{"id":153515,"date":"2024-09-17T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=153515"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:40:43","slug":"rushing-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/09\/17\/rushing-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rushing home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cheering and screams of pure joy filled the rear of the Student Union near Alumni Grove on Sept. 15 as dozens of female students pledged to join five different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/student-affairs\/student-involvement-and-leadership\/fraternities-and-sororities\">sororities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All 60 students received an envelope at the same time revealing their sorority. New members joined their awaiting sisters by revealing their names and sororities and running through the Student Union exit doors while wearing their sorority T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students completed three rounds of discussions to select their top two sororities. The rounds included a philanthropy round, a sisterhood round and a preference round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome people join recruitment because they want to make new friends,\u201d said Katy Burton, a sophomore English major and Delta Zeta member. \u201cI wanted to be surrounded by powerful women making a difference and that\u2019s what I got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s so great to know that these women want to get involved with sorority life, Greek life and on-campus in general,\u201d said Lexi Ricker, a senior psychology major and recruitment leader for Alpha Omicron Pi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was the 51st year Wright State has hosted bid day and the largest sorority recruitment class since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheering and screams of pure joy filled Wright State&#8217;s Dayton Campus as dozens of female students pledged to join five different sororities. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/09\/17\/rushing-home\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":153519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","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\/153515","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=153515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153523,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153515\/revisions\/153523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}