{"id":4062,"date":"2015-11-05T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:51","slug":"black-student-union-hosts-4th-annual-pageant-nov-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/05\/black-student-union-hosts-4th-annual-pageant-nov-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Student Union Hosts 4th Annual Pageant Nov. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/BSU-Pageant.jpeg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>Mr. and Miss Black Student Union will be crowned at the fourth annual Black Student Union Pageant at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt 101 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>Contestants in the pageant will showcase a talent, give a speech on a selected social topic concerning the black community, and perform the African American art form of hip-hop within a cypher.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be members of the Black Student Union executive board in 2015-2016. They will also receive a scholarship, including an all-expenses paid trip to the 2016 Big XII Conference on Black Student Government in Lawrence, Kansas, next February.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. and Miss Black Student Union will be crowned at the fourth annual Black Student Union Pageant at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt 101 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Admission is free. Contestants in the pageant will showcase a talent, give a speech on a selected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}