{"id":10603,"date":"2019-06-01T18:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T02:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=10603"},"modified":"2019-06-01T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T02:17:15","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/letter-to-the-editor-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To The Western Howl Editor,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEstablishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.\u201d &#8211;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maria Montessori<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Early Childhood Studies program faculty is compelled to express our concern regarding the June 4 speaker at the event being held on campus. Our Early Childhood Studies major mission statement highlights how our work is guided by fundamental commitments to educational equity, inclusion, social justice, reflective practice and the development of diverse learners in the field. \u00a0We are compelled to communicate our grave concerns for the safety of the diverse and inclusive Western Oregon University community of students, faculty and staff. We consider the invited speaker\u2019s rhetoric to be a heartbeat away from hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We recommend our students avoid this event for their personal safety. \u00a0We ask that others in the Western faculty community join us in expressing dissent. We must speak out against any speech or inciting actions that threaten the safety and security of our community members. \u00a0If we truly are a university community that values inclusion and diversity, we must not quietly acquiesce to any speaker or group espousing hatred, violence or fear under the guise of free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNo one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nelson Mandela,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/2501119\"><b> \u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long Walk to Freedom\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early Childhood Studies Faculty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Emerson, Maria Laine, Linda Craven, Natalie Danner, Cindy Ryan, Erika Lanning<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Western Howl Editor, \u201cEstablishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.\u201d &#8211;Maria Montessori The Early Childhood Studies program faculty is compelled to express our concern regarding the June 4 speaker at the event being held on campus. Our Early Childhood Studies major mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}