This year, the event was used to highlight the End Child Marriage campaign, an effort to combat the practice of forcing minors, most commonly young girls, into marriage.
As a part of Islamic Awareness Week, the Poetry Slam on Tuesday, March 27, featured activist performers from Suffolk County, New York City and England in the Student Activities Center auditorium. Stony Brook’s United Nations Children’s Fund collaborated with the Muslim Students’ Association in order to raise awareness and money for UNICEF’s Tap Project.
Pas de deux, a step of two, is a bit of what Lost in the Music gave the students of Stony Brook University, but SB’s own Chinese Association of Stony Brook (CASB) dance team (CDT) took it home.
