“The university is dedicated to supporting academic freedom, even in instances in which it disagrees with content,” VCU said in a statement released minutes after the poll’s results were disseminated Monday.
The events that led up to it were years in the making, but it was over the course of this year that the controversial and costly downtown development deal was revealed and unraveled.
“The big question is why the financing was $100 million higher than the projected cost, and where did that money go,” asked one of several observers who have scrutinized the ill-fated deal.