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Who gets to decide what counts as ‘disorder’?

  • Written by Jess Reia, Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
imagePolice drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024.Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

As a scholar of urban governance and data policy, I viewed the responses to protests on U.S. campuses as about more than threats to academic freedom and freedom of...

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