{"id":3222,"date":"2011-04-02T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T21:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2011-04-02T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T21:01:36","slug":"wi-republicans-v-cronon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/04\/02\/wi-republicans-v-cronon-update\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Republicans v. Cronon: update"},"content":{"rendered":"

UW Madison has done an exemplary job responding to the Wisconsin Republican Party’s efforts to intimidate eminent environmental historian William Cronon. The two documents, by the university’s legal counsel and by chancellor Biddy Martin, are well worth reading and are available on Cronon’s blog<\/a>. While many of the legalities are specific to Wisconsin, the principles aren’t. They deserve a congratulatory shout-out for upholding the best academic and legal traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UW Madison has done an exemplary job responding to the Wisconsin Republican Party’s efforts to intimidate eminent environmental historian William Cronon. The two documents, by the university’s legal counsel and by chancellor Biddy Martin, are well worth reading and are available on Cronon’s blog. While many of the legalities are specific to Wisconsin, the principles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"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,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203,691215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-politics_postpolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-PY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3118,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/03\/27\/scholar-goes-citizen-goes-viral\/","url_meta":{"origin":3222,"position":0},"title":"Scholar goes citizen goes viral","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The story of the Wisconsin Republican Party vs. environmental historian Bill Cronon makes for a rare example of a single academic's blogging activism (blogtivism, to use that ugly word) going viral. 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