{"id":8224,"date":"2025-02-14T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:05:32","slug":"rball-a-night-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8224","title":{"rendered":"RBall: A Night to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> annual President\u2019s Ball, known to students as the \u201cR Ball\u201d or formally \u201cPrez Ball\u201d, will be held Friday, February 21st from 8:00 to 11:00 PM. This event will be held in the Colket Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets will be available at the information desk in Colket starting Monday, February 17th. Each student with a Maroon ID will be able to receive up to two free tickets for the event, so you can bring a friend or a partner!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Campus Activities website, the President&#8217;s Ball is a tradition at Roanoke College that is \u201cso fun we do it every year\u201d. This event brings together the RC community, with traditions such as when former Roanoke College President Michael C. Maxey taught students how to tie a bowtie before the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President\u2019s Ball will allow students, faculty, administration, and staff to engage outside of the classroom and come together as a community. Here, they can take a break from the normal stress that comes along with the hectic pace of spring semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, there have been live bands, DJs, and food at the President\u2019s Ball. This year, you can expect music, entertainment, food, and fun according to the Roanoke College website. This is one of the campus\u2019s biggest nights out, with the Roanoke Times even featuring it in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The flyer for the event says to \u201cdress to impress\u201d, so make sure to show up for the event in your best semi-formal attire and have fun! Who knows, you might just have the honor of being featured on President Shushok\u2019s Instagram account!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kara Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th annual President\u2019s Ball, known to students as the \u201cR Ball\u201d or formally \u201cPrez Ball\u201d, will be held Friday, February 21st from 8:00 to 11:00 PM. This event will be held in the Colket Center.\u00a0 Tickets will be available at the information desk in Colket starting Monday, February 17th. Each student with a Maroon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}