{"id":4658,"date":"2019-07-09T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:52:22","slug":"big-top-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/2019\/07\/09\/big-top-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Top Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Autumn West<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/homecoming\/\">Homecoming<\/a> week is a busy week for everyone, but it is especially busy for the homecoming court<br \/>\nnominees and Greek life.<\/p>\n<p>For some students, running for homecoming court is a childhood dream, but for Malik Bryant running for court was more of a social statement. Bryant hopes that him not being apart of Greek like will influence more people who aren\u2019t apart of Greek life to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of homecoming is Greek dominated, so it was cool to be able to represent more of the student body who isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/student-life\/fsl\/\">Greek<\/a>,\u201d said Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>To Annie Allgaier homecoming is more about how involved you are on campus and being more involved on<br \/>\ncampus made the experience so much better. Annie is apart of Greek life, she has been an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/reslife\/\">RA<\/a> and a DA and does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/griffonedge\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Griffon Edge<\/a>, as well as many other things on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the whole court was amazing with the people that were on it, because they were so involved on<br \/>\ncampus, which I think is the coolest part of being on court, like, what it means to be a Griffon and active students on campus,\u201d said Allgaier.<\/p>\n<p>For Crystal Enciso being nominated for homecoming court was never a lifelong dream, in fact, she never really thought about it. During high school she thought it may have been cool to be a part of it while it was happening but it was never something she was set on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I\u2019ve never been on homecoming court or prom court in high school doesn\u2019t mean that I couldn\u2019t have done it here at Missouri Western. This means that you can be your own person, you can be a different person once you come to college,\u201d said Enciso.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming means different things for different people, but each person who is a part of homecoming loves it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Autumn West Homecoming week is a busy week for everyone, but it is especially busy for the homecoming court nominees and Greek life. For some students, running for homecoming court is a childhood dream, but for Malik Bryant running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171],"tags":[701,702,142,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}