{"id":56426,"date":"2015-12-18T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56426"},"modified":"2015-12-12T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T00:58:40","slug":"todays-academic-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56426","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Academic Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/oklahoma-university-president-school-not-safe-space-article-1.2450165\">says what&#8217;s needed to be said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is not a day care,&#8221; Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, wrote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okwu.edu\/blog\/2015\/11\/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">fiery blog post<\/a> on the school\u2019s website last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a university!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His critics will no doubt home in on the fact that OWU is an evangelical school, and that Piper has spoken out in favor of Kim Davis, against transgender activism and gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>To which I reply\u00a0<em>&#8220;put on a helmet, bucko &#8211; that&#8217;s the point. \u00a0In real life, you&#8217;re going to encounter things and people you disagree with, and &#8211; scariest of all &#8211; who disagree with you. \u00a0And some of them are going to be smart &#8211; even smarter than you, maybe. \u00a0And you will have to learn how to deal with this cognitive dissonance. \u00a0Or &#8211; if you&#8217;re one of the students that&#8217;s whinging about &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; these days, I guess\u00a0<\/em>not\u00a0<em>to learn to deal with dissonance &#8211; like, for example, pretty much every liberal in the Twin Cities under the age of 70&#8243;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan says what&#8217;s needed to be said: &#8220;This is not a day care,&#8221; Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, wrote in a fiery blog post on the school\u2019s website last week. &#8220;This is a university!&#8221; His critics will no doubt home in on the fact that OWU is an evangelical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56427,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56426\/revisions\/56427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}