{"id":74439,"date":"2012-10-11T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18700"},"modified":"2012-10-11T02:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T10:32:00","slug":"a-dangerous-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/11\/a-dangerous-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A dangerous man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was a little sad when I heard my friend Steve Hsu had accepted a position at Michigan State some months back. My reasons were two-fold. First, I swing by Eugene now and then, and I wouldn’t have the opportunity to drop in on his office. Second, it seemed that Steve was becoming an Administrator<\/em>. To some extent I feel like that’s going over to the dark side. But ultimately it’s his decision, and Steve has a lot of things going on at any given moment, and I’m hopeful he’ll continue to be involved in the production of scholarship in some form (he’s more of a scholar than most as it is).<\/p>\n

Now apparently his move has resulted in submerged tensions coming to the fore. You can read the article in The Lansing Journal<\/a>, New director’s experience a plus for MSU, but his controversial views concern some<\/a>. Let’s qualify who these “some” are:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Shortly after the start of classes this fall, Daniel HoSang, a professor of political science and ethnic studies at the University of Oregon, sent an email to a handful of faculty. Hsu, he wrote, \u201chas taken a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a little sad when I heard my friend Steve Hsu had accepted a position at Michigan State some months back. My reasons were two-fold. First, I swing by Eugene now and then, and I wouldn’t have the opportunity to drop in on his office. Second,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,481,525,77,1689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-human-genetics","category-human-genomics","category-science","category-steve-hsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74529,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439\/revisions\/74529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}