Without warning or departmental consultation, University facilities workers boarded up a student-created mural depicting Palestinian resilience, following orders from Chancellor Lee Roberts and Interim Provost Jim Dean. Published in The Daily Tar Heel on Aug. 22, 2025.
I followed the fall-out of the university’s removal of a student-created pro-Palestine mural from a campus building. This story resulted in two follow up stories — written on Aug. 29, 2025, when administrators revealed that the mural had been damaged beyond repair during its removal and on Sept. 8, 2025, when student protesters vandalized campus buildings with phrases quoted from the mural.
