Jasmine Ayanna Garcia | Contributing Writer
FIU’s Black Student Union hosted their annual BSU Homecoming, setting the standard high for a weekend filled with cultural celebration.
This event occurred at Modesto Maidique Campus on the Tamiami Hall plaza on Feb. 9.
Tamiami Hall plaza was flooded with students talking to each other, waiting in line to use the vouchers given out by BSU General Board members at check-in for free food, and gathering to dance to the constant hits rolled out by the DJ.
Featured at the event were food trucks, like Oasis Express and SUPA Kool Ice; free merch such as BSU and Roary-themed graphic T-shirts; and a DJ who kept students dancing all night long. The music could be heard throughout the housing quad.
The BSU event also brought out the Palm Beach Lakes High School Drumline and several fraternities and sororities who performed their strolls for a roll call.
Needless to say, the event kept a packed crowd from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
“I wanted to be a part of being on the other side of the events, you know?” said Tamera Renee, senior and part of BSU’s Marketing & Promotions Committee.
Renee tells PantherNOW, “I’m a senior. This is my first semester on Black Student Union. [But I’ve come out to BSU’s events] all of the years I’ve been here!”
“You get to know people too,” said Renee.
Sophomore Keziah Knowles of BSU’s Social and Cultural Programming Committee agrees. “People like to rub new shoulders.”
Knowles references the convenience of BSU events hosted in and around the housing quad for attracting community engagement, saying that students “can just come downstairs.”
She shares Renee’s sentiment that “being on the other side of events” as a BSU club member is a different yet equally rewarding experience. Knowles described the BSU G-Board experience to PantherNOW.
“G-Board is the General Board, which means that we have a director that supervises everything and we’ll help run, set-up the events, plan them, certain things like that,” said Knowles.
“So it’s more of a joint effort rather than having somebody specifically for one thing. Everybody does everything!”
(Check out some video footage of the event below! Pause to cycle between clips.)
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