October 20, 2020 . Volume 75 . Issue 6
Checks and Balances: International Credit Union Day
Tiffany Williams The Southern Digest
provide,” said Jama Haynes, CEO of Southern Teachers & Parents Federal Credit Union. For many people, credit unions Credit unions were founded to present a safe alternative to banks serve people and assist them and a way for them to capitalize in saving money, increasing on the smart handling of their checking accounts and financial funds by way of reduced fees, opportunity, or simply offering higher savings rates, and lower financial advice. loan rates. As many people may not know, October 15th was On October 15, 2020 Southern International Credit Union Day, Teachers & Parents Federal a day dedicated to educating Credit Union hosted a celebration students and staff on the pros and in honor of International Credit Union Day. They gave away cons of credit unions. free masks and free snoballs to Banks and credit unions share anyone that came. The main goal similar purposes, but go about of the event was to raise general fulfilling that purpose in different awareness of credit unions ways. Banks are for-profit and the roles that they play in institutions that are privately everyday life. owned or publicly traded. There is no membership required to join Many students who are from and they offer a variety of financial out of state do not have a bank products. By comparison, credit account nearby or their bank unions are nonprofit institutions does not occupy this region of the that are owned by members. U.S. According to Haynes, this You must be a member yourself is perfectly normal and it would or a family member must own serve young credit builders well an account in order to be able to be cautious when it comes join. Credit unions offer limited to how they go about building their credit “As you come into financial products. your own, you want to make “All over the world credit wise credit decisions because unions are celebrated [for your credit follows you for years,” the] opportunities that they said Jama Haynes in regards to
CEO, President, and staff members of Southern Teachers & Parents Credit Union host a celebration event for “International Credit Union Day,” on Thursday, October 15. (Tiffany Williams/DIGEST)
financial advice she would give to students. According to Haynes, it’s important for students to be educated on what Southern’s credit union has to offer and that it’s available to serve your financial needs. “As long as you’re
a Southern [University] student or you have a family member that’s a member of the credit union, you’re eligible to join.”, says Haynes. International Credit Union Day is an annual event and is open to
all Southern University students, and should the situation with COVID-19 progress favorably, it has the potential to be even larger in scope next semester considering the number of students that will be returning.
History in the making: New Editions to John B. Cade Library Digital Archive Collection Cade. After Mr. Cade retired from the university, his legacy remained on campus due to the commencement of the Archives Department, with the library later being named after him.
Ryann Jordan The Southern Digest
The John B. Cade Library features a variety of different archives cataloguing the different events and periods of time that have been pivotal in the history of Southern University. There have been many notable new additions to the archives recently, including works pertaining to Denver Smith and Leonard Brown that goes in depth on the events that transpired in Baton Rouge in the early 1970s. The archives are separated into different sections as to keep information as specific and concise and possible for potential readers. The Manuscripts and Rare Books Department is located on the 3rd floor of John B. Cade Library. This department is the main area which stores historical information based on The Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. This department also includes information such as
Southern University students browsing inside the John B. Cade Library. The Library is currently updating its digital archive collections and making them available to all students. (DIGEST FILE)
visual media, alumni activities, said Angela Proctor, Archives student life, and academic Overseer when asked what the program records. process was for additions and “Collections are selected for retractions to be made in the digitizing based on the number archives.
A Yearbook from 1928 and The Office of Alumni Affairs are both also stored under the umbrella of the library archives. Slave Narratives and The Office of The President’s Photo Collection are both stored in the “Digital Collections” area. The Louisiana Works Progress Administration is in the process of being added to that same area as well. The Barbara Shade Mackey Collection is located in the “Manuscripts” area. The Rare Books and The Original Books of Kells are both located under “Rare Books”
Rights or Social reform: Southern University has been there,” said Proctor.
The Archives are arranged by the type of item or collections that are available. For example, the entire Denver Smith and Leonard Brown collection has been completed as well as The 1960s Sit-Ins collection. The Historical Collections of Southern University is in the process of being completed. These are only a few of the newer works being added however, with more than a dozen new works being added in total over the last year.
According to Proctor, the main goal of the archives is to keep Southern’s history documented and intact. “I think it is very important to make sure that our of requests from researchers. In The Archives were first started [Southern University] story is addition to the historical aspect in 1961 by the former Dean of told. Southern has always been of the collections that we have.” Southern University, John B. on the right side of history. Civil
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