{"id":6261,"date":"2021-09-27T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:14:11","slug":"loteria-night-attracts-large-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/loteria-night-attracts-large-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Loteria night attracts large crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>TAMUK students celebrate Hispanic heritage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Student activities created a Loteria event at 7 p.m. on Sept 21 in the Memorial Student Union Building Ballrooms. There were many prizes, snacks and students who attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the many activities designed for Hispanic Heritage month is a loteria night.&nbsp; It consists of receiving a loteria card with beans as chips and getting a ticket that could win you a prize. The big prizes were a tv, Nintendo and a Keurig, although there were others like shirts and goodie bags. For snacks they served nachos and churros to include a Hispanic taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were many volunteers working to make this Hispanic-inspired event successful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was for Hispanic Heritage month. I expected like 40 people to come but there was way more that came,\u201d volunteer Louiza Giddens said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It exceeded the expectations of the whole event that was planned, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m feeling very festive. I&#8217;m really surprised with how many people turned out to be here tonight, many people are engaging with each other which causes [much] excitement,\u201d student Maricruz Quintanilla said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the snacks and the game really highlighted Hispanic heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI like seeing the excitement within the people knowing they are celebrating their heritage or even if it\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not their heritage they are still excited to be participating in celebration of the month,\u201d student Erik Velasquez said. \u201cI decided to come because I am Hispanic and wished to attend something that reminded me of home; it greatly met my expectations of the event even though I did not win a prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Loteria\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A25I6bwDEkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMUK students celebrate Hispanic heritage The Department of Student activities created a Loteria event at 7 p.m. on Sept 21 in the Memorial Student Union&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[226],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":226,"user_id":82,"is_guest":0,"slug":"priscilla-rangel","display_name":"Priscilla Rangel","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/b697964815bfb5d4b79b6b0437b7a74e.jpg?ver=1778809473","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}