Homecoming Committee’s delay angers students

Samra Khawaja Contributing Writer

VCU’s Homecoming Committee announced Tuesday rappers Big Sean and Kendrick Lamar would headline the annual Homecoming concert Feb. 3, but it wasn’t quite the timeline students were expecting.

After postponing the big announcement twice, the Homecoming Committee announced on Twitter that they would be announcing the performing artist “at the start of the semester.”

The committee tried to field questions from frustrated students on their Facebook page, but student director Avery Jones said the announcement wasn’t really delayed.

“We wanted to make the concert one of the best – better than last year,” Jones said. “It wasn’t neccesarily a delay in this process. There’s a lot of things that go into this process.”

According to Jones, some details had to be finalized before the committee was ready to make the announcement. She said the decision doesn’t just go through the Homecoming Committee, but through other university organizations as well.

For freshman Victoria Cox, the perceived delay isn’t making a positive first impression of the annual Homecoming tradition.

“I thought that everything would be on time and be pleasing to the students,” Cox said. “The committee doesn’t seem like they have everything together, and I think anger, along with fear that Homecoming will not live up to our expectations, is what is making everyone antsy.”

Cox said she tried to contact the Homecoming Committee several ways, including a phone call, but the committee’s responses weren’t up to her standards.