{"id":5793,"date":"2022-11-30T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:48:22","slug":"oi-renamed-indiana-h-jones-institute-of-academic-grave-robbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/oi-renamed-indiana-h-jones-institute-of-academic-grave-robbing\/","title":{"rendered":"OI Renamed \u201cIndiana H. Jones Institute of Academic Grave-Robbing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an apparent response to mounting criticism for cultural insensitivity, the University of Chicago announced today that it will be changing the name of the Oriental Institute to the \u201cIndiana H. Jones Institute of Academic Grave-Robbing.\u201d This name change honors Indiana H. Jones, a real archeologist at UChicago renowned in the field for his contributions to Near Eastern Studies and his repeated support for the sterilization of literate women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an effort to promote diversity, the Institute will showcase numerous artifacts looted and pillaged from cultures around the world. A statement from Institute head Jan Pfiefer read, \u201cWe\u2019re encouraging everyone to not think too hard about where everything came from. Look: it\u2019s a mummy! Isn\u2019t that crazy? Like the movies, baby!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echoing the attitude of numerous British museums, the Institute has refused to return any of these artifacts, and is attempting to sweep their troubled past under the rug. The Institute has further clarified that \u201cto address concerns, we have revised our policies to only steal artifacts from dead people. That being said, we\u2019re not returning that one really cool vase on the second floor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This change in policy comes after the Institute mistakenly dug up and expropriated several Mexican sewage pipes, believing them to be ancient Aztec pottery. The city of Oaxaca was completely without running water for several days before the pipes were eventually returned with an apology and 300 maroon dollars (to be redeemed by the end of the current academic year).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with the name change, the school will be making a series of renovations to the Institute\u2019s museum, installing a bust of Jones emblazoned with his famous motto: \u201cFinders keepers, losers weepers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to promote diversity, the Institute will showcase numerous artifacts looted and pillaged from cultures around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono","category-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}