{"id":5723,"date":"2017-04-12T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:23:05","slug":"black-student-union-hosts-bsu-pageant-april-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/12\/black-student-union-hosts-bsu-pageant-april-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Student Union hosts BSU Pageant April 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/04\/BSU-Pageant.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>The Black Student Union at Missouri Western State University will hold its fifth annual BSU Pageant at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The BSU Pageant gives intelligent, community-conscious and culturally aware young men and women the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship. Contestants will showcase a talent, give a speech, answer an interview question and perform the African American art form of hip-hop within a cypher.<\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Student Union at Missouri Western State University will hold its fifth annual BSU Pageant at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The BSU Pageant gives intelligent, community-conscious and culturally aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723"}],"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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}