{"id":23164,"date":"2012-05-17T03:43:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T03:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2012-05-17T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:14:57","slug":"penn-mutliheritage-organization-experiences-re-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23164","title":{"rendered":"Penn mutliheritage organization experiences re-birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedp.com\/index.php\/article\/2012\/04\/penn_multiheritage_organization_experiences_rebirth\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Penn mutliheritage organization experiences re-birth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a><br \/>\n2012-04-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Gonimah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mixed ethnicity students met to discuss their experiences and Check One&#8217;s future<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last night, Penn students came together over their ability to check more than one box under \u201cEthnicity\u201d on their college applications.<\/p>\n<p>College junior Chris Cruz and Engineering sophomore Ibrahim Ayub hosted a general body meeting to relaunch Check One, a multiracial and multicultural organization that has not met for about a decade on Penn\u2019s campus after being founded in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who served as chair of the United Minorities Council on its previous board, said the purpose of relaunching Check One was to meet a \u201cpressing demand for a space to be created for the multicultural and multiracial community as a great number of Americans identify as multiracial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u2014 which was dubbed \u201cSo \u2026What are You?\u201d \u2014 attracted a diverse group of Penn students who identified themselves as belonging to more than one ethnicity or culture&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thedp.com\/index.php\/article\/2012\/04\/penn_multiheritage_organization_experiences_rebirth\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn mutliheritage organization experiences re-birth The Daily Pennsylvanian 2012-04-06 Diana Gonimah Mixed ethnicity students met to discuss their experiences and Check One&#8217;s future Last night, Penn students came together over their ability to check more than one box under \u201cEthnicity\u201d on their college applications. College junior Chris Cruz and Engineering sophomore Ibrahim Ayub hosted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[10775,10773,10774,10776,10772],"class_list":["post-23164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chris-cruz","tag-daily-pennsylvanian","tag-diana-gonimah","tag-ibrahim-ayub","tag-the-daily-pennsylvanian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}