Springfest really is one of the top three most highly anticipated weeks in the spring semester. Personally, the only week more important than Springfest is spring break. With the stress of the semester, some students, including myself, use this week to unwind and have fun with their friends. The line-up of events is always phenomenal, but it’s always pretty much the same.
Every year we know we’re going to have the concert, the comedy show, and huge Pretty Wednesday, some kind of community service event and a crawfish boil. Usually, we have a fashion show, but for some reason we don’t this year. Can we switch it up sometimes?
We could do so many more things. What about a pool party? The pool in Seymour has been up to code for a while now. I know at first, many students would be reluctant to go, but the ones that do go can enjoy themselves.
This would be more of an RA thing than an SGA thing, but what if all of the residential halls hosted video game tournaments? Everyone could put in $5 and show their banner or ID to prove they’re a student to enter the tournament, then the winner gets the money. One hall can do NBA 2K, one could do Madden, one could do a dance video game, etc. Or even, what about a pool tournament in Lacumba’s Playpen with the same rules of entry?
Then, the community service event is always over the weekend. Many students, like myself, work every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but still want to get involved with the community service events. What about doing several campus beautification events throughout the week? Our campus gets extremely dirty during Springfest week, so having several campus cleaning events will help the custodial staff tremendously. It will also benefit the student body by giving us multiple chances to participate in community service events during the week.
Another idea for Springfest, moving Pretty Wednesday from that afternoon to that night. I remember having an event in front of the Student Union at night a few semesters back, and many students had a great time. Or, even if it is during the day, we should have more tables and encourage student business owners to sell their products. I know sometimes we have events where student entrepreneurs can do this in the Student Union, but it shouldn’t be limited to once a year, and should definitely be encouraged during one of the biggest weeks of the year on campus.
These are just some ideas from one of the thousands of Southern and SUSLA connect students on campus. Pretty much every year, we either get a survey in our SUBR email, or SGA asks Twitter who we want as artists for the concert. For real diversity of events, the same should happen for new ideas for events.
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March 25, 2019
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