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On October 21, 2023, the University of Vermont informed organizers of an October 26 in-person event featuring Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd that it could not proceed as planned because the university claimed it could not “adequately provide safety and security.” ��ݮ��ƵAPP���� wrote UVM on October 25 urging it to either restore the event to its previous in-person format or substantiate the unspecified security concerns. UVM did not respond, and the event proceeded fully online on October 26 instead of in its originally planned format. Through a FOIA request, ��ݮ��ƵAPP���� obtained documents indicating that the university used the safety concerns as a pretext to modify the event because the in-person event would do “harm” to the community.