{"id":180113,"date":"2022-10-18T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=187966"},"modified":"2022-10-18T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T23:55:25","slug":"scholarships-in-the-name-of-an-education-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/scholarships-in-the-name-of-an-education-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships In The Name Of An Education Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sen. Ron Wyden\u2019s recent visit to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene Weekly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during our election endorsements process reminded me of the stories I have heard him tell about his start in public service work, including his work as an aide to the late Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week \u2014 Oct. 20, specifically \u2014 marks Morse\u2019s 122nd birthday. He was a staunch advocate for equality in education, and in early October, the Wayne Morse Historical Corporation in Eugene awarded scholarship money to two young women to help them pursue their academic goals and public service careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cassandra Wilson is a liberal arts major at Portland State University who aims to become a climate and social justice advocate. Evelyn Peter, a freshman at the University of Oregon, is studying business administration with a minor in public health. She hopes to \u201cattend law school and further represent and protect women, youth and people of color.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morse\u2019s name adorns a handful of buildings and organizations in Eugene, and the scholarships serve as a reminder of the importance of funding public education to one and all, a policy that he spoke of often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have the duty laid upon us,\u201d he once noted, \u201cto open the widest door of education to all who have the innate capacity to step over the threshold.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Wyden\u2019s recent visit to Eugene Weekly during our election endorsements process reminded me of the stories I have heard him tell about his \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2022\/10\/18\/scholarships-in-the-name-of-an-education-advocate\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,101,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-ew-extra","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}