ETSU’s brings different activities for students to enjoy.
The Student Activities Committee helps bring this entertainment to them. They
are the reason ETSU has a homecoming.
Another way they bring entertainment is
by bring in popular artists to perform for students. These concerts include The
Fray, All American Rejects, One Republic, Ludacris, The Goo Goo Dolls, Carrie
Underwood and more. Who helps make these concerts possible?
Before the committee starts working on the concert the
students need to decide who they would want to perform. To help choose the SGA
sends out a survey to see what bands or artists the students would like to see
for a specific genre. Then the take the top choices and send out another survey
for students to choose from the top of the list.
Then the committee starts the process of trying to get the
top artist. If they are unable to get that specific artist they move to the
next one on the list.
“The director of
student activities Tricia Nguyen handles all the contractual aspects of the
concert,” said Corrina Honeycutt, Secretary of
External Affairs. “I handle the student volunteers for advertising, ticket
distribution and volunteer staffing,”
said Honeycutt
“For the concert to become a reality the university relies
on student volunteers to help out with many different aspects,” said Honeycutt,
“Volunteers help many different ways before, during and after the concert.”
Any student can help with the concerts. Students deal with
merchandise, advertising, ticket sales, security, crowd control, and load in
and out of equipment. “I always
enjoy working at the ticket have helped out with five concerts,” said Nikki
Potter, a senior from Elizabethton, “The best thing about it is getting to meet
a lot of different people who all enjoy music.”
Students receive
an opportunity to help with these concerts to get a view from the other side of
the stage. “I always have fun working the concerts,” said Shawn Stewart a
senior from Morristown, “I get to hang out with all of my friends and
experience a lot of the thing you do not see that happens behind the scenes”
In spring semester 2010 the concert will be Jordin Sparks
and Lupe Fiasco. “I will be holding
a recruiting meeting early in the spring to try and get some more volunteers,”said
Honecutt. “I hope we get new volunteers for this next concert. My favorite part
of the concert is getting to know new student helpers.”
