From left to right - Shaylynn Bivens, Damyra Price, Evan Le'mon, Andrea Stern, Nicole Sandiford, Professor Charlisa Edelin

From left to right – Shaylynn Bivens, Damyra Price, Evan Le’mon, Andrea Stern, Nicole Sandiford, Professor Charlisa Edelin

By Kevin Johnson, The Whetstone

Student organizations plan to make spring semester 2016 at Wesley College one to remember, with events ranging from a talent show to a block party and earth day events.

Student organizations, including the Black Student Union (BSU), Student Activities Board (SAB), Alpha Phi Omega (APO), Sustainable Wesley, and Students for Political Awareness (SPA), are planning events this semester.

On Feb. 5, BSU held its BSU Bounce.

“It’s a mixer,” said Evan Le’Mon, BSU president. “We will have wings, different games to play, and music playing for people to dance”

BSU is also collaborating with other organizations for future events.

“We have ‘Wesley’s Got Talent,’ with SPEAK and APO, coming up March 18th, and our annual block party coming up this semester,” he said.

SAB president Cheyenne Lazarus encourages students to attend and try new things

“We have events where we create street signs, a create-a-creature the Friday before Valentine’s Day, Spin art T-shirt day in March, and Tie-dye day in April,” she said. “We will be playing more movies this semester, so we will show two movies a month”

Sustainable Wesley plans on providing fun for students on campus while educating people on the importance of environmental care.

“Our biggest event will be on earth day this semester,” said Betty Lee, president of the organization. “We will also be talking to SGA to donate a water bottle filling station in the college center.”

SPA has one event in the works but budgeting may prove to be a problem for the organization.

“I have a Washington D.C. trip to be planned, but we are struggling with our budget amount for the amount of people we want to send,” said Mercedes Myrick, president of the organization. “We want to send 25.”

APO is erring on the side of mystery when it comes to event planning.

“I cannot disclose the content of the event, just know it will be big,” said Raymond Lewis-Samuel, president. “We also will be helping BSU with the annual block party.”

There are many more student organizations and Greek organizations on campus hosting events this semester. One thing that seems consistent is everyone aiming for April to hold their biggest events.

“There are a lot of scheduling difficulties coming with events,” Lee said. “The school makes it hard (the scheduling and approval process), so aiming for April gives student organizations more time.”

“Everyone is planning for April because that is when things are winding down and students’ progress to finals,” Le’Mon said. “Everyone wants to have a nice send off. The more events scheduled around the same time, the fewer amount of people can attend any given event.”

Sophomore Alexa Cherico thinks more events could help with retention

“There should be more events like the block party to allow students to get out in a healthy way and relieve stress, because college is stressful,” Cherico said. “The main reason people leave this school is because they think is boring.”