{"id":8781,"date":"2011-03-29T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:24:07","slug":"2011-class-gift-campaign-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/29\/2011-class-gift-campaign-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Class Gift Campaign Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kenn Elmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dean of Students Kenn Elmore<\/a> has just announced a challenge to the graduating Class of 2011;\u00a0 if 2,011 members of the graduating class gift the University $2,011 by midnight on May 21, 2011, the night before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/2011\/\">commencement<\/a>, he will tux up and jump into the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_River\">Charles River<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object data=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" id=\"buniverseplayer\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"viralbu.videoid=LMzZjYp&amp;viralbu.loc=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/youtube\/?v=LMzZjYp\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/UpRc3zrLbn4\/0.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In addition, if the challenge is met, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/connected\/buaa\/\">BU Alumni Council<\/a> will give $100,000 to the University on behalf of the class of 2011.\u00a0 There are 83 funds for graduates to chose from including schools and colleges, scholarships, athletics, student life and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/\"> The Community Service Center<\/a>.\u00a0 Check out who&#8217;s already given on the <a title=\"Donor Roster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/connected\/students\/class-gift\/\">Donor Roll<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are graduating and want to participate, giving is easy through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/connected\/students\/class-gift\/\">class gift homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\ntweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/29\/2011-class-gift-campaign-challenge\/';\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>  <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/29\/2011-class-gift-campaign-challenge\/&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=50&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:50px;height:65px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean of Students Kenn Elmore has just announced a challenge to the graduating Class of 2011;\u00a0 if 2,011 members of the graduating class gift the University $2,011 by midnight on May 21, 2011, the night before commencement, he will tux up and jump into the Charles River. Watch this video on YouTube In addition, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[700],"tags":[5504,5506,2882,5503,365,857,5502,5511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}