Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Photo courtesy of Emily Melvin. Every year, The Ramapo News partakes in the New Jersey Press Foundation (NJPF) College Newspaper Contest, a competition where all two-year and four-year colleges in New Jersey are invited to submit work from the past year to highlight their paper’s year of excellence. This year’s […]
Photo courtesy of Celine Panis-Pardo. Picture this: You wake up and it’s cloudy and 40 degrees outside, so you decide to throw on sweatpants, boots, a sweatshirt and jacket. You’re freezing when you sit down for your three-and-a-half-hour-class. When you walk outside after your class ends, it’s in the high 60s […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo Athletics. Ramapo’s men’s volleyball team competed in the Skyline Conference Tournament on April 7. The Roadrunners were tabbed as the No. 3 seed prior to the tournament after finishing the season with a 11-3 record in the conference. In the first match of the tournament, Ramapo was […]
Photo courtesy of Rose Lincoln, Wikipedia. Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially confirmed on April 7 as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Although her appointment to the bench is delayed until next term when Justice Stephen Breyer retires, that doesn’t make the event any less historic. […]
Photo courtesy of Amanda Riehl. According to the Urban Institute, during the 2015-2016 school year, “58 percent of full-time students worked either full time or part time while they were enrolled.” Their motivations vary from trying to gain resume experience to paying off student loans. Jordan Meredith, a Ramapo senior and […]
Photo courtesy of Alfred Marroquin, Wikipedia. Self-described “outlaw country” artist Orville Peck released his complete second album, “Bronco,” on April 8. This album is the perfect successor to Peck’s 2019 album, “Pony,” which is comparatively hushed and reserved while “Bronco” is confident and upbeat. Peck is a Canadian artist who began […]
After four summits of Ramapo’s Future Series, students, faculty and staff gathered to discuss the present campus climate and ways in which tools learned from past programs can be implemented at the college. The president’s staff led the event, Future of Ramapo: Readiness & Resolve, in the Alumni Lounges on […]
Photo courtesy of David Lee, Flickr. The Regrettes’ latest album “Further Joy,” released on April 8, presents the band’s iconic themes of growth and self-reliance wrapped in a multilayered sound that inspires listeners to hit the dance floor. This is the band’s third studio album, and its unique blend of pop, […]
Photo courtesy of Harlen Cruz. Multidisciplinary artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak’s work has been on display in the Pascal Gallery since Feb. 16. Much of his art focuses on land acknowledgement, an act of recognizing the history of Indigenous peoples who lived or served on the land before other people came […]
Photo courtesy of Celine Panis-Pardo. Last week we took a look into the minor programs at Ramapo and how enrollment varies across disciplines. Having the institutional perspective, we’re now looking to see how students navigate adding additional disciplines or focuses to their degree. A student’s likelihood of taking a […]
