Approximately 200 high school students, teachers and families from across New Jersey settled into Sharp Theater on Saturday night for the sixth annual RCNJ High School Film Festival. Sponsored by Ramapo College’s film program and School of Contemporary Arts, the night was filled with two screenings and a total of […]
Author: EMILY MELVIN
UAA and EDIC hold candlelight vigil for back-to-back mass shootings
Celebrations of the Lunar New Year have been colored with grief from two mass shootings within the same week. Both tragedies primarily harmed members of California’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community. On Jan. 21, a gunman killed 11 people at a dance studio in Monterey Park, where many were […]
Students groove and glide at blacklight roller skating
One of Ramapo’s favorite events, blacklight roller skating, returned this past Saturday. Students were invited to skate the night away in the Auxiliary Gym, courtesy of Ramapo’s College Programming Board (CPB). The flashing lights and upbeat music created the perfect atmosphere for friends to laugh, fall and glide across the […]
First-Generation Student Center provides targeted resources
The newest student resource center on campus is the First-Generation Student Center, and last week, staff held a tabling event to show off their services. Assistant Director for the First-Generation Student Center Uma Mahalingam worked with a few first-generation students to introduce new resources and programs. According to the First-Generation […]
Student involvement fair centers campus clubs and organizations
Last semester, the biannual Student Involvement Fair was held outside in The Grove. This semester, around 80 student clubs, organizations and campus resources were spread out across Friends Hall, the second floor hallway of the Student Center and the Alumni Lounges to recruit new members or get students involved in […]
TEDx speaker turns data into storytelling device
Ganes Kesari has a secret that he wants you to know: storytelling is vital to successfully presenting data analytics. This was the focus of his talk on Thursday as part of the Center for Data, Mathematical & Computational Sciences Lecture Series. Kesari, a co-founder of the data science company Gramener […]
Banning Black Books presentation tackles trend of racist censorship
The topic of banned books has been a popular one on Ramapo’s campus this semester, and Banning Black Books, a presentation by Professor Indya Jackson, added an important perspective to the conversation. Jackson, a professor of African American literature, discussed the connection between empathy and literature and provided a history […]
NJ-PBS discussion panel covers American response to Holocaust
Members of the Ramapo community were invited to join “Considering the Past to Shape the Future: Reflections on The US and the Holocaust,” an online NJ-PBS discussion panel centered around the new documentary series “The US and the Holocaust” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. Dr. Jacob Labendz, […]
Declaration Day invites underclassmen to commit to a degree
The Center for Student Success (CSS) held (Major) Declaration Day on Dec. 1, an event geared toward providing students with information and advice on how to choose a major. Ramapo requires students to declare a major by the time they reach 64 credits — usually second semester sophomore year. The […]
Ramapo focuses on destigmatization during HIV Awareness Week
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a highly stigmatized subject, despite being an epidemic since the 1980s. Even with the strides in research, many people still don’t know much about HIV, even though the information could save lives. That’s why, from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, the Women’s Center and LGBTQ+ […]