{"id":3234,"date":"2013-10-24T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"i-heart-hu-week-long-celebration-energizes-students-for-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2013\/10\/24\/i-heart-hu-week-long-celebration-energizes-students-for-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Heart HU,\u2019 week-long celebration, energizes students for Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To build up to the Homecoming festivities occurring this weekend, the Campus Activities Board hosted &#8220;I Heart HU Week&#8221; for the third year in a row. Each day featured a different theme: &#8220;I Heart HU&#8221; because &#8220;it&#8217;s connected,&#8221; &#8220;it leaves a legacy,&#8221; &#8220;it gives,&#8221; &#8220;it&#8217;s festive&#8221; and &#8220;it rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special highlights of the week included giving away 500 free chicken biscuits on Monday to go with the &#8220;connected&#8221; theme and to encourage students to &#8220;take a biscuit, make a friend,&#8221; and a special dedication on Tuesday of &#8220;Mt. McLarty,&#8221; the new front lawn decoration featuring all of Harding&#8217;s past and present presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Holly Bohnett, an intern for CAB, said this year they wanted to bring even more excitement to I Heart HU Week to make it even bigger than the previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The events were bigger and better,&#8221; Bohnett said. &#8220;Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each had events that could stand alone in any other context so it means we were busy this week but having more fun as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These events included a performance by The Secret Sisters and a fall fest on the front lawn complete with a zip-line.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Light, director of CAB, said one of the goals for I Heart HU Week is not only about school spirit, but also about giving back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every year we always pick a charity to get involved with,&#8221; Light said. &#8220;This year we chose \u2018Peanut Butter and Jam&#8217; with Good Spread and were really excited they wanted to come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Bohnett said I Heart HU Eeek successfully celebrated five aspects of campus that inspire and connect students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love bringing people together and encouraging campus involvement,&#8221; Bohnett said. &#8220;\u2018I Heart HU Week is a reminder of the unity and unique community we have at Harding. It&#8217;s also a good excuse to hand out free chicken biscuits and help people fly across the front lawn on a zip-line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To build up to the Homecoming festivities occurring this weekend, the Campus Activities Board hosted &#8220;I Heart HU Week&#8221; for the third year in a row. Each day featured a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14443,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}