Today’s Briefing:
STUDENTS CELEBRATE RAMADAN ON CAMPUS: Beginning on April 2 and throughout the month of April, students are celebrating Ramadan on campus through prayer, fasting, and community meals.
After sundown on Tuesday night, nearly 100 students, faculty, and community members gathered in the Frist MPR for the first community iftar of Ramadan. The iftar is the evening meal where Ramadan observers celebrate with friends and family after fasting from sunrise to sundown.
“With the community, [fasting] altogether, there’s something about that that gives you the strength that you need. The religious devotion that you have throughout it makes it really special and even easier to do,” Kulsoom Ghias ’24, a Muslim Student Association board member said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.
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CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM REMOVES APPLICATION: Recently, the Lewis Center for the Arts (LCA) issued a statement announcing that the Creative Writing Program (CWR) will no longer require an application for entry into its introductory courses in Fall 2022. Students were previously required to submit an application for all CWR courses offered by the department and would receive a decision prior to course selection.
“With the application process gone, I feel like I can experiment with taking creative writing classes more freely and not feel that I am entering an overly competitive space that I had to earn,” Julia Nees ’25 said.
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