{"id":169625,"date":"2026-02-26T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169625\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:24:07","slug":"fsu-continues-westcott-fountain-tradition-with-time-restrictions-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169625\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU continues Westcott Fountain tradition, with time restrictions added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 FSU students can continue the 21st birthday celebration tradition at the Westcott Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>In an email sent to students that was shared with ABC 27, FSU says it appreciates the pride and passion students bring to the tradition, but it has a responsibility to maintain it to help ensure a safe environment for everyone involved. Their goal is not to diminish, but to ensure the tradition&#8217;s future can continue.  <\/p>\n<p>Starting today, February 25th, the Westcott fountain will be open for students until 10:00 p.m. each Wednesday.Students will be allowed to take a dip in the celebratory fountain between 9:00-10:00 p.m.The fountain will close promptly at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesdays for the remainder of the night. Every other day, the fountain will be open from 8:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The university says any student caught climbing or jumping from the fountain could face disciplinary action and\/or arrest. Any failure by students to comply could jeopardize the university\u2019s ability to continue offering this weekly opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 FSU students can continue the 21st birthday celebration tradition at the Westcott Foundation. In an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[80783,80782,1422,232,234,233,2304,21607,562],"class_list":["post-169625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc27","tag-birthday-celebration","tag-florida-state-university","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tradition","tag-westcott-fountain","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}