Serving thecommunity by enforcing the development of youth through education is themission of the National 100 Black Men.
Theorganization recently chartered a chapter at Southern University-Baton Rouge.
“Theyfollow the same criteria as the 100 Black Men,” said Collegiate 100 adviserChristopher Hunte.
“We expectthem to go on to the larger chapter,” Hunte said.
Bringing100 Black Men to Southern University as Collegiate 100 was the brainchild ofBrandon Myles, a senior computer science major and Baton Rouge native.
Accordingto Hunte, Myles contacted the Baton Rouge Chapter of 100 Black Men and inquiredabout starting a charter at SU.
Myles and otherspromoted the organization around campus and selected several students.
Everyonewho wants to be a member completes an application and goes through a screeningprocess.
“Thescreening committee selected five members and they became the charter members,”Hunte said.
Accordingto Hunte the committee was looking for students with good grade point averagesand leaders at school and in the community.
“Thesestudents are already leaders on campus,” Hunte said. “These young men were thebest and brightest from the ones that signed up and we wanted them to be a partof the charter members.”
TheCollegiate 100 Southern University chapter was chartered by John Alston, IvoryBerry, Terrance Carter, Marcus Coleman and Desherick Williams-Boone.
“We want moreAfrican-Americans to be helpful in the community,” said Terrance Carter asenior sociology major from Carencro. ”We step in and be role models for young African-American males.”
Myles isexcited that 100 Black Men is now an official student organization at SU.
”It is going to be a real good thing to help out thecommunity and kids,” Myles said. ”One of their big things is mentoring both inside and outside thecampus.”
