{"id":207406,"date":"2020-02-23T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/tufts-university-removes-sackler-sign-from-bldg-3\/"},"modified":"2020-02-23T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:27:09","slug":"tufts-university-removes-sackler-sign-from-bldg-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/tufts-university-removes-sackler-sign-from-bldg-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufts University removes Sackler sign from bldg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTymRkmsVVM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>(6 Dec 2019) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus127721<\/p>\n<p>A maintenance worker has used a hammer and a flexible wall scrapper to remove the name of the billionaire family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma from a Tufts University building.<br \/>\nTufts University Medical School students cheered as the name of Arthur Sackler was stripped from their building amid concerns over the family&#8217;s role in the opioid crisis.<br \/>\nThe move came after the school said\u00a0\u00a0it will strip the Sackler name from its campus and accept no further donations from the family.<br \/>\nThe decision ends a relationship that has spanned nearly four decades and brought $15 million to the school&#8217;s science and medical programs.<br \/>\nTufts leaders said they considered the issue for more than a year before concluding it is inconsistent with the school&#8217;s values to display the family&#8217;s name.<br \/>\nOfficials said the Sackler name will now be dropped from all campus facilities and programs, including the biomedical sciences school, the medical school building, a laboratory and two research funds.<br \/>\nWithin hours of the announcement, however, the family vowed to fight back.<br \/>\nAn attorney for members of the Sackler family said that Tufts University&#8217;s decision is based on &#8220;unproven allegations about the Sackler family and Purdue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about AP Archive:<br \/>\nTwitter:<br \/>\nFacebook:<br \/>\nGoogle+:<br \/>\nTumblr:<br \/>\nInstagram: <\/p>\n<p>You can license this story through AP Archive:<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTymRkmsVVM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(6 Dec 2019) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus127721 A maintenance worker has used a hammer and a flexible wall scrapper to remove the name of the billionaire family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma from a Tufts University building. Tufts University Medical School students cheered as the name of Arthur Sackler was stripped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[113882],"class_list":["post-207406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-sackler-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}