{"id":169,"date":"2007-09-20T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/09\/20\/raters-urges-careful-word-choice\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:52:11","slug":"raters-urges-careful-word-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/09\/20\/raters-urges-careful-word-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Raters Urges Careful Word Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Assistant Dean of Students Michael Raters \u201985 talks to students in Thursday\u2019s Chapel about the importance of word choice and action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Raters-275.jpg\" \/>Raters, who gave a Chapel talk four years ago when he began at Wabash, noted he particularly identified with this year\u2019s senior class since he has seen them grow and learn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He urged the Chapel attendance to grow and lean in word choice and the way they think about things not only at Wabash but outside as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRefrain from lumping everyone into a group because of the actions of one,\u201d he said. Raters noted \u201cThe\u201d is often the misused word. \u201cThe Administration, The fraternities, The Faculty, The Independents,\u201d and so on are often unfairly lumped into groups when diverse members of those groups may not always hold the same opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYou can push away supporters with one stroke of your brush,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hear Raters complete Chapel Speech in this <a href=\"http:\/\/caleb.wabash.edu\/podcast\/Raters.mp3\">Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Assistant Dean of Students Michael Raters \u201985 talks to students in Thursday\u2019s Chapel about the importance of word choice and action. Raters, who gave a Chapel talk four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}