Tangipahoa Parish's Elected Officials Coming Together to Speak about the Vital Importance of Southeastern

Ken Benitez of ActionNews17 (http://www.actionnews17.com/) is definitely one of the hardest working people in any local media market anywhere on the planet! If you follow his news site, (and it's a "must check daily" for seeing what's going on all around the Northshore that's not being reported elsewhere), you know that he writes voraciously and goes to countless meetings around Tangipahoa, Livingston, Washington, and St. Tammany parishes in search of interviews with the prominent - and even the not-so-prominent - to deliver their ten minutes of fame on YouTube!


Well, I must say that I overlooked this gem on Ken's Website for a few days now. It was an interview posted as dealing with the Southeastern Athletic Association. However, what Ken assembled was a fantastic panel, consisting of all of the parish-wide elected officials in the home parish of Southeastern (Tangipahoa Parish) for a roundtable discussion.



As you will see in the clip below, these gentlemen speak widely on the overall value of Southeastern to the region from an economic, educational, athletic, cultural, and yes, crime prevention perspective. I guarantee you that this is one of the more positive cases I've seen made in local media - or any media of any form - for our university and what it means not only to Hammond, but to the entire area.

Watch the clip below (and for gosh sakes, as of Monday, July 26th, it had a whopping 23 views - including my two - on YouTube):



This video should start a great deal of conversation - and maybe even some buzz! Please forward this posting to your colleagues, friends and even beyond to help Southeastern's cause! And yes, post your comments here on the blog and click to the right to follow Wyld About Southeastern (http://wyld-about-southeastern.blogspot.com/) to keep-up with what we - the faculty, staff, and students - are doing to say "We may be in a rough patch, but we're going to be OK and continue to do great things into the future!"

David

David C. Wyld
Maurin Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University


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