{"id":145,"date":"2016-05-04T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/?p=145"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:03:02","slug":"news-from-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/2016\/05\/04\/news-from-march\/","title":{"rendered":"News from March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00a0is a summary of what has happened at IWU from the month of March, told by pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Students stayed on their feet for 12 hours and raised more than $7,700 for the Children\u2019s Hospital of Illinois during the Dance Marathon. Even though it was her third year to participate, Valerie Voce \u201916 told the Pantagraph newspaper that the Dance Marathon is the \u201cbest 12 hours you never want to do again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/dance-marathon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/dance-marathon-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/dance-marathon-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/dance-marathon-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/dance-marathon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>One wheelbarrow at a time, Tung Nguyen \u201917, Selena Greising \u201916 (far left) and 18 other students moved 30 tons of gravel at an Almost Heaven Habitat for Humanity site in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, through Alternative Spring Break.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/greising-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/greising-16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/greising-16-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/greising-16-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/greising-16.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Tour guides Mehgan Keeley\u201916 (from left), Paige Seitz \u201919 and Skylar Mihalik \u201916 get silly with Admissions Counselor Bobby Castillo \u201913, Tommy Titan and some photo props during Titan Weekend, an overnight college visit opportunity for admitted students.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/keeley-and-mihalik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/keeley-and-mihalik-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/keeley-and-mihalik-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/keeley-and-mihalik-768x718.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/keeley-and-mihalik.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Nia Joiner \u201916 (top row center, holding top of trophy) set a new Division III record in winning the 60 meter dash and the IWU women\u2019s team earned a second place finish at the 2016 NCAA Division III National Indoor Track and Field Championships.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2016 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field championships at Bear Athletic Center on 03-12-2016.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/05\/joiner-16.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00a0is a summary of what has happened at IWU from the month of March, told by pictures. Students stayed on their feet for 12 hours and raised more than $7,700 for the Children\u2019s Hospital of Illinois during the Dance Marathon. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/2016\/05\/04\/news-from-march\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}