{"id":2146,"date":"1994-11-03T23:55:43","date_gmt":"1994-11-04T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:54:26","slug":"2146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1994\/11\/03\/2146\/","title":{"rendered":"Students protest Round Table talk and Itzkoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, 1994<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students protest Round Table talk and Itzkoff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside of Duckett House, students held protest signs as Professor Seymour Itzkoff\u2019s Round Table talk was taking place. The contents of Itzkoff\u2019s recently published book, The Decline of Intelligence in America, had caused a lot of controversy on campus due to its premise of intelligence being based on genetics and upper-class people being more intelligent than lower class people. The protesters continued their statement by chalking outside of Itzkoff\u2019s Wright Hall office. Students also protested Itzkoff\u2019s views when they walked out of the Round Table discussion; this came about after Itzkoff told a student of color that her discomfort in his class had stemmed from her own insecurities and biases towards him.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the protest measures can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-1.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-2.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.11.10.-Itzkoff%E2%80%99s-New-Book-Spawns-Controversy-at-Smith-9.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 9<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Sophian letter to the editor by Itzkoff in response can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.12.08.-Opinion-Page-Letters-to-the-Editor-14.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, 1994 Students protest Round Table talk and Itzkoff Outside of Duckett House, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[106,71,44,47],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-106","tag-itzkoff","tag-population-control","tag-student-protests","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","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\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}