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Petition Urges for Tap Water All Over Campus

In just three days, an online petition has gotten more than 60 Ramapo students to make the commitment to stop buying bottled water and embrace the campus hydration stations. Brenda Griepenburg, a junior at Ramapo and vice president of 1Step, created an online petition asking the students of Ramapo to […]

Finance Professor Premieres Film about Federal Reserve

Finance professor Murray Sabrin premiered his documentary, “Federal Reserve: 100 Years of Boom and Bust,” in Friends Hall Wednesday night. The film examines the law that significantly reformed financial operations in the U.S. and will celebrate its centennial on Dec. 23. “Federal Reserve: 100 Years of Boom and Bust” discusses […]

Amazon Unveils Plan to Start Ambitious Delivery System

On Dec. 1, 2013, the approximately $27.2 billion online retail giant Amazon announced Prime Air. Prime Air is a drone program that will deliver merchandise to customers in 30 minutes or less if they live within a 10-mile radius of one of Amazon's 30 fulfillment centers in the United States. […]

Greek Life Orgs Collect Clothing for the Needy

Phi Kappa Sigma and Alpha Omicron Pi teamed up to collect over 25 bags of clothing during their annual “Strip For A Cause” clothing drive. The fraternity and sorority joined together to collect clothing donations to give to the Ramapo Reform Church to help out local families during the holidays. […]

Student Spreads Kind Gesture Through 400 Created Certificates

For sophomore Megan Chan, the time it took her to create and distribute 400 "certificates of appreciation" to professors and offices on campus was nothing compared to the worth of each small gesture of kindness. "I feel it is important to acknowledge the contributions people make, both big and small. […]

Ramapo Plans Music Studio with Two Gifts

Ramapo College plans to build a state-of-the-art music studio after receiving a generous gift from the Les Paul Foundation and the Foundation of Ramapo College of New Jersey. A customized Ramapo and Les Paul Foundation Gibson Les Paul guitar and a check were presented by Michael Braunstein, executive director of […]

We’re Going Digital (For a Week)

The Ramapo News is going digital… for the week of Dec. 2 to Dec. 6! As part of a week-long special project, we will be diving into digital-only publishing in place of producing a print issue for the end of the semester. After Thanksgiving break, we’ll be back covering the news online Monday […]

JFK’S Assassination 50 Years Later

The day John F. Kennedy died, an entire nation stopped in its tracks. His assassination-the first successful attempt on a president’s life in more than 60 years-was as unexpected as it was crippling to the American morale. Though half a century has now passed, an entire generation still has the […]

Women’s Center Holds Forum to Discuss Possible Name Change

The Women's Center held an open forum to reveal the results of a survey sent out to the Ramapo community last year and to further discuss with students the possibility of changing the Women's Center's name. "We as a center were asking ourselves, 'What could we do to get students […]