On Sept. 22, the Black Culture Committee of the Louisiana State University Union Program Council held Harambee…A Coming Together at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The celebration that showcased African-American culture featured not only LSU students, but Southern University students as well.
The celebration was only one of LSU’s scheduled semester events that has been visited by Southern students. However, there seems to be a scarcity of students from LSU at events held by organizations at Southern.
SU Student Government Association Chief of Staff Kellee Craig said that SGA was planning events that LSU students would be invited to. Such events as the State of SGA on Oct.4., Fallfest on Oct. 15 and the regularly-scheduled motivational speakers series are open to not only LSU students, but those at Baton Rouge Community College.
There is also a presidential debate “watch party” Oct. 8.
“The presidential debate is so much bigger than SU,” Craig said.
There were even talks about inviting the community to hear the motivational speakers. Inviting LSU and BRCC to the homecoming concert is also an idea that SGA would like to see, but there are some space issues that have to be addressed.
“We are throwing the idea of inviting them to the concert,” Craig said. “But it would not be free to the non-Southern students and they would have to show their school identificaton.”
Students from LSU and Southern have their own views on more collaborations between the two colleges.
“I would like to be invited to Southern because LSU has a small black population and it would be nice for us to come and share,” said Andrea Jeffries, a sophomore mass communication major from Houston who attends LSU.
The feeling is mutual for students attending Southern also.
“I think we should include them because they don’t have a big African-American population and they may feel more at home if invited to some of our events,” Southern student Craig Woods, a junior architecture major from Thibodaux said.
