{"id":153066,"date":"2024-08-27T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=153066"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:26:14","slug":"going-for-gold-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/27\/going-for-gold-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright State University students opened the fall semester with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/event\/first-weekend\">First Weekend<\/a>\u00a0on the Dayton Campus from Aug. 23 to Aug. 25. The weekend was packed with many opportunities for new and returning students to learn about Wright State, get involved and have fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s the first step to building a community for the freshmen,\u201d said Marwah Almuzoughi, a senior majoring in international studies and Student Government Association president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">First Weekend events included Party at Bart-y, the Student Organization Expo, Cook Out with the President, Student Union After Dark with an Olympics theme and numerous competitions for students to compete in, and mud volleyball. The weekend also featured departmental and student organization events that gave students opportunities to get to know their classmates, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEverybody here is different,\u201d said Almuzoughi. \u201cThey come from different backgrounds, different cultures and different upbringings and there\u2019s room for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153090\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153090\" class=\"wp-image-153090 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/08\/70607_011-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-153090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party at Bart-y (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Weekend\u00a0was packed with many opportunities for new and returning students to learn about Wright State, get involved and have fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/27\/going-for-gold-3\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":153070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2105,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-campus-recreation","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156239,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153066\/revisions\/156239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}