{"id":7814,"date":"2011-01-26T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2011-01-26T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:53:33","slug":"students-union-participating-in-blue-chair-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/01\/students-union-participating-in-blue-chair-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Students&#8217; union participating in Blue Chair campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\"> Brock University Students\u2019 Union <\/a>is in the midst of a week-long awareness campaign to publicize the barriers students face in getting access to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Chair campaign, organized by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), means empty blue chairs are located around campus this week. The chairs represent empty seats students can\u2019t fill because of various barriers that exist between them and post-secondary education.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main displays is an eight-foot Blue Muskoka Chair in the Student-Alumni Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our hope that the eight-foot chair is really going to draw attention to the campaign,\u201d said Daud Grewal, BUSU\u2019s Vice-President, University Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Students\u2019 Union is in the midst of a week-long awareness campaign to publicize the barriers students face in getting access to higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814"}],"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=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7821,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}