{"id":40051,"date":"2015-02-20T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40051"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:41:47","slug":"association-of-mixed-students-hosts-celebratory-loving-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40051","title":{"rendered":"Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory \u2018Loving Week\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studlife.com\/news\/campus-events\/2015\/02\/12\/association-of-mixed-students-hosts-celebratory-loving-week\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory \u2018Loving Week\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studlife.com\" target=\"_blank\">Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studlife.com\/media\/pdf\/2014-2015\/15-02-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 136, Number 38<\/a> (Thursday, 2015-02-12)<br \/>\nPage 3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noa_yadidi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noa Yadidi<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speed_dating\" target=\"_blank\">speed dating<\/a>, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year\u2019s Loving Week, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.wustl.edu\/organization\/ams\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Mixed Students<\/a>, kicked off Monday in commemoration of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group organized a week\u2019s worth of activities to celebrate the case, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Mixed decided to hold the event in proximity to Valentine\u2019s Day because it fit in well with the themes of love and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>In continuing the weeklong celebration, students can participate in a speed-dating event at Ursa\u2019s Stageside Thursday night and a dance on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Students in Mixed feel that it is especially important to celebrate the individuality and uniqueness of mixed-race students at Washington University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studlife.com\/news\/campus-events\/2015\/02\/12\/association-of-mixed-students-hosts-celebratory-loving-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory \u2018Loving Week\u2019 Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Volume 136, Number 38 (Thursday, 2015-02-12) Page 3 Noa Yadidi, Staff Reporter Featuring speed dating, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year\u2019s Loving Week, hosted by the Association of Mixed Students, kicked off [&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":[19365,19364,19367,19366],"class_list":["post-40051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-association-of-mixed-students","tag-noa-yadidi","tag-student-life","tag-student-life-the-independent-newspaper-of-washington-university-in-st-louis-since-1878"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40051","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=40051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}