{"id":19155,"date":"2012-10-29T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19155"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T20:00:40","slug":"university-prepares-for-hurricane-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/10\/university-prepares-for-hurricane-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: University prepares for Hurricane Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hurricane-banner.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19156\" title=\"Hurricane\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hurricane-banner-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highslide\">Evening classes and planned non-academic activities at Brock University are cancelled for today only, Monday, Oct. 29, because of inclement weather caused by Hurricane Sandy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This applies to lectures, seminars, labs and tutorials at both the St. Catharines and Hamilton campuses. Evening classes are those that start at 5 p.m. or later.<\/p>\n<p>The University remains open. However, the Campus Bookstore will close at 5 p.m. The James A. Gibson Library and health services will close at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Walker Complex will close at 7 p.m., though all programs are cancelled as of 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For information on other programs or events at the University, please check with the organizers.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, classes for tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 30, remain unchanged. University staff will assess conditions early Tuesday in accordance with the <a title=\"Inclement Weather Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/marketing-communications\/policies\/inclement-weather-policy\" target=\"_blank\">University&#8217;s inclement weather policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brock University officials are continuing to monitor weather conditions and forecasts as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall on the east coast today.<\/p>\n<p>The University&#8217;s Emergency Response Team (ERT) has been placed on standby.<\/p>\n<p>Please check <a title=\"Brock University\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Brock&#8217;s home page<\/a> and social media feeds, including <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brockuniversity\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrockUniversity\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, for the latest news on any changes or interruptions to scheduled activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening classes and planned non-academic activities at Brock University are cancelled for today only, Monday, Oct. 29, because of inclement weather caused by Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[630,628,629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19155"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}