SGA campaigning begins

Monday, at 12:01 a.m., candidates for student government organizations, Miss Southern and class queens scurried around the yard placing everything from posters to billboards supporting their individual campaigns.
Three SGA presidential hopefuls embarked on their journey to obtain votes from the Southern University student body-voting will take place on April 14th.
Presidential hopeful Elyse McFadden, a junior marketing major from Manteca, Calif., said her campaign team was highly involved in preparing for the official start of the campaign process.
“A lot of stuff was homemade,” said McFadden. She added that the involvement of her team is analogous of the student involvement that she is promoting in her campaign.
She hopes that students look past the “big flashy billboards” and focus more on the “actual candidates themselves.”
Kyle Green, a senior political science major from New Orleans, is also running for SGA president. He stated that his main goal throughout the campaign week is to “make sure the whole student body knows our message” which involves “promoting unity” and ensuring that “the students are taken care of, i.e. computer access.”
He also mentioned that the students “need an SGA president who can sit down and work with administration.”
Jamal Taylor, a junior history major from Lafayette, also began his campaign for presidency today.
Taylor described the start of campaigning yesterday as “organized chaos.” He feels that the students who were posting signs “want positive change and reform at Southern University.”
He wants students to know that he’s a “student first” and holds the same complaints about housing, registration and financial aid.