Since 1995, Ramapo students have been offered an opportunity to do an alternative break over winter and spring breaks. During the 2024 spring break, students were once again offered this opportunity. The previous Assistant Director of Civic Engagement Karen Booth started the program in the fall of 1995. Booth founded […]
Tag: Washington DC
Self-immolation headlines distract from the cause
Aaron Bushnell’s death is simply a sad chapter in something much bigger than one man. Bushnell died after an act of self-immolation outside the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. last week. The 25-year old U.S. Air Force serviceman took his own life by setting himself on fire in protest […]
NFL Players are Right to Take Stand Against Israel Trip
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Beall, Wikipedia Athletes have a platform that not many other citizens have in this country. They have their every word written down, and their every movement recorded. With such a platform, players can use it to make statements of their own beliefs, which always receives mixed […]
The Women’s March Brings Out Millions Worldwide
Photo by Grace Maute On Jan. 21 at 5 a.m., a coach bus carrying about 50 Ramapo College students, faculty and staff set off to Washington D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington. As the buses passed one another, you could see the windows lined with posters, one reading “Pussy […]