Friday, April 19, 2024
Ramapo’s Black Student Union (BSU) and Dining Services hosted a Black History Month dinner on Tuesday. The dinner was a celebration of Black history and culture and informed students on how the community celebrates Black History Month. This event was one of many hosted throughout Black History Month at Ramapo. […]
Dr. Azza Karam is the secretary general of Religions for Peace and a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is known as a widely published author and the former convener for the United Nations’ Interagency Task Force on Religion, which she founded. Karam has taught and lectured at academic institutions […]
The 2023 Lunar New Year ushered in the Year of the Rabbit and the anticipated welcoming of spring. While this holiday, which began on Jan. 22, is celebrated at the start of the lunar calendar, it honors the various deities that people across many Asian countries worship. Within the zodiac, […]
Photo courtesy of Kevin Rheese, Flickr The College Programming Board hosted their annual Cultural Food Fest in Friends Hall on Friday night, presenting a wide array of foods representative of Mexico, China, India, Greece and Italy. “People seemed very excited to try cultural foods from around the area,” said sophomore […]
Photo courtesy of Jared Zimmerman, Wikipedia El Día de los Muertos, also referred to as the Day of the Dead, is often wrongly considered “Mexican Halloween.” Although Halloween and Day of the Dead share similar characteristics, they are two completely different holidays with completely different meanings. The Day of the […]
Photo by Kate Klinger Lambda Theta Pi hosted their fourth annual Una Noche Mexicana at J. Lee’s on Thursday night. Students that stopped by were welcome to try a variety of Mexican foods, beverages and candies. The food was catered by La Hacienda, located just a few minutes away in […]
Photo by Kate Klinger To continue celebrating Latin@ Heritage Month, students came out to J. Lee’s to customize their own piñatas on Thursday night. The DIY craft night was put together by the Office of Equity and Diversity Programs and the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead (ALMA). ALMA has hosted […]
Photo Courtesy of Infrogmation, Wikipedia Sometimes the scariest thing about the upcoming holiday on Saturday is the rampant cultural appropriation and racism that can occur on Halloween. While it is true that many people innocently buy Halloween costumes that promote some form of cultural appropriation, the buying and wearing […]
The campus recently observed Violence Awareness Week and saw many events geared toward educating the community about the issue of sexual violence on campus. Some events included a recent talk by Yolo Akili Robinson, a gay black man who spoke on trauma and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ communities, the […]
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 […]
