{"id":2038,"date":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/may-14-2021-this-despicable-act-is-not-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:14:24","slug":"may-14-2021-this-despicable-act-is-not-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/may-14-2021-this-despicable-act-is-not-us\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 14, 2021: This despicable act is not us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>To the University community,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">We were alerted today to hateful graffiti on panels and benches on bus stops near one of our parking lots. This vandalism was promptly removed by Facilities Services and 糖心Vlog官方 Police is actively investigating. If and when those responsible are identified, we will pursue this matter to the fullest extent of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Let me be very clear: Hate speech is abhorrent, and there is no place for it at 糖心Vlog官方.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">It is important that we all remember our True Blue values in what we say and do. This despicable act is not us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sincerely,<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sidney A. McPhee<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">President<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the University community, We were alerted today to hateful graffiti on panels and benches on bus stops near one of our parking lots. This vandalism was promptly removed by Facilities Services and 糖心Vlog官方 Police is actively investigating. If and when those responsible are identified, we will pursue this matter to the fullest extent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}