{"id":319,"date":"2011-08-17T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:47:38","slug":"the-most-generous-class-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/2011\/08\/17\/the-most-generous-class-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Generous Class Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" title=\"Jumping in the River\" src=\"\/parentmagazine\/files\/2011\/08\/11-3594-RIVERJUMP-0005.jpg\" alt=\"Jumping in the River\" width=\"570\" height=\"335\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kalman Zabarsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last spring, more than 2,011 members of Boston University\u2019s Class of 2011 donated to the Class Gift fund, raising $35,000 for clubs, scholarships, athletic teams, and BU\u2019s schools and colleges. By meeting their goal, the seniors prompted an additional gift of $100,000 from the BU Alumni Council. Can the Class of 2012 top that record-breaking goal?<\/p>\n<h3>Dean of Students Kenn Elmore had promised to jump into the Charles River wearing a tuxedo if the Class of 2011 reached their fundraising\u00a0goal. Watch him make good on his promise.<\/h3>\n<p><object id=\"buniverseplayer\" width=\"550\" height=\"355\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\"><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=LBNQoe1&amp;viralbu.loc=3\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Video by Nicolae Ciorogan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, more than 2,011 members of Boston University\u2019s Class of 2011 donated to the Class Gift fund, raising $35,000 for clubs, scholarships, athletic teams, and BU\u2019s schools and colleges. By meeting their goal, the seniors prompted an additional gift of $100,000 from the BU Alumni Council. Can the Class of 2012 top that record-breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8810],"tags":[8774,4813,4663,125,2595,8967,4761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}