Southeastern students participate in annual ‘Big Event’
Friday, April 27, 2018
by: Tonya Lowentritt
1) STUDENTS LION UP FOR THE BIG EVENT – Southeastern Louisiana University students “Lion Up” before collecting tools and
supplies and heading out to job sites in the Hammond area as part of The Big Event,
a day of service to the community. The students worked on the Southeastern campus
as well as in area schools, fire stations and other locations as their way of giving
back to the communities that support them. This was the eighth year the Student Government
Association sponsored The Big Event.
2) SPRUCING UP – Microbiology sophomore Angela Thomas of Opelousas (left) and fellow Biology Undergraduate
Society member Stephanie Garcia, a microbiology senior from Loranger, assist with
organizing library books after dusting the shelves at the Tangipahoa Parish Library
Hammond Branch as part of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Big Event on Saturday.
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University students put in a day of community
service in the City of Hammond and nearby communities on Saturday (April 21) as part
of the university’s The Big Event.
Sponsored by the Student Government Association, The Big Event is intended to
give students the opportunity to help the communities and organizations that support
Southeastern in many ways.
This is the eighth year the SGA has sponsored The Big Event.
Sending the group out with a “Lion Up” sign of encouragement, Southeastern President
John L. Crain told the students that their efforts send a tremendous message that
Southeastern cares and seeks to make the neighboring communities a better place for
all to live.
The students included individual volunteers and representatives of several student
organizations, fraternities and sororities. They worked at sites such as the Tangipahoa
Parish Library, several Hammond fire stations, Special Olympics Louisiana and the
Hammond Regional Arts Center.
Jobs included beautification and landscaping projects, clean-up efforts in downtown
Hammond, sorting materials and conducting inventory for non-profit organizations.
