{"id":5169,"date":"2017-02-14T19:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:20:05","slug":"campus-voices-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/campus-voices-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Question: Do you think celebrity activism is positive or negative for society and why?<\/p>\n<p>Kailee King, sophomore, pre-nursing<br \/>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a positive thing because they bring the attention they get and use it for good\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brent Sumner, sophomore, criminal justice<br \/>\n\u201cI think it can take both effects. I\u2019d say probably more positive if it has a positive message, because some people really look up to celebrities, maybe more than they should. They can be a big source of power to talk to more people than a politician might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joel Haro, sophomore, education<br \/>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a positive thing because they have such a big influence, especially on young kids. If they\u2019re able to use their platform for something good, I think it\u2019s useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Lopez, sophomore, criminal justice<br \/>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s positive for society and for everybody just because they\u2019re humans too, not just celebrities. They have their own private lives, so they have the voice and the option to say whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ashlynn Walker, junior, ASL studies<br \/>\n\u201cI think that is it a positive thing because they do have such a big platform and they are able to influence a lot of people, but I do think that\u2019s the negative part as well because some people aren\u2019t able to think for themselves and create their own ideas from what they know. A lot of people take what celebrities say as fact, and they get paid for that, so for the most part I\u2019d say negative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ashton Newton Entertainment Editor Question: Do you think celebrity activism is positive or negative for society and why? Kailee King, sophomore, pre-nursing \u201cI think it\u2019s a positive thing because they bring the attention they get and use it for good\u201d Brent Sumner, sophomore, criminal justice \u201cI think it can take both effects. I\u2019d say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"modified_by":"saragerrick","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}