Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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To see the results of this year ' s Student Activities Board, one need only check the calendar. Almost every week of 1987 and 1988 was filled with SAB doings. To start the fall semester off, SAB presented Eddie Murphy ' s Golden Child on a large screen outside Union Station even before classes began to make incoming freshman feel welcome on campus. The rest of the fall schedule was filled with live acts catering to every college audience. There were comedians Rhondell Sheraton, Craig Karges, Tim Setimmi, Mark Pitta, Charles Green and David Nastar, an a capella group the Jabberwocks , and the Beatles- impersonating musical group 1964 . Halloween night was brought in with a bang when SAB presented the Rocky Horror Picture Show in connection with KNWD. During the first semester I feel that the SAB brought in record breaking crowds to the majority of events, said SAB president Kim Antee. The addition of a pizza parlor to the Student Union helped entice students to attend many of the shows. Itza Pizza has been added and in most cases it brings us a captive audience because most people are already in there eating, Antee said. Of course SAB traditionally aided in the LOB pageant, Homecoming and the final State Fair with Louisiana Tech. SAB sponsored two very large fundraisers this year. The first was the Up, Up and Away program, a balloon launch made during the State Fair in competition with Tech in an effort to raise money for the arthritis foundation. The spring semester saw NSU rock with Max Headroom in a Coca Cola Video Party bought by the Student Activities Board. The dance offered a large screen which showed music videos, souvenir cups and t-shirts, and door-prizes ranging from cases of Coca Cola, to answering machines, to a compact disk player. All proceed s went to aid Special Olympics. One important week for SAB was the annual Spring Fling which hosts a variety of activities. Comedian Dave Rudolph returns for another visit to NSU along with comedian Eddy Strange. Those students who dreamed of recording their own songs got the chance when Transtar made a visit to Northwestern. Transtar provided the music and a recording studio while NSU students provide You feel like you ' re tied in some way to Northwestern. It ' s a lot of hard work, but I think the rewards are worthwhile. Kim Antee the talent. Antee feels that this year ' s SAB staff was one of the best. We had some really hard working people on the board. I felt that we might have some problems of ' burn out ' toward the end of the semester but that ' s expected with every organization. We had a motivational speaker come do a workshop for us at the beginning of the spring semester which got us going in the right direction again, Antee said. Although there were several new people on the board this year, Antee did not see any problems. We have a lot of young people on the board who we are trying to teach all the basics to because they will be taking over when we ' re gone, she said. A three-year member of SAB, Antee feels that the board teaches a lot. We are in charge of a large sum of money so we have to be very responsible in how we spend it. There ' s a lot of responsibility. It also gives you a lot of work experience, Antee said. I m more in touch with what ' s going on in this school than other people. And I ' ve gotten some of my best friends out of Student Activities Board. I ' m from California, and I basically didn ' t know anyone here at NSU when I came here. And since getting involved with SAB I feel like this is my second home. ' You feel like you ' re tied in some way to Northwestern. It ' s a lot of hard work, but I think the rewards are worthwhile. Charles Green entertains the audience with what he calls ' simple illusions ' . Chadd Bentley was chosen to transmit messages an egg- beater. Mark Pitta fills Union Station with students as he relates stories about his college years.

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Two equine science students spend time out of class as well as in class working with their horses at the stables. Joe Robertson spends his spare time working on SAB and Kappa Sigma, where he is social chairman. Working on SAB this year included taking time from classes to go to the regional convention held in Ausitn. Some students utilize the Addition to watch TV, study , and, yes, even sleep. This student was found studying for a test. Free Time 27

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hanges in Union programming and design make activities of the SAB TT - Worth the Work Tim Setimmi ro!Is into l nton Sfafton on skates. Setimmi de- scribed himself as a ' sa- tanist turned comedian. ' Paul Oenbrink as- sists magician Craig Karges who also stunned the audience by levitating a table at the end ofliis act. SAB merribers found a rest stop somewhere in the middle of Texas more than welcome on the way to conference in Austin. Those attending are Carl Henry and Kenneth Holmes, advisers; Mary Miller, Rachel Heider, Charlotte Rush, Kelly Kyle and Joe Robert- son. SAB 29