{"id":11413,"date":"2013-11-08T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2013-11-08T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:31:32","slug":"in-focus-diwali-and-swim-take-imsa-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2013\/11\/08\/in-focus-diwali-and-swim-take-imsa-by-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"IN FOCUS: Diwali and Swim Take IMSA by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diwali, A Show to \u201cLight Up\u201d Your Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11426\" alt=\"poster\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/poster-300x284.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/poster-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/poster-58x55.jpg 58w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/poster.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the past month, IMSA\u2019s Indian Students\u2019 Association (ISA) has been preparing for their annual and highly-anticipated event of the year, Diwali. Sophomore, juniors, and seniors will put on an entertaining show of drop-it-down-low dance moves, songs in their native tongues, and more. This year\u2019s Diwali theme is \u201cTitan of the Year\u201d based on popular Bollywood comedy film \u201cStudent of the Year.\u201d Senior <b>Shreya Santhanam (\u201914),<\/b> who has enthusiastically attended the show for all her years at IMSA, encourages others to do the same. She says, \u201cDiwali is the festival of light. So you should come, because performance will light up your night!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will be available at the door. Bring a dollar to enjoy aromatic Indian cuisine after the show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p81iY8L0aaI\">See the promotional video. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMSA Sports, &#8220;Water&#8221; You Talking About?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Water we talking about? Last Saturday (11\/2), the IMSA girls&#8217; swim team dominated the annual Northern Illinois Byron Swim Conference. Both the varsity and junior varsity sections placed first at the conference, leading the next schools by a significant margin of points. Many of the IMSA ladies swam their best times with the All-Conference Swimmers including Emily Jia, Anna Gupta, Ashu Gupta, Cathy Chen, Stephanie Wang, Marissa Brock, and Abby Paul. The swim team celebrated the victories by pushing both their swim coaches into the pool.<\/p>\n<p>At the same meet last year, the varsity team came in a close second while, for the first time ever, junior varsity swept the first place prize. Cap that!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11425\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/swim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11425\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425\" alt=\"swim\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/swim-300x200.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/swim-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/swim-82x55.jpg 82w, https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/files\/2013\/11\/swim.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team holds up the number-one sign as their coaches sit dripping by the pool.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diwali, A Show to \u201cLight Up\u201d Your Night For the past month, IMSA\u2019s Indian Students\u2019 Association (ISA) has been preparing for their annual and highly-anticipated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1893],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}