Is It Real Love? What’s Love Got To Do With Helping Our Student Body

With social media exploiting young men and women about what their relationships are like in reality and revealing some of the most toxic essential qualities that they would like in a relationship, The Association of Women Students (AWS) and The Men’s Federation has partnered with the Judicial Branch to create an event called, “What’s Love Got To Do With It.” We explore the crazy ends and outs of relationships with some of our complex panelists and our amazing hosts, Taylor St. Vilus and Isaac Armstrong. The goal was to connect advocates across the panel who were working to end violence against women, men and children. Ashanta K. Gleason, a senior here at Southern University, is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, a crescent city from the Southeastern part of Louisiana. Coming from a home with a loving mother and being one out of five girls with her brother, she is currently a dedicated history major with a
passion for education as she plans to teach African American history in K-12 classrooms upon graduating college. She is also the President of the Southern University Chapter of NAACP, to address systemic inequalities and uplift marginalized voices. Additionally, she served as the Louisiana NAACP Youth & College Division President and the Region VI Youth Representative of the National Youth Works Committee of the NAACP, amplifying the concerns of young people. Her focus is on promoting equity, social justice, and civic engagement, particularly within marginalized communities. As we sit down for an interview, Southern Digest digs deep to ask questions about how to help students of the student body who are in serious danger with toxic relationships and how they can use their voice to speak out against domestic violence. “What are your plans that you are considering to roll out in full effect to help those who are in serious danger as far as Domestic Violence?” As a chapter of NAACP, we are planning to start
a Domestic Violence Awareness week on campus partnered with the Butterfly Society, an organization located in the area of Baton Rouge, that helps women who are involved in battered domestic violent cases. Marcus D. Hill Jr., was born and raised from Monroe, Louisiana, the northern part of Louisiana in the Ouachita Parish. The two time graduate student from Southern University, with his Bachelor of Science in Accounting, plans on helping students by . He has sat down with us to give his point of view of how he is willing to help our student body with domestic violent situations. “Based on the event, what is a message that you are sending to the student body?” If you go out and seek it, you may be seeking the wrong thing. Look for genuine love and allow it to come to you naturally and organically, pray to god, continue to build yourself up as one because initially the individual as one could possibly uncover those
traumas. If you need medical help, seek out a therapist so we can get to the bottom of things and help out. A young woman who attended the event, Christine Williams, a freshman who is currently majoring Nursing, was happy to know that she could have her voice heard. “What I learned at this event is that expressing your feelings and communication is top tier in a relationship otherwise what are you actually in love for if you can’t love yourself.”