{"id":15171,"date":"2012-02-14T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=15171"},"modified":"2012-02-14T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:31:21","slug":"student-groups-get-in-the-valentines-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/02\/student-groups-get-in-the-valentines-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Student groups get in the Valentine&#8217;s spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15172\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15172\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15172  \" title=\"Carly Eastwood and Katrien Ecclestone, Concurrent Education students, work at a display for the CHYS Society.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/chysvalentine.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Pollak and Nicoel Studenny, Concurrent Education students, work at a display for the CHYS Society.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carly Eastwood and Katrien Ecclestone, Concurrent Education students, work at a display for the CHYS Society.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The spirit of Valentine&#8217;s Day in the air at Brock today, and several student groups are using the occasion to raise money for their causes.<\/p>\n<p>The Child and Youth Studies Society is among the student groups with Valentine&#8217;s displays in the Mackenzie Chown A hallway. The display is to inform people about this month\u2019s fundraising effort, which is Youth Pride Niagara, said Carly Eastwood, a third-year Concurrent Education student.<\/p>\n<p>Each month, the society supports a local charity. Last month, its members collected clothing for Gillian\u2019s Place.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty of Education group heading to Peru for Solidarity Experiences Abroad sold out of roses this week. The group is heading to Lima from May 3 to 16 to work in schools there.<\/p>\n<p>The trip is one of four this year through the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/campus-ministries\/solidarity\" target=\"_blank\">Solidarity Experience Abroad<\/a> program, organized by the Faith and Life Centre. The others are a Sport Management trip to Peru (Feb. 16 to 26), a Nursing trip to Ecuador (June 16 to 29) and a trip to Brazil from July 3 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>Community Health Sciences students are raising money in Mackenzie Chown A for the Heart Institute at Brock today. The Brain Injury Association of Niagara is selling flowers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15173\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15173\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15173 \" title=\"Natasha Davey, Katrien Ecclestone and Lisa Pollak, Concurrent Education students, holding flowers they're selling for Solidarity Experiences Abroad\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/seavalentines.jpg\" alt=\"Natasha Davey, Katrien Ecclestone and Lisa Pollak, Concurrent Education students, sell flowers for Solidarity Experiences Abroad.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Davey, Nicole Studenny and Lisa Pollak, Concurrent Education students, sell flowers for Solidarity Experiences Abroad.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several student groups are using the occasion to raise money for their causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15180,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions\/15180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}