{"id":6748,"date":"2019-01-16T16:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:24:14","slug":"missouri-western-celebrates-mlk-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/16\/missouri-western-celebrates-mlk-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western celebrates MLK Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will honor the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with MLK Week activities Jan. 21-25.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, Jan. 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, campus closed<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Jan. 22: \u201cWe Are the Change Table\u201d from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Blum Student Union Lobby. Students will have the opportunity to sign a banner and take a photo.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 23: MLK Drum Major for Justice Banquet, 6 p.m., Enright Community Room, Spratt Hall rooms 214-216. Drum Major for Justice Awards will be presented to a student, employee and community member. The banquet is free, but reservations are required by Friday, Jan. 18. Sign up in the Center for Student Involvement, Blum 207; by email at <a href=\"mailto:cme@missouriwestern.edu\">cme@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>; or by phone at 816-271-4150.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 24: Movie Night: \u201cDetroit,\u201d 7 p.m., Hoff Conference Room, Blum 219. \u201cDetroit\u201d tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of 1967.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, Jan. 25: Community Service, 3:30 p.m. (meet in Blum 207). To sign up for service at the Bartlett Center, come to Blum 207, email <a href=\"mailto:cme@missouriwestern.edu\">cme@missouriwestern.edu<\/a> or call 816-271-4150.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Missouri Western State University will honor the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with MLK Week activities Jan. 21-25. Monday, Jan. 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, campus closed Tuesday, Jan. 22: \u201cWe Are the Change Table\u201d from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Blum Student Union Lobby. Students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748"}],"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=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}