{"id":16167,"date":"2016-03-24T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=16167"},"modified":"2016-03-24T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:30:10","slug":"16167_montclair-state-students-win-tap-a-palooza-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2016\/03\/24\/16167_montclair-state-students-win-tap-a-palooza-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State Students Win Tap-a-Palooza 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Alessandro Ciari and his team from the Public Health Association of MSU (a student-led Class III SGA Organization) and their Take Back the Tap campaign here at Montclair State University have won the Total Overall Pledge category in the national 2016 Tap-a-Palooza contest and will be awarded $1,500 to go towards a hydration station or other improvements to tap water access on our campus. The team collected 1,926 pledges &#8211; about 26% of the total pledges collected by all schools.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The initiative was designed to increase water consumption while minimizing the use of plastic water bottles, and the associated negative environmental consequences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The PSE&amp;G Institute at Montclair had previously reached out to match these funds if they won, so the total funds raised for this cause are $3,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Additionally, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/news\/montclair-state-and-william-mary-win-big-fourth-annual-tap-palooza#.VvWx8uTI4XA.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Water Watch article<\/a> announcing Montclair State&#8217;s victory. For more information on Tap-a-Palooza, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Water Watch<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Ciari and his team from the Public Health Association of MSU (a student-led Class III SGA Organization) and their Take Back the Tap campaign here at Montclair State University have won the Total Overall Pledge category in the national 2016 Tap-a-Palooza contest and will be awarded $1,500 to go towards a hydration station or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}