{"id":4144,"date":"2023-04-13T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2023-04-13T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:11:32","slug":"troy-organizations-hold-pearls-on-ice-encourage-campus-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/13\/troy-organizations-hold-pearls-on-ice-encourage-campus-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY organizations hold &#8216;Pearls on Ice;&#8217; encourage campus involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 This week members of Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) are getting together for a combination of events and community service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is an event called Pearls on Ice and it&#8217;s just a social event to get everybody out the house and get people to interact with the AKAs vand Alphas because they don&#8217;t get to do that a lot,&#8221; said Alpha Kappa Alpha member Gabrielle Moore. &#8220;This week is Fam Week so it&#8217;s a week for people to interact with us and get to know us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We just host events really for the campus so everybody can get involved and get to know each other,&#8221; said Alpha Phi Alpha Secretary Christian Dudley. &#8220;There&#8217;s more campus involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of these organizations stressed the importance of being active on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re not active and present on campus, people won&#8217;t know what you do and they won&#8217;t get a chance to to meet you and also understand what your organization is about,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;Presence on campus is necessary and mandatory and also just a good example and a good opportunity for people to interact with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The number one objective of our goals is to make sure that campus involvement is our number one thing,&#8221; Dudley told TrojanVision. &#8220;Make sure that everybody knows that we care about them and that our best interests are with them everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone is welcome to attend any of the events held by these organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 This week members of Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) are getting together for a combination of events and community service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an event called Pearls on Ice and it&#8217;s just a social event to get everybody out the house and get people to interact with the AKAs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/13\/troy-organizations-hold-pearls-on-ice-encourage-campus-involvement\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}