WEUSI builds campus unity and community at Sacramento State

By Siany Harts | Solving Sacramento Darting around Sacramento State’s Union Serna Plaza, Ajamu Lamumba moved swiftly to help the next band set up on stage.& He spent the afternoon of the third annual WEUSI music festival on Sept. 13 splitting time between checking in with his staff and performers, and grooving to the music in his downtime. As the program advisor for Sac State UNIQUE, a University Union program that hosts two campus events weekly, Lamumba put a lot of thought into the name “WEUSI.& “When we decided on doing this event, I figured we need to have our own special name, like Coachella or something like that. … So WEUSI, you can think of it as a sense of unity. We want to bring unity within the Sac State community. We want to do events for students to feel accepted, respected and connected,” Lamumba said.& Centering student engagement as the focus of each and every WEUSI event, Lamumba makes it a point to not only ask for open feedback from students, but also incorporates their suggestions. Noticing that weekend events tended to pull less attendance, Sac State UNIQUE’s student assistant Isabella Padilla mentioned the importance of understanding the...