{"id":51476,"date":"2014-06-18T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51476"},"modified":"2014-06-17T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:42:06","slug":"veteran-cant-say-pledge-to-avoid-offending-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51476","title":{"rendered":"Veteran can&#8217;t say Pledge to avoid offending students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=51479\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51479\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/University-of-Wyoming-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"University of Wyoming Laramie\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/University-of-Wyoming-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/University-of-Wyoming-500x317.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/University-of-Wyoming.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/17\/veteran-told-not-say-pledge-college-meetings-avoid\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that former Army Staff Sergeant Cory Schroeder a recently elected student senator at the University of Wyoming was told by fellow senators that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance would offend some of the students at the meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The veteran was told that if he wasn\u2019t happy with the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) government\u2019s decision, he could write a bill to allocate 20 seconds at the beginning of the meetings to say the Pledge, Campus Reform reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Schroeder told the watchdog that he anticipated delays in the process by the \u201cliberal standing committee,\u201d and added: \u201cIf you look at any constitution that governs a student body, there\u2019s no law, there\u2019s no bill that states you must give 20 seconds to say the Pledge of Allegiance, [and there] shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Campus Reform reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that the Iraq veteran is offended yet the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming didn&#8217;t consider that fact when they wouldn&#8217;t let him recite the Pledge. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=5691\">Campus Reform<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Robert\u2019s Rules of Order, which the student government follows, time may be taken out at the beginning to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Instead of saying the Pledge, however, ASUW\u2019s mission statement is read aloud, which includes striving for \u201caccurate representation\u201d and \u201cresponsible effective leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Schroeder spoke with ASUW Vice President Ricardo Lind-Gonzales, who allegedly said that he would put the issue of the Pledge on the agenda and that Schroeder would be given a chance to speak about it. However, the issue was subsequently left off the agenda for the remainder of the school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that former Army Staff Sergeant Cory Schroeder a recently elected student senator &hellip; <a title=\"Veteran can&#8217;t say Pledge to avoid offending students\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51476\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran can&#8217;t say Pledge to avoid offending students<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}