{"id":868,"date":"2009-03-04T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/04\/indian-student-group-shares-culture-through-dandiya-night-dance-off\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T16:30:27","slug":"indian-student-group-shares-culture-through-dandiya-night-dance-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/indian-student-group-shares-culture-through-dandiya-night-dance-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian student group shares culture through Dandiya Night: Dance Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/dandiya-dance-feb09\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/issa-dance-march09.jpg\" alt=\"ISSA Dance Off!\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s an interesting fact for you: Did you know that Baylor has the second-most diverse student body in the Big 12? It&#8217;s true; at almost 30%, minority students make up a higher percentage of Baylor&#8217;s undergraduate population than every conference rival but one.<\/p>\n<p>That same ranking holds true among students of Asian descent, which may have something to do with Baylor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.baylor.edu\/ISSA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Subcontinent Student Association<\/a> (ISSA) being the largest multicultural organization on campus. The goal of the group is to &#8220;provide unity among students of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar&#8221; while &#8220;providing all Baylor University students the opportunity to experience basic Indian Subcontinent culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ISSA held its annual Dandiya Night: Dance Off! last week, as those in attendance both watched and participated in traditional dance from the subcontinent. (Enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/dandiya-dance-feb09\/\" target=\"_blank\">a photo gallery of the event here<\/a>.) With <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bollywood\" target=\"_blank\">Bollywood<\/a> films growing in popularity in the United States, it&#8217;s educational, interesting and just plain fun for Baylor students to get to witness dance forms like this first-hand.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, ISSA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting fact for you: Did you know that Baylor has the second-most diverse student body in the Big 12? It&#8217;s true; at almost 30%, minority students make up a higher percentage of Baylor&#8217;s undergraduate population than every conference rival but one. That same ranking holds true among students of Asian descent, which may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-galleries","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}