{"id":13559,"date":"2009-04-15T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:50:26","slug":"ethnic-humor-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/ethnic-humor-discussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic humor discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Butcher<\/strong>\u00a0from Residence Life and\u00a0<strong>Jamie Patton<\/strong>\u00a0from Educational Support Services will host a discussion, \u201cWhat\u2019s So Funny? A look at Ethnic-racial Humor in Higher Education\u201d from 9:30 to 11 a.m. April 21 in Cline Library, room 200.<\/p>\n<p>This session is open to campus and will explore how humor can be used to relieve the tension of stereotypes, but how it also reinforces them.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, the discussion will focus on why we laugh at ethnic-racial humor and will show practical ways to be proactive in creating positive discussions around the topic.<\/p>\n<p>For information or to register for events, go to the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/home.nau.edu\/diversity\/calendarofevents.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/home.nau.edu\/diversity\/calendarofevents.asp\">Diversity Events Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/ethnic-humor-discussed\/\">Michael Butcher\u00a0from Residence Life and\u00a0Jamie Patton\u00a0from Educational Support Services will host a discussion, \u201cWhat\u2019s So Funny? A look at Ethnic-racial Humor in Higher Education\u201d from 9:30 to 11 a.m. April 21 in Cline Library, room 200. This session is open to campus and will explore how humor can be used to relieve the tension of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}