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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 3
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013
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Ravens, 49ers vie for supremacy in Super Bowl XLVII Students gathered in dorm rooms, study lounges and around computer monitors on Sunday to watch the Baltimore Ravens take on the San Francisco 49ers in the 47th Super Bowl. Despite a delay due to a power outage in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the battle on the New Orleans gridiron commanded the attention of students until late in the evening.
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Reorganization of university bus routes facilitates student travel By NEELA QADIR
The spring semester brought many changes to NYU, including modifcations to the NYU bus routes. Route E and a new line Route F be-
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The easily identifiable NYU buses will soon populate a different route.
gan operation on Jan. 27. According to Fred S. Barlow, assistant director of Public Safety and Transportation, the bus routes had to be altered because the city is permanently closing 25th Street between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue to create Baruch College’s public plaza. In addition, Asser Levy Place is scheduled to close in the upcoming months. “[NYU] has therefore changed the way that it provides scheduled university transportation route service to bus stop locations north of 14th street,” Barlow said. Route E has been changed because of road closures and now provides service seven days a week. The route travels in a counterclockwise loop, first stopping on 14th Street at Third Avenue before continuing along
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Professors remember life of Edward Koch By VERONICA CARCHEDI
Former New York City mayor Edward Koch died last Friday from congestive heart failure at the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital. He was 88. The former mayor, known for his boisterous personality, had been in and out of hospitals for the past week. Koch attended the NYU School of Law beginning in 1946. According to Jonathan Soffer, an associate professor of history at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and author of the book “Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City,” it was at NYU that Koch became connected to Greenwich Village. He started his political career in the Village as a city councilman and was part of a community movement to defend Washington
Square Park against redevelopment. Koch ran for mayor in 1977 and served for three terms until 1989. Despite health problems since that time, he remained an active member of public life. Mitchell Moss, the Henry Hart Rice professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, remembers being in New York during Koch’s first mayoral race. “I think Koch had a larger than life personality,” Moss said. “He understood New Yorkers and understood that New Yorkers enjoyed having a mayor with personality. I think another part is that, since he left public life, he has touched New Yorkers by being a food critic, a movie critic, a political participant. What made
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE: CSA returns to the Greenhouse after a two year long hiatus, bringing fresh, local foods much closer to home thanks to NYU students’ efforts. CSA on PG. 3
WSN EDITORIAL BOARD: Nominee Chuck Hagel’s confirmation process was not only arduous and severe, but unnecessarily so. In an effort to screen the candidate, the committee placed him through a set of questions unrelated to the actual responsibilities of the next Secretary of Defense.
LANGONE PROFESSOR RECEIVES NATIONAL ACCOLADE: Microbiology professor Jan Vilcek received the national Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama at a White House reception last Friday. VILCEK on PG. 4
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