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OVP hosts annual symposium

The Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) hosted their annual symposium last Wednesday to kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month, an event designed to educate and highlight the available resources for students. Student Outreach Coordinator Gracyn Nutt, fellow coordinator and Psychology Intern Reagan Griemsman, Bachelor of Social Work Intern Katherine Andino, […]

Project Arch hosts The Freedom of Speech Fair

Project Arch came through for Ramapo students with another exciting event in Friends Hall last week. The organizers held the event to celebrate democracy and every American’s right to exercise their freedom of speech and expression, specifically focusing on the power of words.   According to their website, Project ARCH, or […]

Midnight Book Club hosts banned books meeting

The banning of books has become an increasingly scary issue across the country. In order to educate Ramapo students on the topic and to encourage them to read these texts, the Midnight Book Club hosted a banned books meeting on March 26. President of the club Rebecca Bleich ran the […]

April Fools!: Ramapo welcomes new mascot

Ramapo College announced a mascot change on Tuesday, April Fool’s Day. Bidding farewell to Rocky the Roadrunner, the college said hello to the yet-to-be-named Ramaduck, Ramapo’s new bright yellow feathered-friend.  Ramapo students passing through The Grove in the morning would have seen giant inflatable yellow ducks strewn across the courtyard. […]

CHGS hosts antisemitism and Islamophobia lecture

Ramapo’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) continued its Open Classroom Series with an “Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Germany” lecture on Friday. The lecture was hosted by CHGS Director Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz and guest speaker Dr. Armin Langer. Langer, scholar and professor of European studies at the […]

Trump signs executive order to dismantle the DOE

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education (DOE) on Thursday, March 20 claiming that education should be a state’s responsibility to sustain, not the federal government’s. In other words, if this order is implemented, there will be no nationwide standards regarding education, no regulation […]