Students, faculty and staff can receive a pride citation or a discount to the bookstore if they are seen on campus showing Lion Pride. Those who receive a citation can share it on social media with the hashtag #TeamSoutheastern.
The Lion's Roar/Morgan Ledet
The Lion Up Tuesday promotion began last spring through a committee put together by Dr. John L. Crain called Green with Pride. Every Tuesday, students, faculty and staff will have the chance to earn a pride citation for representing their university.
“We know on Fridays, they do a lot of casual Fridays; people wear their Southeastern stuff. We are spreading it out through the entire week,” said Athletic Director Jay Artigues. “On Lion Up Tuesdays, you are gonna see our group out amongst the student body, amongst the faculty and staff and if we see them wearing something Southeastern, we are going to give them something; a discount to the bookstore, or a free T-shirt, or a keychain or different prizes just to recognize people or reward people wearing green and gold.”
One of the goals of Lion Up Tuesdays is not only having those on campus wear their green and gold on Tuesday, but to wear it everyday.
“This is our first with the fall semester and we hope with the excitement of football and all the other sports and excitement of the new semester, we hope it kicks it off well,” said Artigues. “We want people to be proud to represent Southeastern whether they are a faculty, student, staff and be proud of where you are from. We hope they wear something Southeastern everyday. We are walking billboards. Nobody is a better ambassador than our student body.”
Those who are spotted wearing their green and gold will receive a pride citation by #Team Southeastern leaders. By the end of last semester, students started to come up to those they saw handing out citations.
“It started to grow to where when people saw the golf cart going around or seeing people walk around handing out Lion Up citations, they would walk up to us and say, ‘Hey look, I have my green and gold on,’” said Artigues. “We went into the parking lots. We went into the classrooms. We went everywhere trying to spread it. When you see the student body out and they spread the word, we want everyone to join. It is spreading awareness and the main reason Dr. Crain put this committee together was to spread pride even more.”
Not only does Artigues want students to show their pride, he hopes all of Hammond becomes involved.
“We hope it really grows and we spoke to the Chamber about spreading the word so we hope on Tuesdays the businesses and employees wear their Southeastern green and gold and just spread the pride,” said Artigues. “We want to spread that pride and get more people wearing green and gold on our community and our campus and hope it spreads. We know a lot of the athletes and the Greeks already do that, but we want the entire student body to do that because we are all a part of the Lion nation.”
Along with Lioning Up every Tuesday, Artigues encourages students to find time to just come out to an athletic event to create lasting impressions for the future.
Prizes for showing school pride on LionUp Tuesdays range from T-shirts, laynards, sunglasses, pens and pins. Some may also receive a discount to the campus bookstore.
The Lion's Roar/Morgan Ledet
Students, faculty and staff can receive a pride citation or a discount to the bookstore if they are seen on campus showing Lion Pride. Those who receive a citation can share it on social media with the hashtag #TeamSoutheastern.
The Lion's Roar/Morgan Ledet