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& QA

WITH CO-ORGANIZER MARIA EVA MOLINA

Why does the language department host this event every year?

We host this event to bring the community together and celebrate the diversity we have at this school.

How do the performances relate back to this year’s theme?

We choose a different theme every year. We pick themes that are closely related to cultures and languages to bring the world together. This year, we had a topic relating to sports. It was hard to relate the performances to our theme, but we tried our best to find performances that relate to sports.

Why do you think is important to raise awareness about diversity and inclusion to the student body?

We want students to be more accepting, because in the future, they will be working with people with different nationalities and backgrounds. We want them to have an open mind towards everybody.

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The crowd watched in anticipation as senior Luke Rozenberg set up his music box and electric guitar on Mar. 8. He faced a packed audience and screamed “Gulliver, make some noise!” as the crowd cheered and clapped. He then played and sang “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones during his performance.

“Playing to an audience as engaged as the students is the greatest feeling of all time. Nothing can ever come close to a rush like that,” Rozenberg said.

The “It’s a Small World” was an annual event hosted by the World Languages department to honor and celebrate the school’s diversity through each student’s nationality. This year’s theme was “Many sports. Many languages. One world.”

“We are all united by sports and languages; especially during the World Cup this year, you would see how we cheered for different teams but shared the same passion,” co-organizer and World