BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Students at Virginia Tech held a protest this week as the school announced plans to dissolve two of the living learning communities.

“We’re just being targeted now more than ever,” said senior Zee Myrthil.

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors is taking away $8.4 million from DEI related programs.

The discussion will directly impact future Hokies.

Two of the 22 living learning communities on campus are going away.

These communities are residential programs that put students with shared personal and academic interests in the same place.

The two programs going away are the Ujima, an Africana Studies LLC and Lavendar House, an LGBTQ+ studies LLC.

“It was a community that didn’t exclude anybody. It had a focus on education, and you are required to take a class tha

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