{"id":73788,"date":"2019-09-11T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=73788"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:12:25","slug":"empowered-women-empower-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/11\/empowered-women-empower-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered women empower women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Screams of joy and excitement filled the Apollo Room of the Student Union on Sept. 9 as dozens of female students pledged to join six different sororities to wrap up the end to Wright State\u2019s bid week.<\/p>\n<p>Students completed three rounds of discussions to select their top two sororities. The rounds included a philanthropy round, sisterhood round and a preference round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really hope that they feel empowered and they feel the confidence to do whatever they want to do,\u201d said Emily Green, a senior middle childhood education major and president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/student-affairs\/student-life\/student-involvement-and-leadership\/college-panhellenic-council\">College Panhellenic Council.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every student received an envelope at the same time, revealing the sorority they will join.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited and I cannot wait to start my new journey,\u201d said Kaelynn Speed, a freshman nursing major.<\/p>\n<p>New members joined their awaiting sisters by revealing their name and sorority and bursting through a curtain while wearing their sorority T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 46th year Wright State has hosted bid day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screams of joy and excitement filled the Apollo Room as dozens of female students pledged to join six different sororities to wrap up the end to Wright State\u2019s bid week. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/11\/empowered-women-empower-women\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":73792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73788","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\/73788","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=73788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73800,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73788\/revisions\/73800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}