{"id":14251,"date":"2018-02-12T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2018-02-12T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:01:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/12\/word-of-the-day-319\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gallimaufry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A confused jumble or medley of things.<br \/>\n<em>\u2018a glorious gallimaufry of childhood perceptions\u2019 [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/gallimaufry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford English Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/identity-u-15701.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Identity U.<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Heather Mac Donald, <em><strong>City Journal<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As vice chancellor of student affairs and campus diversity at UC Davis, de la Torre presided over a division made up of a whopping 28 departments\u2014not academic departments, but bureaucratic and identity-based ones, such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Resource Center; the Center for African Diaspora Student Success; the Center for Chicanx and Latinx Student Success; the Native American Academic Student Success Center; the Middle Eastern\/South Asian Student Affairs Office; the Women\u2019s Resources and Research Center; the Undocumented Student Center; Retention Initiatives; the Office of Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Services; and the Center for First-Generation Student Scholars. This gallimaufry of identity-based fiefdoms illustrates the symbiosis between an artificially segmented, identity-obsessed student body and the campus bureaucracy: the more that students carve themselves into micro-groups claiming oppressed status, the more pretext there is for new cadres of administrators to shield them from oppression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallimaufry: A confused jumble or medley of things. \u2018a glorious gallimaufry of childhood perceptions\u2019 [Oxford English Dictionaries] Noted in &#8220;Identity U.&#8221; Heather Mac Donald, City Journal: As vice chancellor of student affairs and campus diversity at UC Davis, de la Torre presided over a division made up of a whopping \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/12\/word-of-the-day-319\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14252,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions\/14252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}