Thursday, October 3, 2024
Measles cases have increased over the last year due to parents refusing to immunize their children. As of Feb. 22, 35 measles cases were reported by 15 states. While this could potentially sound like a minuscule amount compared to the population of the United States, it is still a cause […]
Robert F. Kennedy waved the peace sign minutes before he was assassinated. It was 1968 and he was running for president as a Democrat, having just won the California primary. To his admiring audience, he said, “What has been going on within the United States over the period of the […]
A lot has happened in the world over the past week. Let’s catch up on the major news headlines: New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted On Friday, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bribery, making this […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new round of COVID-19 booster shots from pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer last week. The vaccines, obtainable to everyone ages six months and older, are quickly becoming available across the United States in major retail pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, as […]
When walking around Ramapo’s campus in recent weeks, it would be difficult to tell whether it’s 2019 or 2023. In classrooms, the library, cafeterias and other public spaces, many students, faculty and staff have foregone mask-wearing since the administration relaxed mask requirements at the start of the spring semester. Melissa […]
COVID-19 caused setbacks in various aspects of life, some more obvious than others. Now, two years after the height of the pandemic, long-term effects are being discovered in students. National assessments are meant to gauge comprehension across several subjects. For the first time since 2019, the National Assessment of Educational […]
Monkeypox has quickly become a concern after Americans started contracting the virus during the summer, following the first positive case in Boston, Mass. Since then, different colleges across the country have been monitoring the disease, as well as following the Centers for Disease Control Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines for management on […]
With school starting up again, conversations surrounding COVID-19 have increased, especially concerning the new vaccines and variants of the virus. As subvariants of the Omicron strain keep appearing, new vaccines are coming out to help combat the spread of these mutated strains. With these new variants, the symptoms of COVID […]
Photo courtesy of Jonathan Borba, Pexels. The pandemic has begun to slowly diminish since the start of the new year, showing signs of promise that the world may soon return to a sense of normalcy. On March 3, the school sent an email to students regarding the mask policy on campus […]
Photo courtesy of Charlotte May, Pexels. The slow return to normalcy is seen at Ramapo College in the form of reduced COVID-19 restrictions. However, the policy requiring students to wear masks indoors at all times — unless they have a medical exemption or are actively eating or drinking — remains. Since […]
