{"id":2063,"date":"2023-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/feb-4-2023-racist-graffiti-discovered-on-message-board-of-student-dorm-door\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:37:42","slug":"feb-4-2023-racist-graffiti-discovered-on-message-board-of-student-dorm-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/feb-4-2023-racist-graffiti-discovered-on-message-board-of-student-dorm-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 4, 2023: Racist graffiti discovered on message board of student dorm door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Racist graffiti was discovered on the message board of a student dorm door\u00a0Friday night.\u00a0Housing and Residential Life, MTSU Police and other campus administrators have been working with the impacted students since we became aware of the issue. This is a reprehensible act at any time, but it is especially despicable as our campus celebrates Black History Month. This behavior undermines our values and ideals as a university community and has no place on our campus. I ask anyone with information about this incident to call MTSU Police at\u00a0<u>615-898-2424.<\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sincerely,<br \/>Sidney A. McPhee<br \/>President<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Sidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Sidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racist graffiti was discovered on the message board of a student dorm door\u00a0Friday night.\u00a0Housing and Residential Life, MTSU Police and other campus administrators have been working with the impacted students since we became aware of the issue. This is a reprehensible act at any time, but it is especially despicable as our campus celebrates Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}