Kachelle Pratcher
Blue & White Flash/Staff Writer
Everyone came out in their best red carpet attire on April 3rd for the ‘Black Elegance, Black Elite Jackson State University Class of 2014 Class Council Awards show honoring student leaders and administrators on campus.
“The awards show was an opportunity for those who do great things for our university but never get noticed, it’s always the popular ones that seem to get everything, so we wanted to highlight others,” said Dontrell Banks, a junior accounting from McComb, Miss.
The show started off with introduction of the 2014 Student Government Association Class Council: Charles Cathey III, Student Government Association President; T’erica Hudson, Vice president; Adriunna Boyd, Secretary; Y’Tasha Smoots, Assistant Secretary; Dontrell Banks, Business Manager; Darryl Williams, Parliamentarian; Maurice Martin Jr. and William Parks, Senators; Manisha Heard, Miss Junior and Alvin Perkins II, Mr. Junior.
Many students in the audience were anxious to see who would win awards.
“This was my first time attending my class awards show and I must say I was impressed, it really resembled an awards show seen on television,” said Knesha Thomas, a junior accounting major from Anguilla, Miss.
With DJ King Kong on the 1’s and 2’s, the awards show was vibrant and lively during the presentation of awards in categories that included: Thee I love; the 20 most phenomenal men and women on campus; and the 14 of 2014, which were seven men and women in the junior class that have shown hard work and leadership.
“The exclusive Class of 2014 awards show was a great success. We gave out several awards to dedicated individuals along with faculty and staff that serve campus and within the community,” said Manisha Heard, a junior mass communications major from Bolton, Miss.
During the show, the Jacksonian Award was presented to junior DeAngelo Grant and the Humanitarian Award was presented to junior Nicole Lewis. Hilliard Lackey, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, accepted the Lifetime Achievement award.
Lackey gave words of encouragement and the show ended with the crowd chanting his well-known JSU quote, “Tiger born, Tiger bred, and when I die, I’ll be Tiger dead.”
