{"id":62599,"date":"2015-09-08T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/ou-professor-dubbed-an-american-rarity-in-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T00:25:55","slug":"ou-professor-dubbed-an-american-rarity-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/ou-professor-dubbed-an-american-rarity-in-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Knippenberg dubbed &#8220;an American rarity&#8221; in The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/cleaning-up-history-one-name-at-a-time\/2015\/09\/04\/21ead5d4-525b-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and political commentator <strong>George Will<\/strong> recognized Oglethorpe Politics Professor <strong>Joe Knippenberg<\/strong> as &#8220;an America rarity &#8212; a professor with a good sense and a sense of humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will called out Dr. Knippenberg&#8217;s\u00a0tongue-in-cheek blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/07\/08\/a-modest-proposal-for-handling-offensive-place-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A Modest Proposal for Handling Offensive Place Names,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in which &#8220;he\u00a0suggests that, in order to spare everyone discomfort, cities, buildings and other things should be given names that are inoffensive because they have no meaning whatsoever. 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