{"id":47425,"date":"2017-08-25T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=47425"},"modified":"2020-06-07T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:54:32","slug":"ddn-story-wright-state-adds-rules-sign-to-rock-that-caused-controversy-last-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/25\/ddn-story-wright-state-adds-rules-sign-to-rock-that-caused-controversy-last-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"DDN story: Wright State adds rules sign to rock that caused controversy last fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/25\/ddn-story-wright-state-adds-rules-sign-to-rock-that-caused-controversy-last-fall\/dicbky3xyaaoitd\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47428 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/08\/DICBky3XYAAOITD-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Wright State University has added a sign to a rock that caused some campus controversy last fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>In September, the rock was painted by students to say \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d Shortly after, the word \u201cblack\u201d was changed to \u201cwhite\u201d and later to \u201call,\u201d causing some controversy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>The controversy led to a march through campus to the rock which students repainted again with the word \u201cblack.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>The sign, which has apparently been in development since last fall, was a direct response to the September incident, said Gary Dickstein, vice president for student affairs. The sign was placed in front of the rock Thursday and Dickstein posted a photo of it on Twitter this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe creation of the sign was designed to relay to our students who paint the rock why we have it, what are our community expectations for painting it and encouraging them to promote positive messages that bring pride to our campus,\u201d Dickstein said via email. \u201cThe genesis for the idea did result from students last year painting over others messages as well as painting messages that were incongruent with our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>The sign dictates what it refers to as \u201crock etiquette.\u201d It asks students to be respectful, avoid painting the rock with inappropriate messages, allow a message to be on the rock for a minimum of 24 hours and to \u201chave raider pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/wright-state-adds-rules-sign-rock-that-caused-controversy-last-fall\/C7gZXIjKZ0lPoyz0sW6meI\/\">daytondailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text story-inline-script-embed-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University has added a sign to a rock that caused some campus controversy last fall. In September, the rock was painted by students to say \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d Shortly after, the word \u201cblack\u201d was changed to \u201cwhite\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/25\/ddn-story-wright-state-adds-rules-sign-to-rock-that-caused-controversy-last-fall\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":47428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90319,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47425\/revisions\/90319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}