{"id":6058,"date":"2023-03-22T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2023-03-22T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:09:54","slug":"uchicago-reluctantly-agrees-to-stop-holding-arson-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/uchicago-reluctantly-agrees-to-stop-holding-arson-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Reluctantly Agrees to Stop Holding Arson Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK \u2013 After years of student complaints, Dean Boyer reluctantly agreed Monday to remove the ARSN 200s sequence, UChicago\u2019s world-famous introductory arson course, from the spring quarter course catalog. Boyer cited the hundreds of dollars worth of chemicals and the impetus for the university\u2019s decision to finally axe the sequence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This move comes in the wake of a massive uptick in arson at the University. Boyer had maintained for years that the ARSN sequence was \u201charmless,\u201d especially since it followed longstanding University policy in refusing to teach anything with practical applications, heavily focusing instead on \u201ctheoretical arson.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who had been enrolled in the sequence were critical of the decision, with one third-year student claiming that the course was an \u201cimportant outlet for students with firebug [sic] tendencies\u201d and warning administration to expect \u201cexplosive, truly incendiary pushback\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyer cited the hundreds of dollars worth of chemicals and the impetus for the university\u2019s decision to finally axe the sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}