{"id":3931,"date":"2025-05-30T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:41:43","slug":"16th-annual-hair-from-the-herd-giving-back-to-the-community-one-clip-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2025\/05\/30\/16th-annual-hair-from-the-herd-giving-back-to-the-community-one-clip-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"16th Annual Hair from the Herd: Giving Back to the Community One Clip at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ben Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3738\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3738\"><\/figure>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">May 30, 2025<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WMUL-FM hosted the 16th annual Hair from the Herd event, which collaborated with the Huntington School of Beauty Culture to provide haircuts for donations for Wigs for Kids.<\/p>\n<p>WMUL-FM Promotions Director, Waylon Smith, said the best part of it is the \u201creal world impact\u201d that this event provides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, this is one of my favorite events we put on at the station because it does actually have a real-world impact, we give back, and you are able to see that through all of the donations,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also said this event is a great way for people to build their confidence while giving back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone else is getting their confidence back while you\u2019re also getting yours back, you\u2019re getting a nice haircut, and someone who needs it is getting your hair,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Students, staff, and faculty members participated in the event and had their own reasons for wanting to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Student Jackson Surrweels said, \u201cIt\u2019s very important because my grandmother went through a kind of cancer, so anything I can give back is helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Student Tracy Puckkett said, \u201cYou can donate to a lot of causes because it\u2019s important to show that we support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The annual Hair from the Herd event allows for students of Marshall University to give back to the community one clip at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Anderson May 30, 2025 WMUL-FM hosted the 16th annual Hair from the Herd event, which collaborated with the Huntington School of Beauty Culture to provide haircuts for donations for Wigs for Kids. WMUL-FM Promotions Director, Waylon Smith, said the best part of it is the \u201creal world impact\u201d that this event provides. \u201cFor me,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,4],"tags":[1210,935,1211,69,971,937,28,589,1212,51,500,588,587],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-wmul-news","tag-hair-from-the-herd","tag-huntington-news","tag-huntington-school-of-beauty","tag-huntington-wv","tag-marshall","tag-marshall-news","tag-marshall-university","tag-wchs","tag-wigs-for-kids","tag-wmul","tag-wmul-fm","tag-wowk","tag-wsaz"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}