{"id":3567,"date":"2026-04-01T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:24:00","slug":"this-weeks-owu-lingo-the-seal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/this-weeks-owu-lingo-the-seal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s OWU Lingo: The Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Seal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0refers to Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s official emblem<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">, which is incorporated into the walkway between University Hall and Slocum Hall. Legend has it that if you step on the seal while you&#8217;re a student at OWU, you won&#8217;t graduate. Funny things happened to Dr. vandenBerg when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/okOtBcRnqIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he stepped on the seal as a new president<\/a><\/span>. Be careful where you step!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out New@OWU each week for more OWU Lingo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong> New@OWU<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:newatowu@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newatowu@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seal\u00a0refers to Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s official emblem, which is incorporated into the walkway between University Hall and Slocum Hall. Legend has it that if you step on the seal while you&#8217;re a student at OWU, you won&#8217;t graduate. Funny things happened to Dr. vandenBerg when\u00a0he stepped on the seal as a new president. Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[197,189,186],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-students","tag-campus","tag-delaware","tag-lingo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}