Weekend Edition October 17th-20th

Today, Thursday October 17^th make sure to wear purple as a sign of support for the LGBTQA community against bullying! Purple represents spirit on the rainbow flag, and millions of Americans will wear it today. So join the Women’s Center and “go purple”! At 1pm, stop by the Women’s Center for a meet and greet lunch with Shanna Katz, and go to Alumni Lounges for her formal event at 3pm, where Shanna will speak about her online open-source sex education program. She is a queer disabled certified sexologist and sexuality educator and she talks, writes and teaches about the huge spectrum of sexuality, both from personal and professional perspectives. Don’t miss out on a great learning opportunity! Also taking place at 1pm and hosted by the Women’s Center is a discussion with Kevin Roberts, the author of Cyber Junkie:  Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap, who will share his personal experience on the harsh realities of Cyber Addiction. So stop by SC-138 and learn about how we can all be more aware and avoid the cyber trap! Then at 7pm is Take Back the Night in Alumni Lounges where you can join the Women’s Center in speaking out and marching against sexual and relationship violence! Come to all these events in support of Queer History Month! And at 6pm, the Women’s Tennis team will be playing Kean University and the Men and Women’s Swimming teams will go up against FDU-Florham. The Women’s Volleyball team will then play Rutgers-Camden at 7pm. Make sure to cheer on all the athletic teams tonight!

On Friday, October 18^th stop by the Bandshell from 4-6pm for the Pumpkin Patch event hosted by College Programming Board. No need to go off campus, because the Bandshell is being transformed into a pumpkin patch for you to pick your pumpkin! There will also be areas set up for decorating, and fall treats so bring friends and get into the Halloween Spirit!

Saturday, October 19^th  at 7am,  participate in Sandy Relief- Rebuilding Together: Kick-Off To Rebuild event, sponsored by the  Civic and Community Engagement Center and co-hosted by the National Football League. You will be going off campus to Moonachie, New Jersey to work on renovating and enhancing 10 homes that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. You may also take part in efforts in helping to rebuild a playground funded by Carter’s Kids and Lowe’s. Transportation is limited, so make sure to contact the CCEC if you’re interested. You may email ccec@ramapo.edu or stop by their office in SC-213 for questions regarding the event. At 1pm, show your Roadrunner spirit as the Women’s Soccer team plays Richard Stockton College! And later, join College Programming Board for their New Release movie at 9pm in Friends Hall. They will be screening the hit summer movie, Grown Ups 2. Free popcorn will be available!

The fun doesn’t end with the weekend! Every Tuesday the College Programming Board presents the Tuesday Night Live Series. Each week features either a live performance by a comedian, musical artist, slam poet, spoken word artist or magician or an open mic night during which Ramapo students have the opportunity to showcase their talent. This week, Nelly’s Echo will be performing in Friends Hall at 10pm. Nelson Emokpae, also known as Nelly, competed on season 3 of NBC’s The Voice! He is originally from Nigeria and is a talented singer-songwriter and guitarist who draws on his own multi-cultural background to create music that is a skillful combination of blues, reggae, and soul. Check out Nelly’s performance here.

To find out more about what’s going on around campus, check out In the Loop and the This Week in Ramapo video.

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