{"id":27186,"date":"2023-08-18T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27186"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:13:26","slug":"local-tv-stations-cover-move-in-day-for-first-year-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-tv-stations-cover-move-in-day-for-first-year-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Local TV stations cover move-in day for first-year students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27197\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27197\" class=\"wp-image-27197 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/08\/move-in-football-team-400.jpg\" alt=\"athletes carrying suitcases and dorm supplies\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/08\/move-in-football-team-400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/08\/move-in-football-team-400-150x97.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/259;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Furman football team help incoming freshman move into South Housing on Thursday morning, Aug. 17, 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Local news outlets were on hand as a crop of 630 new students arrived on the campus of Furman University for move-in day. In its 4 p.m. broadcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=8%2F17%2F2023+4%3A09%3A56+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News4<\/a> spoke to Ron Tompson, director of Housing and Residence Life, about the excitement surrounding the big day and Furman&#8217;s growing reputation as a national liberal arts institution.<\/p>\n<p>Move-in was covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=8%2F17%2F2023+5%3A36%3A33+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF&#8217;s 5:30 broadcast<\/a> as well as at <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=8%2F17%2F2023+12%3A07%3A21+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">noon<\/a> when the station mentioned the new class as being the most racially diverse class yet and the most academically selective since 2005. <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=8%2F17%2F2023+4%3A36%3A13+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a> also covered the on-campus buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman welcomed the class of 2027 Aug. 17. News outlets covered the excitement surrounding Furman&#8217;s most academically selective class since 2005 and the most racially diverse class in the school&#8217;s history. Furman&#8217;s Ron Thompson spoke to reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24,70,1569,6,35,27,120],"tags":[2231],"class_list":["post-27186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-athletics","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life","category-wyff-tv","tag-freshman-move-in-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}