{"id":14320,"date":"2012-10-22T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2012-10-22T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:24:08","slug":"little-lynn-university-ready-for-big-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/22\/little-lynn-university-ready-for-big-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Lynn University Ready For Big Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14321\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 298px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/22\/little-lynn-university-ready-for-big-presidential-debate\/debatehall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14321\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14321\" title=\"Debatehall\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/Debatehall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">https:\/\/my.lynn.edu\/ics<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn University&#39;s Wold Performing Arts Center will host the final presidential debate of 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The presidential candidates are heading to Boca Raton, FL. President Barack Obama (D) and Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will <a href=\"http:\/\/debate2012.lynn.edu\/\">face off at Lynn University<\/a> tonight for their third and final debate.<\/p>\n<p>The number of reporters covering the event tonight will likely far exceed the number of students enrolled at Lynn.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynn.edu\/\">small, private institution<\/a> in southeast Florida has a total student population of approximately 2,100. Students hail from 44 states and 78 countries.\u00a0The student-faculty ratio is 16:1.<\/p>\n<p>Even with small classes, Lynn is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/08\/five-florida-schools-among-private-colleges-with-lowest-graduation-rates\/\">among five private colleges<\/a>\u00a0in Florida that were recently cited for low graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynn.edu\/about-lynn\/lynn-facts\">facts about Lynn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lynn campus had seven freshwater lakes, but one was filled to accommodate the school\u2019s debate-hosting duties.<\/li>\n<li>The debate will take place inside Lynn\u2019s 750-seat Wold Performing Arts Center. Two years ago, the Wold Center hosted a mid-term election debate between Allen West (R) and Ron Klein (D) for Congress.<\/li>\n<li>Lynn University lost four students and two faculty members who had traveled to Haiti in January 2010 to perform community service. They arrived just before an earthquake devastated the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The focus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debates.org\/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&amp;cntnt01articleid=45&amp;cntnt01origid=15&amp;cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&amp;cntnt01returnid=80\">tonight\u2019s debate is foreign policy<\/a>. It starts at 9:00 p.m. ET and will run for 90 minutes. The moderator is CBS\u2019s Bob Schieffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidates are heading to Boca Raton, FL. President Barack Obama (D) and Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will face off at Lynn University tonight for their third and final debate. The number of reporters covering the event tonight will likely far exceed the number of students enrolled at Lynn. This small, private institution in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[132,746,447],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14329,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14320\/revisions\/14329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}