It is currently Hispanic Heritage Month and many organizations at SRU have been hosting various events for students to get involved in.
Hispanic Heritage Month starts Sept. 15 and lasts until Oct. 15.
Every year, clubs and organizations work together to plan events on campus to educate and bring students together.
The first event of the month occurred on Sept. 16, and the final will be held Oct. 29, a Día de los Muertos event at 7 p.m. in the Smith Student Center (SSC) Ballroom.
Gabriela Ramos, a senior Early Childhood Education with a minor in Special Education, talked about Hispanic Heritage Month and what the Student Organization of Latinos, Hispanics and Allies (SOL) is.
“We honestly just bring awareness to students on campus to educate and promote and celebrate Latin and Hispanic cultures; and anyone of any type of form, gender, ethnicity, identity or background is more than welcome to join. We want to celebrate with everyone, and our goal is to basically just celebrate and educate,” Ramos said.
This is Ramos’s second year as Vice President of SOL.
SOL hosts various events throughout the month, along with the Hispanic Cultures Committee, Rock the Weekend, Spanish Club, Office for Inclusive Excellence and more.
Some of the events that have already happened on campus are the Hispanic History Month Fiesta: Dance to the Drums-Discovering Puerto Rican Bomba, a Multicultural Panel, Hispanic Style Paint and Sip, and Café y Pan, which gives students the opportunity to try different types of coffee from multiple countries.
“All throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, we will throw different events to celebrate our culture, and those events can range from anything to something as simple as just doing a coffee house—that’s one of our events that we have that we do every year, and it’s basically just pastries and having different kinds of coffees from different Hispanic and Latin countries—to celebrating Day of the Dead, which is also known as Día de los Muertos, and that’s something we also celebrate every year,” Ramos said.
The organization starts planning as early as spring and summer for these events.
“It is a lot of planning…a lot of the events that we are doing this year are really new, and that’s what we want. We want to try to do new things and see which ones really get people to come out more, which other things can we do, or what other ideas do we have that people would like to see,” Ramos said.
Some events coming up include:
Zumba with Daniya Jackson every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the ARC.
Culture and Cuisine Red Rican Food Truck Oct. 9 from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Hispanic Heritage Voice Recital in Swope Music Hall at 2 p.m.
Dia de los Muertos in the SSC Ballroom at 7 p.m.
