{"id":517581,"date":"2021-05-17T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517581"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:21:08","slug":"student-magazine-awards-first-place-art-prize-to-painting-of-minneapolis-police-department-set-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-magazine-awards-first-place-art-prize-to-painting-of-minneapolis-police-department-set-ablaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Magazine Awards First-Place Art Prize To Painting Of Minneapolis Police Department Set Ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudent-magazine-awards-first-place-art-prize-to-painting-of-minneapolis-police-department-set-ablaze%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517581&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span>Valparaiso University\u2019s campus magazine awarded its annual \u201cartivism\u201d prize to a painting of a Minneapolis police station on fire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The painting \u2014\u00a0titled \u201cOrder is Not Justice\u201d \u2014 was created by Sam \u201cDoc\u201d Janowiak and was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/image-of-minneapolis-police-station-burning-wins-college-magazines-art-award\/\">The College Fix<\/a>. It depicts the burning of the Minneapolis Third Precinct police building three days after the death of George Floyd.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_223607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223607\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-223607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice-233x300.jpg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice-447x576.jpg 447w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-223607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>via Instagram\/@valpolighter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Janowiak told The College Fix that he prefers to create offensive art and has been involved in several on-campus activist events since May 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf it offends enough people, it\u2019s probably going in the right direction,\u201d Janowiak said. \u201cIf the ideas are fundamentally commendable, and the cause is fundamentally virtuous, the result is even more likely to be sound \u2026 It might be offensive, yes, especially to the people who desperately wish to convince others that its content is not directed at them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The student said he organized three of the four summer demonstrations at the university that were aimed at \u201cprotesting the racially motivated police killings of African Americans.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The award was distributed by the university\u2019s student-run publication <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.valpo.edu\/lighter\/\"><span>The Lighter<\/span><\/a><span>. The magazine features work from students \u201cof any type of prose, poetry, or visual art.\u201d Winners were announced on the publication\u2019s Instagram page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Faculty advisor Mark Wagenaar told The College Fix that the award contest is run each year and is judged by \u201csomeone who\u2019s willing to do it for a hundred bucks.\u201d Janowiak\u2019s work was picked by a Valparaiso alumnus who reviews books on YouTube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs our budget was something like zero this year, we had two recent alums judge the contest with faculty judging the other writing contests,\u201d Wagenaar said. \u201cThis year\u2019s just was, apparently, drawn to heavy-handedness. These days you can never be too didactic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>College campuses have become breeding grounds for anti-police sentiment following the resurgence of Black Lives Matter. Students across the nation are organizing under the name \u201cCops Off Campus Coalition\u201d to \u201cget cops off campus and cops off the planet.\u201d On May 4, hundreds of educators and students participated in a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/educators-students-take-day-off-to-protest-the-existence-of-college-police-departments\"><span>day of refusal<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d wherein they refused to go to work or class to protest the presence of police on college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coalition encourages activists to participate in a slew of activities including \u201cmarch[ing] to your chancellor\u2019s house and let[ing] them know how you feel,\u201d hosting a \u201cteach-in with abolitionist speakers,\u201d \u201credcorat[ing] your campus police stations,\u201d and hosting \u201cstreet puppet theater.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students have also organized independent anti-police chapters such as Northwestern University\u2019s \u201cNU Community Not Cops.\u201d The group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/northwestern-students-burn-and-vandalize-school-property-at-anti-police-protests\/\"><span>vandalized and burned<\/span><\/a><span> school property in October and placed the charred remains at the feet of police officers guarding the home for the university\u2019s president. The group also vandalized Northwestern\u2019s iconic Weber Arch as part of an anti-police demonstration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes\"><b>Watch: Professor Berates Student For Calling police \u2018Heroes\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valparaiso University\u2019s campus magazine awarded its annual \u201cartivism\u201d prize to a painting of a Minneapolis police station on fire.\u00a0The painting \u2014\u00a0titled \u201cOrder is Not Justice\u201d \u2014 was created by Sam &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278300,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice-233x300.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Student Magazine Awards First-Place Art Prize To Painting Of Minneapolis Police Department Set Ablaze","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Order-is-Not-Justice-233x300.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Student Magazine Awards First-Place Art Prize To Painting Of Minneapolis Police Department Set Ablaze","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}