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A Publication by the Students for the Ramapo College Community
3.10.2011
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XLI No. 18
Female Contestants Compete in Greek Goddess Pageant New Training Will Promote Responsible Drinking By AMY FEZZA Managing Editor
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Members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity pose with the winner of Greek Goddess, Jenna DiLolle, held last Thursday. Admission collected from the event was donated to The Fisher House Foundation. See more pictures on page 4.
Professionals Promote Liberal Arts Education Colloquium Highlights Benefits To Well-Rounded Degree
By MIKE JAGENDORF Staff Writer
A panel of three highly successful professionals who were once liberal arts majors discussed the value of well-rounded educations Wednesday in Friends Hall. The colloquium, organized by the School of American and International Studies, provided students with examples of individuals who were perplexed about their career paths but found their way in the working world with their liberal arts college experiences. “The value added dimension of the liberal arts is not an archaic belief in learning for its own sake,” said Michael Fluhr, an associate professor of politics and social process, who was one of the coordinators of the colloquium. “It positions young people to succeed professionally and personally.” “It is our duty to help students develop competence and be able to
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Three professionals, Dolores Morris, Adam Tosh, and James Weinstein, spoke to students about how their liberal arts education set them up for sucess in their careers.
synthesize knowledge from different disciplines.” A liberal arts curriculum is one that develops general knowledge and intellectual capacities with a balanced approach to the humanities, pure sciences, and social sci-
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ences, as opposed to a vocational, technical or professional education. The first speaker was Dolores Morris, who worked as a producer at Walt Disney and developed the HBO Family channel. She began her higher education at Hunter
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College as a pre-med major, but she desperately went to her advisor for guidance and switched to a major in anthropology.
see SPEAKERS, page 6
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Ramapo plans to begin training sessions this fall for both residents of “wet-housing” residences where alcohol is allowed as well as for incoming freshman to reinforce responsible drinking on campus. Training for Intervention Procedures, also known as TIPS training, will be mandatory for all students looking to apply for housing in wet-areas of Laurel Hall and the Village. Newly incoming freshman will also be required to take an alcohol.edu course online over the summer break before beginning classes at Ramapo. “TIPS prepares students with the skills and confidence that handle those situations and will then be able to intervene effectively to prevent peers from harming themselves or others,” Vice President of Student Affairs Miki Cammarata said. “It develops students’ people skills and provides specific information in detecting when a friend or classmate has had too much to drink.” The juniors and seniors who reside in Laurel Hall and the Village are now expected to fulfill another mandatory requirement. Laurel Hall, which is a 432-bed suite-style residence and houses 1,728 residents and the Village has 22 three-story buildings and 520 students, both have wet-housing status. Other requirements are a certain number of credits, personal record, class status, and age. Judy Greene of Health Services and Miki Cammarata of Student Affairs have been in communication for a way to help alleviate drinking problems on campus and
see TIPS on page 6
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