{"id":6969,"date":"2017-01-29T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2017-01-29T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:13:53","slug":"new-yorkcooper-union-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-yorkcooper-union-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Cooper Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a proud alumnus of Cooper Union, my appeal to the administration for a statement regarding President&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s immoral and unconstitutional executive order:<\/p>\n<p>We urgently need a statement from Cooper (Laura Sparks\/BoT) condemning President Trumps\u2019s executive order against refugees and Muslims. Cooper Union has always stood for religious and racial diversity. This is a moment when that commitment needs to be reaffirmed in the strongest and boldest terms.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing the constitution, Peter Cooper said, \u201cNeither my own religious opinions nor the religious opinions of any sect or party whatever shall ever be made a test or requirement, in any manner or form, of or for admission to or continuance to enjoy the benefit of this institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s actions violate American principles and pose a threat to Cooper Union and other institutions of higher learning dedicated to free inquiry, inclusiveness, and the nurturance of community across borders both physical and spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Union must take the lead and speak out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a proud alumnus of Cooper Union, my appeal to the administration for a statement regarding President&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s immoral and unconstitutional executive order: We urgently need a statement from Cooper (Laura Sparks\/BoT) condemning President Trumps\u2019s executive order against refugees and Muslims. Cooper Union has always stood for religious and racial diversity. This is a moment [&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-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","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=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}