{"id":1725,"date":"2009-09-29T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2009-09-29T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:06:10","slug":"st-louis-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis <del>University<\/del>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaup.org\/AAUP\/newsroom\/Highlights\/Horo.htm\">not the first one<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/collegefreedom.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/repression-at-st.html\">point this out<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slu.edu\/\">St. Louis University<\/a> has shot itself in the foot by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/09\/29\/slu\">apparently attempting to cancel a David Horowitz speech<\/a>. Its only (non-saving) grace is that it explicitly has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slu.edu\/x31845.xml#Guest%20Speakers\">&#8220;we get to decide if your desired speaker says what we want&#8221; policy<\/a>. Too bad that the university&#8217;s idea of being &#8220;consistent with the mission of Saint Louis University&#8221; does not include discourse about controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am certainly not the first one to point this out, but St. Louis University has shot itself in the foot by apparently attempting to cancel a David Horowitz speech. Its only (non-saving) grace is that it explicitly has a &#8220;we get to decide if your desired speaker says what we want&#8221; policy. Too bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}