{"id":3674,"date":"2016-05-01T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2016-05-01T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:55:00","slug":"week-wou-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/week-wou-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in WOU history"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Alvin Wilson\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>May 3, 1998, Campu<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-8.50.35-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-01 at 8.50.35 PM\" width=\"296\" height=\"395\" class=\" wp-image-3706 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-8.50.35-PM.png 355w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-8.50.35-PM-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/>s Public Safety responded to a report of a man wielding a handgun outside of Valsetz Dining Hall. Five police cars promptly arrived on campus only to discover that the handgun was a toy cap gun. The cap gun was a prop being used by actors for WSTV, Western\u2019s former student-produced television station. The students involved, despite having a reasonable excuse for possessing the gun look-alike, faced charges of inciting a riot and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>May 6, 2005, students in professor Jordan Hofer\u2019s Anthropology 399 class prepared fundraisers in an attempt to figuratively adopt a chimpanzee. The final project for this Primatology course, instead of a paper or speech, was to raise funds to sponsor an orphaned chimpanzee with the Jane Goodall Institute. One fundraiser was a raffle for a gift basket which included a stuffed chimp, candy, and a movie coupon from Blockbuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 3, 1998, Campus Public Safety responded to a report of a man wielding a handgun outside of Valsetz Dining Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":3706,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","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\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}