Photo courtesy of Sara Elgazzar The Student Government Association serves as the “persistent voice of the student body” at Ramapo, according to the school’s website. While many students recognize the SGA for putting on fun social events for the college such as Oktoberfest, the SGA truly serves to advocate for […]
Author: EMILY WISNESKI
Ramapo honors four long-term adjunct professors
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College, Flickr One of Ramapo College’s most valuable assets are its dedicated faculty members. Many professors and staff members go above and beyond to help make Ramapo an educational and impactful experience for the school’s students. This past Wednesday, four exceptional adjunct faculty members who have […]
Ramapo men share experience with No Shave November
Photo courtesy of Nov Ty Konzak, Flickr During the month of November, the Women’s Center sponsored “No Shave November” in order to raise awareness for men’s health and prostate cancer. On Thursday in the Alumni Lounges, men’s outreach coordinator Adam Choinski, presented the closing for No Shave November. Five Ramapo […]
Arab-Israeli speaker shares journey to support Israel
Photo courtesy of HillelNNJ, Instagram An Arab-Israeli who was threatened for supporting Israel came to Ramapo College on Monday to speak about his experience and how the Jewish state is viewed in the Middle East. At an event sponsored by Hillel, Yahya Mahamid spoke about growing up Muslim in a […]
Women’s Center holds discussion on religious beards
Photo courtesy of M. Garten, Wikipedia In honor of No Shave November, the Women’s Center hosted Illustrious Beards, an event to discuss the history of facial hair and how religion plays a role in the reasoning behind why many men wear their beards and hair a certain way. The event, […]
Students and faculty team up to conduct waste audit
Photo by Hope Patti Over the past three weeks, a group of students and faculty have been conducting a waste audit across campus in order to establish a baseline date of how much trash and recycling the campus produces. “The College’s strategic plan has in it a goal of increasing […]
Speakers share ways to lessen plastic waste on campus
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College, Flickr The Bergen County area is facing environmental threats with the ever-growing plastic waste epidemic in our forests. Ramapo’s 1STEP invited Post Landfill Action Network, or PLAN, campus coordinators Chris Kane and Adina Spertus Melhus to enlighten Ramapo students on ways to keep our campus […]
Community honors heritage month with closing banquet
Graphic courtesy of Ramapough Lenape Nation, Facebook To honor the end of Native American Heritage Month, Ramapo hosted a closing banquet in Friend’s Hall Tuesday evening. The Ramapough Lunaape tribe helped organize the event, along with the Women’s Center and the Center for Student Involvement. The event was used to […]
CCEC’s Hunger Banquet brings awareness to poverty
Photo by Hope Patti Hosted in the Alumni Lounges by the Civic and Community Engagement Center, the Oxfam Hunger Banquet was the capstone event of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week and set out to bring awareness about poverty and hunger. Using three different areas, the banquet highlighted the differences between […]
SGA gives presentation on efforts to aid homeless
Photo courtesy of MM, Wikipedia In honor of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, SGA President Stephan Lally and SGA Senate Vice President Jaime Velazquez gave a presentation on their work to reduce food insecurity on Ramapo’s campus. The initiative started last October when Karen Booth, assistant director for civic engagement, […]