{"id":47464,"date":"2017-08-28T12:54:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=47464"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T16:54:36","slug":"ddn-story-wright-state-president-encourages-students-to-counter-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/28\/ddn-story-wright-state-president-encourages-students-to-counter-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"DDN story: Wright State president encourages students to counter hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div id=\"attachment_46433\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46433\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46433\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/06\/schrader-260x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"152\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State University president Cheryl B. Schrader (left) with student government president David Baugham and vice president Holley Mapel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University is encouraging students to report incidents of campus \u2018violence and hatred\u2019 anonymously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>WSU president Cheryl Schrader sent a message to counter \u201cnegative speech\u201d and \u201chateful action\u201d on campus, while also being willing to engage in \u201cdifficult yet civil and productive conversations with others who believe differently than you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>The message, sent out on the first day of classes, comes just a few weeks after the violence in Charlottesville, Virgina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we celebrate the beginning of another year, many of us are also wrestling with the impact of the recent actions of others in Charlottesville, Virginia,\u201d Schrader wrote. \u201cActs of racism, anti-Semitism, violence, and hatred continue to exist in our country. Let me be clear: Hateful actions and speech are not welcome at Wright State University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the email, Schrader encouraged people to report incidents via the university\u2019s anonymous reporting system or through the Wright State Office of Equity and Inclusion by emailing\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oei@wright.edu\" target=\"_blank\">oei@wright.edu<\/a>\u00a0or calling 937-775-3207.<\/p>\n<p>Schrader\u2019s message was not prompted by any incidents on campus, said WSU spokesman Seth Bauguess. But, it comes just days after Wright State added a rules sign to a rock last year that caused some free speech and racial controversy on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/wright-state-president-encourages-students-counter-hate-speech\/ud0SkftZwCpmazuf1W69gK\/\">daytondailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University is encouraging students to report incidents of campus \u2018violence and hatred\u2019 anonymously. WSU president Cheryl Schrader sent a message to counter \u201cnegative speech\u201d and \u201chateful action\u201d on campus, while also being willing to engage in \u201cdifficult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/28\/ddn-story-wright-state-president-encourages-students-to-counter-hate-speech\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":46433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47464","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\/47464","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=47464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47467,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47464\/revisions\/47467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}