Visitor Comes To Council Meeting
At the Council of Organizations meeting on Monday, March 12, there was an informational by the campus liaison for Target, Christlie Julien. Julien said taking […]
Jada Young
Back to the First Roots
Since coming to the United States from the Ivory Coast in December 2007, Kadiatou Taore wanted to create an organization that connected people of African descent back to their roots and ethos. “When I came to this country, I saw that my African peers forgot their culture,” said Taore. “[Some of them weren’t taking education seriously and] they forgot that their parents sent them here.” Taore, the chairman of Sankofa Africa Organization (SAO), said she founded SAO last November with Umaru Barry, an alumnus of SUNY New Paltz. In February 2011, Taore […]
Proposal Possibly Cuts Pell Grants
Jada Young, a second-year international relations and Black Studies major, said the burden of paying for college lies on her own back. Coming from a […]