{"id":4917,"date":"2016-09-19T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:22:27","slug":"convocation-on-critical-issues-available-online-on-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/19\/convocation-on-critical-issues-available-online-on-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation on Critical Issues available online, on cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/09\/Convocation-Roberts-Boulware.jpg\"><\/a> Cokie Roberts with R. Dan Boulware, in whose honor the Convocation on Critical Issues is held annually.\n<p>The 23<sup>rd<\/sup> R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues featuring political commentator Cokie Roberts can now be viewed online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/convocation\/\">www.missouriwestern.edu\/convocation\/<\/a>. It is also being broadcast on MWtv, channel 12 on Suddenlink in St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>The Sept. 13 presentation by Roberts, a commentator for ABC News and NPR, was titled \u201cInsider\u2019s View of the 2016 Presidential Election<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always going to be a close race, because the country is deeply divided,\u201d Roberts told an audience of more than 3,000 people. \u201cThere are very few people \u2018in the middle\u2019 or undecided enough to be swayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Convocation will be broadcast on MWtv at noon on Tuesday and Thursday, Sept. 20, 22, 27 and 29, and at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>A DVD copy is also available for viewing in the Missouri Western Library.<\/p>\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 23rd R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues featuring political commentator Cokie Roberts can now be viewed online at www.missouriwestern.edu\/convocation\/. It is also being broadcast on MWtv, channel 12 on Suddenlink in St. Joseph. The Sept. 13 presentation by Roberts, a commentator for ABC News and NPR, was titled \u201cInsider\u2019s View of the 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917"}],"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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}