{"id":1489,"date":"2015-06-04T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2015-06-04T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:28:59","slug":"prepare-for-wou-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/prepare-for-wou-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for WOU Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Amanda Clarke\r\n Staff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>The 11th annual WOU Mania will be held on Friday, June 5 at 7 p.m. in the Werner University Center. This year\u2019s WOU Mania has a sports theme; students are encouraged to wear their \u201cfinest sports jersey\u201d to the event. Students who RSVP ahead of time via Orgsync will be entered to win door prizes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to offering alluring free food, WOU Mania will also have multiple sports that students can participate in, such as one-on-one basketball and inflatable bouncy boxing.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s WOU Mania will feature two comedians: Byron Bowers will be performing at 9:45 p.m., and Kendra Corne will be performing at 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kya Rasmussen, a first-year early education major, said WOU Mania sounds \u201cawesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never really been one for sports, but it sounds like a fun time,\u201d Rasmussen said. She also mentioned her interest in the henna that will be offered at the event.<\/p>\n<p>From its humble beginnings in 2004, WOU Mania has grown to be composed of multiple free events including a competitive eating contest, photo booth, caricatures, henna artists, a surf machine, and one-on-one competitive sports, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by Student Leadership and Activities\/Werner University Center with the intention of drawing students to participate in on-campus events.<\/p>\n<p>WOU Mania was one of the Student Activities Board\u2019s highlight events of last year, and in 2013 Mike Winfield, from Comedy Central, was invited to perform at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mechanical bull [last year] was fun but really tough. It was better if you didn\u2019t wear socks,\u201d said Clifford Mullen, a junior social science major.<\/p>\n<p>Previous years also included a Cat in the Hat photo booth as well as one-on-one competitive sports. Pictures from previous years are located on the SLA Orgsync page.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Ed E-Nunu at enunue@wou.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amanda Clarke Staff Writer The 11th annual WOU Mania will be held on Friday, June 5 at 7 p.m. in the Werner University Center. This year\u2019s WOU Mania has a sports theme; students are encouraged to wear their \u201cfinest sports jersey\u201d to the event. Students who RSVP ahead of time via Orgsync will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}