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Evan Kupferberg drives to make a play against the College of Staten Island on Sunday.

The Violets concluded their season finishing second place in the ECAC.

Basketball teams finish seasons

By BOBBY WAGNER Sports Editor

March Madness was in full swing this weekend for NYU men’s and women’s basketball.

Both Violet squads ended their seasons, the men in the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship game and the women in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Basketball’s weekend began on Friday, as the women’s team played host to Virginia-Wesleyan College. The game was much closer than most anticipated, as Virginia-Wesleyan hung tough and only lost by a point 51-50.

Junior forward Megan Dawe led the way with 12 points on 6-7 shooting.

It appeared that the close game from Friday wore them out on Saturday. In their round two matchup against Amherst, the

Violets came out looking flat and proved to be clearly outmatched, losing by a final score of 70-47 on their home court. Their offense struggled to do much of anything in the first half, as they turned the ball over multiple times trying to feed Dawe in the post.

Star senior guard Melissa Peng was neutralized, as she scored just two points on 1-10 shooting in the game. Head coach Lauren Hall-Gregory, though disappointed in their loss, was pleased with her team’s 22-5 season.

“This was an outstanding season,” Hall-Gregory said. “I’m really proud of our team and these players, from where we started three years ago to where we are now.”

Dawe once again shone, especially in the second half, as she finished with a team-high 19 points. With a free throw late in the second half, she scored her

1,000th career point to a large ovation from the crowd.

The men’s team, disappointed to not be playing in the NCAA tournament alongside the women, still made the best of their ECAC tournament appearance. They took care of business in their game on Saturday against Rutgers University-Newark behind a strong game from junior forward Evan Kupferberg. Kupferberg bounced back from a tough night against Rutgers-Camden last week by pouring in 21 points and grabbing 16 boards.

In the championship game on Sunday, the game went into double overtime and the Violets lost a heartbreaker 84-80 to the College of Staten Island.

They battled back from an eightpoint deficit in the first half to tie things up at the end of the

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This weekend, the Leslie Entrepreneurs Lab hosted the fourth annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival, a two-day event meant to inspire students and showcase startups from current NYU students and alumni. The festival, which took place in the Stern School of Business and lasted throughout Friday and Saturday, featured a variety of speakers and gave attendees an opportunity to interact with veterans of the entrepreneurial industry.

The festival involved 1,200 people and hosted a handful of panels and roundtable discussions where attendees could field questions concerning startups. Other highlights of the festival included the Idea Hashathon, where competitors pitched their ideas to a panel of judges, and The Pitch, in which students showcased their alreadyexisting startups for the chance to win a $1,000 prize.

Frank Rimalovski, the executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute who helped

put together the festival, said he hoped attendees walked away having learned something new about entrepreneurship. He emphasized the need for startups to focus on the customer.

“Your startup is about your customer; it’s not about you and your idea,” Rimalovski said. “It’s great that you love your idea, but you need a lot of people to love your idea to make it into a business, and the only way you’re going to know that is by going out and talking with them.”

The idea that took first place in The Pitch competition was Ephemeral, a tattoo ink that is completely removable. Second place went to Mitley, a peer-to-peer music gear rental service, and third place to Baro, an on-demand rental service for ordinary items. CAS junior Lindsey Heatley, the co-founder of Mitley, said being an entrepreneur means changing the world to how one sees fit.

“It’s kind of our generation’s thing, that we’re not just

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Talking back to street sexual harassment

By DHRITI TANDON Staff Writer

Congress signed L.97-28 in 1981, officially declaring the second week of March “Women’s History Week.” With this established law, national organizations have decide that the month of March would be Women’s History Month. This year, female entrepreneurship is highlighted.

Female entrepreneurship represents a huge disparity within male-dominated industries.

CAS freshmen Sarah Habib believes that even today, women are discriminated against in the business and economics fields.

“Unfortunately, even in the 21st century, women don’t have the same support as men do, which is not fair,” Habib said.

“Women have the intelligence and power to participate in the business world.”

A Repeat Performance, an antique store, and Dirt Candy, a restaurant, are examples of the various successful businesses run by women in the East Village.

Dirt Candy features inventive vegetarian cooking. Since its opening, the restaurant has become one of the most popular healthy restaurants in New York City. Owner Amanda Cohen owes her success to her determination to run a successful restaurant business.

“Usually when I’m running Dirt Candy, I’m not thinking a whole lot about owning a vagina,” Cohen said. “I’m thinking about not failing. In the end, I

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By AMANDA MORRIS Contributing Writer

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In an effort to end street harassment, Hollaback, an activist organization, hosted nine speakers for their HollaRevolution 2015 event at The New School on Thursday. Speakers shared their experiences, performances and advice about coping with sexual harassment.

Deputy director of Hollaback Debjani Roy said the purpose of this event was to initiate conversation typically not had about this topic.

“We’re hoping to create a platform for people who are doing work in this area to talk about the ways in which they’re addressing street harassment,” Roy said.

Hollaback addressed street harassment, noting that while statistically women and girls face it more often, men are also burdened by harassment.

Muslim activist Linda Sarsour said the amount of clothing a woman is wearing does not warrant or excuse street harassment.

“Street harassment has nothing to do with what you’re wearing,” Sarsour said.

Feminista Jones, a mental health social worker, said women of color — particularly black women — tend to be harassed more often than white women.

“The problem in America is that we like to paint street harassment as being something that delicate white women experience at the hands of predator men of color,” Jones said. “I think that is not fair on two levels — one, there are other women that are in those

The NYU Department of Public Safety received reports of larceny, illegal substances and criminal mischief between March 1 and 6.

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CONNECT co-executive director QuentinWalcott discusses ideas about masculinity and the impact of street harassment. experiences and girls as well, and two, it’s not fair to paint all men of color as being predators.”

Jones had her first experience of being street harassed when she was 11 years old, and cited that black girls ages 10 to 13 are oftentimes targets.

Jones is now a blogger and activist fighting to educate youth on street harassment.

“Can we just make this a thing, like when you see something just say something?” Jones said.

Sarsour said bystanders have a responsibility to intervene during sexual harassment incidents.

“We have a responsibility to create the society that we want,” Sarsour said. “The way we address that is not by saying what the problem is — we know what

the problem is. How are we integrating ourselves into what the solution is?”

Panelists agreed that victims should speak up for themselves, and this is something that audience member Lindsey Ellefson, 23, tries to do often.

“I actually do have this theory that I should make every incident a teaching moment,” Ellefson said. “And there’s been a couple times when I was too scared to turn it into a teaching moment, because you do hear those horror stories of women that get stabbed or get followed to their apartments so I wouldn’t advocate doing that if you really feel unsafe.”

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At 8 a.m. on March 1, Public Safety received a report that the card reader in front of the entrance door at 726 Broadway was missing. The New York City Police Department filed a report.

At 9:20 a.m. on March 2, a staff member reported his laptop missing when he returned at 9:15 a.m. after having left it on his desk at 10 Astor Place at 9:02 a.m. The NYPD filed a report.

At 9:15 a.m. on March 3, a student reported a blood pressure monitor from her bag missing after having left it inside an unsecure locker on the fourth floor of the Silver Center for Arts and Science at 8 a.m. on March 2.

At 2:15 p.m. on March 3, a student reported his backpack missing at 2 p.m. after having left it at Furman Hall at 1:30 p.m.

At 8:10 p.m. on March 4, a staff member reported his bag full of dental instruments missing after having left it unattended at the NYU Dental Center between 6:45 and 8 p.m.

At 8:40 p.m. on March 4, a student reported that her wallet was missing from her dor-

mitory room in Carlyle Court Residence Hall between 3:30 and 8 p.m. The NYPD filed a report.

At 8:45 p.m. on March 4, a student reported her cellphone missing from a classroom at Warren Weaver Hall after having left it unattended between 6:15 and 7:10 p.m. The NYPD filed a report.

At 9:50 p.m. on March 4, a student reported his wallet missing from the printing area at Bobst Library after having left it unattended between 1:50 and 1:55 p.m.

All incidences are still under investigation.

Illegal Substance At 10:44 p.m. on March 6, Public Safety confiscated a small amount of marijuana from a dormitory room at Second Street Residence Hall. This incidence has been closed.

Criminal Mischief At 2:05 a.m. on March 6, Public Safety received a report from a staff member who said the window of his car was broken on the passenger seat after he left his car near the corner of Sullivan Street and Washington Square South on March 5 at 6 p.m. This incident has been closed with no identifiable suspect.

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trying to follow a pattern,” Heatley said. “We see problems of the world and we have the ability now, in this day and age, to take it upon ourselves and make things happen.”

First place in the Idea Hashathon was awarded to Steinhardt senior Noah Hyams and his idea for Studor, a platform which instantly connects students and tutors.

“According to a recent Forbes article, private tutoring will be a nearly $200 billion business globally by 2020,” Hyams said. “I believe that Studor will be at the front of that trend.”

The keynote speakers of the festival were Mark Leslie, founder and CEO of Veritas Software; Jason Finger, founder and former CEO of Seamless; and Jonathan

Wolfson, founder and CEO of Solazyme, all three of whom are NYU graduates. In his time on stage, Wolfson talked about the importance of failure in startups.

“Failure is tolerated,” Wolfson said. “If you’re not failing you are not trying hard enough.”

Peter Ryan, co-chair of the festival, told the crowd that the most rewarding part of the event was working alongside the volunteers who made the festival happen.

“It was to really tell the stories of all these entrepreneurs and really celebrate them,” Ryan said. “And also inspire those people that may not yet have a startup to actually launch their dream.”

Email Alex Bazeley at abazeley@nyunews.com.

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Dubin’s film career started in dorm

By AÏCHA FALL Contributing Writer

From living in the first official office of Def Jam Records to directing the music video of Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party),” Tisch alumnus Adam Dubin has experienced an unconventional college career.

Dubin graduated from NYU in 1989 with what he said were remarkable memories.

The popularity of MTV was growing during the early ’80s in New York City and aided by his education at NYU, Dubin was granted the opportunity to intern for small production companies under the first music television network.

“In terms of directing, NYU meant instant respect,” Dubin said. “When I would tell people that I’d gone to NYU there was this aura to it, like ‘Oh, Martin Scorsese went there,’ and everything that precedes it went into the name. At that time, everyone was aware of and conscious of this.”

Almost immediately after grad-

uating, Dubin began his most famous works, which include filming Beastie Boys music videos and Metallica concerts.

“The documentaries I did for Metallica, I think, captured one of the most epic bands of all time, and some very important and key times in their long career,” Dubin said. “It’s more mature work. I think it is an important piece of the history of concert filmmaking. I look at it as a tradition of rock ‘n’ roll filmmaking.”

Unlike many college students who decide to move off campus by junior year, Dubin lived in Weinstein Residence Hall for his entire college career. His roommate was record producer Rick Rubin, who founded Def Jam Records during his senior year and ran the company from the shared dorm room.

“The best part of our room being the office of Def Jam was that something always seemed to be happening all the time,” Dubin said. “The worst part was that if you wanted to go to sleep, you weren’t going to go to sleep.”

Russell Simmons, Run DMC,

Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J were some of the familiar faces at Weinstein during Rick’s time there. They even attended some of the parties that were thrown in the basement of the dorm.

“Back then, ‘flyering’ was social media, so we’d walk through the village and stick fliers on every pole, so everyone in the village knew about the party,” Dubin said. “Rubin would DJ, and because of his involvement in hip-hop, we had major hip-hop names come down to the dorm and get on the [microphones].”

This was a time when the drinking age was 18 and Weinstein was the epicenter of the music scene, as well as the birthplace of Def Jam Records.

“I feel like I should’ve been filming everything that was going on in that room,” Dubin said.

“I wasn’t even taking pictures.

Instead it was just happening, we were just living it. It’s all in some of my greatest memories.”

Email Aïcha Fall at features@nyunews.com.

Viewers ‘Enchanted’ by student musical

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By RIDDHI KERALIA Contributing Writer

“Enchanted by a Spell” is a modern-day fairy tale that reinterprets the classic story of love and chivalry into a narrative about feminism and personal bravery. Organized by the Steinhardt-Tisch Collaborative Musical Theater and performed on March 6 and 7 at the Black Box Theater, the musical subverts common clichés.

The play, written by Tisch senior Emily Lu, is about a prince and princess of two separate kingdoms who were declared to be a perfect match on the day of their births. The princess, who is born with a special birthmark, is blessed with the ability of eliminating all sense of worry from both kingdoms. Everything is perfect until a sorcerer kidnaps the princess and replaces her with her own daughter, forcing the true princess to fight her way back to where she belongs.

“My message was more targeted on women because the heroine of the play doesn’t need a prince to come save her at the end of the day,” Lu said. “She does whatever she wants to do and takes control of her life.”

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Adam Dubin co-directed the Beastie Boys’ music videos “Fight For Your Right” and “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.”

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“Enchanted by a Spell” ran at NYU’s Black Box Theater.

Lyricist Hali Alspach said she was inspired by the courageous personalities of the characters and wanted to create a score that paralleled this boldness.

“After I read the script, I liked how people are taking control of the fairy tale and how it wasn’t about the people following the norms or what they should be doing,” Alspach said.

“I like the modern spin of making your own decisions and that you don’t have to be what everyone wants you to be.”

The musical’s actors cite teamwork and a sense of appreciation for the production as sources of motivation.

Tisch junior Nawaf Nooruddin, who plays Prince Thomas, felt completely in character on stage, despite being nervous about performing.

“As a crew, we just clicked since the first day itself,”

Nooruddin said. “Singing up there and moving around was one of the greatest challenge because if you don’t have the techniques right, things just stop working and you start panicking, but you have to tell yourself not to panic.”

Tisch sophomore Katharine Nedder, who plays the princess, agrees that a functioning team made it possible to create a musical that combines common tropes with novel ideas.

“There is a collaborative effort from the cast and crew to make something that hasn’t ever been before on stage,” Nedder said.

“The play is like a typical fairy tale, with all the weird stuff happening in the middle. Everything was sort of backwards that made it really funny and new.”

Email Riddhi Keralia at features@nyunews.com.

don’t see myself or Dirt Candy as a success, I see us as the result of refusing to fail over and over again.”

Cohen stressed that the key to running a successful business is not dependent on one’s sex as much as it is affected by one’s willingness to work hard. Nevertheless, she does believe that female chefs are underrepresented considering the media’s emphasis on male chefs, but that the problem is being addressed.

“The big difference in the food world is that the press covers female chefs much less than it covers male chefs,” Cohen said. “That’s changing very slowly, but it is finally changing.”

A Repeat Performance, opened by Sharon Jane Smith and Beverly Bronson, is known for its eccentric antiques. While Smith still runs the shop, Bronson has extended her attention to a women’s shelter in Nepal called “House with Heart.”

Bronson notes that the Eastern and Western worlds have different perspectives on women’s education and entrepreneurship.

In the East Village, the latter perspective dominates.

“Women in the West are encouraged to follow their dreams, nothing is impossible

for them if they want to work for it,” Bronson said. “In the East, or at least here in Nepal, many women are uneducated and looked down upon as second class citizens.”

Despite loyal customers and a supportive landlord, Smith and Bronson face financial difficulties to keep the 26-yearold business running. Nevertheless, these problems are inherent to the neighborhood.

High rents, for example, have resulted in the struggles of many East Village businesses.

In Nepal, however, Bronson faced a set of financial challenges that found their roots in the social foundation of the society.

“This is a patriarchal society and women are not respected, so I had a tough time in the beginning,” Bronson said. “Many men in Nepal tried to cheat me in various ways — but I wasn’t born yesterday and they soon found that out.”

In the end, Bronson stresses the fact that one’s sex is not at all related to one’s ability to perform in life.

“I don’t see why it would be easier for a man to open one [business],” Bronson said.

“Anything men can do women can do just as well.”

Email Dhriti Tandon at features@nyunews.com.

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Track struggles in ECAC tourney

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By JONATHAN SCHIFMAN Contributing Writer

Over the weekend, the men and women’s track and field teams struggled during the highly competitive Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Indoor Championships at the 168th Street Armory Track. The competition pits the best athletes from each team in a variety of conferences against each other.

NYU sent 13 Violets to the championships — six from the men’s squad and seven from the women’s.

Over the two-day competition, the men’s team finished in 25th out of 56, while the women’s squad took 49th out of 60. The men scored 11 points in three events, putting them 31 points behind first-place Amherst College. In four events, the women scored five points, 56 behind Buffalo State College for the top spot.

The men’s team competed in the pole vault and the distance medley relay on day one of the championships, where senior Tom Longabaugh had his best performance of the season. He finished in sixth out of 21 competitors, setting a new personal best of 4.52 meters and breaking his previous top mark of 4.50.

Seniors Sebastian Oja and Zac Kish and sophomores Budd Brown and Nick Karam competed in the distance medley relay against 12 teams and came in second place

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Caroline Spring took fifth in the 500m at the ECAC DIII Indoor Championships. with a time of 10:09:26.

On day two of the championships, Kish and junior Max Avila took part in the 800-meter run, finishing in ninth and 10th, respectively. Kish barely beat his teammate, clocking in ahead of Avila by three-tenths of a second at 1:55.34.

In the women’s competition, only junior sprinter Kristina Harris, who participated in the 60-meter dash, raced on day one. Coming off a second-place finish in the same race the week before in the UAA Indoor Championships, Harris placed 32nd out of 35 racers in the tougher competition.

Senior Caroline Spring led the way on day two, posting a season best 1:18.72 in the 500-meter dash for a fifth-place finish. The time was only 1.3 seconds off of the NYU record that she set last year.

The Violets also had strong performances in the 800-meter run.

Freshman Ireland Gibson came in eighth out of 20 competitors with a personal best of 2:17.75, just short of an NYU record. Junior Sarah Sisk placed in 13th with a time of 2:21.66, but felt she was capable of a better performance.

“I’m coming off an injury from the end of cross country season

that really set me back in my training this season,” Sisk said.

Senior Alyssa Binczyk and juniors Becky Turlip and Lily Corsaro also competed in the championships. Corsaro participated in the 3,000-meter run, placing 17th out of 25 while setting a season-high time of 10:30.42. Binczyk and Turlip took part in the mile run, respectively finishing in 18th and 21st out of 27.

Turlip said she knew the competition would be stiff. However, she noticed that the participants always show good sportsmanship.

“Unlike with some other meets during the season, at ECACs when you’re put in a race you know the others around you are just as fast or faster,” Turlip said. “You can relate with the other runners, because you know they must have put in just as much work as you in order to get there.”

The women’s next competition will take place on March 20 in Tampa, Florida. The men’s team will compete beforehand in the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships on March 13 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Email Jonathan Schiffman at sports@nyunews.com.

Softball strikes out in opener

By KYLE LUTHER Deputy Sports Editor

The inaugural season of NYU’s varsity softball program got off to a rocky start this weekend as the team lost their first four games in Clermont, Florida.

The Violets opened the season scoreless against Elizabethtown College, losing 7-0 on Saturday.

Freshman pitcher Sage Scheiwiller got the start for the Violets but was pulled in the fourth inning after allowing seven runs, only four of which were earned.

Sophomore pitcher Jacqueline Tremblay shut Elizabethtown down for the rest of the game.

The Violets’ bats never came alive as the team only managed to get two hits, one of which was a triple by Scheiwiller in the fifth.

They were able to manage five runs in the second game, but still could not come away with the win, dropping their second game 8-5. NYU allowed one run at the

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top of the first, but answered in the bottom of the inning with two runs of their own. Emerson responded with four runs at the top of the second against Tremblay. The Violets played even with Emerson for the rest of the game, and came away with the loss.

After the two losses, infielder Kahala Bonsignore Jr. focused on how the team has already begun to improve on the field.

“I think we were all really excited to get out onto an actual field to play,” Bonsignore said.

“Our nerves got the better of us in our first game. Our second game we came out with so much more intensity, and we really started to prove to ourselves our potential as we get more experience on the field.”

The Violets continued to fight for their program’s first win, but fell short in both of their Sunday games. In the team’s weekend of firsts, sophomore infielder Molly

Webber picked up the program’s first home run with a three run bomb, helping the team to a good start against Transylvania University. The team could not get any runs across after the first, and the Pioneers handed the Violets their third loss 6-3.

In the last game of the road trip, the Violets fell to Thiel College 7-6. It was the closest game of the weekend. NYU capitalized on three Thiel errors in the second and fifth innings. In the top of the seventh, the Violets made a comeback scoring twice and tying the game 6-6 off of a double by Bonsignore and single from Val Schwein. However, their rally was not enough as the Tomcats responded in the bottom of the inning with three hits of their own that drove home the winning run, defeating the Violets 7-6.

Email Kyle Luther at kluther@nyunews.com.

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The basketball team accepts second place at the ECAC on Sunday.

Basketball builds for next season

second half — and that’s when the madness ensued. Both teams were dead even through another overtime period. A balanced scoring attack from Violets standouts Harris, Kupferberg and junior center Costis Gontikas was not enough to overcome the Dolphins’ resiliency. They finished with 26, 20 and 15 points respectively.

Junior guard Max Ralby, who was active on the boards by grabbing eight rebounds from the guard spot, expressed his disappointment for the loss.

“It was a really tough loss tonight,” Ralby said. “We fought really hard coming back from eight down at the end of the first half.

We just didn’t come up with the

big plays down the stretch.”

However, the Violets will surely have something to build on for the 2015-16 season, returning all five of their regular starters. Kupferberg, Gontikas, Harris, Ralby and forward Patrick Burns will all be seniors next year, and they will spearhead the Violets’ hopes for an NCAA championship.

“I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of this team with such a great group of guys,” Ralby said.

“We didn’t back down tonight. All I know is, we will use this game as a tool for next year and motivation to come back even stronger.”

Email Bobby Wagner at bwagner@nyunews.com.

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OPINION

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UNIVERSITY POLITICS STAFF EDITORIAL

GSOC demands unreasonable for NYU

By ANTHONY SGANGA Contributing Writer

One day away from a potential strike, it has become clear that the demands of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee are both excessive and unjustified. The union’s revised demands are “100 percent health care, support for student workers with families, tuition remission for working PhDs and fair annual raises.” These changes would affect over 1,000 graduate students who are NYU employees.

GSOC states: “NYU can afford this: for example, just half of one executive level NYU administrator’s salary can fund healthcare for all of us who currently receive no support.” Using NYU President John Sexton’s salary, which for 2014-15 is $1.5 million, would mean health care would cost the university approximately $750,000.

However, the employer contribution for health care to an employee in New York state is $4,865. Using this figure, this would equal $4.8 million for 1,000 graduate students. While not exorbitant, this is still not true to the union’s argument.

But what is exorbitant is the total

cost of the package the union is seeking. Tuition remission for working doctoral students would cost the university $49,728 per student in lost income. This would add up quickly.

The argument made by the GSOC is that NYU has a $399 million surplus, making the figures above feasible for the university. While the past year has been successful for NYU, this number is an outlier, not the norm. In 2013 and 2012, NYU’s surplus has been $112 million and $50 million, respectively .

In his email to the university, NYU provost David McLaughlin warned about the financial implications such a deal could have on the university. “We cannot, however, agree to an unreasonable settlement that our university cannot afford,” McLaughlin, respectively.

Union members and students alike have scoffed at this. While NYU could,

in theory, afford the loss in revenue using this year’s numbers, in previous years the total would put the university in the red. Ultimately, there is no guarantee that NYU will have sizable surpluses in the coming years, making these costs unsustainable.

But remove projected costs for a minute and consider a larger question. What entitles these students to raises? For all intents and purposes, when viewed in the spectrum of what they do — teaching and conduct research — these students are entry level. When compared to adjuncts, associate professors and tenured faculty, teaching assistants are handsomely compensated — they receive the same rate that adjuncts are given per teaching contact hour. This doesn’t quite back up the argument that graduate students are unappreciated.

With a package that offers tuition remission and a stipend, union members have little to complain about.

GSOC should accept the university’s offer and settle negotiations before embarking on a needless strike that will hurt both students and NYU. Email Anthony Sganga at opinion@nyunews.com.

CITY POLITICS

De Blasio political maneuvers admirable

By RICHARD SHU Deputy Copy Chief

Last Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio officially announced that he would not be participating in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. This announcement came on the heels of his appearance in a Queens parade organized by St. Pat’s For All, which advocates for greater representation of gender and sexual minority groups in the larger Fifth Avenue parade. Citing the Manhattan parade organizers’ failure to include enough LGBTQ representation in the parade, de Blasio’s motivation behind his non-participation is clear — he is using his presence as political leverage in a way that few other city mayors can.

New York City has a long history of exceptionally outspoken mayors.

Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945, made his voice heard far beyond the city limits. Whether backing New Deal legislation in Congress or publicly denouncing the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler, LaGuardia’s role on the national and international stages was just as important as his more local efforts. His radio broadcasts, much

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in the vein of President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt’s fireside chats, brought LaGuardia’s politics directly into the home of the average New Yorker, making distant affairs seem much closer.

De Blasio is trying to bring back some of that old campaigning spirit.

He made headlines last December when he stood with the Eric Garner protestors, much to the chagrin of the police. Now, with his refusal to participate in the St. Patrick’s Day parade, de Blasio has highlighted the inequalities inherent in a longstanding local tradition. No matter how divisive, in every opportunity he looks to make his positions known — an admirable stance compared to the questiondodging that plagues national politics.

It is hard to say what effect this conviction has had on New York voters. His approval rating as of January

was around 49 percent, with a clear racial divide between white voters who mostly disapprove of him, and black and Hispanic voters mostly approving. New York City voter turnout has consistently been lower than the statewide average, with just 21 percent participation in the 2014 midterm elections, as opposed to 31 percent statewide. These low turnouts are reflective of larger nationwide trends — Americans, as a whole, are just becoming less interested in government.

But the fruits of de Blasio’s style of combative politicking have yet to truly be seen. His stance in the Eric Garner case has earned him some attention that may follow him into the next election cycle. With the St. Patrick’s Day parade, De Blasio has found a new arena in which to shake some hands and change some minds.

New York City, long seen as a beacon for American modernity, is lucky to have a mayor so willing to confront the problems of the day. In this day of political disaffection, we need him now more than ever.

Email Richard Shu at opinion@nyunews.com.

Harassment must not lead to censorship

The latest online platform under fire for facilitating cyberbullying is Yik Yak, an anonymous social media app. The forum allows users to see posts, called yaks, shared in a 1.5-mile radius — making it ideal for college campuses. Much like NYU Secrets, the app allows students to express their thoughts and receive feedback without being named.

The founders of the app “hoped to create a more democratic social media network” that would allow any student to have their opinions shared, regardless of the number of followers they have. Yet, like all anonymous forums, some users post negative comments about fellow students or professors that are then voted on by users. While this platform may make insensitive, tweet-length comments about professors seem palatable, Yik Yak is the latest bullying tool. This type of abuse will not be stopped until individuals come to realize that, while anonymous comments may not have consequences for them, they do significantly affect the people they are directed toward.

Margaret Crouch, a professor at Eastern Michigan University, threatened to involve lawyers after she saw hurtful comments about her on Yik Yak, which made her feel as if she had been sexually harassed and verbally abused. While legal action is not a realistic solution, this type of inappropriate behavior must be curtailed. The Internet encourages verbal one-upmanship as users become increasingly more insulting while trying to be funny. The price paid for a democratic and unfiltered platform is that all thoughts — from the most intelligent to the obscenely vulgar — have the same visibility.

The abuse directed toward Crouch is neither caused by nor unique to Yik Yak. Attempting to ban these platforms amounts to censorship and is useless, as a new one will appear soon after. If the app should be banned because of the potential for abuse, cellphones should be illegal because they are sometimes used to plan crimes. Users are encouraged to report offensive yaks to moderators, but removal occurs only after the message is posted read. In a positive attempt to increase thoughtfulness among users, Yik Yak shows a warning before posting if a yak contains an offensive word.

When using these anonymous apps, it is important to remember that posts can have real-life implications that negatively affect people. That said, issues with rude messages should not be directed toward the medium. Users have a moral responsibility to downvote offensive yaks that bully other students or professors — once a yak is at negative five it is removed from the app. Like most Internet innovations, Yik Yak is a double-edged sword. Provided that users exercise good judgment and a certain degree of maturity, Yik Yak is an entertaining and creative way for students to foster community.

Email the WSN Editorial Board at editboard@nyunews.com.

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