{"id":5253,"date":"2024-01-24T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:48:28","slug":"welcome-back-week-brings-back-silent-disco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/welcome-back-week-brings-back-silent-disco\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Week brings back Silent Disco"},"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 TROY&#8217;s Welcome Week Committee brought back a fan favorite during Welcome Back Week: Silent Disco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event originally debuted during Fall Welcome Week, which according to the Vice President of Campus Affairs (VPCA), was such a hit the committee decided to bring it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What better way to kick off the spring semester than with a really fun event where everybody can dance around and kind of get back into the groove of things,&#8221; said VPCA Betsy Bennett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Trojan Center Ballroom was filled with students enjoying the music channel and dance moves of their choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;[There are] three different DJs going on right now, red, blue and green,&#8221; explained Welcome Week Director Derrick Nobles. &#8220;They&#8217;re all different songs. Some people doing line dances, some people just doing a random dance. You just see a lot of happiness all around.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday night&#8217;s Silent Disco is the second-to-last event planned for Welcome Back Week. With most of the festivities wrapped up, the committee is asking for student feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a lot of positive feedback and, hopefully, we&#8217;re going to get even more,&#8221; Bennett told TrojanVision. &#8220;We&#8217;ve offered surveys to people that have been coming through to the events to kind of hear their feedback of what they are looking for in a welcome week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the first year TROY held a Spring Welcome Back Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s Welcome Week Committee brought back a fan favorite during Welcome Back Week: Silent Disco.<\/p>\n<p>The event originally debuted during Fall Welcome Week, which according to the Vice President of Campus Affairs (VPCA), was such a hit the committee decided to bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What better way to kick off the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/welcome-back-week-brings-back-silent-disco\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}