{"id":25831,"date":"2010-04-27T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25831"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:59","slug":"harvard-walton-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/27\/harvard-walton-08\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harvard Crimson describes Afghan initiative co-founded by Walton &#039;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> story discusses the impact of the Afghan Students Initiative, a Harvard-based group co-founded by Nate Walton &#8217;08, a Bates political science major. Initially, Walton says, the goal was to prompt greater discussion about Afghan issues in the context of U.S. involvement in the area. &#8220;The idea was to bring Afghan [student] voices to the debate about Afghanistan.&#8221; In practice, the story says, the Afghan Students Initiative has given Harvard&#8217;s &#8220;small but passionate community&#8221; of Afghan students various new opportunities, through guest speakers and scholars as well as informal discussions, &#8220;to share their concerns about their homeland.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2010\/4\/1\/students-afghanistan-initiative\/\">View story from <em>The Harvard Crimson<\/em>, April 1, 2010,<\/a> and related story,<a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2010\/04\/21\/folks-back-home\/\"> &#8220;Folks Back Home,&#8221; in the Spring 2010 issue of <em>Bates Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard Crimson story discusses the impact of the Afghan Students Initiative,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,220,11009],"tags":[624,11051,10770,9140],"class_list":["post-25831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service","category-the-college","tag-afghanistan","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-politics","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82773,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions\/82773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}