{"id":1444,"date":"1966-09-13T04:04:06","date_gmt":"1966-09-13T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2018-10-12T04:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:08:04","slug":"interview-with-president-mendenhall-on-students-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1966\/09\/13\/interview-with-president-mendenhall-on-students-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with President Mendenhall on student\u2019s unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 13, 1966<\/p>\n<p>Interview with President Mendenhall on student\u2019s unrest<\/p>\n<p><i>In an interview with the editor of the Sophian, President Mendenhall expressed the desire for students to exhaust all available paths (going through student government, bringing it up to administration members, etc.) before turning to extreme strategies such as protests to change aspects of the institution. He viewed protests as more justified in the national context of civil rights, as opposed to college operations. However, he did encourage students to question all aspects of their college experience.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Mendenhall Clarifies His Views on Students\u2019 Role In Change (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1966.09.15-Mendenhall-Clarifies-His-Views-on-Students%E2%80%99-Role-In-Change-2.1.jpg\"><b><i>2.1<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1966.09.15-Mendenhall-Clarifies-His-Views-on-Students%E2%80%99-Role-In-Change-2.2.jpg\"><b><i>2.2<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1966.09.15-Mendenhall-Clarifies-His-Views-on-Students%E2%80%99-Role-In-Change-4.jpg\"><b><i>4<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 12, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 13, 1966 Interview with President Mendenhall on student\u2019s unrest In an interview with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,49],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-45","tag-student-voices","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}