{"id":54724,"date":"2023-04-27T02:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54724"},"modified":"2023-04-27T02:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T02:36:31","slug":"wt-drag-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54724","title":{"rendered":"WTAMU boss suffers big wound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see now &#8230; normally docile Canyon, Texas, which is home to West Texas A&amp;M University is now in the midst of a potentially tumultuous time.<\/p>\n<p>The WT faculty senate has voted significantly to post a no-confidence statement against the WT president, Walter Wendler.<\/p>\n<p>The senate sent out 368 ballots to all full-time faculty and librarians. According to the Texas Tribune: <em>Faculty senate leaders announced the results of the weeklong no-confidence vote Tuesday evening. According to faculty senate president Ashley Pinkham, there were 179 votes to condemn Wendler and 82 against it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/04\/25\/west-texas-tamu-walter-wendler-no-confidence\/\">Faculty condemn West Texas A&amp;M president after he canceled drag show | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I consider that a fairly clear statement that Wendler&#8217;s handling of a planned drag show on the campus didn&#8217;t go over well. As the Tribune reported: <em>Wendler drew fire from students and free speech advocates last month when he canceled a student drag show last month arguing that the performances are \u201cderisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I believe he made a mistake in canceling the drag show.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe, based on the results of the no-confidence vote, that the WT president should consider retiring &#8230; again! I mean, when a significant majority of the men and women over whom you have authority cannot endorse your policy implementation, then well &#8230; maybe it&#8217;s time to hit the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see now &#8230; normally docile Canyon, Texas, which is home to West Texas A&amp;M University is now in the midst of a potentially tumultuous time. The WT faculty senate has voted significantly to post a no-confidence statement against the WT president, Walter Wendler. The senate sent out 368 ballots to all full-time faculty and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTAMU boss suffers big wound<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[10166,5312],"class_list":["post-54724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-drag-show","tag-wtamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54725,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724\/revisions\/54725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}