SA announces homecoming week activities
Homecoming Week 2016 events being organized by Mississippi State’s Student Association are underway on campus this week.
“Classic Maroon and White” is the theme of this year’s traditional fall semester “welcome back” for the 138-year-old land-grant institution’s graduates, former students, friends and supporters.
A Sunday evening [Oct. 23] chapel program featured Regina Hyatt, MSU vice president for student affairs, and the student Black Voices choir.
“The Student Association is very excited about homecoming this year,” said sophomore T. Malik Ross, SA’s homecoming director. A sophomore business administration major from Cleveland, Ross said he, assistant director Phyliceia Brown and others “have been working hard to change the appearance of the week,” adding that the goal has been to have “the best one thus far.”
Also free and open to all, other SA-sponsored events include:
— Monday [the 24th], 8-9:30 a.m., “Pancakes with President Mark E. Keenum,” taking place on the Colvard Union Plaza.
— Tuesday [the 25th], a “surprise performance” scheduled for 1:45 p.m. on the Drill Field.
— Wednesday [the 26th], members from MTV’s “Wild’n Out” sketch comedy and improvisational series performing at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium.
— Thursday [the 27th], an SA-organized Halloween Carnival from 5-7 p.m. at the Junction.
— Friday [the 28th], campus National Pan-Hellenic Council-sponsored “stroll off” at 7 p.m. at Humphrey Coliseum. Following at the same location will be an 8:30 p.m. pep rally and Maroon Madness with the introduction of MSU’s 2016-17 men’s and women’s basketball team members.
Homecoming concludes Saturday [the 29th] with the MSU-Samford University football game that kicks off at 2:30 p.m. at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field. The homecoming queen and court, along with this year’s Mr. and Miss MSU, will be presented at halftime.
For more information on the Student Association, follow the SA on facebook.com/MSUStudentAssociation, twitter.com/MSU_SA and instagram.com/msu_sa.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.
James Carskadon | Public Affairs
