As hurricane season approached the students of Southern University, no one was aware of the damage that would be left behind.
Jerrica Skidmoore, junior mass communication and Spanish major from Gonzales serves as the president, along with Anthony Monroe, senior business management major from Shreveport serving as the vice president, decided to take initiative by starting the organization Going M.O.R.E. (Making Others Recycle Everyday) Green.
“Last year it was just an idea that came to mind,” said Skidmore, “and as a student, I wondered: why doesn’t Southern recycle?”
With this idea, Skidmore formed a team of students to come together and start every Sunday between the hours of 2-6 p.m. this semester to help make the campus better.
“It really does mean a lot to us,” said Monroe, “It’s helping us not only making Southern better but ourselves as well.”
This organization is helping out in two ways: they will be picking up recyclable items, such as bottles, cans, newspapers and then will exchange them for money, either at the Baton Rouge Foundation or the Baton Rouge Waste, that will be placed into the Textbook Assistance Program.
“I am apart of the Going M.O.R.E. Green because I am a Southern student who is dedicated to the Jaguar Nation,” said Sirita Webb, a sophomore, political science major from Shreveport. “My only wish is that other students will follow my trial to join Going M.O.R.E. Green and other organizations that are related and realize that during our tenure we own this.”
With Hurricane Gustav coming on to the Southern campus and leaving trees, leaves, and branches everywhere, Going M.O.R.E. Green decided to start their special cleanup Sunday, September 7 between the hours of 11-4 in observance of the storm.
“The hurricane devastated my campus and I needed to help my campus by cleaning it up,” said Bobbye Matthews, senior, engineering major, from Las Cruces, New Mexico.
For the first cleanup, about 20 students participated. Many students were eager to help make Southern better than it was before the storm.
“I think that as students we need to help out as much as we can,” said Teyhlor Robinson, a senior and mass communication major from Baker.
The organization is sponsored by Coca Cola and advised by Cordell Veal.
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