Southern University, Baton Rouge Student Government Association President Carey Ash unveils the reserve textbooks which students may use at the John B. Cade Library. Ash donated his $4,000 per semester Student Government Association scholarship to help students buy textbooks.

SGA leader gives new meaning to 'giving back' in donation for books

After being elected Southern University’s student body president, Carey Ash said he decided to give back to the students. Ash said the cost of college textbooks is “extraordinarily high.” He donated his $4,000 per semester Student Government Association scholarship to help students buy textbooks.

It took just a few hours for nearly all 40 of the new textbooks his money bought to be checked out Monday from Southern’s John B. Cade Library.

Ash’s “Ivory M. Berry Textbook Assistance Program” allows needy students at no cost to check out textbooks — mostly for freshman-level courses — for a minimum of three weeks. “Like the carpenter needs the right tools to build a house,” Ash said, “the tool for learning is a textbook.

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