{"id":32096,"date":"2012-04-22T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vanderbilt_anti-bias_policy_comes_under_attack\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T05:00:43","slug":"vanderbilt_anti-bias_policy_comes_under_attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32096","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt anti-bias policy comes under attack before meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, and other lawmakers sent the Board of Trust a letter with legislation attached, threatening to block the policy because Vanderbilt receives state funds.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning, Vanderbilt students from 11 Christian organizations began handing out 4,000 MP4 players loaded with a seven-minute video outlining their objections. The video, also on YouTube, features alumnus Tom Singleton, a retired health-care executive, who said later he won\u2019t so much as renew his football season tickets until the school backs off.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s provost said Vanderbilt stands by the policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20120419\/NEWS01\/304190044\/Vanderbilt-anti-bias-policy-comes-under-attack-before-meeting\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, and other lawmakers sent the Board of Trust a letter with legislation attached, threatening to block the policy because Vanderbilt receives state funds. Wednesday morning, Vanderbilt students from 11 Christian organizations began handing out 4,000<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32096\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,111,114,151,108,619,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}