{"id":21614,"date":"2015-08-26T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21614"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:51:12","slug":"fhsu-strives-to-increase-college-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21614","title":{"rendered":"FHSU Strives to Increase College Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21616\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21616\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21616\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/womens-leadership-project-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"womens-leadership-project\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>FHSU University Relations and Marketing<\/p>\n<p>HAYS, Kan. &#8212; On Women&#8217;s Equality Day, marking the 95th anniversary for women&#8217;s voting rights, students will pledge on the Fort Hays State University campus today, to vote in the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Leadership Project and the American Democracy Project&#8217;s goal is to not only to get students thinking about voting but also to get students researching the election, said WLP student coordinator Katie Dinges, Dodge City senior.<\/p>\n<p>While signing pledges, students will also learn about women&#8217;s suffrage and the impact of movement heroes such as Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and Helena Hill Weed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Women&#8217;s Leadership Project hopes to inform students more about all the work these historical women have accomplished and increase the number of college-age voters, especially women,&#8221; said Dinges.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsu.edu\/wlp\/\">FHSU Women&#8217;s Leadership Project<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0contact the WLP at 785-628-4312.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU University Relations and Marketing HAYS, Kan. &#8212; On Women&#8217;s Equality Day, marking the 95th anniversary for women&#8217;s voting rights, students will pledge on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11],"tags":[6181,7412,226,4208,106,7414,7410,7413,7409,7411],"class_list":["post-21614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-19th-amendment","tag-alice-paul","tag-american-democracy-project","tag-fhsus-womens-leadership-project","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-helena-hill-weed","tag-katie-dinges","tag-lucy-burns","tag-womens-equality-day","tag-womens-suffrage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21652,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions\/21652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}