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‘Insult to injury’: Mills owns up to shooting threat response
Administrators addressed “swatting” protocols and federal funding threats at the first University Senate meeting of the academic year.
The Soapbox: Mayor-elect stabbed in Germany, hikers stranded in China and hotel collapse in Spain
The Soapbox is a weekly column by WSN covering major news developments at NYU’s campuses and study away sites abroad. Global consciousness for a global university.
Student gov’t launches plan for accessible advising and tech platforms
The Integrated Student Experience program aims to consolidate and clarify information across NYU’s websites, apps and departments.
Beyond NYU: For Ocean Vuong, ‘literature is always political’
GSAS alum and award-winning author Ocean Vuong spoke to WSN about his new novel and how he approaches the classroom as an NYU professor.
Students and faculty commence ‘solidarity fast’ in Bobst
Two on-campus organizations plan to lead a fast every Wednesday through the rest of the semester, aiming to bring awareness to famine in Gaza.
NSA withdraws from NYU Tandon career fair
The cancellation follows a student petition criticizing the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance and sharing of data with Israeli intelligence.
Conservative panelists talk campus free speech at Federalist Society event
At the recently reinstated discussion, panelists criticized elite universities’ responses to protests following Oct. 7, 2023.
Students join hundreds in citywide Oct. 7 protest
The demonstration called for divestment from Israel and follows two years of heightened protest at NYU and across New York City.
Campus Cash program ends due to low engagement
The summer semester marked the last time students without a meal plan could use their NYU IDs at on-campus dining locations.
Students walk out of Berlin safety training
A police officer reportedly discouraged students from using pro-Palestinian phrases and presented racially stereotyped imagery at the mandatory event.
NYU Law launches Democracy Project
The program, which began this semester, will support research on growing polarization and expansions of executive power.
Stern students test AI employees
A Stern MBA program collaborated with Microsoft for a study that found cost-saving potential when startups use artificial intelligence to do practical work.
