By JORDAN McLEMORE
News Editor
The Alva campus of Northwestern Oklahoma State University is regaining a student organization on campus.
Several African American students approached Dr. Hardaway with their idea to form a group that would highlight black history and culture, along with drawing attention to the issues that they feel are important to African American students. This organization is to be called the Black Student Alliance and Dr. Hardaway is their advisor.
In 1991, one year after he started here, a group of students asked him to be the faculty advisor along with writing their constitution. He served as the advisor while the club was active, about five years, before the students graduated or left NWOSU. Since then, the club has been inactive on campus. However, Dr. Hardaway is hopeful that this new generation of African American students is going to resurrect the BSA. He has rewritten the proposed constitution and submitted it to the administration of Northwestern, as well as the Student Government Association.
The BSA hopes to have their organization officially recognized before the end of this semester and to conduct at least two events: (1) a voter registration drive in late March and (2) a recycling effort of aluminum cans and plastic bottles in April in conjunction with a nation-wide Earth Day recognition.