Lipscomb’s Raíces club hosts cultural ‘Jeopardy’ game

Lipscomb University’s Raíces hosted the cultural trivia competition “Jeopardy for 500” on Thursday, Oct. 23, drawing approximately 30 students to the Office of Intercultural Development (OID) Lounge. Held from 3-5 p.m., the event featured a lively, communal atmosphere and focused on a blend of education and celebration, with students competing for bragging rights over categories like history and famous Latinos culture.

The event, held as part of the university’s Welcome to Our World Week, was strategically managed by the club’s leadership. Raíces President Chris Rojas, a senior finance major, explained that he applies his academic background directly to running the cultural organization.

“I think that it definitely gives me an edge when it comes to having business knowledge, so you treat a club the same way you would a business,” Rojas said. “It requires a lot of different aspects, which is like planning, advertisements and the product that you have to sell, which would be like your own events.”

Rojas connected the club’s business-minded approach directly to the game night’s content and atmosphere, which featured free food.

“The best thing that I can describe is we just wanted to have something where we could educate in a fun way through games,” Rojas said. “One of the best things about Hispanic culture is that not only do we express through stuff like music, but also foods are very important. We like to make sure that we keep all three whenever we create an event for Raíces.”

The success of “Jeopardy for 500” is central to Rojas”s primary goal for the 2025-26 academic year: establishing a stronger foundation for the club’s future.

“One of my biggest personal goals is to really establish a brand new, direct network into freshmen,” Rojas said. “This is a brand new market, and the market will continue to change whenever we get a new wave of freshmen, and we want to make sure that we can keep the club alive.”

Rojas also detailed a larger mission of unity across campus, citing a desire to collaborate outside of the existing network of affinity groups.

He emphasized that the club has a “completely other market that we haven’t even touch yet: social clubs, academic clubs, sports, anything of that nature,” Rojas said. “We are really passionate about putting the forefront to reaching out toward the social club and seeing if we could bridge that gap.”

Feature graphic courtesy of Lipscomb Raíces.