Photo Courtesy of Ramapo College As of Oct. 26, Kat McGee, the former assistant director of the Center for Student Involvement and coordinator of the Women’s Center, has taken up a new position as the director of Affirmative Action and Workplace Compliance, within the Office of the President. In her […]
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Ramapo to Hold Film Festival for High School Students
Ramapo will host the first of what the College hopes to be an annual film festival for New Jersey high school students on Dec. 5 and 6 in the H-wing auditorium. The festival is accepting submissions from all teenage filmmakers in either their first or second year of high school. […]
Caron Discusses 19th Century Catholic Anti-Semitism
Photo by Giancarlo Sepulveda On Tuesday, Dr. Vicki Caron, a prestigious scholar, author and professor emeritus of modern Jewish history and Jewish studies at Cornell University, gave a lecture on Catholic anti-Semitism in France during the late 19 century. The audience was mainly comprised of students from history professor Michael Riff’s […]
GOP Presidential Debate Held at University of Colorado
During last night’s GOP debate at the University of Colorado Boulder, Republican presidential candidates criticized the mainstream media. The candidates, who found the questions posed by the moderators to be needlessly confrontational, called out CNBC moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood: “The questions that have been asked so […]
Intersectional Issues Discussed Queer History Month
Photo by Tom Manion Intersex rights, transgender rights, sex worker rights, anti-ableism and anti-racism were among the comprehensive array of topics covered by speaker Emi Koyama at the Queer History Month keynote this Monday. Flipping through an organized slideshow packed with information, Koyama gave her perspective on how activists should […]
Bill Mandates Substance Abuse Recovery Housing Program at Colleges
On Aug. 10, 2015, Governor Chris Christie signed a bill that was part of a 21-bill package to combat the increase in heroin and prescription drug use in New Jersey. The new bill signed by the governor makes it mandatory for all public state schools that have at least 25 […]
Students Protest Separation of Large Groups In Village
Photo by Nicole Williams The Village’s second quad was host to a student-led protest on Thursday night, attempting to combat Public Safety procedures that have been deemed by some students as unnecessary – an effort that gained the attention and attendance of President Mercer. Organized by students Jeremy Barbara, Nate […]
SCOTUS Series Focuses on Pregnancy, Discrimination
Photo by Hope Patti On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Ramapo hosted its fifth Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) discussion. Each Tuesday for 10 weeks, the LAWS Convening Group and the Civic and Community Engagement Center have held discussions on different case outcomes from the Supreme Court. The goal of […]
Lectures Critiqued by Students and Professors
For years, a classic method of teaching in college level courses has been the lecture. This pedagogy, however, has been enduring critique, by those who question its effectiveness in learning as new studies are conducted. A recent study from the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” directly questions the lecture's value, […]
Eric Weiner Shares Ecological Culture Experiences
Photo by Hope Patti Eric Weiner, an environmental science professor, gave a presentation entitled “Ecological Culture in the Peruvian Amazon” in Friends Hall this past Tuesday, highlighting his personal experiences in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Sharing anecdotes and photographs, Weiner spent time describing the food of Peru. He included his […]