{"id":971,"date":"2003-07-11T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/11\/what-were-they-thinking-dept\/"},"modified":"2003-07-11T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T00:40:17","slug":"what-were-they-thinking-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/11\/what-were-they-thinking-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"What Were They Thinking Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a241'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"+1\">Prof Assigns &#8220;Kill the President&#8221; email<\/font><\/p>\n<p>A political science instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College is being  investigated by the Secret Service for telling his students to compose an e- mail to an elected official that included the words &#8220;kill the president, kill  the president,&#8221; a school administrator said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Ballou, a part-time lecturer who teaches an &#8220;Introduction to U.S.  Government&#8221; course at the college&#8217;s Petaluma campus, intended the assignment  to be an &#8220;experiential exercise that would instill a sense of fear so they  would have a better sense of why more people don&#8217;t participate in the  political process, &#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2003\/07\/10\/BA270769.DTL&amp;type=printable\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Assigns &#8220;Kill the President&#8221; email A political science instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College is being investigated by the Secret Service for telling his students to compose an e- mail to an elected official that included the words &#8220;kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/11\/what-were-they-thinking-dept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}