{"id":2754,"date":"2011-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/09\/delta-state-students-honor-dorsey-and-rice-with-candlelight-vigil\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:47","slug":"delta-state-students-honor-dorsey-and-rice-with-candlelight-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/delta-state-students-honor-dorsey-and-rice-with-candlelight-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Students Honor Dorsey and Rice with Candlelight Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"378\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/candlelight service.jpg\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Delta State students gather in remembrance of Teikia Dorsey and Loshandria Rice.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delta State University students gathered at the Greek Tree on campus Thursday evening for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Teikia Dorsey and Loshandria Rice.&nbsp; Dorsey, a senior majoring in health, physical education and recreation, and Rice, a sophomore biology major, both of Shaw, died in a traffic accident in Shaw Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Audience members, including faculty and staff, lit candles just before 8 p.m. as the sun set.&nbsp; Pan-Hellenic President J.W. Robinson, a senior from Greenville, who organized the event, welcomed those in attendance and was followed by songs, prayers, and remarks from fellow students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was very impressed with the compassion shown by our students in the loss&nbsp; of two members of the Delta State family,&rdquo; said Delta State Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Wayne Blansett. &ldquo; It was touching to see how much they care for their fellow students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University students gathered at the Greek Tree on campus Thursday evening for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Teikia Dorsey and Loshandria Rice.  Dorsey, a senior majoring in health, physical education and recreation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41155,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/41155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}