Intercultural Fesitval

EVELYN DAVIDSON EVELYN.DAVIDSON.20@CNU.EDU

CNU’s Student Diversity and Equality Council (SDEC) and the Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosted their annual Intercultural Festival on The Great Lawn last Friday afternoon.

The event featured arts and crafts representing different cultures around the world. Participants could design Mardi Gras masks or decorate coloring pages patterned to look like Kitenge, traditional African clothing used for celebratory occasions. Students who participated in any one of these activities received a free tie dye shirt with the Intercultural Festival logo on it. The event also included samples of food from various cultures, such as butter chicken and naan, king cake and pad thai.

Sophomore Jasmine Batth, the Vice President of Programming for SDEC, shared with The Captain’s Log why she thinks the Intercultural Festival is an important event for the CNU community.

She said, “I am a person of color at a predominately white institution. I love our university and I love what we’ve done in order to embody the spirit of diversity, but I think that putting on events like this helps to showcase it more to the student body. I think it helps celebrate cultures outside of