{"id":31888,"date":"2017-03-29T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31888"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:44:10","slug":"2017-homecoming-theme-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31888","title":{"rendered":"2017 Homecoming Theme Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The theme for Fort Hays State University\u2019s 2017 Homecoming has been selected through a survey of students, faculty, staff and community members. \u201cTigers Through the Decades\u201d was the theme selected. According to FHSU\u2019s Coordinator of Student Involvement and Chair of the Homecoming Committee, Brittney Squire, \u201cthe theme was selected to commemorate the history of the university, and honor alumni and friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An inspirational theme is selected each year for Homecoming, but this year\u2019s theme was the first to be selected based on a survey. Squire also stated \u201cthe survey, conducted by the committee annually after Homecoming, is sent to students, faculty, staff, and the community members with the intention of improving the slate of Homecoming activities.\u201d This year, survey participants also had the opportunity to select one theme from a list of 10 options which they believed best conveyed Tiger spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aside from the theme, the events for 2017 Homecoming are also set. Homecoming activities will take place Thursday, October 5 through Sunday, October 8. Events are as follows&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday, Oct. 5 &#8211; Tiger Bonfire, sponsored by Fraternity and Sorority Life, and Tigers Forever<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friday, Oct. 6 &#8211; Oktoberfest, hosted by the Volga-German Society<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday, Oct. 7 &#8211; 5K Tiger Run\/Walk hosted by Alumni Association<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday, Oct. 7 &#8211; Homecoming Parade<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday, Oct. 7 &#8211; FHSU football and the coronation of Homecoming royalty<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student competitions, alumni reunions, and other athletic events are hosted throughout the week. For more information, visit the official Homecoming website at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsu.edu\/homecoming\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.fhsu.edu\/homecoming\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Homecoming Coordinating Committee coordinates, promotes, and evaluates all activities associated with Homecoming. Representatives are included from the Center for Student Involvement, the student body, the Department of Music and Theatre, University Relations and Marketing, the FHSU Alumni Association, athletics, the Office of the President, and the Hays community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, please contact Brittney Squire at 785-628-44664 or at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:bmsquire@fhsu.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bmsquire@fhsu.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For TMN, I am Tristan Sasse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for Fort Hays State University\u2019s 2017 Homecoming has been selected through a survey of students, faculty, staff and community members. \u201cTigers Through the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":31891,"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":[7085,10567,604,3352,106,103],"class_list":["post-31888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-defendthefort","tag-tigerpride","tag-fhsu-athletics","tag-fhsu-homecoming","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FHSU_Athletics_wordmark.svg_.png?fit=2000%2C637&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31917,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions\/31917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}