NORTH CAROLINA – Muslim students at the Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have invited their colleagues to try hijabs and kufis amid efforts to educate them on Islam and break the ice inside the campus.

“I felt that I could learn a lot from this event and wanted to take full advantage,” Junior Alec Jessar commented on his experience, Old Gold & Black, the university’s official paper, reported.

“I felt proud wearing it, even though it was not my religion, to be a part of that for a day,”

Jessar is one of the non-Muslim students who attended the university’s fifth Muslim Awareness week events this week.

Kicking off on March 19, the event titled, Demystifying Islamic Head-Coverings, was to create an environment of empathy for Muslims who wear head coverings.

On March 20, an event titled Shorty’s Trivia provided a fun and competitive way for Wake Forest students to both learn about and test their knowledge of Islam.

Students from various academic disciplines were able to apply their coursework related to Islam across four trivia themes: “General Questions about Islam,” “History,” “Prophet Muhammad” and the “Qur’an.”

The March 21 event, in honor of Women’s History Month, was an effort to show complex representations of Muslim women.