The Colgate University Muslim Student Association (MSA) brought students together with games and food at the Eid Carnival on Thursday, April 11. The celebration marked the end of Ramadan and celebrated Eid al-Fitr. The carnival, held for the first time on campus in Huntington Gymnasium, had inflatable bounce houses, games, henna decorating stations and food.
Colgate University’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) has been reinvigorated over the past few years, largely due to the efforts of the current co-president, junior Mohamed Esmail. Esmail hails from Denver, CO, where he was deeply immersed in his local mosque’s community. He described wanting to find something to emulate this when he first got to.