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“I would commend them [the people making fun of my name on TikTok] for their
creativity. They came up with some really good stuff, but so did my friends in
junior high. I like where they’re taking it, and I am really encouraged to see where
the field of jokes will be moving forward. As Student Body President, my hardest
job is trying to pinpoint exactly how all students feel and expressing that to the
administration. I first got involved in student government in high school when I
moved to Louisiana my junior year. I had made some friends over the summer
through football and through church and they were like “Bro, you really need to
join the student council.” At first, I said absolutely no that’s what losers do, but
they kept saying it was really cool. I then said sure and I joined. I went to a camp
for it and had a great time! When I got to LSU for my freshman year, Stewart
Lockett was my SPIN leader and Student Body President. He knew so much about
LSU from being on the Board of Supervisors and being Student Body President.
He helped me when I started here, and he definitely helps me now. I had a lot
of mentors being involved with student government and with my fraternity as
well. Student government is pretty easy to get involved with and pretty easy to
understand how it works. I think if we do a good job, it fundamentally does really
well with outreach because students notice us. Student Government has trouble
finding people to join when we don’t do the jobs that we are set out here to do like
when we focus on issues that don’t affect LSU’s students. When we really focus on
what affects the students and campus, we gain a lot of traction and students will
want to join.”