{"id":7126,"date":"2016-03-04T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:08:36","slug":"campus-activities-board-event-dedicated-to-chicago-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2016\/03\/04\/campus-activities-board-event-dedicated-to-chicago-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Activities Board event dedicated to Chicago natives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students attending \u201cChicago-Style\u201d hotspot treated to lunch courtesy of the Campus Activities Board. Photo: William H. Kelly III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tierra Woods and\u00a0<\/strong>William H. Kelly III
\n<\/strong>Staff Writers<\/em><\/p>\n

The newly formed Campus Activities Board (CAB) at Jackson State University held their first meeting for CAB representatives on Feb. 24 in the Student Center Theatre.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, budgetary information for upcoming events was discussed. A CAB \u2018Chicago Style\u2019 hotspot was held on Feb. 26 on the Gibbs-Green Walkway from 11 p.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Chicago style wings and hot dogs and other refreshments were offered to students, as they danced and rocked to the music, which included songs by a few Chicago native rappers.<\/p>\n

Malike Whitaker, a sophomore biology major from Chicago, Ill., especially enjoyed the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised by this event, it was a taste of home,\u201d said Whitaker. \u201cI\u2019m a long way from home and this was a surprise. I would say that I\u2019m glad that CAB is actually doing activities with my funding, and it makes me more at ease to know where my money is going. I would have never thought that they would put on this even but it did remind me of home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabrina Caldwell, a sophomore social work major from Kosciusko, Miss., also loved the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so happy to hear that we had a hotspot, it was so much stress going on from classes and school work that I thought I was never going to get a break. Then when I saw that they had free food, I thought that they had really stepped up their game. I didn\u2019t even know that it was CAB that sponsored the event,\u201d said Caldwell.<\/p>\n

CAB President, Rachel Payton, a junior marketing major from Hattiesburg, Miss., explained that their first event was for the student body to enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, a lot of the times when we students get something for free, there\u2019s some type of strings attached. Sign here, donate there, something. While the motives aren\u2019t necessarily bad, those of us in CAB just wanted to do something nice for our peers. And hey, who doesn\u2019t like surprises?\u201d said Payton.<\/p>\n

Sheryl Wright, a sophomore social science education major from Chicago, Ill., also enjoyed the event but was a bit disappointed about the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Chicago native, I was really excited to taste the \u2018Chicago style\u2019 food that was prepared but I don\u2019t think the music aspect of Chicago was represented very well because there are a lot more successful artists other than Chief Keef that are from Chicago,\u201d said Wright. \u201cI think it was a success as a whole because it was basically the first hotspot of the semester and everybody had a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tierra Woods and\u00a0William H. Kelly III Staff Writers The newly formed Campus Activities Board (CAB) at Jackson State University held their first meeting for CAB representatives on Feb. 24 in the Student Center Theatre. During the meeting, budgetary information for upcoming events was discussed. A CAB \u2018Chicago Style\u2019 hotspot was held on Feb. 26 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}