>If City Schools can&#8217;t make up the $628,316 deficit, it won&#8217;t fund a reading and a math specialist for Walker, a math interventionist for Buford and a site-based substitute for Charlottesville High School.</p>
  633.  
  634.  
  635.  
  636. <p>&#8220;We had to make some tough decisions,&#8221; said Lisa Larson-Torres, chair of the Charlottesville City School Board. &#8220;It makes me sad that some of these schools couldn&#8217;t get the support they needed for their students. We need every support person, and these weren&#8217;t frivolous asks, these were based on what our students need.&#8221;</p>
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  642.  
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  645. <p class="has-small-font-size">You can find out more about the <a href="https://charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/11b82e09-0658-4205-b843-9248909cf817.pdf">2024-25 Charlottesville City Schools budget here</a>. If you want to understand the budget even more, <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/3437/2024_budget_book_exec_summary-reduced_file_size.pdf">here is detail about the FY 2024 (2023-2024) budget from City Schools</a>.</p>
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  651. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-schools-budget-has-gone-up-this-year-but-not-as-much-as-board-members-hoped/">City Schools budget has gone up this year, but not as much as Board members hoped</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  658. <title>Charlottesville Tomorrow wins four 2023 Virginia Press Association awards, including two first place awards for feature writing</title>
  659. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-wins-four-2023-virginia-press-association-awards-including-two-first-place-awards-for-feature-writing/</link>
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  662. <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  666. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A screen shows a person smiling with the words &quot;Feature story writing&quot; and the badge &quot;First.&quot; The text says &quot;Charlottesville Tomorrow&quot; and &quot;Tamica Jean-Charles,&quot; with people seated at dinner tables in the foreground." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1125&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C225&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C397&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105683" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-wins-four-2023-virginia-press-association-awards-including-two-first-place-awards-for-feature-writing/20240504_193945/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="20240504_193945" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Tamica Jean-Charles won first place in online news for feature writing in the 2023 Virginia Press Association contest, for the &#8220;quality of writing and ability of the writer to hold reader interest&#8221; for her nuanced handling of the conversations we&#8217;ve had in central Virginia around renaming schools.&lt;/p&gt;
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  668. <p>Reporters Tamica Jean-Charles and Erin O'Hare took home first place awards for their reporting on how Charlottesville is working through conversations about race.</p>
  669. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-wins-four-2023-virginia-press-association-awards-including-two-first-place-awards-for-feature-writing/">Charlottesville Tomorrow wins four 2023 Virginia Press Association awards, including two first place awards for feature writing</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  671. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A screen shows a person smiling with the words &quot;Feature story writing&quot; and the badge &quot;First.&quot; The text says &quot;Charlottesville Tomorrow&quot; and &quot;Tamica Jean-Charles,&quot; with people seated at dinner tables in the foreground." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1125&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C225&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C397&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105683" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-wins-four-2023-virginia-press-association-awards-including-two-first-place-awards-for-feature-writing/20240504_193945/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240504_193945-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="20240504_193945" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Tamica Jean-Charles won first place in online news for feature writing in the 2023 Virginia Press Association contest, for the &#8220;quality of writing and ability of the writer to hold reader interest&#8221; for her nuanced handling of the conversations we&#8217;ve had in central Virginia around renaming schools.&lt;/p&gt;
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  673. <p>At Charlottesville Tomorrow, we work hard to bring diverse communities closer together through journalism, especially in how we write. So we&#8217;re proud to announce that our team has won four awards in feature writing and investigative reporting at the <a href="https://www.vpa.net/2023-contest-winners-gallery/">2023 Virginia Press Association News and Advertising Contest</a>.</p>
  674.  
  675.  
  676.  
  677. <p>Tamica Jean-Charles won first place in online news for feature writing, for the &#8220;quality of writing and ability of the writer to hold reader interest&#8221; for her nuanced handling of the conversations we&#8217;ve had in central Virginia around renaming schools.</p>
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  681. <section class="wp-block-group is-style-default in-story-related has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(112deg,rgb(204,233,233) 0%,rgb(230,244,244) 100%)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"></div></section>
  682.  
  683.  
  684.  
  685. <p>Erin O&#8217;Hare won first place for feature stories among all Virginia news outlets from her writing of the story of a wrong made right, using &#8220;narrative and drama&#8221; to keep readers’ interest.</p>
  686.  
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  689. <section class="wp-block-group is-style-default in-story-related has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(112deg,rgb(204,233,233) 0%,rgb(230,244,244) 100%)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"></div></section>
  690.  
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  692.  
  693. <p>O&#8217;Hare also won second place for online investigative work for her longtime reporting on a downtown Charlottesville apartment building that houses low-income seniors and people with disabilities. The judge wrote, &#8220;Reporting that makes a difference is always the goal of watchdog journalism… I particularly appreciate framing the hopefulness of residents with the portable toilet showing up on premises for workers&#8217; use.&#8221;</p>
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  697. <section class="wp-block-group is-style-default in-story-related has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(112deg,rgb(204,233,233) 0%,rgb(230,244,244) 100%)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"></div></section>
  698.  
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  700.  
  701. <p>O&#8217;Hare and managing editor Jessie Higgins together won second place in online feature series for their reports about unhoused communities — such asthe tent community that lived in Charlottesville&#8217;s Market Street Park in September — and the impact that reporting is having on the communities&#8217; conversations about housing insecurity.</p>
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  705. <section class="wp-block-group is-style-default in-story-related has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(112deg,rgb(204,233,233) 0%,rgb(230,244,244) 100%)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"></div></section>
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  714. <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left brolide has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-96a6bd1b01d868c4bff8c7b2f525e644" style="font-size:65px">Take Action</h2>
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  718. <p class="has-small-font-size">We&#8217;re thrilled to receive these honors from our colleagues in local news. Still, the most important thing about what we do is how it impacts you. If you too think Charlottesville Tomorrow&#8217;s journalism helps our communities thrive, we&#8217;d be honored if you&#8217;d tell a friend to subscribe to our free email newsletters. <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter-sign-up/">Share this link!</a></p>
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  720. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-wins-four-2023-virginia-press-association-awards-including-two-first-place-awards-for-feature-writing/">Charlottesville Tomorrow wins four 2023 Virginia Press Association awards, including two first place awards for feature writing</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  727. <title>Reporter Erin O’Hare featured at CreativeMornings this week</title>
  728. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/reporter-erin-ohare-featured-at-creativemornings-this-week/</link>
  730. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlottesville Tomorrow]]></dc:creator>
  731. <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
  732. <category><![CDATA[From the newsroom]]></category>
  733. <category><![CDATA[Our neighborhoods]]></category>
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  735.  
  736. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="768" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105655" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/reporter-erin-ohare-featured-at-creativemornings-this-week/ftn-eo-creative-mornings/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?fit=1920%2C1440&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1920,1440" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="FTN &#8211; EO Creative Mornings" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FTN-EO-Creative-Mornings.png?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  737. <p>On Friday, O'Hare will speak about how she remembers that Charlottesville is 'vibrant' — even though she often reports on its problems.</p>
  738. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/reporter-erin-ohare-featured-at-creativemornings-this-week/">Reporter Erin O’Hare featured at CreativeMornings this week</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  741. <p>On Friday, May 17, Charlottesville Tomorrow neighborhoods reporter Erin O&#8217;Hare will give a talk during the monthly CreativeMornings speaker series.</p>
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  744.  
  745. <p>The topic is &#8220;vibrant,&#8221; and Erin will talk about how she remembers that Charlottesville is a vibrant community, when her journalistic work often focuses on its problems.</p>
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  747.  
  748.  
  749. <p>For Erin, those reminders come in a few different forms:&nbsp; music, art, and in her journalism, by featuring people who work to make Charlottesville a better place to live.&nbsp;</p>
  750.  
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  753. <p>In addition to reporting on housing and neighborhoods for Charlottesville Tomorrow, Erin is a volunteer DJ for WTJU 91.1 FM Charlottesville, where she co-hosts the punk, hardcore, and outer limits show Black Circle Revolution Thursday nights from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. She is the author of the Under The Table And Screaming series, a five-volume zine series about local independent and do-it-yourself music venues published by WTJU. The final volume is due out any day now.</p>
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  757. <p>Erin also plays bass in two bands and books music for Visible Records, the art gallery, studio, and community space in Charlottesville where CreativeMornings will be held this month.</p>
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  761. <p><a href="https://creativemornings.com/">CreativeMornings</a> events take place in dozens of cities all over the world. Each month has a different theme, and each local chapter selects a speaker from its own community to discuss that topic. The event kicks off with breakfast and mingling time before the talk begins.</p>
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  765. <article class="wp-block-group is-style-default take-action-block has-background" style="background:linear-gradient(133deg,rgb(239,232,238) 0%,rgb(253,240,233) 100%);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained">
  766. <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left brolide has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-96a6bd1b01d868c4bff8c7b2f525e644" style="font-size:65px">Take Action</h2>
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  770. <p>Want to attend? It&#8217;s free, but <a href="https://creativemornings.com/talks/erin-o-hare">registration is required at this link</a>.&nbsp;</p>
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  774. <p>Friday, May 17, 2024<br>8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.<br>Visible Records, 1740 Broadway St., Charlottesville</p>
  775. </div></article>
  776. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/reporter-erin-ohare-featured-at-creativemornings-this-week/">Reporter Erin O’Hare featured at CreativeMornings this week</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  783. <title>After closing in March, Head Start center&#8217;s board disagrees on how to move forward</title>
  784. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-closing-in-march-head-start-centers-board-disagrees-on-how-to-move-forward/</link>
  786. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamica Jean-Charles]]></dc:creator>
  787. <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
  788. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  789. <category><![CDATA[How we learn]]></category>
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  792. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="The entrance of a brick building with double glass doors and a sign next to it that reads, &quot;MACAA.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105607" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-closing-in-march-head-start-centers-board-disagrees-on-how-to-move-forward/koriprice_20240404_009-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1712260213&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024 Kori Price Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="KoriPrice_20240404_009 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Monticello Area Community Action Agency closed its doors March 31. Now, it hopes to launch a new center to prove to itself, the community and the federal government that it is capable of running Head Start again.&lt;/p&gt;
  793. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  794. <p>The board chair wants to apply for grants to expand the program. The board finance director says the organization is not ready.</p>
  795. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-closing-in-march-head-start-centers-board-disagrees-on-how-to-move-forward/">After closing in March, Head Start center&#8217;s board disagrees on how to move forward</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  797. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="The entrance of a brick building with double glass doors and a sign next to it that reads, &quot;MACAA.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105607" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-closing-in-march-head-start-centers-board-disagrees-on-how-to-move-forward/koriprice_20240404_009-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1712260213&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024 Kori Price Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="KoriPrice_20240404_009 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Monticello Area Community Action Agency closed its doors March 31. Now, it hopes to launch a new center to prove to itself, the community and the federal government that it is capable of running Head Start again.&lt;/p&gt;
  798. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240404_009-1-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1" /></figure>
  799. <p>The directors of Monticello Area Community Action Agency want to bring their Early Head Start and Head Start programs back, and come back stronger than ever.&nbsp;</p>
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  803. <p>In January, MACAA&#8217;s board of directors voted to relinquish its federal Early Head Start and Head Start grants, saying only that the agency was unable to &#8220;serve the number of children we are obligated to serve in a manner that is likely to be successful.&#8221; The agency officially closed its doors to hundreds of families and dozens of workers on March 31.</p>
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  807. <p>At an April board of director&#8217;s meeting the, Board Chair Sarah Shalf presented a plan to restart a pilot program for its Head Start programs in Charlottesville, and Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa and Nelson counties, by applying for a grant called the<a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/352817?cid=d9c36466a97e1adbef58182bc074125a"> Head Start Expansion, Early Head Start Expansion, and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grant</a>. It could be a way for MACAA to get back into Head Start.</p>
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  811. <p>Should the agency receive the grant, the pilot it launches would be an entirely new Head Start program at a single, undetermined location. It would not be a reopening of any of MACAA&#8217;s previous centers. Those centers are currently managed by a national nonprofit called Community Development Institute Head Start, or CDI. CDI is a large nonprofit that the federal Department of Health and Human Services hires to run Head Start programs whenever community groups lose their grants or close their centers.</p>
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  815. <div class="wp-block-cover alignleft is-light" style="padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim" style="background-color:#e6f4f4"></span><img decoding="async" width="780" height="780" data-attachment-id="83861" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/style-guide/landtexture/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=2000%2C2000&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,2000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="LandTexture" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?fit=780%2C780&amp;ssl=1" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-83861" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1568%2C1568&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  816. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about MACAA</h3>
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  823. <p>Even if MACAA opens a pilot center, CDI would still run the others.</p>
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  827. <p>The new expansion grant is a &#8220;separate, smaller grant, and would be in addition to the program that CDI now runs,&#8221; Shalf said at the April 25 meeting. &#8220;We can responsibly build a model program around it.&#8221;</p>
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  831. <p>The grant is a chance for MACAA to redeem itself and prepare to reapply for the Head Start grant it held previously, Shalf said. The agency could still re-apply for its original Head Start grants as soon as 2025.</p>
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  835. <p>The board agreed to move forward with the expansion grant application, but with conditions. The group will only accept the grant if it includes an ample amount of resources &#8220;to build in the support we need to build a strong pilot program,&#8221; Shalf said in an email to Charlottesville Tomorrow.</p>
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  839. <p>The grant is meant to support new or existing Head Start providers by giving them funds to expand their existing services, <a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/352817?cid=d9c36466a97e1adbef58182bc074125a">according to the announcement document for the grant</a>. The minimum grant amount is $750,000, the grant reads.</p>
  840.  
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  843. <p>The general operating grant that MACAA relinquished provided around $2.7 million annually in 2020 to run nine centers, according to the agency&#8217;s most recent tax documents.</p>
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  847. <p>The MACAA board can decide to rescind its application for the expansion grant if the board believes the agency isn&#8217;t equipped to &#8220;support a successful program,&#8221; Shalf said.</p>
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  851. <p>After submitting an application, MACAA will negotiate with the federal Office of Head Start on the funding amount. Assuming the federal agency agrees to fund MACAA, the latest the organization can reject the offer is Sept. 30.</p>
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  855. <p>If MACAA were to receive the expansion grant, the money would arrive this September, but the agency would not open the pilot center until October 2025, Shalf said in the email.&nbsp;</p>
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  859. <p>&#8220;We will make decisions about opening based on when we will be ready, depending on what OHS provides for in the grant, what progress we have made on our systems internally, and our conversations with the community,&#8221; Shalf said.</p>
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  863. <p>Not every member of the board of directors agrees that this is the right approach.</p>
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  867. <p>Phillip Love, director of finance for MACAA, doesn&#8217;t think MACAA is in the right shape to go back to business so quickly.</p>
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  871. <p>During the board meeting, he said the agency should not move forward &#8220;unless we get the right staff in, and we change the culture, and we change the infrastructure. It&#8217;s going to take time and we will do it. We have to do that for this to work. I think for the employees, the execs, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s sitting in the back of their heads. We don&#8217;t want this to fail. This can&#8217;t fail.&#8221;</p>
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  875. <p>He said he thinks MACAA should wait at least another three years before stepping back into action.</p>
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  879. <p>Charlottesville Tomorrow reached out to Love to ask follow up questions. He did not respond to emails sent to his MACAA account.</p>
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  883. <p>As of Thursday morning, CDI had reopened four of the nine closed centers and one classroom at MACAA&#8217;s Park Street location, <a href="https://www.cdiheadstart.org/FLANVA/">according to a recent update on CDI&#8217;s website.</a> The organization said it is still hiring staff for its Hollymead, Greer and remaining Park Street classrooms. The Louisa location remains closed and will not be reopened at that location. It is unclear why that center will not reopen. CDI did not respond to interview requests from Charlottesville Tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
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  887. <p>While CDI is looking for a new location to host Head Start in Louisa County, it&#8217;s unlikely it will be able to serve Louisa students for the rest of the 2023-2024 school year, Shalf said at the April meeting.</p>
  888. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-closing-in-march-head-start-centers-board-disagrees-on-how-to-move-forward/">After closing in March, Head Start center&#8217;s board disagrees on how to move forward</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  908. <p>UVA President Ryan and Police Chief Longo are streaming a 'town hall' to explain why the operation to clear the encampment got so large.</p>
  909. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/">After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  913. <p>The organizers of an encampment in support of Palestine at the University of Virginia knew that pitching tents could trigger action against their protest. University officials made that clear when they first gathered Tuesday afternoon.</p>
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  917. <p>What they and the faculty members who were helping them communicate with police and administrators did not anticipate was the force with which that action would come. Instead of citations and facilities management taking down the tents, they were met with a multi-agency, coordinated police action with officers wearing riot gear and military-grade equipment.</p>
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  921. <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see how this level of state police violence was justified when, in other universities like Berkley, Rutgers, Northwestern, they basically allowed the protesters to peacefully protest and there was no police-instigated violence,&#8221; said Walter Heinecke, a professor in the School of Education, who was liaising for the students during the protest. &#8220;Somewhere, they had to make a choice. And they made the wrong choice.&#8221;</p>
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  925. <p>Gov. Glenn<a href="https://virginiamercury.com/2024/04/29/youngkin-says-no-encampments-on-virginia-campuses-supports-peaceful-protests/"> Youngkin said that the commonwealth will permit protests</a> as long as they do not intimidate Jewish students or become encampments. And UVA officials said they would allow this particular demonstration so long as the protesters didn&#8217;t attach signs to objects or trees, or put up tents.</p>
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  929. <p>But Friday evening, the student protesters stopped following the rules. Neither Charlottesville Tomorrow nor Cavalier Daily were able to speak directly with any of the student protesters to learn why they decided to pitch tents.</p>
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  933. <p>Throughout the five-day demonstration, the group declined to speak with media or police directly. But three UVA faculty who were liaising between the student protestors, administrators and police, told Charlottesville Tomorrow that the protesters pitched tents because they were unhappy with the university’s response to its demands — and simply because Friday evening it started to rain.</p>
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  938. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">Read more about the demands of the protests and politics that surrounded it</h3>
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  945. <p>Later that evening, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo arrived. He told faculty members who were present at the encampment to correspond with administration and law enforcement that the students had to take the tents down, according to student journalists from the Cavalier Daily who observed the conversation. He also instructed students to stop using a megaphone.</p>
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  949. <p>Longo issued several ultimatums Friday evening, which members of the encampment ignored. He told faculty liaisons on multiple occasions that if the protestors did not remove their own tents, the university&#8217;s facilities management team would do so, and that resistance to those efforts could lead to arrest. After more than an hour of correspondence with faculty liaisons and representatives from Student Affairs, Longo left for the evening.</p>
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  953. <p>&#8220;Demonstrators refused to comply and continued violating University policies,&#8221; UVA said in a news release detailing the events leading up to the arrival of State Troopers. &#8220;However, given continued peaceful behavior and the presence of young children at the demonstration site, and due to heavy rain Friday night, officials allowed the tents to remain in place overnight.&#8221;</p>
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  957. <p>But the next morning it was a different story.</p>
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  961. <p>Longo returned at about 8 a.m. and delivered the same ultimatum via megaphone to the encampment — if tents were not disassembled in 15 minutes, facilities management would come in and do so.&nbsp;</p>
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  965. <p>Heinecke communicated with Longo as a faculty liaison multiple times Friday afternoon and evening. From the times tents went up at the encampment Friday until state police arrived Saturday, Heinecke said, Longo gave him no reason to think that things would escalate so drastically.</p>
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  974. <p><em>Charlottesville Tomorrow collaborated with the Cavalier Daily to report this story. The student journalists of the independent, nonprofit news organization at the University of Virginia have been reporting on the protests and got first-hand accounts of many of the facts you read here.</em></p>
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  989. <p>&#8220;He [Longo] said repeatedly that if they took the tents down, they could stay, and then he took us through the steps if they didn&#8217;t take the tents down,&#8221; said Heinecke.</p>
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  993. <p>None of those steps including bringing in state police in riot gear or calling out as large and as militarized police presence as ultimately appeared. Longo simply said that UVA Police would issue a warning. If the protestors remained, police would issue no a trespassing order and citations. Protestors who signed the citations would be allowed leave. Those who refused to sign would be subject to arrest.</p>
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  997. <p>During this time, there was confusion among protesters and faculty members about whether pitching camp tents actually violated UVA policy. They found an environmental health and safety document posted to the university&#8217;s website that specifically exempted recreational tents from its list of prohibited structures. Sometime Saturday morning, that document was quietly edited to remove that line.</p>
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  1001. <p>&#8220;I saw him [Longo] by the Rotunda briefly and showed him the tent policy someone sent me that said small tents were ok,&#8221; Heinecke said. &#8220;He looked at it and didn&#8217;t respond to me, saying he thought there was some other policy. I showed him a picture of two tents over by the volleyball courts that were up that morning.&#8221;</p>
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  1005. <p>Neither Longo nor the <a href="https://fusion.vsp.virginia.gov/">Virginia State Fusion Center</a>, which was part of the team of police coordinating a response to the protest, responded to requests for comment. The Fusion Center is a joint effort between local, state and federal agencies tasked with responding to criminal or terrorist activity, according to its website.</p>
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  1008.  
  1009. <p>Several UVA Police arrived at the scene around 11:30 a.m. and formed a perimeter around the encampment. Another ultimatum was delivered by an officer, by which point a crowd of onlookers, supporters and a group holding a flag of Israel and largely supporting the police action began to form.</p>
  1010.  
  1011.  
  1012.  
  1013. <p>The tipping point came shortly before noon when UVA Police officers tried to get to a tent to&nbsp; disassemble it. Around 10 protesters locked arms and attempted to block the officers from reaching the tents, according to reporters from the Cavalier Daily who were at the scene. At some point during the altercation, police said one of the protesters attempted to assault an officer. The incident was <a href="https://twitter.com/cavalierdaily/status/1786798947400405259?s=46">caught on video by a Cavalier Daily reporter</a>, though it is impossible to see exactly what happened from the angle it was recorded. But the protester was detained — and a standoff between protestors and police ensued.</p>
  1014.  
  1015.  
  1016.  
  1017. <p>&#8220;It seemed like there was a brief presence of local police — I guess Charlottesville and Albemarle police — and they started creating a perimeter around the encampment area,&#8221; said Heinecke, the faculty liaison. &#8220;A university police officer read a statement off of his phone to the protestors that they were trespassing and they had to leave. I never saw them issue any paper citation or a no trespassing order.&#8221;</p>
  1018.  
  1019.  
  1020.  
  1021. <p>And then, a process with multiple police agencies creating perimeters began. Corinne Geller, Virginia State Police&#8217;s public relations director, <a href="https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-05-05/university-of-virginia-gaza-protest-state-police-arrests-grounds">told VPM that UVA Police requested their presence</a>.</p>
  1022.  
  1023.  
  1024.  
  1025. <p>University alerts went out just after noon, via text message and on the classroom alert systems where many students were taking final exams: &#8220;UVA Emergency Alert: police activity in the area of the Rotunda/Chapel. Avoid the area.&#8221;</p>
  1026.  
  1027.  
  1028.  
  1029. <p>On social media, students and groups began asking more people to come support the encampment, while the group that supported clearing the encampment also grew.</p>
  1030.  
  1031.  
  1032.  
  1033. <p>By that time, the faculty members who were there to keep the peace between protesters and police were scrambling to find out what had gone wrong, said Laura Goldblatt, a professor of English who is part of the group Faculty for Justice in Palestine.</p>
  1034.  
  1035.  
  1036.  
  1037. <p>Neither President Jim Ryan nor Provost Ian Baucom were around, Goldblatt said. But Brie Gertler, vice provost for academic affairs and Christa Davis Acampora, dean of the college of arts and science, were.</p>
  1038.  
  1039.  
  1040.  
  1041. <p>&#8220;Both were unable to get in touch with the president or provost and did not know who had called in the [state] police,&#8221; Goldblatt told Charlottesville Tomorrow Saturday afternoon. &#8220;Both were horrified by what was happening. Acampora was calling frantically to have University Ave. shut down as police pushed people into oncoming traffic, and get medical aid to injured students.&#8221;</p>
  1042.  
  1043.  
  1044.  
  1045. <p>Neither Gertler nor Acampora responded immediately to Charlottesville Tomorrow&#8217;s request for comment.</p>
  1046.  
  1047.  
  1048.  
  1049. <p>Within about an hour, the local police backed away and Virginia State Police troopers moved in.</p>
  1050.  
  1051.  
  1052.  
  1053. <p>Heinecke, the education professor, emailed the provost, Baucom, when he saw the state police with a one-line note: &#8220;State police?&#8221; He then wrote to Ryan to ask him to help de-escalate. Neither replied.</p>
  1054.  
  1055.  
  1056.  
  1057. <p>When state police arrived, Goldblatt estimated there were about 30 protesters in the encampment itself. The police from various agencies, local and state, outnumbered them by a large amount. Cavalier Daily reporters observed more than 10 people run past the police’s perimeter to join the protesters in the encampment.</p>
  1058.  
  1059.  
  1060.  
  1061. <p>Police issued a final ultimatum at around 2:30 p.m. — this warning told protestors to clear the encampment or be arrested for unlawful assembly. The university declared the encampment an unlawful assembly at 2:44 p.m. Shortly afterward, Virginia State Police in riot gear advanced on the encampment, using chemical irritants and detaining several protestors.&nbsp;</p>
  1062.  
  1063.  
  1064.  
  1065. <p>Folks running the encampment, faculty and others who amassed to witness the police action, put out messages on social media asking for students to come and support them as the state troopers moved in.</p>
  1066.  
  1067.  
  1068.  
  1069. <p>By 2:50 p.m. state police in riot gear were arriving on UVA shuttles, snaking there way from McCormick Road through the alleys around the Lawn, up to the Rotunda and the grassy area near the Chapel.</p>
  1070.  
  1071.  
  1072.  
  1073. <p>UVA facilities vehicles, medical vehicles, Charlottesville and Albemarle police and sheriffs were blocking every entrance in and out the main area where encampment was staged.</p>
  1074.  
  1075.  
  1076.  
  1077. <p>A water station on McCormick was ready, and officers walked by carrying canisters of pepper spray. The crowd chanted “shame on you” as the officers moved toward the encampment.</p>
  1078.  
  1079.  
  1080.  
  1081. <figure data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\/\/www.cvilletomorrow.org\/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment\/"}'  class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex">
  1082. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-attachment-id="105466" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/img_5297/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714835253&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5297" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1" data-id="105466" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="A line of police officers with plastic shields, helmets and protective masks flanks trees on a grassy lawn. A woman approaches the line, and another officer without protective gear interjects." class="wp-image-105466" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>
  1083.  
  1084.  
  1085.  
  1086. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-attachment-id="105465" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/img_5294/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714835215&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5294" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1" data-id="105465" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="A group of people link arms and face off against officers in riot gear in a line." class="wp-image-105465" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>
  1087. <figcaption class="blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption">Charlottesville Police officers formed the perimeter at a protest on UVA&#8217;s campus on May 4, 2024. The protest was broken up by a joint operation between UVA Police, Charlottesville and Albemarle County police, Albemarle County sheriffs and Virginia State Police. Virginia State Police wore riot gear. Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow</figcaption></figure>
  1088.  
  1089.  
  1090.  
  1091. <p>Onlookers who stayed behind the police line had worried looks on their faces as the chants intensified. Almost everyone had their cameras up to film or be ready to take photos.</p>
  1092.  
  1093.  
  1094.  
  1095. <p>The area began to smell like pepper spray. A few people were ushered out of the crowd, eyes blurry and faces dazed, to be treated at the water station on McCormick and on the ledge of the Chapel itself.&nbsp;</p>
  1096.  
  1097.  
  1098.  
  1099. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1100. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What the fuck is this kind of thing doing on my campus, being wielded against my students <a href="https://t.co/W1L90uNjpA">pic.twitter.com/W1L90uNjpA</a></p>&mdash; Levi Vonk (@VonkLevi) <a href="https://twitter.com/VonkLevi/status/1786835775734046871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  1101. </div></figure>
  1102.  
  1103.  
  1104.  
  1105. <p>Some protesters who emerged from the crowd had bloody scratches on their hands and knuckles. The volunteers tried to flush their eyes.</p>
  1106.  
  1107.  
  1108.  
  1109. <p>Onlookers said the officers used pepper spray first and then went in behind to arrest protesters. Levi Vonk, a professor in UVA Global Studies, said he was next to the students as they were being pepper sprayed. He recounted seeing a scared and startled colleague who uses a cane shoved by an officer, while another officer pointed a weapon in his face. A person trying to help protect the professor who uses a cane was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer.</p>
  1110.  
  1111.  
  1112.  
  1113. <p>Geeta Patel, a professor in Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, identified herself as that colleague and later that night spoke in front of the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail where the arrested person was being held without bail.</p>
  1114.  
  1115.  
  1116.  
  1117. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1118. <iframe title="Geeta Patel, UVA Professor Speaks out About Individual Being Held without Bond" width="780" height="439" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XWusgb2i-DY?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  1119. </div></figure>
  1120.  
  1121.  
  1122.  
  1123. <p>By 2:57 p.m. the last of the protesters seemed to be cleared from the camp, some visibly shaking as they were carried away by police, their hands zip tied behind their backs.</p>
  1124.  
  1125.  
  1126.  
  1127. <p>Charlottesville police department officers secured the edges of the growing protest around the encampment, especially as the group got pushed by police further toward University Ave. At the same time, a group with an Israeli flag formed on the side of the Chapel, chanting in support of the police action and taunting the protestors who were going in and out of the crowd.</p>
  1128.  
  1129.  
  1130.  
  1131. <p>State police in riot gear and county officers in green fatigues had the most direct contact with the people they cleared from the encampment, and made up most of the line of police that pushed back the protesters who had gathered around them.</p>
  1132.  
  1133.  
  1134.  
  1135. <p>The crowd chanted at them: “Where were you in &#8217;17?” referring to the 2017 Unite the Right rally that was just steps away from where the encampment was set up.</p>
  1136.  
  1137.  
  1138.  
  1139. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-attachment-id="105467" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/img_5300/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1600,1200" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714849921&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="IMG_5300" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;By 3:30 p.m. on May 4, the joint force that broke up a pro-Palestine encampment and protest at the University of Virginia began moving people all the way to University Ave., essentially pushing everyone off of campus from the steps of the Rotunda all the way to the Chapel. Protestors, journalists, onlookers, students who were walking by after finals — everyone was pushed back.&lt;/p&gt;
  1140. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="An officer in heavy gear stands on a grassy hill in front of a Jeffersonian brick building, with a small crowd a few feet away." class="wp-image-105467" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">By 3:30 p.m. on May 4, the joint force that broke up a pro-Palestine encampment and protest at the University of Virginia began moving people all the way to University Ave., essentially pushing everyone off of campus from the steps of the Rotunda all the way to the Chapel. Protestors, journalists, onlookers, students who were walking by after finals — everyone was pushed back. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow</span></figcaption></figure>
  1141.  
  1142.  
  1143.  
  1144. <p>After 3 p.m., a line of protesters with arms linked formed a line outside of what was left of the encampment — broken umbrellas and tents, water bottles and supplies.</p>
  1145.  
  1146.  
  1147.  
  1148. <p>Law enforcement officers in greater numbers lined up and created a wall around the encampment area, keeping protestors and journalists at a distance from officers as much as they could.</p>
  1149.  
  1150.  
  1151.  
  1152. <p>After 10 minutes of the standoff, the crowd began to chant, “Our campus our space.” At 3:20 p.m. the chant changed to “Israel, Israel, how many kids have you killed today?”</p>
  1153.  
  1154.  
  1155.  
  1156. <p>By 3:30 p.m. the joint force began moving people all the way to University Ave., essentially pushing everyone off of campus from the steps of the Rotunda all the way to the Chapel. Protestors, journalists, onlookers, students who were walking by after finals — everyone was pushed back. Once in a while, people in the crowd would start running because of pepper spray or police action, as the group got pushed further and further back.</p>
  1157.  
  1158.  
  1159.  
  1160. <p>Many students on campus were also taking finals on Saturday — the semester ends at the end of the week — and getting texted UVA safety alerts, and hearing buzzes from classroom alert systems.</p>
  1161.  
  1162.  
  1163.  
  1164. <p>Vonk says he never heard a declaration that the assembly was unlawful — it was very loud&nbsp;near the front line of protesters and police.</p>
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168. <p>After 4 p.m. protesters with zip tied hands were held in Poe Alley, on the edges of the lawn. Charlottesville and state police held them until vans took them to the jail.</p>
  1169.  
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  1172. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" data-attachment-id="105464" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/544c74dc-58b5-44ad-9e80-ac35c712c74cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1536,2048" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;A University of Virginia statement Saturday said there were 25 arrests in a multi-agency police action against a pro-Palestine protest encampment.&lt;/p&gt;
  1173. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1" alt="Police officer lead a person in a t-shirt, hands tied behind his back, dow a stairwell, while others look on." class="wp-image-105464" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 900w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=706%2C941&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original-768x1024.jpeg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A University of Virginia statement Saturday said there were 25 arrests in a multi-agency police action against a pro-Palestine protest encampment. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Courtesy of Adrienne Dent</span></figcaption></figure></div>
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  1176. <p>As the last of the protesters were pushed off the lawn, the rain began to come down. By the evening, the encampment and the protestors were no longer on campus.</p>
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  1180. <p>Responses from faculty, students, staff and community members have poured forth in the days since. Later on Saturday, <a href="https://studentaffairs.virginia.edu/communications/2024/message-president-ryan">Ryan issued a statement </a>that the university encourages free expression, but that it also has rules that &#8220;must be applied consistently without regard to the content of expression, whether the protest is peaceful, or whether we agree or disagree with the cause. The neutral and even-handed enforcement of these rules is the only way to ensure that all members of this community have an equal opportunity to participate in the life of the University. We also have a duty to ensure the physical safety of our community.&#8221;</p>
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  1184. <p>The Arab Student Organization issued a statement that said the police action was &#8220;unjustified violence&#8221; and said Ryan&#8217;s statement was a &#8220;misrepresentation of events.&#8221; Nine other student groups have <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6mS15cul1_/">signed onto a letter with similar concerns</a>. The <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/05/onibudo-and-sawaya-police-not-students-were-agents-of-chaos">Cavalier Daily&#8217;s editors published an opinion piece</a>, separate from their news reporting, that said it was the police that escalated the situation, not the protesters. They wrote, &#8220;the University had weeks to learn from failed responses elsewhere and was still unable to come up with a solution that was proportional to the reality before them.&#8221;</p>
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  1188. <p>&#8220;There are many faculty that are upset with what President Ryan decided to do,&#8221; said Heinecke, the professor in the School of Education. &#8220;Faculty are writing to him, objecting about the decision he made. What we saw on Saturday didn&#8217;t have to happen and it was atrocious. It put our students in harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;</p>
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  1192. <p>As of late afternoon Monday, 240 faculty members signed on to an open letter written by three professors in the History Department. The letter circulated through different departments over about 24 hours. It urges the university to help assure charges against students, faculty and staff are dropped and calls on Ryan to explain why university leaders made the decisions they did.</p>
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  1196. <p>&#8220;We are dissatisfied with the explanations we have received so far of the circumstances that led to this shameful outcome,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;While President Ryan has said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police,&#8217; we want to know how the decision to call upon this assistance was reached and by what authorities. We want to know why President Ryan and Provost Baucom were not on the scene and did not respond to the faculty who were.&#8221;</p>
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  1207. <p>Before the end of the day on Monday, Ryan might do just that. The university announced that he and UVA Police Chief Longo are hosting a &#8220;digital town hall&#8221; on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. &#8220;to provide an update and answer questions about Saturday’s protest near the UVA Chapel that led police to declare an unlawful assembly and arrest demonstrators who didn’t leave.&#8221;</p>
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  1211. <p>The town hall about how the protest was handled will be <a href="https://www.virginia.edu/live">live streamed</a>. To ask a question, participants will have to <a href="https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YNM83kLzTKyHpgNmRwM0lQ#/registration">register ahead of time</a>.</p>
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  1217. <p><em>Jessie Higgins contributed to this report.</em></p>
  1218. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/">After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1225. <title>A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</title>
  1226. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/</link>
  1228. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Manto]]></dc:creator>
  1229. <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 13:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
  1230. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  1231. <category><![CDATA[Health and safety]]></category>
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  1234. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree. Attached to the tree is a sign that reads, &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105325" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/koriprice_20240501_015/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1709&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1709" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kori Price&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714576827&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024 Kori Price Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="KoriPrice_20240501_015" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Students protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Gaza filled a grassy area near the University of Virginia chapel on May 1 in a ongoing, overnight demonstration. The protest began Tuesday, April 30 and showed no signs of stopping. UVA officials and police met with the protesters early on to ensure they were following all UVA policies. Among those polices are: no structures, no holes in the ground and no signs attached to trees or objects. This sign attached to a several hundred year old tree was quickly flagged by officials, who told protesters to remove it. They complied.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1236. <p>The protesters will be allowed to stay, so long as university policies are followed: No structures, no holes in the ground, and no attaching signs to objects or trees.</p>
  1237. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/">A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1239. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree. Attached to the tree is a sign that reads, &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="105325" data-permalink="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/koriprice_20240501_015/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1709&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1709" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kori Price&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D810&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1714576827&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024 Kori Price Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="KoriPrice_20240501_015" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Students protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Gaza filled a grassy area near the University of Virginia chapel on May 1 in a ongoing, overnight demonstration. The protest began Tuesday, April 30 and showed no signs of stopping. UVA officials and police met with the protesters early on to ensure they were following all UVA policies. Among those polices are: no structures, no holes in the ground and no signs attached to trees or objects. This sign attached to a several hundred year old tree was quickly flagged by officials, who told protesters to remove it. They complied.&lt;/p&gt;
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  1241. <p>A protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the University of Virginia is approaching its third consecutive day, with no sign of stopping.</p>
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  1245. <p>UVA students will be allowed to continue on-campus demonstrations protesting U.S. involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israeli military forces and Hamas militants in Gaza as long as no university policies are broken, said David Hawkins-Jacinto, executive director of strategic communications at the UVA Division of Student Affairs.</p>
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  1249. <p>The day&#8217;s long protest was one of two that began this week. A separate protest organized by UVA Apartheid Divest Coalition, brough more than a hundred students and Charlottesville community members&nbsp; on and around the UVA Lawn on Wednesday to protest U.S. involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israeli military forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. These students joined others nationwide in calling for their schools to divest from companies affiliated with Israeli military forces or the state of Israel in an attempt to pressure the U.S. and Israeli governments into reducing military action in Gaza. The date of the demonstration at UVA, May 1, was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/may-days-student-activism-rocked-uvas-grounds-50-years-ago">UVA’s 1970 ‘May Day’ demonstrations protesting the Vietnam war</a>.&nbsp;</p>
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  1267. <p>Nearly 35,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed in the conflict since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.</p>
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  1271. <p>While the demonstration on the Lawn ended as scheduled at 5 p.m. Wednesday, dozens of students not affiliated with any particular student group have been continuously occupying a nearby outdoor space next to the UVA Chapel since Tuesday evening.</p>
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  1275. <p>A number of demonstrators at both locations declined when asked if they would like to comment on why they chose to participate in the protests. A <a href="https://twitter.com/anahitajafary_/status/1785717976273973564">flyer</a> listing protest safety tips appeared to be widely distributed amongst the demonstrators, and included &#8220;do not talk to the press&#8221; alongside &#8220;hydrate, use sun protection, don’t go hungry.&#8221;</p>
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  1279. <p>&#8220;A lot of people have been wanting to come out and show solidarity and support to the Palestinian people,&#8221; said one demonstrator who asked to remain anonymous because he was worried that his involvement in the demonstrations would jeopardize his ongoing bid for U.S. citizenship. &#8220;At the end of the day, the investments that UVA has are, in a way, our responsibility as well. We as students see it as something tangible that we can influence. So for us, it’s about creating a culture and a community at UVA that shows administration that students&#8217; voices matter in this regard.&#8221;</p>
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  1283. <p>The demonstrations on Wednesday were peaceful. At times demonstrators chanted and held signs, but there were also quieter periods during which most protesters sought shade under the trees dotting UVA’s grounds. An event featuring a jazz ensemble was concurrently taking place on the other end of the Lawn, and occasionally it was possible to hear the music from where the protesters were gathered beneath the UVA Rotunda. In the early afternoon a group of about 20 students gathered to face in the direction of Mecca and pray; other protesters formed a circle around the praying students.</p>
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  1288. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about war protests at UVA</h3>
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  1295. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy for anyone on either side. There is a lived Jewish experience that has faced discrimination. But at the same time, I don&#8217;t think that justifies what&#8217;s going on in Gaza right now,&#8221; said Kaia Salem, a third-year student observing the protests. &#8220;The reality is that the Israeli government does not treat Palestinians well.&#8221;</p>
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  1299. <p>The ongoing, overnight protest will be allowed to remain as long as UVA policies are not broken, Hawkins-Jacinto said. That would set a &#8220;bad precedent&#8221; for the next student protest to take place on UVA’s grounds, he added. These policies include not erecting any structures or creating holes in the ground, or attaching signs or other objects to trees.</p>
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  1303. <p>&#8220;Freedom of expression is part of the student experience,&#8221; Hawkins-Jacinto said. &#8220;This has been an exemplary protest.&#8221;</p>
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  1307. <p>Around 2 p.m., a conversation took place between a group of demonstrators, UVA Police Chief Tim Longo, UVA Vice President Kenyon R. Bonner, and other UVA administrators. Hawkins-Jacinto said that the goal of the conversation was to discuss, among other issues, a sign that demonstrators had attached to a &#8220;two-hundred year old tree.&#8221;</p>
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  1315. <p>Hawkins-Jacinto emphasized that the university hoped to maintain as minimal a police presence as necessary.</p>
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  1319. <p>Hawkins-Jacinto said that the university had coordinated its response to the demonstrations with the UVA Police, Albemarle County Police, and the <a href="https://fusion.vsp.virginia.gov/">Virginia State Fusion Center</a>. The center&#8217;s website states that it is &#8220;a collaborative effort of state and federal agencies working in conjunction with local partners to share resources, expertise, and/or information to better identify, detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist and criminal activity utilizing an all crimes/all hazards approach.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
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  1323. <p>About a dozen students took part in a counterprotest early Wednesday afternoon in another UVA outdoor space across the street from the pro-Palestinian demonstration. Some students at the counterprotest wore Israeli and American flags as capes.</p>
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  1327. <p>Ahava Freeman, a counterprotester and fourth year undergraduate with personal connections to people in Israel, said that while she has always felt safe as a Jewish student at UVA, she has been frustrated by the tendency of what she calls &#8220;Instagram activism&#8221; to over-simplify the ongoing conflict.</p>
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  1331. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of people only start caring once it became popular to start caring about the movement on either side,&#8221; said Freeman. &#8220;No matter what you believe, what side you&#8217;re on, saying that the conflict is simple is, in my opinion, just wrong, and is not a good way of looking at the world because there&#8217;s no such thing as a simple conflict.&#8221;</p>
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  1335. <p>An <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uvaencampmentforgaza/">Instagram account</a> that appeared to be associated with the continuous protest listed a number of demands in a Thursday news release, including for UVA Investment Management Company to disclose all investments, for the university to divest from &#8220;all weapons manufacturers aiding in the genocide of Palestinians,&#8221; for UVA to &#8220;end all financial and academic ties with Israeli institutions,&#8221; and to assure students engaging in protest that they will not face disciplinary action. The release requested a response from UVA administration by noon on Friday, May 3.&nbsp;</p>
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  1339. <p>An end time for that continuous demonstration has not been publicly announced.</p>
  1340. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/">A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1347. <title>Here&#8217;s what Charlottesville Tomorrow achieved and learned last year — and what we&#8217;re looking forward to next year</title>
  1348. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/heres-what-charlottesville-tomorrow-achieved-and-learned-last-year-and-what-were-looking-forward-to-next-year/</link>
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  1351. <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  1356. <p>Our 2023 Impact Report celebrates our readers, subscribers and donors who make our work possible.</p>
  1357. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/heres-what-charlottesville-tomorrow-achieved-and-learned-last-year-and-what-were-looking-forward-to-next-year/">Here&#8217;s what Charlottesville Tomorrow achieved and learned last year — and what we&#8217;re looking forward to next year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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