Written by Lauren Simmons \/\/ Photo by Lauren Simmons <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Campus Life hosted pop artist Jordy Searcy Nov. 28 for the annual fall concert. Students were a large part of the decision-making process to bring Searcy to campus, as they tagged Campus Life on Instagram over the summer when Searcy posted that he would come to college campuses on his tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director of Campus Life Jane Chandler said the Campus Life Instagram account was tagged around 200 times when Searcy\u2019s first post was made June 21. Chandler was hired days after the post was created and said the first thing she saw was the hundreds of notifications on her phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSince that was all happening, being tagged and everything, before I even started \u2026 my decision was made for me,\u201d Chandler said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Junior Lexi Earnhart, the marketing director for Campus Life, said she was excited to see Searcy\u2019s post and see if he would perform on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have a lot of friends who are very big Jordy Searcy fans,\u201d Earnhart said. \u201cSo when he originally posted for college schools to reach out to him, my Instagram and messages were full of people tagging me and our Campus Life Instagram.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior Brinley Colbert saw Searcy\u2019s post and immediately texted Chandler to ask if she had seen the comments on his post and if Searcy could perform at Harding. Chandler said she asked Colbert if she needed a campus job and recruited Colbert to work for Campus Life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was actually one of the students who tagged Campus Life in the post before knowing I was going to work for Campus Life,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Jordy Searcy for years now, and after seeing him in concert with Ben Rector and Stephen Day in the spring, it was really cool to see some of the people that were also at the concert begin to tag him as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earnhart said she is excited for the future of Campus Life and viewed Searcy\u2019s concert as a sign that Chandler is willing to listen to the student body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur whole purpose as Campus Life is to provide the students with fun activities and events that they actually want and enjoy,\u201d Earnhart said. \u201cI can speak from personal experience that Jane and my fellow coworkers at Campus Life truly have the students in mind when it comes to every decision.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students should expect another concert announcement for the spring to arrive in the upcoming weeks, according to Chandler, as Campus Life is looking to expand the genres of artists that perform on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think in the past couple years we\u2019ve had this very Harding-core, folksy, singer-songwriter artist,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cBut [we are] wanting to branch into some more country or pop or just having some other artist come in and fill out our repertoire a bit more.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chandler said she encouraged all students to attend all of the concerts because Harding has hosted many artists in the past that gained popularity later in their careers, such as Pentatonix and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow many artists have come here and will come here that this is their stop on the way to some huge destination,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cYou want to be able to say you were a part of that. Who knows where Jordy\u2019s career is going? \u2026 Take advantage of stuff being here at your doorstep.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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