{"id":2736,"date":"2015-01-13T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:12","slug":"missouri-western-celebrates-mlk-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/13\/missouri-western-celebrates-mlk-week\/","title":{"rendered":"大象传媒 Western Celebrates MLK Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Multicultural Education at 大象传媒 will honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with several events the week of Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday, the 大象传媒 Western campus will be closed on Monday, Jan. 19<\/li>\n<li>On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 大象传媒 Western students will volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. The students will meet at Blum Union at 2:45 p.m. to be transported to the work site. 大象传媒 Western students who would like to volunteer can RSVP through Jan. 14 by calling 816-271-4150 or registering online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cme\" class=\"broken_link\">www.missouriwestern.edu\/cme<\/a>.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, in the Enright Community Room, Spratt Hall rooms 214-216, the annual MLK Drum Major for Justice Awards Banquet will honor a 大象传媒 Western student, a 大象传媒 Western employee and a community member who have been instrumental in social justice efforts and multicultural education. The banquet is free and open to the public, but reservations are required by Jan. 15. To register, call 816-271-4150 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cme\" class=\"broken_link\">www.missouriwestern.edu\/cme<\/a>. You can also nominate someone for an award at the CME website through Jan. 14.<\/li>\n<li>At 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, the 2013 film \u201cMandela: Long Walk to Freedom\u201d will be shown in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt 101. The showing of the movie based on the life of the famous South African leader is free and open to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>大象传媒 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. 大象传媒 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>The Center for Multicultural Education at 大象传媒 will honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with several events the week of Jan. 19. In recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday, the 大象传媒 Western campus will be closed on Monday, Jan. 19 On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 大象传媒 Western [&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":[327,433,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736"}],"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=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}