Too Few Students Gather for Progress
Eric Smith
Issue date: 2/8/10 Section: News
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This may have been the very phrase that ran through the minds of the group of Bulldogs that left the front gate of campus around 4 pm on a cold, cloudy & gray Saturday, to participate in the SGA "March for Progress."
A part of the Orangeburg Massacre Week, the march started from Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium and went all the way to the Orangeburg City Hall; all the way gaining movement in it's stead.
Among the crowd of supporters was Miss SC State Zuri Stackhouse. "The Outcome of the event was really great although I wished for more student support," she said. "What Zack ( Zachary Middelton, Current SGA President) had to say was very important because everyone feels like were not included in the city of Orangeburg and we should be, because Orangeburg is technically a College Town."
This seemed to be one of the key points made in the speech given by Middelton in front of Orangeburg City Hall. "Many students feel that Orangeburg has nothing to offer," he said, "but for someone who has lived here all their life that is just not true."
The SGA president stressed the importance of students to the Orangeburg community and wanted Orangeburg to have the same impact on students as it had for him and others growing up in Orangeburg.
Commenting on this historic march, Director of Student Life and Leadership at SC State, Lillian Adderson said she thought it was a solid start as she overlooked the group of students. "I wish we had more students, but the ones who did come are committed and can go back and share and so everything about the effort that was made today I believe is positive and is a step forward."
But for the students, everyone was in "like minds" for more representation of the voice of the SC State Bulldogs in the surrounding community.
In all the success of the march was not compromised, but the scope in future plans is envisioned to look a lot broader.
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