Weekend Edition April 10th-13th

Support your Roadrunners this weekend by attending some of our athletic events! Thursday, April 10^th the Softball team will play a double header against Mount Saint Mary College beginning at 3:00 p.m. The Men’s Tennis team will be playing Rutgers-Camden at 4:30 p.m that day, and then Rutgers-Newark Saturday at 1:00 p.m. The Baseball team plays Montclair state Friday at 3:30 p.m., and then competes in a double header against the College of New Jersey on Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m.

Tickets for Pixar in Concert on May 1st will be going on sale at Roadrunner Central Friday, April 11^th! The first ticket can be purchased for $25 and the second ticket can be purchased for $40. The bus leaves at 4:00 p.m. on May 1^st and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will sell out quick so make sure to get there early! Later on Friday, head to Friends Hall at 7 p.m. for Pride Prom co-hosted by Pride, the Women’s Center, GEAR, SAFE, Health Awareness Team, College Democrats, and the College Programming Board. The fairy-tale themed affair will provide a safe and affirming atmosphere for all members of the queer community and its allies. Dinner will be served and an IPad and other great prizes will be raffled! Make sure to come dressed in your formal fairy tale attire!

Saturday, April 12^th is College Programming Board’s Make Your Own Candy Sushi event! Come with friends to make some non-traditional sushi rolls with all of your favorite sweet treats! The ingredients will include: Rice Krispie Treats, Gummy Worms, Swedish Fish, Fruit Rollups, Fruit by the Foot, Peeps, Chopsticks, Marshmallows, and Colorful Licorice/Sour Straws.  The event takes place at 9pm in Friends Hall. Don’t miss out!

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. Tuesday, April 15^th Mayhem Poets will perform in addition to open-mic night. This group takes spoken word poetry to a whole new level with combinations of hip hop, theater improv, and stand-up comedy in their performance. They were featured on the Today Show and Eyewitness News after they won first place and a grant for $100,000 in the Microsoft Idea Wins Challenge in 2006 and they’ve been touring internationally with hip hop musicians and artists ever since. Mayhem Poets started up at Rutgers University in 2000 when two of its members started an open-mic on campus called Verbal Mayhem. From then on, the Mayhem Poets made it their mission to change people’s lives through poetry. They look at contemporary world issues in their performance and look to access people from all walks of life through spoken word. For more information about Mayhem Poets and clips of their performances, check out their website: http://www.mayhempoets.com/.

Also taking place on April 15^th is the Annual Diversity Convocation starting at 3:30 p.m. in Friends Hall! This year’s speaker is Shane Windmeyer. Shane is a national leader on gay and lesbian civil rights issues and a champion for LGBT issues on College Campuses. He is also the Cofounder and Executive Director of Campus Pride, the only national organization for student leaders and campus organizations working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. Shane will be speaking to the Ramapo Community earlier in the day, and a small dinner will take place later in the evening.

If you want to know more about what’s going on around campus, visit our In the Loop page or watch the This Week in Ramapo video.

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