{"id":1739,"date":"1995-04-11T02:32:06","date_gmt":"1995-04-11T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2018-10-17T02:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:47:43","slug":"vandal-writes-letter-to-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1995\/04\/11\/vandal-writes-letter-to-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandal writes letter to the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 1995<\/p>\n<p>Vandal writes letter to the media<\/p>\n<p><i>Someone claiming to be from a group called Citizens United in the Healing of Racism took responsibility for the acts of vandalism at Professor Seymour Itzkoff\u2019s office and house. The self-declared perpetrator sent a single-page letter to different media outlets with a statement denouncing Itzkoff. In the letter, the writer said that \u201cno one [sic] of us can afford to let institutionally sanctioned hatred go unchallenged\u201d and framed the vandalism as \u201cone moment of rebuttal\u201d against people who propagate a system that oppresses \u201cthe poor, people of color, lesbians and gays, and all women.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The full Sophian article on the vandalism can be found here (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.13.-Vandalism-Targets-Professor-1.jpg\"><i>1<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.13.-Vandalism-Targets-Professor-2.jpg\"><i>2<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton) article on the vandalism can be found here (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.11.-Professor-target-of-graffiti-vandals-hit-Ashfield-home-Smith-office-1.jpg\"><i>1<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.11.-Professor-target-of-graffiti-vandals-hit-Ashfield-home-Smith-office-2.jpg\"><i>2<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Union-News (Springfield) article on the response to the vandalism can be found here (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.12.-College-denounces-attacks-on-teacher-1.jpg\"><i>1<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1995.04.12.-College-denounces-attacks-on-teacher-2.jpg\"><i>2<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 16, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 1995 Vandal writes letter to the media Someone claiming to be from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59,71],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-59","tag-itzkoff","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}