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NYU Shanghai Parents Call for Student Exodus to NYC NYU Shanghai delays the start of spring classes due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, but parents and students do not think it’s enough.

By MINA MOHAMMADI Deputy News Editor

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Classes at NYU Shanghai will start later than expected due to the recent outbreak of the deadly virus.

After China’s leader Xi Jinping warned of the “accelerating spread” of coronavirus on Saturday, universities across China, including NYU Shanghai, delayed the start of the spring academic semester.

Parents and students, however, say it isn’t enough.

This new virus — also known as 2019-nCoV — has killed at least 56 people and infected 2,000 since its discovery in the city of Wuhan. Cases of the virus have been found in other countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand and even the United States.

The most recent delay announcement — issued through an updated alert email yesterday by vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman — pushed classes back to Feb. 17.

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“We have just been advised by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission that, pursuant to their strategy for responding to the 2019-nCoV situation, they do not want universities in Shanghai to reopen until February 17,” Lehman said. “Accordingly, our Spring semester will not begin until that date.

Our dormitories, however, will remain open between now and then.”

The Student Health Center is taking steps including temperature screenings and mandatory travel questionnaires, Associate Vice President of the Student Health Center Carlo Ciotoli said in a university-wide email sent on Jan. 24. In this email, Ciotoli also cited the initial delay, which was set for Feb. 10.

Additionally, a statement released by NYU Spokesperson John Beckman addressed the spring semester delay and efforts by the Student Health Center to remain informed about the virus.

“The medical staff at the Student Health Center, as mentioned, is in regular touch with governmental health authorities so as to ensure we are follow-

ing the most up-to-date guidance,” the statement reads. “As we receive new information or directions, we will update the community.”

But members of the NYU community remain unsatisfied. The Facebook page “NYU Shanghai Parents,” a group of 166 members, posted an appeal criticizing the delay. The appeal said delaying classes will not give enough time to address global health concerns. “[The delay] defies logic to send a child into the epicenter of a pandemic virus,” the appeal stated.

The solution, the group argues, is for the student body to move to NYU’s New York City campus.

“We respectfully ask that our students be considered for immediate resumption of classes at NYU’s New York campus either in person or through online enrollment, or at another campus location nearest our student’s home country where we feel safe,” the statement reads. “This will enable their continued education working toward a degree from NYU. We understand the NY city classes commence January

27th, but believe with the opportunity to catch up, our students will flourish without daily fear.”

Students have shared similar concerns. NYU Shanghai first-year Sayon Biswas said that international students — who comprise half the campus’ population — are anxious about returning to NYU Shanghai.

“I know almost a dozen kids that are really serious about not coming back this next semester because of worries of their safety,” Biswas said. “I am concerned because I do have lots of friends that are currently in Shanghai telling me the situation is being taken seriously. The majority of people are wearing masks.”

Biswas commended NYU’s effort to address the situation by delaying classes but also cited problems with it, including the cancellation of spring break.

“I was really not for classes being delayed because what is a week really going to do? But on the other hand, it’s an effort on the part of the school,” Biswas said. “If we do start on the 17th, we are going to have classes non-stop until summer break.”

NYU Shanghai first-year Zineb Dardafaa was less satisfied with NYU Shanghai’s outreach. Dardafaa felt NYU Shanghai reached out to its students too late, which she said prevented her from recognizing how dire the situation was. She received the initial delay email on her plane back to Shanghai.

“I was pretty mad. If I had received the news in a more timely manner I would have switched my flight time,” Dardafaa said. “Instead, I am now here with a small group of friends two weeks early, watching changes happen every couple of hours. Everything is so cloudy.”

Dardafaa said many of her peers are reconsidering their attendance at NYU Shanghai and that faculty has yet to address the excessive academic pressure brought on by the delay. She added that she supports the parents’ push to have classes resume in New York City.

NYU Shanghai junior Jaeven Aylor also voiced concern about the virus’ spread.

“I am about to study away in New York, and personally I do feel like I dodged a bullet,” Aylor said. “I have a

lot of friends who are pretty worried but at the same time it’s not necessarily threatening to the majority of healthy college-aged students.”

Aylor told WSN that the virus could potentially allow people to point to the aspects of NYU Shanghai they already do not like and create unnecessary anxiety.

“A lot of students come from different backgrounds and their parents don’t understand China well and what the endemic entails,” Aylor said. “I feel like they don’t have much security in their students studying abroad in China in the first place and using this issue to justify their anxiety.”

As of now, there are no identified cases of the virus in the NYU community, including NYU Shanghai.

“Relocating to NYC seems drastic but it is doable, so I believe it is in their right to suggest it,“ Biswas said. “We are all waiting to see what happens.”

Email Mina Mohammadi at mmohammadi@nyunews.com.

NYU Sydney Students Describe Red Skies and Foggy Smoke During Bushfires

By LISA COCHRAN News Editor As bushfires ravage Australia, NYU Sydney students and faculty recounted their experiences, describing bright red skies and the persistent smell of smoke on their commutes to class.

While the city center — where NYU Sydney campus is located — has been less affected by these fires than other areas of Australia, students complained about canceling travel plans, the dangers of smoke inhalation and having to close windows to prevent smoke from entering their dorms.

“What did impact students and faculty was that the fires were so intense and there were so many going on that there was more smoke in the city,” NYU Sydney Environmental Journalism professor Fran Molloy said. “Because it’s a warm climate and people do a lot of things outdoors, it really restricted the city people from pursuing their normal activities.”

On Dec. 9, students were excused from attending class via an email sent by Assistant Director of Student Life, Marcus Neeld.

“Due to smoke and reduced air quality [New South Wales] Health is recommending residents of Sydney significantly limit all outdoor activity,” the email read. “Absences from class related to the smoke conditions will be excused for today only.”

NYU Sydney Director Mal Semple did not respond to WSN’s request for comment at the time of publication.

CAS sophomore Jason Kemp saw the aftermath of the fires last semester when he studied abroad at NYU Sydney. He described the feeling of standing in the smoke as heavy.

“It felt like something was weighing

down on you if you went outside,” Kemp said. “There was about an hour if you stood outside for 10 minutes, it was like breathing in 70 cigarettes.”

Like Kemp, CAS sophomore Jessica Chapel also studied at NYU Sydney during the fires. She said that near the end of the semester, students were forced to wear face masks to avoid dangerous smoke inhalation.

She added that the 35-minute walk from the dorm to the campus was often difficult.

“It was really hard to walk home because everyone was coughing,” Chapel said. “It was awful.”

Tisch senior Hannah Vickery, who also studied at NYU Sydney last fall, said that while the smoke was not always pervasive, there were days when it was clearly visible both outdoors and indoors. Some students even described smoke in the lobby of the academic building and student residence hall.

The fires led to a frequently changing sky color, students said. On certain days students said the sky was grey with smog, while on other days flames painted it hues of red and orange.

Kemp added that the push to cancel class was the strongest from faculty, most of whom live in areas more susceptible to the fires.

Molloy is one of these professors.

She was personally affected by the spread of the fires when Royal National Park — located near her home in the South of Sydney — caught on fire.

“Houses districts away from me were evacuated,” Molloy said. “We were lucky that it didn’t get any worse, but everyone was very ready for things to happen.”

Bushfires are not a rare occurrence in Australia. Molloy pointed to a particularly devastating fire in 2009,

which killed nearly 200 people. It is referred to as Black Saturday, as it is considered one of the deadliest fires in Australian history. Molloy added that the immense loss brought on by this blaze led Australia to reconstruct its fire safety protocol.

“Now in Australia whenever it’s a dangerous day, people around anywhere that’s fire-prone are told to get out,” Molloy said. “Our new warning regime is incredibly effective.”

Despite new safety measures, this fire season — which began in July and has yet to subside — is unprecedented in scale, causing record damage to the continent’s landscape and wildlife. The fires have claimed 28 human lives and affected more than 25 million acres of land, additionally killing an estimated one billion animals as a result.

“The rest of the world was looking at what was going on in the fire zones,” Molloy said. “Realizing how many animals were killed is just devastating.”

Molloy attributes the stretch of this particular fire season to ongoing droughts throughout the country. She emphasized her belief that Australia is a great place to study climate change and that the fires will play a substantial role in her lesson plans.

Molloy added that despite the rampant fires, she still encourages students to study at NYU Sydney.

“I feel like, here, we’re at the pointy end of climate change. We can see what’s going to happen in other countries in years to come,” Molloy said. “There are a lot of really important conversations going on and students who come out here can be part of that.”

Email Lisa Cochran at lcochran@nyunews.com.

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NYU’s Title IX Complaints Come in Disproportionately Low in New Report

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Students march outside Bobst Library in response to the university’s decision to reinstate Professor Avital Ronell.

By EMILY MASON News Editor NYU appeared on the f irst composite data report of sexual assault complaints to Title IX off ices across all New York college campuses released by the state.

The data highlights the problem of underreporting and the unique position universities have in supporting sexual assault survivors, according to the activists who supported the report.

The report is mandated by the “Enough is Enough” legislation passed in 2015 after activist group Students United for Safer Schools drafted and lobbied for the bill in Albany in conjunction with the Carry that Weight campaign. After years of organizing its implementation and non-compliance from universities, the f irst report of all Title IX complaints from 2018 was released this December.

Co-president of Students United for Safer Schools Sejal Singh who helped to draft “Enough is Enough” commented on the usefulness of the data.

“I think that data is sort of a powerful illustration of what students need and want and are seeking,” Singh said. “This data helps us to lay out where there are breakdowns at many, many points in the process.”

One of these breakdowns is a lack of trust between student bodies and their schools. NYU’s 173 complaints despite a student body of over 50,000 reflects a trend of underreporting across the data.

“NYU’s numbers are not reflective of the actual amount of sexual misconduct on campus,” President of Students for Sexual Respect at NYU Emma Levine told WSN in an email. “From what we’ve seen/heard from folks, a lot of that might be due to the fact that the reporting/adjudication process is really diff icult emotionally for survivors.”

Zoe Ridolf i-Starr, co-presi-

dent of Students United for Safer Schools, says that the data can be misleading because of this kind of underreporting.

“You might expect that the schools that are reporting the lowest number of gender violence incidents are doing a great job with addressing gender bias on campus, which is possible,” Ridolf i-Starr said. “But the more likely way, the more realistic way, to interpret that data is in fact that students don’t feel comfortable reporting to those institutions.”

The data highlights the importance of universities supporting survivors switching dorms, changing classes or accessing mental health counselors. Of the 173 who f iled Title IX complaints at NYU, all of them requested additional services such as these.

The report gathers data on factors including: how many incidents occurred off campus, how many complainants sought university judicial process, how many cases were reported to law enforcement and the outcomes of these cases. Ridolf i-Starr said the data illustrates the role universities should play in supporting sexual assault survivors.

“Schools are required to respond to sexual violence and harassment because of a civil rights statute,” Ridolf i-Starr said. “I think it’s really important for us to know how many of the students are seeking additional services, how many of them are getting it.”

After “Enough is Enough” was passed, NYU began administering campus climate surveys regarding sexual and interpersonal violence every other year, adopted a student’s Bill of Rights, adjusted the university’s def inition of aff irmative consent to reflect that of the state and began reporting Title IX complaints.

In addition to being in the best position to f ill the high demand for resources in the wake of a complaint, universities are also

more likely to recieve reports of sexual assault than law enforcement. Drafters of the original legislation were disappointed to see a funding increase for state law enforcement rather than placing the onus on universities’ Title IX off ices.

“We envisioned this as a bill addressing gender violence on college campuses,” Ridolf i-Starr said. “And about universities’ unique opportunity and obligation to respond, support students, to prevent violence and respond once that occurred.”

Activists hope that the annual report will be a means to ensure that universities adhere to Title IX. Currently, universities are meant to be f inancially penalized for violating Title IX, but the state is reluctant to impose f inancial consequences because they may negatively affect students.

Ridolf i-Starr emphasized the necessity for universities to support survivors of sexual assault, even if their incident occured off-campus. The 2018 report revealed that across all New York State campuses 38% of Title IX complaints occurred off-campus, but new legislation proposed by Betsy Devos would allow universities to avoid responsibility for these assaults. Because survivors are often unwilling to report to law enforcement, this bill will leave them with nowhere to turn, Ridolf i-Starr said.

However, even if Devos’ bill is passed, it is unlikely it will affect how NYU supports survivors of sexual assault.

“Even when an incident occurs outside of our jurisdiction, we connect those involved with support, including with specialists to help them walk through the process with law enforcement,” NYU Spokesman John Beckman told WSN in an email.

Email Emily Mason at emason@nyunews.com.

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How NYU Students Prep for the Election Season

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By TATIANA VELASCO Deputy Culture Editor The new year typically prompts feeling of hope and optimism, but students struggle to shake their anxieties as the nation’s political climate remains muddled in turmoil. As students follow the current impeachment trial and prepare for the upcoming elections, they channel their anxiety into their civic duty.

“I am feeling very nervous about this election season,” LS freshman Colin Gasperoni said. “I’m a Democrat, and I support several of the current Demo-

cratic candidates. But I’m still unsure if there is a candidate who has what it takes to beat Trump.”

Gasperoni said he is preparing for the elections by staying up-to-date on news. He enjoys listening to podcasts like “The Daily” or “NPR Politics” to learn about the candidates and other important issues.

“It’s actually my first year voting,” he said. “In the 2018 midterm elections, I did door-to-door campaigning for my local congressman, Mike Levin, as a way to exercise my political voice without a ballot in hand. I’m so excited to actually

be a part of my country’s politics firsthand this year.”

Many students simply follow the news, but some students, such as CAS sophomore Roxane Chopin, turn the televised debates into watch parties.

“A bunch of my friends and I got together and watched the last debate,” she said. “We sat around eating Reese’s and commenting on the candidates’ responses to the questions — it was fun.”

Chopin recommended that students watch the debates and follow the polls throughout the election season. She emphasized the importance of fully un-

derstanding the policies that the candidates are pushing.

“You need to make sure you actually agree with the candidate’s policies and what they are campaigning for — not just taking cues from one aspect of their identity,” she said.

As the election season is still in its early stages, many students are undecided about which presidential candidate they will support. Nonetheless, LS sophomore Isabella Vieira is already making plans.

“Currently, I don’t have one candidate I strongly endorse, but for when I decide on one, I have been looking into joining a student group for whichever candidate I choose,” she said. “For now, I am doing my research, listening to the news and talking to others about who to support, ways to support them—and of course, I will be voting.”

Vieira also explained why she votes and why it is important for other students to vote.

“I see voting as the minimum you can do to be politically active,” she said. “You may feel like your voice doesn’t matter, but it does. Our representative democracy wouldn’t work if no one voted.

Young people need to step up voting if they want their views to be heard, otherwise the older generation will be completely in control.”

NYU Professor of Politics and Public Policy Patrick Egan also stressed the problem of low voter turnout among young people.

“Generally, [young people] are not

very politically active,” he said. “They vote less than older people, they’re less interested in politics than older people and therefore, they have less power than older people. Older people are outvoting them, and the decisions about their future are being made by people who will not be around when they are fullfledged adults.”

Egan also said that while every generation’s turnout generally increases as they age, the young generation today is voting at much lower rates than previous generations when they were young.

“This suggests that there is some kind of chronic disengagement among this generation that is quite troubling,” he said.

Egan listed several ways that young people can change their generation’s course and become more involved in politics: volunteer for a campaign, become informed about the candidates’ offerings, participate in a voter registration drive, volunteer to be a poll watcher on Election Day or work for an organization that educates voters.

He said there is emerging evidence in political science that individual efforts to get other people to vote and participate in politics can be quite effective as well.

“So, one thing that you can do among your friends and family of your age is be persistent and annoying about making sure they are registered and they vote,” Egan said.

Email Tatiana Velasco at tvelasco@nyunews.com.

A New Englander’s Guide to Surviving Winter

By TRINITY CASIMIR Contributing Writer When you found out you were accepted to NYU from your 75 degree hometown, you were so excited that you forgot it snows in New York City.

Truthfully, you’re not quite an NYU student until you’ve conquered this one challenge: surviving the winter, which may seem extremely daunting for those that come from sunnier places. Look no further, these native northerners have some tips that might help.

According to LS freshman Eden Min from Boston, safety must be a priority. During the winter, ice can cause accidents. While cities typically salt their streets, parks can often go neglected. Learning how to safely walk in the sleet, snow and wind is crucial.

Min recalled a time last year when she strolled through Washington Square Park after a snow storm. There was black ice (for the non-natives this is a transparent layer of ice over the walkways that may not be visible at first glance) throughout the entire park.

“It was so icy in the park, and I was completely shocked that they didn’t salt the sidewalk, so being careful about black ice is important,” she said. “I think sometimes the weather is unexpected so they didn’t have time to prepare.”

Min also said hydration is key for anyone constantly commuting in the cold. While hot coffee or tea sounds far more appealing than your cold Hy-

dro Flask water, they are diuretics — which cause water loss — and should be avoided. Instead, take advantage of prime access to the best tap water in the country.

Unfortunately, some of us are just not built for the cold. Despite the potentially invigorating wind chill, finding ways to minimize your time outside is another important habit for winter.

“Stock up on food. You won’t want to go out or spend unnecessary money on GrubHub orders,” Gallatin freshman Pilar Ceron from White Plains, N.Y. said.

While staying warm is the most obvious concern during the winter, a common question that many in the city consider is: are warmth and fashion mutually exclusive? Is my appearance now worth the money I will spend later on Nyquil? According to Ceron, winter weather isn’t a hindrance, but a fashion opportunity.

“Winter is my favorite season, it’s the best time to get creative with outfits,” Ceron said. “Your coat is a part of the look, accessorize with it, it’s a piece.

Hats, scarves, just roll with it.”

However, Min stressed that more important than fashion is the ability to layer.

“Wear layers, because having one big, bulky jacket won’t serve you inside if you don’t have much else underneath,” she said.

However, Min noted that layers cannot substitute a good coat.

“An insulating winter jacket is a

must if you’re stuck outside for some reason,” she said.

According to Min, deeming a coat “insulating” relies on two factors: first, the outer layer shouldn’t be permeable and should protect against wind; second, the inner layer should be thick and have fleece or down or some sort of insulating material.

LS freshman Rishi Dhir from Boston recommended buying your coat during the summer if you can.

“It will always be cheaper then,” he said. “Also, get a jacket — some people like hoodies.”

Dhir also said layering is important with pants.

“I like to go with khakis — they’re always really warm,” he said. “Some people like jeans, but I try to stay away from them. They tend to be cooler.”

In addition, Min recommended that your final investment should be in winter boots and cozy socks for the truly cold days.

“I wear wool crew socks that don’t slip off,” she said. “They’re more insulating and more comfortable. I also buy my winter boots a half size up so I can fit my socks.”

If all that is not sufficient to repel the cold, Min said you can tune in to your inner grandmother: dry your hair completely, don’t walk around without socks, eat real food and if all else fails, break out the Vaporub.

Email Trinity Casimir at culture@nyunews.com.

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Simple Steps for Smooth Skin goes a long way. Another common issue is dry skin, which can benefit from a serum with vitamin E or hyaluronic acid which seals in moisture and protects skin from oxidation. For more radiant skin, green tea extract and ferulic acid can even skin tone and add glow.

To combat acne, serums with vitamin C or retinol are soothing and repairing.

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Start taking care of your skin with a simple and effective routine.

By DIVYA NELAKONDA Beauty & Style Editor Skincare. It’s one of the biggest crazes as of late; and there is no better time than college to build a skincare routine to both repair existing issues and prevent future complications. But if you don’t know where to start, don’t worry. A simple and purposeful routine customized to your skin type is the easiest way to approach skincare.

Step 1: Cleanse The first step to caring for your skin is getting the gunk out. If your skin is dry and sensitive, a cream or oil-based cleanser may be your best bet, especially in the thick of winter. If flaky or dry skin is withholding you from washing twice a day, opting for a cleansing milk, a gentle cleanser made from an emulsion of fats and water, will keep your face soft as a baby’s bottom. For oily or combination skin, a gel or foaming cleanser will freshen and mattify.

Cleansers with salicylic acid or charcoal are uniquely detoxifying. For particularly acne-prone skin, an exfoliating scrub used on alternating days can make a world of difference in cleaning out your pores. If you wear makeup,

ditch the makeup wipe and choose a micellar water that will leave your skin clean without drying it out.

Step 2: Tone The idea of using a toner may seem frivolous at this age, but it is an optimal product to balance the pH of your skin, which can often be compromised in the process of cleansing. Taking this step immediately after cleansing allows you to take advantage of the moisture and lock it in. Being wary of the ingredients in your toner can help you target specific skin issues. For a hydrating toner, look for one with ingredients such as glycolipids, peptides or seed oils. For a toner with soothing properties, search for one with chamomile or rosehip, as they have anti-inflammatory effects and promote skin elasticity, respectively. Avoid alcohol or menthol, as they are often irritating, even for oilier skin types.

Step 3: Serum If you have no idea what a serum accomplishes, trust me, you are not alone. Serums can tackle anything from dark spots to wrinkles (it is never too early!) to dullness. Treatment may seem optional, but a couple of drops

Step 4: Moisturize This step seems intuitive, but finding the right one for your skin type can make or break your routine. If you know your skin to gradually become oily throughout the day, a lightweight, water-based gel moisturizer is ideal.

But a thicker cream can keep your skin moist throughout the day, or serve as a richer alternative for nighttime. If your skin feels smooth but not greasy after application, you’ll know that you’ve found the moisturizer that works best for you.

Step 5: Sunscreen Buying a sunscreen solely for your face and using it on a daily basis is by far the most undervalued step in a skincare routine. Whether or not the sun is out that day, sunscreen is non-negotiable. Though it may seem too soon to worry about wrinkles, sun spots or loose skin, trust that just a nickel-sized amount should not be overlooked. Try to find a sunscreen that is broad-spectrum so that it protects from UVA and UVB rays, and has an SPF above 30.

A strong skincare kit does not need to break the bank. In fact, sometimes the products with the simplest ingredients will make the biggest difference. Removing your makeup may just be the last thing you want to do after a night out, but having a straightforward routine to fall back on will make it simple.

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By BELLA GIL Culture Editor As the decades come and go, to our Gen Z luck, certain forgotten trends ebb and flow.

Items we never wanted to be caught wearing are now at the top of our lists, and those we used to be obsessed with fall to the bottom. What seems to be at the top — and bottom — at the turn of the decade (and the new semester)?

IN: Sweater Vests Arms cold? Too bad.

Maybe your mom forced you into a vest 10 years ago or maybe it was just a part of your school uniform. Either way, go digging for it because for some reason, sleeveless sweaters are back. Layer it in the winter, wear it by itself in the springtime and you’re all set to go.

Knee-high Boots These boots were made for strutting.

Not riding boots and not duck boots, but think go-go boots; the more square the toe, the better. The just-below-the-knee height paired with super flared jeans or a mini dress gives Puss in Boots a run for his money.

Leather Head to toe, please.

Forget the leather Moto jacket. Get it out of your mind, it had its (very long) moment.

Replace it with a leather trench coat, leather blazer, or hell, even a pair of leather pants.

Next level leather? Looks good on everyone.

Giant Headbands Blair Waldorf who?

Headbands as thick as they are tall and carefully emblazoned with studs or velvet are everywhere. Catch them while they’re still hot, and before they start giving you a headache.

Appropriately, most of these combined give off the idea you’re out to a classy evening.

Any of these items with an extravagant collar makes it seems like the decade is off to a very preppy start.

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Replace the old-fashioned leather Moto jacket with a trendy leather blazer this winter.

OUT: As fast as it emerges, the hottest thing can become not-so-hot in the blink of an eye.

Skinny Jeans Not so together forever.

Remember when all you wanted in middle school was a pair of perfect skinny jeans?

But now, if your jeans are not extremely high waisted and cut off at the bottoms you won’t even touch them. A moment of silence please, this one’s hard to part with.

Snake Print Ssssssorry to see it go.

Leopard print asserted its dominance in the 2000s and again in recent years, snake print emerged, yet could not compete. It slithered right through our fingers and left the lingering question: which animal print will have its moment next?

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Ballin’ On A Budget: Dining With the Michelin Stars

By LAUREN GRUBER Dining Editor Rather than being relegated to (literally) substandard dining hall food, NYU students have the luxury of living in a foodie haven. Restaurants brimming with delicacies line every street in the city, but some offer cuisines a cut above the others.

The coveted Michelin star, awarded by the Paris-based brand of the same name, is an honor bestowed upon dining options deemed worthy by the annually published Michelin Guide. A restaurant can earn between one and three stars: one usually equates to a restaurant that serves their genre of food in an exceptional manner, and three stars are reserved for lavish fine dining venues, often consisting of several course meals costing several hundred dollars. While a seven-course tasting menu with white truffles and Osetra caviar may be out of the question for most, there are still plenty of Michelin-awarded restaurants near NYU that won’t break the bank for a special dinner out.

Laut Malaysian, Singaporean and Thai 15 E. 17th St. lautnyc.com 212-206-8989

With its splashy painted brick walls, cozy ambience and expansive menu of

mouth-watering Asian fusion dishes, Laut earned its Michelin star in 2011. Chef Salil Mehta of New Delhi, India opened Laut in 2010, and runs a second restaurant, Laut Singapura, with his wife and business partner Stacey Mehta Lo. Laut has plenty of on-theme cocktails like the ginger pineapple martini and the Malaysian Old Fashioned, but the real star of the menu is the roti canai ($9.50). The pillowy soft roti, a kind of flatbread, is served with the most luscious coconut-based curry dip. Like, if I could bathe in this sauce I would. If that’s not enough of an endorsement for Laut, go for the asam laksa ($18), a noodle soup served in a spicy and acidic fish-based broth, a favorite of the late and great culinary expert Anthony Bourdain, or the curry laksa ($18-$22), a coconut-milk infused noodle soup featured as the winner of Buzzfeed’s Worth It series. If you want to dine like some of the most well-renowned food critics without their paychecks, you’ll love this restaurant a “laut.”

Tim Ho Wan Dim Sum 85 4th Ave. timhowanusa.com 212-228-2800

A favorite among NYU students (and WSN staff), this dim sum destination is the world’s cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant, started by Chef Mak Kwai Pui

after his stint as a chef at the decadent Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. Most of its menu consists of garden variety bites like pan-fried chicken dumplings and steamed egg cake, but the standout dish is the baked barbecue pork bun (three for $6). The meltin-your-mouth smoky pork is enrobed in a cloud-like bun, studded with sugar crystals.

Make sure to order plenty, and finish your meal with an order of delicately-flavored French toast, Tim Ho Wan-style, filled with a silky custard.

can indulge in platters of manchego cheese and famed Ibérico ham, and most of the seafood and salad dishes can be savored for $20 or less. Don’t forget to finish your meal with a creme brulee-topped sponge cake or almond cake with strawberry and almond milk ice cream.

Tomiño Taberna Gallega

Chef Salvatore Fraterrigo immigrated from western Sicily to the United States, working in restaurants across the United States and opening his own eateries in Italy and Paris before creating this authentic Ital-

Spanish Tapas 192 Grand St. tominonyc.com 212-933-4763

This taberna offers Northwestern Spanish-style tapas perfect for sharing amongst friends. The restaurant’s history is tied to Galicia, Spain, a region celebrated for its gastronomy and home to Tomiño’s chefs.

Gin and tonic enthusiasts will love their myriad of twists on the classic cocktail — try the rosemary and orange or mango and pepper variations — and their extensive list of libations will please the juniper-averse drinkers. Start your meal off with croquettes two ways: Serrano ham and roasted tomato or seafood and aioli, traditional Spanish egg and potato omelettes, spicy roasted chorizo and lamb chops drizzled in hearty chestnut purée. Cheese board lovers

Norma Gastronomica Italian 438 3rd Ave. normarestaurant.com 212-889-0600

ian dining destination in the East Village.

The menu is pure elevated comfort food, with four different kinds of arancini, oven-baked pasta loaded with cheese and sauces and all the pizza you can stomach. The Michelin guide applauded the restaurant’s rianata pizza, decked out with fresh tomatoes, savory anchovies, pecorino cheese and Italian spices, and the wood-oven baked anelletti pasta — ring-shaped pasta with beef ragu, eggplant, green peas, basil, cheese and Italian ham. End your meal on a sweet note with traditional Italian goodies like cannoli or indulgent modern desserts like nutella-stuffed pizza.

Email Lauren Gruber at lgruber@nyunews.com.

Enjoy Michelin-quality Asian fusion food at Laut on a budget.

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Angie Is Aggravated and I Understand Why

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Centered in a traditional Italian home, “Angie Aquavitae Is Aggravated and She Is Going to Tell You About It” is a one-woman show that presents a family in crisis.

By SASHA COHEN Books & Theater Editor From Jan. 16-26, “Angie Aquavitae Is Aggravated and She Is Going to Tell You About It,” written and performed

by A. Aquavitae, took the stage in Pless

Hall. Produced by Gallatin Associate Professor Michael Dinwiddie and Go Tell It! Productions, the show was a one-woman drama therapy, a type of theatre designed to help individuals set goals or achieve catharsis. Grappling with the idea of loss, Angie Aquavi-

tae, an Italian woman in her 70s, illustrated the great mourning that comes with change. While there was very little plot, the story devastatingly depicted how her nostalgic psyche led to her own misery.

The theater was a small black box

with about fifty seats, but undoubtedly provided an intimate feel. Each table and chair appeared realistic due to authentic details like magazine clippings, a coffee machine and a corded phone peppered on them. Once the lights came up, Angie acted like the audience members were her houseguests for the afternoon. She brewed coffee onstage and even offered Italian cookies. While many thought this proposition was a joke, the house lights rose and women brought out vanilla wafers that resembled Voortman cookies on silver trays.

As the audience munched on their snacks, Angie continued her furious rants, taught some Italian phrases and even inspired individuals to sing “Sweet Caroline” with her. When an audience member fell asleep in the front row, Angie made sure to theatrically terminate his early evening nap. No matter what the performer did on the stage, she made sure everyone felt as if they were a part of her world.

A nostalgic Angie spent each day in her little kitchen hoping to reminisce with anyone that would listen to her.

She despised the idea of fancy Starbucks orders and gender neutral bathrooms because those were dissimilar to the glorious past she wished she could relive. Her passionate detestation for modernity ultimately led to her isola-

tion. She never left her little world and was overjoyed when anyone, like the audience, could provide her company.

While not included in the show, she assumably practiced this solitude until she died because she preferred to live in her own sentimental world than be an active member in an inferior society.

Angie’s performance made the entire experience exceptional. The performer made the audience believe there were multiple performers in the one-woman show due to her incredible ability to change her voice, costumes, personality and even gestures. After a scene, Angie sat in a chair and had her headpiece, shirt and props removed and replaced before she continued with a different narrative. One may argue that such a process is tedious and time consuming.

However, this decision dramatically illustrated the ubiquitous process behind exploring repressed emotions.

These moments were magical and instigated anticipation for the next transformation. From her comedic frustrations to heartbreaking moments of devastation, Angie proved that one person can truly do it all and that a one-woman show can be just as spectacular as any other kind of production.

Email Sasha Cohen at scohen@nyunews.com.

The Patched Film Adopts the Worst From Video Games

By FAREID EL GAFY Film & TV Editor Any film or video game buff will tell you that when the two mediums come together the result is often ugly and offensive. Video game films gave us such abominations as the peanut-headed, humanoid Goombas from “Super Mario Bros.” (1993) and Angelina Jolie’s performance as Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider” (2001). The “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) video game tie-in for the Atari 2600 was so reprehensible that it was instrumental in the North American video game crash of 1983 and saw hundreds of unsold cartridges buried in the New Mexico desert.

For years, the video game industry has been suffering from a disease, and the film industry is showing symptoms: unfinished products to be patched after the fact. What’s worse, the artists are being made to clean up the executives’ mess with little recompense.

Enter “Cats” (2019), the bizarre flick based on a bizarre musical starring the greatest stars of this generation – naked and hairy. On the film’s release date, December 20, Universal Studios informed multiple theaters that they would soon be receiving an “updated version” of the film. Perceptive moviegoers were able to identify “Cats” 1.0 from “Cats” 1.1 by the apparent visual mistakes such as a clear distinction between Dame Judi Dench’s hand and her furry sleeve. It’s almost as though the film was patched.

Like a swatch of cloth for closing up a hole in a pair of jeans, a patch is an update sent out after a game has been released to fix glitches and bugs that evince themselves. Similarly, developers will push out noticeably barebones games and release the rest of the

game as paid downloadable content or DLC, a phenomenon that one meme likened to selling customers a bun and then the patty.

With the option to fix all of the problems with a product after it is already released and, vitally, after consumers have already forked over the price of a base game or admission, studios can release unfinished media and simply patch it at a later date.

The implications are troubling, reminiscent of the phenomenon all too familiar to gamers. Though moviegoers are paying the same price for the same ticket, some are getting a demonstrably inferior product. A furry suit may be insignificant, but the precedent is alarming. It seems clear that Universal so desperately wanted a Christmas release that they rushed the film out despite the fact that they were aware it was unfinished. It’s a sleazy business practice, and if studio executives can get away with it then we may be on a slippery slope toward bun-then-patty films featuring patched-in performances, scenes and effects. Of course, director’s cuts have been around for decades, but the key to the patched film is the fact that it is patently unfinished on release and marketed as the same product as its eventual finished form.

More alarming than the fraudulent business practices of Universal Studios is the abuse of artists who are made to clean up the messes created by the executives. Coincidentally, this is best evidenced by another unholy spawn of video games’ and films’ unhappy marriage – “Sonic the Hedgehog” (2020) 1.0, complete with human teeth and an ape-like physique.

When the first trailer for the film debuted in April 2019, Sonic fans, movie fans and people with eyes were flabber-

gasted by the hideous design chosen for the titular hedgehog. In response to the overwhelming backlash, director Jeff Fowler announced that the film would be delayed by three months to reanimate Sonic with a less nauseating model. Thankfully, a generation of scarred children was narrowly avoided.

The question remains, however: how did they manage such a monumental change, essentially redoing a major facet of the film?

The answer came last month as the British Moving Picture Company’s (MPC) Vancouver, Canada branch, the studio responsible for redoing the film’s visual effects, announced that it was going to shut down. As animation news agency Cartoon Brew initially

reported, one employee lamented the extreme conditions under which they were made to work, but was unable to verify its authenticity. MPC also worked on “The Lion King,” “Detective Pikachu” and, intriguingly, the “Cats” patch. The fact remains that the artists at MPC were tasked more than once with cleaning up the messes created by major releases, and now all of them are out of a job.

It’s certainly not the first time creatives in the industry have been overworked and abused, and it won’t be the last. Most recently, another Vancouver animation house, Nitrogen Studios, saw employees unpaid for overtime and removed from the credits of “Sausage Party” (2016), the ultimate insult

to their effort.

“Cats” has set a precedent of releasing unfinished films and together with “Sonic the Hedgehog” has furthered the time-honored Hollywood tradition of working artists to the bone on a time crunch. It’s the latest abomination born of video games and film, and if studios are not held accountable for it then we may be in for “The Lion King” with a twenty dollar Timon and Pumbaa character expansion pack and “Godzilla” with a man in a lizard suit in theaters for a month before the studio finds a throng of young VFX artists to bleed dry.

Email Fareid El Gafy at felgafy@nyunews.com.

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After a tumultuous release, Universal Studios released a newer version of the film Cats with updated graphics.

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Tisch First-Year Says Goodbye to Youth in Debut Album

By NICOLAS PEDRERO-SETZER Music Editor Sporting a kimono and a pair of round spectacles, Tisch first-year Benji Jung, also known as Null Pattern, sits before their desk — a workstation consisting of a desktop, a myriad of CDs and a couple Criterion flicks. Posters of King Krule, James Blake, Neutral Milk Hotel and Mac DeMarco — artists that have influenced their sound over the years — surround them in a Mount Rushmore-like arrangement as they reflected on their career and the release of their first album “Black Dirt Rests.”

“I just think it’s all stories,” Pattern says. “I think music is just another form of storytelling to me because a song traverses from ‘A’ to ‘B,’ and it’s the story of how you get there. I really like that kind of linear structure in songs where you really don’t know what’s going to come next — it’s not just a loop.”

For Pattern, “Black Dirt Rests” comes at a point in their life where they’re very uncertain about what the future holds. The album functions as a send-off to their own youth.

“I’ve been thinking about [growing up] a lot and I feel like the album is nostalgia through a lens of grief,” Pattern says. “I feel like nostalgia and grief are two sides of the same coin, where nostalgia is grieving a lost time and the album is sort of this process of grieving this ideal part of your life that you’re leaving.”

Despite the melancholy subject matter of “Black Dirt Rests,” Pattern wanted to give their project a more optimistic tone.

“I’ve just been sick of cynicism,” Pattern says.

“I feel like cynicism, sarcasm and irony have been the mainstream things of our generation, and now that particular brand of genuine, whole-

some and pure stuff is just overlooked. If you’re being genuine, people will just say it’s angsty and disregard you.”

Pattern outlines the complicated musical process they followed while writing the album. Where other artists might move through the production process in a straight line, the first-year constantly doubled back on their creations, tearing them apart and reincorporating the fragments into a new attempt.

“I write a lyric, I record the vocals over a demo track, I slice some vocals out, make a new beat out of that, dub new lyrics over it and then change the whole song,” Pattern says. “I don’t know. I have, like, musical ADHD or something.”

Beyond the process of creation, their diverted mindset also makes it harder to classify their sound.

Though they reference elements of the electronic and R&B genres, Pattern has instead opted to shed the confines of any specific sound label.

“Nowadays, it’s all about all the genres coming together,” Pattern says. “Pop music has electronic and rock influences, and hip-hop, well, there’s like country-rap now. Take [Little Uzi Vert]’s new song, ‘Futsal Shuffle 2020,’ that’s just like an old techno song and it’s amazing.”

Pattern is now more concerned about specific emotions being achieved through the manipulation of artistic mediums.

“It’s more about ... what does this part of the song require?” Pattern says. “I feel like defining your sound doesn’t really matter in the end.”

Now that Pattern has finally released “Black Dirt Rests,” grieved and grown up, they’re ready to move on, continue writing and trudge towards that ever-elusive ‘B’ that they yearn to reach one day.

Email Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer at npedrerosetzer@nyunews.com.

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Black Dirt Rests is Null Pattern’s first album release of 2020.

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OPINION

Edited by JUN SUNG

POLITICS

Trump’s Executive Order Censors Palestinian Voices

By ASHA RAMACHANDRAN Deputy Opinion Editor On Dec. 11, President Trump signed into law “The Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism,” which claims to combat the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses by revoking federal funding for universities who do not combat anti-Semitism “as defined by the president.” The executive order’s underlying purpose, however, is to silence college students’ criticism of Israel and pro-Palestine advocacy such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).

The connection to Israel may not seem obvious by reading the text of the executive order itself, but the Trump administration deliberately obscured the intentions of the order with vague, unspecific references. For example, the

order refers to the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s stated examples of anti-Semitism: “All executive departments and agencies charged with enforcing Title VI shall consider the following...The ‘Contemporary Examples of Anti-Semitism’ identified by the IHRA, to the extent that any examples might be useful as evidence of discriminatory intent.” The examples are left un-cited in the executive order but they include, “‘the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity’; denial to ‘the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor’; and comparing ‘contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.’”

All of these supposed “examples of anti-Semitism” are merely expressions of anti-Zionism, opposition to the Zionist project of establishing the state of Israel in Palestine, that have been twisted through the false conflation of Judaism and Zionism. The state of Israel is a political entity that has and continues to engage in ethnic cleansing, occupation, displacement, indiscriminate bombing and apartheid as formally recognized by the United Nations, and these actions are not connected to the

Jewish people at large.

The executive order’s intentions were openly revealed in an op-ed by Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, as attacking anti-Zionism on college campuses.

Kushner characterizes anti-Zionism as equivalent to anti-Semitism, and implicitly, Zionism to Jewish identity. He thereby neglects centuries of Jewish history, culture, and tradition predating the founding of Zionism as a political movement in addition to a long history of Jewish people opposing Zionism.

NYU has two student clubs — Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace — whose main purpose is to engage in raising awareness of and organizing for the cause of the liberation of Palestine. SJP and JVP have taken direct action protesting the NYU administration’s involvement with Israel, calling for divestment in adherence with BDS’ boycott list, which includes corporations and institutions complicit in or aiding Israeli apartheid, occupation, and war crimes.

NYU currently works with three corporations targeted by the boycott — Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin and General Electric.

These efforts by SJP and JVP and other

pro-Palestine students resulted in NYU Student Government passing a divestment resolution in December 2018 and over 50 student groups passing internal BDS resolutions and pledging non-cooperation with NYU’s two pro-Israel groups, TorchPAC and Realize Israel. Students involved with SJP and JVP and supporters of the Palestinian cause petitioned NYU’s Social and Cultural Analysis department to end cooperation with the university’s Tel Aviv campus, which the department pledged to do last May. SJP and JVP’s success has already provoked the ire of the administration. In an April 2018 town hall, NYU President Andrew Hamilton announced his opposition to the decision of over 50 student groups to pass BDS resolutions. The administration also stated it would not comply with the student government divestment resolution. Hamilton also called SJP “divisive” in response to their reception of an NYU Presidential Service Award last April, asserting they would not have received the award if it were up to him personally.

NYU is already hostile to pro-Palestine student organizers and Trump’s executive order will only give the university more justification

in opposing and even shutting down their activism entirely.

There is a long history of student anti-colonial, anti-imperialist student movements like SJP and JVP and of the US government cracking down on them. One of the most notable examples is the Vietnam War, where students all across the country mobilized against an imperialist war from NYU to Kent State to the University of Tennessee, University of California, Berkeley, and dozens more.

The US government tried to censor, repress and violently attack student demonstrators who dared to stand up against its aggressive, imperialistic foreign policy. Now, the US government leverages federal funding and weaponizes anti-Semitism to carry out censorship and repression of student groups.

Trump’s executive order follows a pattern of the government suppressing pro-Palestine student organizers and an even longer history of attacking anti-imperialist movements. The executive order is an affront to the struggle for freedom and justice everywhere.

Email Asha Ramachandran at aramachandran@nyunews.com.

HEALTHCARE

The Inaccessibility of the Student Health Center

By HELEN WAJDA Deputy Opinion Editor Finding an affordable therapist in the city after I ran out of free appointments at the NYU Student Health Center took most of last semester. After a few weeks of unsuccessful searching, a professional who I regularly work with at the SHC suggested that I meet with the insurance coordinator at the SHC for more help. During our two appointments, the insurance coordinator called my insurance company, came up with a list of therapists who specialized in what I needed, and made sure I was aware of all of my options. As a result, I was able to find a clinician who was willing to work with me at a reduced rate.

If I had not been told to meet with the insurance coordinator, though, I would not have known this was an option; there is no mention of this service’s existence anywhere on the SHC website or advertised on campus, including at the SHC in Manhattan. The lack of transparency about the availability of this service — a resource that was the turning point in me finally getting the help I needed — is an example of NYU failing to provide students with adequate support by not making important resources accessible.

The Student Health Center has come under fire recently for many reasons, including inflating the number of current employees, subjecting students to long wait times and responding to student demands for better resources by rolling out the Wellness Exchange app, an online therapy service that many students deemed impersonal. It isn’t news that students are largely dissatisfied with the way that mental health is handled at NYU and that they struggle with getting the support they need through the SHC.

NYU’s failure to inform students about the insurance coordinator suggests that they not only offer insuffienct on-campus support, but also that they don’t adequately help students find off-campus support. Though the NYU Wellness website states the counseling offered at the SHC is meant to be short-term, it doesn’t offer specific guidance for how students can go about finding long-term options to suit their needs.

The insurance coordinator’s existence suggests that there is a more concrete resource available to help students find outside care, but NYU’s lack of transparency regarding this service means that students might not even know that such a crucial service is available. While it is promising that there are more resources to help students find support, the lack of transparency on NYU’s part could leave students feeling like they are left to fend for themselves when it comes to finding outside help.

NYU’s position in an urban college setting is also an important factor to consider. In a recent study, The American College Health

Association found that approximately 87% of college students reported feeling overwhelmed in the past year and 53% reported feeling hopeless. Moreover, according to The Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, people who live in cities have an estimated 40% higher risk of depression and 20% higher risk of anxiety than those who live in other areas.

With NYU students being city inhabitants with a higher risk of struggling with mental health, it is crucial that NYU take an active role in helping students find support. If the university is not going to offer long-term counseling options on-campus, then they have a responsibility to help students establish outside help — which includes not only providing resources at the SHC to assist students in finding the support they need, but advertising said resources. If students do not know what resources are available, how can they utilise them? Establishing awareness of the resources is crucial, but it is just the first step in making sure that students can effectively access reliable, long-term care.

This is not to say that the staff at the SHC have not been helpful. The professionals that I regularly see at the SHC and the insurance coordinator (once I found out about her existence) have been — and continue to be — incredibly supportive. The therapist I met with for 10 appointments last year was also helpful during our time together. But that doesn’t mean NYU can’t do better.

It is great that NYU has someone who helps students understand their options and find affordable therapy in a city where therapy often costs upwards of $200 per session and many therapists do not accept insurance. But it is not enough to simply offer resources — NYU also needs to inform students of their existence so that students can take advantage of them. By failing to make resources accessible, NYU is leaving students to fend for themselves in an urban environment where establishing community and support is already difficult.

Email Helen Wajda at hwajda@nyunews.com.

CITY

Arguments Against New York’s Cash Bail Reforms Are Dated

By EMILY DAI Deputy Opinion Editor Last spring, New York passed a new bail law that recently went into effect. Bail is a method to ensure people return to court by allowing defendants conditional release in exchange for money that they forfeit if they fail to appear. The new laws lay out a framework for pre-trial decisions to be guided by the level of offense and the specific charge — notably prohibiting judges from imposing cash bail on defendants charged with misdemeanors and most nonviolent felonies. Judges still have the option to impose cash bail on those charged with violent felonies. As a result of these reforms, 90% of arrests are now subject

to release without bail, opposed to 79% percent under the old laws.

These new laws are the culmination of several years of pushes for change and a shifting cultural attitude towards bail. In 2015, Kalief Browder tragically took his own life shortly after his release from Rikers Island. Browder had been arrested at the age of sixteen and was incarcerated for three years — two of those years being in solitary confinement — on $3000 bail. The charges against him were dropped. This publicized example of the cruelties that lie within the cash bail system spurred real momentum for its reforms. In January 2018, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared in his State of the State address that Browder “did not die in vain.” Cuomo added that he would enact a series of criminal justice reforms in order to “make it right.”

Since these reforms have been adopted, they have faced heavy backlash. Across New York State, critics and law enforcement officials say the new laws will put dangerous people back on the streets while they await trial.

A Siena College poll found that most New

Yorkers think bail reform is bad for the state.

New York Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy criticized Democrats for passing reforms that amount to “an assault on civilized society, public safety, and law enforcement, and on criminal victims and the people and the taxpayers of the state of New York.”

The New York Post published a critical article reporting the NYPD being forced to ask federal law enforcement for backup to apprehend a serial-robber after he had been ruled a non-violent defendant. Even self-proclaimed progressive Democrats indicated a willingness to backtrack and modify the law after a series of anti-Semitic incidents.

But bail has little effect on the likelihood of defendants returning to court. After the Bronx Defenders bailed out 150 people, 95% of their clients attended every court appearance, and almost 50% of the cases were dismissed entirely. The high return rate fundamentally undermines the supposed purpose of bail — incentivizing defendants to show up to their court dates because they have a financial stake in their appearance. Furthermore,

the fact that half the charges were dropped indicates that prosecutors were overcharging the defendants and hoping their inability to post bail would induce guilty pleas. ‘ The reactionary pushback to NYC’s specific bail reforms only bring up dated fears and bigotry against the poor. Being required to pay money to get out of jail unequivocally and unfairly targets the poor. A large portion of the detainees simply don’t have the ability to pay bail — the nationwide median bail amount of approximately $10,000, despite 4 in 10 adults reporting they would not be able to come up with $400 for an unexpected expense. Crucially, cash bail has not been proven to keep communities safer. In fact, it may have the opposite effect — defendants who are held for even a short amount of time, as opposed to those who are released during the pre-trial period, are more likely to commit a future crime.

Additionally, some of the backlash may stem from a perception that pre-trial detention is part of the punishment for crime, so defendants who are released are seen as getting

away with something. Punishment before trial is fundamentally at odds in a legal system where defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, unlike other states that have adopted similar bail statutes, New York has precluded judges from taking into account public safety when setting bail since 1971. Any judgments of declining public safety in response to the new cash bail laws must date back to the 1970s in order to hold water. So, not only are many of the critiques of the cash bail reforms simply thinly veiled fears of the poor, but they also seem to misunderstand both the purpose of cash bail and the New York legal system entirely.

The concept of cash bail is needlessly archaic, barbaric and ineffective. It should be weeded out of our criminal justice system entirely.

It has been proven time and time again to be ineffective and disproportionately affect the poor. While total erasure may be too radical for the time being, New York’s newest bail reforms are certainly a step in the right direction.

Email Emily at edai@nyunews.com.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

The Growing Necessity of Student Journalism

By COLE STALLONE Editor-in-Chief Dear readers, The journalism industry is in a troubling state. In the last 10 years, jobs in the industry have decreased by 25% and over the next 10 years, jobs are expected to decrease by 10%.

More than one-third of newspapers have suffered from layoffs in the past three years. Local journalism has been hit the hardest: in the last 15 years, over 1,400 towns have seen their local paper shut down. And while digital news has seen some increases in job opportunities, they are not enough to meet the overall decline in the industry. Further, digital news is not exempt from the layoffs either; over the last three years, just under a quarter of digital news companies have experienced layoffs.

While the causes of this decline — a fatal mix of profit-sucking business schemes and an overall decline in readership — have been overanalyzed and debated by many, the fact still remains: journalism is in a dire place.

So what does this mean for student journalists?

While journalism may be declining as a profession, the need to share important stories will never fade. As industry professionals attempt to navigate their way through a hectic market, the responsibility of telling the stories that often don’t make it to the larger newspapers — those owned by billionaires and hedge fund managers — are left to us, the student journalists. And while local newspapers face the brunt of the fallout, it’s up to us to fill the gaps they leave behind.

Like almost every other newsroom in the country, WSN has grappled with the decline of the industry. The two people to hold my position prior to myself, Sakshi Venkatraman and Jemima McEvoy, have also addressed this problem, navigating the particular issues of their time — albeit not all too different from the ones we face today. I’ve written for the Opinion desk for the duration of my time at WSN and had the opportunity to serve as Opinion Editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief, along with now-Managing Editor Abby Hofstetter. During my time as Deputy Opinion Editor, we released the first online special issue under the Opinion desk, The Future of Journalism. Organized by then-Opinion Editors Melanie Pineda and Hanna

Submitting to

Khosravi, we attempted to discuss the problems facing the industry as well as what we hoped the industry might become.

Aside from talking about the industry itself, we’ve tried to do our part to tell the stories that need to be told. During the previous semester, we reported on the brutalization of an artist in Washington Square Park

by New York City Park Enforcement and on the Global Climate Strike which gathered millions of students from all over the world — a perspective that can only be understood by students themselves. Moreso, we’ve tried to hold our university accountable, from the failures of its resources, like Safe Ride, to provide students with what they need, to the failures of its facilities, like Palladium and Upstein, to provide students with a healthy space.

While we try to report hard-hitting stories, our work isn’t always critical. In addition to covering citywide events like New York Fashion Week and the Tribeca Film Festival, we’ve also written about ways to give back and volunteer during the holidays and the struggles and successes of a Palestinian director with an Israeli passport.

With that said, WSN isn’t perfect.

We’ve navigated our share of controversies and at times, failed to live up to the standards we set for ourselves.

Our newsroom isn’t the only one; as student journalists, we are still learning, just like the professionals. When we do make mistakes, we address our errors and issue our corrections — if we do our jobs right, every misstep is a lesson learned. But our job isn’t to fixate on the past; we must remain firmly grounded in the present, with the hope of a better future in the back of our minds, for ourselves and for our communities, in our school and in our city.

It is a privilege to do what we do every single day. In the face of the decline of the industry, that privilege becomes more apparent with each day and with each layoff. My job, in particular, is a position of immense privilege — not only do I get to work with an incredibly talented team, but we have the opportunity to do genuinely important work that matters to the people around us, not just ourselves. Our work means nothing without our readers, so thank you for continuing to follow the work that we do and for listening to the stories we have to share. I’m beyond excited for the semester and year ahead as well as the work we’ll do in the future. I hope you are too.

— Cole

STAFF EDITORIAL

The University’s Place in the Climate Crisis Wildf ires have raged in Australia since Jul. 2019, killing 28 people and an estimated one billion animals. They have burned through the continent with about 12.35 million acres of land damaged, affecting every state. Experts say hotter and drier conditions have led to a more amplif ied and destructive bushf ire season. These f ires must be analyzed in direct connection with the climate crisis; failure to do so means a failure to recognize the most obvious truths on the climate crisis.

While the f ires burned across Australia, business leaders, climate change activists and heads of state from across the globe wrapped up discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week on Jan. 24. Some attendees proposed solutions like putting a global price on carbon and planting trees. At the same time, they rejected divesting from fossil fuel companies and ending fossil fuel development in areas prone to sea level rise.

These events that transpired at Davos dismissed any possibility for real change from the eco-

nomic elite, and perpetuated the pattern of placing responsibility on individuals rather than corporations. The fact that the inaction displayed at Davos occurred during the ongoing tragedy in Australia further showed the serious disconnect between these elites and the real world.

A shining light, though, was the climate march held on the last day of the conference. Activists such as Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate and Luisa Neubauer protested against fossil fuel investment while demanding that serious action take place. The march was also a reminder that real change comes from grassroots organizations, not cocktail conversations among the wealthy.

The march serves to show the role that protesting in university spaces has played in combating corporate agendas.

A notable example of this is the protests for racial justice and inclusion that took place at the University of Missouri in 2015. After weeks of organization and marching, students at the university were able to create a local movement based

around demands like a racial inclusion and awareness program and the resignation of the president. In the end, their efforts were rewarded, as the president stepped down. This event shows exactly how the university can be a space for progress and effective protest.

In that same vein, it is our responsibility as students to directly oppose the inaction shown at Davos and push for ideas that tackle the root causes of climate change to have any chance of preventing the disasters of the future. Furthermore, we can look toward the example that other college students have set.

On Jan. 10, tens of thousands of activists led by Uni Students for Climate Justice marched in major cities in Australia to call for the government to do more to stop climate change and its effects. Their actions are commendable and act as an example for what must be done by us as NYU students.

Through grassroots organizing, we can tackle head-on the problems of the climate crisis and its devastating effects.

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The Olympics’ Ban of Protests is Hypocritical and Unfair

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By BELA KIRPALANI Editor-at-Large Earlier this month, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) announced it would institute a ban on protesting ahead of this summer’s competition in Tokyo. The IOC said it would discipline athletes who fail to adhere to the guidelines on a case-by-case basis.

Under the new rule, athletes would not be able to make hand gestures or kneel when they are on the podium, in the Olympic Village or participating in the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Olympics “are not and must never be a platform to advance political or any other divi-

sive ends,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “Our political neutrality is undermined whenever organizations or individuals attempt to use the Olympic Games as a stage for their own agendas, as legitimate as they may be.”

The Committee’s ban is hypocritical at its core and ignores the Olympics’ own history of political involvement.

In 1936, the Olympics allowed Adolf Hitler to co-opt the Berlin games and use them as part of the Nazi propaganda machine. Not to mention the institutional corruption that continues to infiltrate the Olympics, the IOC’s consistent canoodling with international powers and the sham that was the Sochi Winter Olympics.

But the pendulum swings both ways, and the Olympics have even embraced its role as a facilitator for bringing nations together.

At the 2016 Olympics, the IOC recognized a team of 10 refugees in an effort to shine a light on the global refugee crisis. When South and North Korea announced that they would compete together at the PyeongChang Games in 2018, IOC President Bach praised his organization’s role in “hopefully opening the door to a brighter fu-

ture on the Korean peninsula.”

A year later, Bach said that the two countries’ joint bid to host the 2023 Olympics was “one further step showing how sport can once more make a contribution to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the world.”

While the IOC has long enjoyed its role in global politics, many Olympic athletes have also used the tournament stage as an opportunity to turn the world’s eye to injustices happening in their countries.

One of the most iconic Olympic moments came in 1986 when American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their gloved fists in the air for black power and solidarity while Australian Peter Norman wore an Olympic Protest for Civil Rights button in solidarity.

At the 2016 Summer Games, Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa repeatedly made a crossedarms gesture in support of the Oromo tribe which suffered under the Ethiopian government.

Last August, American hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised her fist after winning a gold medal and fencer Race Imboden knelt during his medal ceremony at the

Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. The pair were later reprimanded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and put on a 12-month probation.

USWNT star Megan Rapinoe, who kneeled during the national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality, aired her disapproval of the IOC’s ban on an Instagram story.

“So much being done about the protests,” she wrote. “So little being done about what we are protesting about. We will not be silenced.”

In an interview with The Nation, John Carlos also blasted the IOC’s decision stating, “They [IOC] are saying that they don’t want politics at the Olympics but this is a political move. The silencing of people is political.

We all love the Olympics but I’m not sacrificing my humanity to win a medal.”

The Olympics are inherently political. The IOC wants sports to remain apolitical, but sports has never been apolitical. It never will be.

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NYU Predicts: 2020 Super Bowl Predictions

By ARVIND SRIRAM Sports Editor The 2020 Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, Feb. 2 with a match-up between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. Led by star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs’ offense this postseason has exploded for 51 points against the Houston Texans and 35 points against the Tennessee Titans. 49ers fans will be looking to the team’s lockdown defense, its aggressive offensive line and its dominant run game led by Raheem Mostert, who scored four touchdowns against the 13-3 Green Bay Packers, who were com-

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ing off an impressive victory against the fifth-seeded Seattle Seahawks, in the NFC Championship Game.

Despite attending a football-less university, NYU students use the NFL as an outlet to starting conversations and creating friendships. From discussing their football opinions with strangers to hosting viewing parties in the TV lounge during the regular season, NYU students use professional football as an alternative to the college football experience. NYU students eagerly stated their predictions for Super Bowl LIV. Email Arvind Sriram at asriram@nyunews.com.

“I would lean towards the Niners because they have a better pass defense. I think it will be high scoring because both teams can score but since it’s the Super Bowl, it could be a pretty low scoring game.”

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Kansas City Chiefs will win. The Chiefs were able to contain one of the best run offenses in the league and much of what we saw today with the 49ers was a run game that, frankly, Green Bay could not stop. [ Jimmy] Garoppolo [49ers quarterback] has had one good year and is inexperienced. Also, the 49ers defense did allow 20 points to the Green Bay Packers. The Chiefs’ offense is just too fast and versatile for the 49ers’ defense.

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I think the 49ers will win the Super Bowl, but it’s going to be a close game. My biggest concern is at [quarterback] because Garoppolo runs the ball a lot and the Chiefs’ defense is going to put a lot of pressure on the ground to prevent giving up yardage. He’s a solid passer, but I’d say there’s a coverage awareness issue based on the number of interceptions he’s thrown this season, and those turnovers just can’t fly in a game like this. I think the 49ers are a stronger team, but certain adjustments need to be made if they’re going to win.

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I think Kansas City has the major edge because, with the amount of preparation that goes into this one game, the value of playmakers able to adjust on the fly goes through the roof. Look at [quarterback for the 2019-2020 NCAA Football National Champion, LSU] Joe Burrow’s performance in the [NCAA Division One] National Championship. Mahomes is the living embodiment of a playmaker, so if he stays calm enough, I can see KC running away with this one. Also 49ers [Running back Tevin] Coleman is questionable with a shoulder injury. KC by nine.

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I’d have to give the 49ers a slight edge over Kansas City in the Super Bowl, and that’s really based on the offensive vs. defensive balance.

Although Kansas City has an amazing passing game, the 49ers arguably have the best pass defense in the league, and I think they’ll be able to apply a significant amount of pressure on Mahomes.

Although Mahomes can be a threat on the ground, KC doesn’t have enough of a run game. When talking about the 49ers, they have a reasonably productive passing game and an incredible running game, which I think will be problematic for Kansas City.

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Junior Guard Janean Cuffee Is Pushing the Violets to New Heights

By ARVIND SRIRAM Sports Editor Off to a 12-3 start with an 18.2 point scoring margin, the women’s basketball team has been firing on all cylinders both offensively and defensively. With lopsided victories against Sarah Lawrence College, Farmingdale State College, and Baruch College, while defeating tough UAA opponents Brandeis University and the University of Rochester, the Violets are proving to be a dominant force in the UAA Conference. In addition to a scorching offense that is averaging 80.3 points per game and a suffocating defense that is only allowing 62.1 points per game, the continuity from last season is the main catalyst to this incredible start.

“We only graduated one senior last year so for the most part, we returned the entire team,” Steinhardt junior Janean Cuffee stated. “We also got a lot of new talented freshmen who have helped us bring the team to a higher level. The team chemistry and experience on the court together has been the biggest help in having our team improve as a whole.”

From averaging 1.3 points per game in her freshman campaign to averaging a team-high and potential NYU record-high 22.0 points per game, Cuffee’s breakout season has sparked the Violets’ offense to an increase of 15.2 points per game from last season. Cuffee has already scored 33 points against Stevens, 34 points against Wesleyan and a season-high 37 points against St. John Fisher. Cuffee credits her breakout to her coaches and teammates.

“I would say the biggest thing that helped me improve my game was having coaches and teammates that believed in me,” Cuffee stated. “My coaches put me in position to score when I am on the floor and I have unselfish teammates who find me when I’m open. Without a team and staff that support me and believe in my ability to score, the points per game average never would have increased.”

After leading the team in scoring with 18.0 points per game in her sophomore year and scoring 39 points, the third-highest points scored in a game in NYU history, against Cabrini University, many expected Cuffee to make the leap this season. “[Her breakout season] really started last year and has carried over into this season in terms of her teammates knowing how to play with her and finding her hotspots,” Coach Meg Barber stated. “She is having the confidence to take big shots and also to play both ends of the floor. It is a carryover and she played a lot of minutes in the UAA last year so she is used to the grind and what that feels like on a daily basis throughout the semester.”

On the court, the chemistry is clear as the team trusts Cuffee both offensively and defensively. This trust leads to the biggest factor of success: having fun.

“On the court, I know that I can trust Janean,” CAS senior and captain Annie Barrett stated. “She’s our go-to scorer, and when I’m pushing the ball in transition, I’m always looking to get it to her. I trust her on the offensive and defensive end. Janean and I complement each other really well on the court. Our styles of playing blend well together and allows us to have fun which translates to success.”

Off the court, Cuffee’s hard work and perseverance make her a favorite among the rest of the team.

“Honestly, she’s a great person,” CAS senior and captain Mikaela Read stated. “She works so hard that you can’t help but root for her when she succeeds on the court. I’ve been with her for three years, and she’s one year below me, but in those three years, she’s been a great friend, she’s loyal, she has your back, and she is a fun person.”

The fact that Cuffee is a junior who has improved every season is exciting; she still has her senior year ahead of her. However, Cuffee has remained focused and has high hopes for the rest of the season “If I am being completely honest, I have only focused on this year,” Cuffee stated. “Conference play is the most important part of the season as the competition increases and I have high hopes that we will finish the season, the same way we began: fighting hard and competing in every game to win.”

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This Should Have Never Happened To You

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In these video-diaries, three survivors of sexual violence share their stories of experiencing assault and the way it affected their lives.

By ANNA-DMITRY MURATOVA Deputy Managing Editor Illustrations by CHARLIE DODGE Creative Director Videos by LU LIMANOWSKI Executive Video Producer Content warning: the introduction and each video-diary includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence. Proceed with caution if you find such content triggering or disturbing.

At the beginning of the fall semester Professor Avital Ronell was rehired to teach and advise for the graduate programs after being found guilty under Title IX of sexually harassing her advisee Nimrod Reitman. Ronell’s case led to outrage within the student body, resulting in a petition that called for her removal from NYU and a GSOC-initiated protest in front of Bobst.

In light of these events, survivors of sexual violence at NYU reacted: some by signing the petition, some by joining NYUToo, an activist group dedicated to advocating on behalf of survivors and some by sharing their stories with WSN. In this project, three survivors, Angelica, Carly and Antonio — who asked to be referred to by an alias — decided to share their stories of trauma, struggling and healing by speaking on their experience with assault as well as where it took them and what it prompted them to do. From our team, we thank them for trusting us with sharing their narratives and for letting all of us learn from them and their resilience.

When Angelica came to NYU for her Ph.D., one of her two then-advisors acted inappropriately towards her and assaulted her at a gathering students and their professors attended. She reported the incident to the Title IX commission, established under the Title IX law, which protects people from discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs. A prolonged investigation then ensued. It’s taken an immense toll on Angelica as she wasn’t able to get updates on the process and felt let down by the university, which failed to inform her about her abuser’s return to campus or his whereabouts.

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You can’t refute evidence. We’re the evidence, walking around on this campus. Build community, to the degree that you can.

Share it, talk about it.

And then get to the f-cking work you came here to do.

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work: “Though I’ve felt a lot of things, I have not felt alone because of other people I reached out to who said ‘yeah, this happened to me, too’.”

For Carly, her story of coping with sexual assault begins on July 25, 2017, the summer before her senior year at NYU. Carly’s friend, at whose place she fell asleep while watching a movie, assaulted her as she slept. He came clean to her several days later and, no matter how hard she tried, she wasn’t able to just shrug it off.

Trying to channel her anger and heartbreak, Carly turned to “NYU Secrets” and encountered a secret of another student, who was dismissed after reporting rape. In disbelief, Carly began a campaign to support students who run into issues with NYU Student Services when dealing with similar situations.

“Try to remember it was not your fault,” said Carly, sharing advice with other survivors. “It doesn’t matter what you were wearing, it doesn’t matter what substances you ingested, it doesn’t matter what time of day it is, it doesn’t matter who it is,” she continued.

Antonio’s story of surviving sexual violence begins prior to him coming to NYU. While on a trip with his friends, he was assaulted by one of them, with whom he shared a room. For years Antonio doubted the incident because of the stigma that cis-men don’t get assaulted, until his then-partner heard his story and said what happened to him wasn’t consensual.

Now, Antonio uses his experience to raise awareness of how sexual violence can affect anyone, regardless of their gender identity, assigned-at-birth sex or sexual orientation.

After figuring out the ways to deal with his experience and having found people to support him on his journey, Antonio urges other survivors to remember: “... don’t feel pressured to do it in a certain way or in a certain time. ... no matter the backlash or what other people might say, know that there are and will be people ready to help you and willing to support you.”

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We need more recognition to know that sexual assault happens regardless of the gender of the victim.

It’s valid and should be recognized for what it is. A lot of people don’t believe sexual assault is something that happens to males. Be aware of that.

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I opened up «NYU Secrets» and saw a secret from a young woman, who said she was raped. She called Wellness and Wellness told her to drink less.

I think as a university that claims to be helping students and claims to be standing up for victims it seemed very out of character.

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