{"id":12376,"date":"2007-06-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/04\/hindu-students-council-hold-17th-annual-camp-in-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-students-council-hold-17th-annual-camp-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/04\/hindu-students-council-hold-17th-annual-camp-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Students&#8217; Council Hold 17th Annual Camp in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hscnet.org\/\">www.hscnet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, June 4, 2007: While many enjoyed Memorial Day sales at local shopping malls, some Hindu young people preferred the solitude of Raleigh, North Carolina&#8217;s William B. Umstead State Park. College students and young professionals from all over the United States arrived to attend the Hindu Students Council&#8217;s 17th Annual Camp where they enjoyed learning more about the rich Hindu cultural heritage, issues affecting Hindus and made new friends.<\/p>\n<p>Daily morning prayers, stimulating philosophical discussions, as well as a few spirited debates brought everyone together. It was &#8220;unity in diversity,&#8221; as camper Rahul Yadav from Illinois put it.  &#8220;I got to hear the views of people from various different backgrounds and levels of religiosity.&#8221; Regardless of the differences, one solid thread held the people together &#8212; everyone shared HSC&#8217;s goals of knowledge, unity, progress, and dharma.<\/p>\n<p>For some spirited fun and games, the attendees were split into four different groups and then competed for bragging rights in three separate round of events.  First was a Rangoli-making contest where each group created its own innovative design of a Hindu symbol using this ancient Indian art form. Following this was a rousing round of Hindu Jeopardy led by HSC&#8217;s president Nikunj Trivedi and general secretary Harshavardhan Vellanki, complete with buzzers and a traditional game board. The final round was a skit competition in which each group was to craft a unique twist to the end of a Vikram &#038; Betal story. Camp coordinator Manav Tandon said, &#8220;The best part of the camp for me was the fact that each and every one of the campers enjoyed all of these activities thoroughly.&#8221; For information on the Hindu Students&#8217; Council, check out their website at source.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hscnet.org RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, June 4, 2007: While many enjoyed Memorial Day sales at local shopping malls, some Hindu young,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}