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Articles: Festivals | Diwali reflects Diversity at Baruch
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New York: As a sign of the burgeoning strength of Indian students at Baruch College, City University of New York, graduate students celebrated Diwali – the festival of lights – for the first time in the history of the 159-year old school.
Over 100 graduate students, many of them impeccably dressed in traditional Indian attire, attended the November 11 evening function at the Vertical Campus of Baruch College.
There were no firecrackers that usually mark the Diwali festival. There were no diyas either. Yet, there was certainly a celebratory mood in the air with paper lanterns, balloons and blaring computer-generated Bollywood music.
Baruch College president Kathleen Waldron who set the tone for the festivities welcomed the event as a mark of “the vast diversity in the College.”
The US News and Weekly, in its 2005 annual report, placed Baruch as the most diverse college in the United States. Baruch has 15,500 students who speak over 90 languages. Interestingly, more than 60 percent of the students are foreign-born.
Between 700 and 1,000 Baruch students are of Indian origin, according to an estimate.
“Indian students are highly focused on their career and are among the smartest at Baruch,” said Waldron, adding they are among the most frequent users of the career development services offered by the College.
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