{"id":2832,"date":"2015-02-12T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:11","slug":"politics-club-organizes-forum-on-sex-work-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/12\/politics-club-organizes-forum-on-sex-work-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Club Organizes Forum on Sex Work Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics Club at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a forum on the legalization of sex work. The forum, titled \u201cSex Sells: A Forum on the Legalization of Sex Work,\u201d will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 in Spratt Hall, room 203 and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Three faculty members will participate in a panel discussion on the issue:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Tushaus, chair of criminal justice, legal studies and social work and former managing attorney for Legal Aid of Western Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Monty Smith, assistant professor of criminal justice who was a police officer for 20 years in Baltimore, Maryland and a defense attorney for seven years<\/li>\n<li>Jana Frye, assistant professor of social work who has previously worked with families and children of sexual abuse and trauma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics Club at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a forum on the legalization of sex work. The forum, titled \u201cSex Sells: A Forum on the Legalization of Sex Work,\u201d will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 in Spratt Hall, room 203 and is free and open to the public. Three faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[287,288,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}