Recent statements and executive orders (EO) by President Trump have sent the country and much of the world into turmoil in the past few weeks. Most notably was the EO that barred people from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the country for 60 days, as well as restricting refugees from […]
Author: GRACE MAUTE
Anti-Trump Protests Help to Promote Conversations
Photo by Hope Patti The morning after the election, I laid in my bed in disbelief. Later that day, I was set to moderate an open forum on sexual violence. The event itself was comprised of a panel of administrators who answered questions and concerns relating to Ramapo’s sexual violence […]
Student: We Must ‘Combat Ignorance’ on Sexual Assault
Photo Courtesy of David Lienemann, Wikipedia The issue of sexual assault, which has plagued college campuses across the United States, recently garnered national attention after receiving a nod of recognition from Vice President Joe Biden and Lady Gaga at the 2016 Oscars. Gaga’s performance — an intimate, homey ballad sung […]
T-shirt Logo Sends Wrong Message About Women
The campus recently hosted an interactive theater program about bystander intervention on campus by a Rutgers student group that travels around the country to teach about sexual assault on college campuses. Prior to the event, the performers learned popular Ramapo slang in order to relate to the audience, and it […]
Lack of Debate over Ted Cruz’s Citizenship Highlights Racial Disparity
Photo courtesy of United States Senate, Wikipedia On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) became the first major candidate to officially announce that he will be running for president in the 2016 election. During his speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., he outlined his core values of liberty and Christianity, as […]
