College to celebrate the Year of the Tiger on Sunday

by Gi Smith

Marietta, Ohio (01/26/2022) — The Gathering Place at Marietta College will once again be filled with students, employees and community members ready to celebrate the start of the Year of the Tiger during the 2022 Lunar New Year Celebration on Sunday, January 30th.

The College's Asian Studies Department collaborated with the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to plan the event, which will take place from noon to 3:00 p.m. and feature plenty of multicultural food, entertainment, games, craft making and raffle prizes. New this year, the event - which is free and open to the public - will also combine with the Multicultural Festival.

Entertainment planned for the festival will include a performance by the U.S. National Martial Arts Champion, a dragon dance, a Chinese musical instrument performance, a traditional costume show, and special performances by Marietta students and community members.

Guests in attendance must properly wear facemasks except when they are eating or drinking.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major. Marietta College has also been named a Great College to Work For four consecutive years (2018-2021).

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