{"id":6099,"date":"2015-01-16T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2015-01-16T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T12:56:14","slug":"new-yorkcooper-square-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/new-yorkcooper-square-5\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Cooper Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2015\/cooperbox_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cooperbox.jpg\" alt=\"cooperbox\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cooperbox.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cooperbox-624x499.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Cooper Square, New York &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>As Cooper Square gets a makeover, and Cooper Union &#8220;reinvents&#8221; itself &#8212; students entering the school now pay tuition for the first time since 1859 &#8212; Peter Cooper sits protected, for his own good we are told, in a box at the center of the square.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us still hold out hope, that when Peter emerges from his plywood prison, his pioneering school will have returned to the mission he set out for it: tuition free, open to all, at the pinnacle of higher education in America.<\/p>\n<p>That hope now rests primarily on a lawsuit brought against the Board of Trustees of Cooper Union accusing them of violating the school&#8217;s charter and squandering its resources. We wait &#8212; alumni and friends &#8212; with mounting anticipation for a positive decision from the judge of the New York State Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the website of the <a href=\"http:\/\/savecooperunion.org\" target=\"_blank\">Committee to Save Cooper Union<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Square, New York &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose As Cooper Square gets a makeover, and Cooper Union &#8220;reinvents&#8221; itself &#8212; students entering the school now pay tuition for the first time since 1859 &#8212; Peter Cooper sits protected, for his own good we are told, in a box at the center of the square. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}