{"id":6899,"date":"2015-02-12T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:57:48","slug":"beta-beta-beta-plants-a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6899","title":{"rendered":"Beta Beta Beta Plants a New Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6900\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/02\/Darwin-Day-from-www-dot-hms-beagle-dot-com-200x132.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Darwin\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/02\/Darwin-Day-from-www-dot-hms-beagle-dot-com-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/02\/Darwin-Day-from-www-dot-hms-beagle-dot-com-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/02\/Darwin-Day-from-www-dot-hms-beagle-dot-com.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>By Kayla Samek&#8211;On the 206<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of Charles Darwin, Morningside\u2019s Biology Honors Society, Beta Beta Beta is putting on \u201cDarwin Day.\u201d On Thursday, February 12<sup>th<\/sup>, the day will be full of Darwin-inspired activities, such as a Darwin-themed Valentine\u2019s Day cards and a \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d carnival. There will also be a showing of the movie <em>Osmosis Jones<\/em> at 7pm in Yockey. The day is planned to get students to enjoy themselves while appreciating Darwin\u2019s contributions to the sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Day is celebrated around the world, but this year is Morningside\u2019s first year of celebration. Beta Beta Beta\u2019s goal of \u201cpromoting the appreciation of biological study\u201d and \u201ccelebrating science and reason in general\u201d fits well with the mission of Darwin Day, said student president Audri Swisher. She credits Beta Beta Beta\u2019s faculty advisor Dr. Aaron Bunker for suggesting the event be brought to Morningside. As Charles Darwin\u2019s findings not only influenced the sciences but \u201cphilosophy, religion, the arts, humanities, and many other disciplines\u201d so bringing Darwin Day \u201cto liberal art college such as Morningside seemed, well, only natural\u201d said Bunker.<\/p>\n<p>According to darwinday.org, the mission of Darwin Day is to \u201cinspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth.\u201d Beta Beta Beta hopes to bring that spirit to Morningside, and have a day of fun activities as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kayla Samek&#8211;On the 206th birthday of Charles Darwin, Morningside\u2019s Biology Honors Society, Beta Beta Beta is putting on \u201cDarwin Day.\u201d On Thursday, February 12th, the day will be full of Darwin-inspired activities, such as a Darwin-themed Valentine\u2019s Day cards and a \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d carnival. There will also be a showing of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}