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Students Celebrate Chinese New Year

by Ana Mijich

For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, this month marked the beginning of the year of the monkey.

Being in the spirit of this Radford University brought a New Year’s festival to campus so all couldexperience this event.

It is said that the year of the monkey heightens activities and brings great happiness. This certainly was reflected in RU’s celebration of the Chinese new Year.

“ It started five years ago when we began a program on Mandarin for our Kirk Scholars,” Joe Florey coordinator of these festivities explains. “At that time we really felt that the campus and even the community needed to have some sort of opportunity to learn about Chinese Culture, so we started a festival that year and it has gotten bigger every year.”

Festival goers could get some martial arts instruction, attend a puppet show, and enjoy performances of Chinese music. There was also cooking demonstrations and a chopstick challenge. For those who wanted to know how they would fare in the Year of the Monkey there was fortune telling.

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