American indie rock band Miniature Tigers is best known for their 2008 song “Like or Like Like,” which boasts over 65 million streams on Spotify. The song is defined by sleepy vocals about young love paired with light percussion and smooth guitar riffs, resulting in a dreamy ambience. When artists […]
Author: DANIELLE BONGIOVANNI
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 […]
Federal intervention in labor dispute disappoints rail workers
The Railway Labor Act was passed in 1926 with the intention of preventing disruptions of interstate commerce. The act enables the federal government to intervene in disputes between major railroad companies and their employees after negotiations and mediation procedures have been exhausted and a strike appears imminent. In an ideal […]
Paper airplane competition makes physics fun
Ramapo’s Engineering Physics Club has hosted an annual paper airplane competition for the past several years to get a broader audience interested in the science behind the craft. “Mostly it’s fun,” said junior Suraj Neupane, an engineering physics major and the president of the club. “We’re having a fun activity, […]
Transgender Day of Remembrance grieves a year’s worth of loss
Ramapo honored Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Nov. 21 with a memorial service for victims whose lives were cut short by transphobia. The proceedings were heavily shadowed by the mass shooting at Club Q, a gay club in Colorado Springs, that occurred less than 24 hours before the service. […]
Tumblr’s updated Community Guidelines continue to restrict mature creators
I remember when Tumblr banned adult content in 2018 in response to the iOS App Store removing it due to finding unlawful pornographic content. In 2019, Automattic bought Tumblr from Verizon and began trekking towards building a platform that neither promotes sexual exploitation nor submits to purity culture. A recent […]
Ramapo’s Upward Bound Program supports disadvantaged high schoolers
Since 1995, Ramapo has offered the Upward Bound Math Science Program to assist low-income high schoolers and prospective first-generation college students from Paterson, N.J. It is a federally-funded grant that originates from the Federal TRIO Programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 as part of the War on […]
Do You See Me or My Color? rejects tokenization at Ramapo
The Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA) hosted a discussion about tokenism at Ramapo this past Tuesday. Do You See Me or My Color? consisted of two parts: a presentation and a series of questions for attendees to answer through a group conversation. Once attendees received complimentary pizza, sophomore Tori-Ann Hunter […]
Vegetarian options take over Birch for a day
A partnership between Sodexo Campus and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) led to a plant-based takeover of Birch Tree Inn on World Vegan Day during the lunch hours. Inspiration from around the world led to an array of meat alternatives, vegetarian dishes and healthy desserts being offered. […]
Statue of Emmett Till immortalizes story of lynching victim
This year, Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan allocated $150,000 in state funding to erect a statue for the preservation of Emmett Till’s memory in the town of Greenwood. Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Till’s last living relative who witnessed his kidnapping, told ABC News, “This is a great day as we […]