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Giants fans parade after big win By Tony Chau
By Claire Zajdel
Just a day after their 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots, the New York Giants received a warm welcome home Tuesday morning. This was the team’s second ticker-tape parade up the famed Canyon of Heroes in the last four years. Despite temperatures hovering around the low to mid-40s, nearly a million fans came out to celebrate the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl championship. Tennis balls and rolls of toilet paper were thrown from one side of the street to the other as fans waited for the team. They began filing in hours before the official 11 a.m. start time. For some, this waiting interval was the best part. “The most memorable part of the parade was the fact that all the confetti I saw from where
NYU opened the doors of its new Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life this semester. In June 2009, the university announced its plans to build a place where students can grow spiritually, academically, psychologically and socially. Though the center was planned to start operation in summer of 2012, it opened ahead of schedule at the end of January. Located next to the Kimmel Center for University Life, it currently houses religious meeting spaces, prayer rooms, auditoriums, classrooms and lounges for student use. The university purchased the former site of the NYU Catholic Center from the Archdiocese of New York. “It is going to be a beautiful place for students of many back-
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Fans parade through New York City streets to celebrate the Giants’ fourth Super Bowl win.
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Violets on best start in 19 years Fashion takes the streets By John Axelrod
By Shannon Loughran
NYU men’s basketball defeated SUNY New Paltz 7361 last night and are off to their best start since the 1992-93 season. Despite having only eight players, the New Paltz Hawks played tough in the first half and earned a fourpoint lead with just under 10 minutes left. However, the Hawks did not stay ahead for long. A three-pointer from senior forward Ben Dorman and a lay-up by senior captain Andy Stein put the Violets back in the lead. “I thought it was a good challenge for our guys,” head coach Joe Nesci said. “New Paltz had a game plan
Kicking off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Feb. 2, photographer Adam Katz Sinding displayed an exhibit of street style photographs focusing on the upcoming trends for 2012. Scene on the Street was curated by Elle fashion editor Sydney Wasserman and was presented at the W Hotel in Times Square. It used to be that the only source of fashion inspiration came from the images of celebrities and supermodels wearing designer duds on the glossy pages of Vogue. Supermodels and celebrities, it seems, have now been replaced by popular style bloggers. Bill Cunningham of The New York Times and Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist have revolutionized the way people think about style. Street photog-
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raphers like Cunningham and Schuman have taken fashion off the runways and on to the streets, capturing images of the sartorially blessed around the globe. In the past few years, street style photography and blogging have become very popular in the fashion industry, which Sinding attributes to Schuman’s blog. “People like to have a voice,” Sinding said. “It’s just like Facebook but telling a different story.” Similarly, fashion bloggers like Rumi Neely of the blog Fashion Toast or Leandra Medine of The Man Repeller have changed the way people think about fashion. Fashionistas log on daily to check out what their favorite blogger is wearing and hope to one day be stopped on the street by Schuman.
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Fans celebrate Giants’ victory I was standing was homemade,” said John Valiplackal, CAS freshman and first-time parade goer. “High-powered law firms, families living in apartments, shop workers, all joined together to celebrate their Giants victory [by] throwing shredded paper, toilet paper and anything that resembled confetti to the people in the crowds,” he added. The anticipation turned into pure ecstasy as soon as the floats began rolling up Broadway. The players drew applause and cheers, including quarterback Eli Manning who received the most tumultuous M.V.P. chants. “The atmosphere was exhilarating,” New York City resident Lauren Marino, 17, said. “Being surrounded by many
Giants fans got my blood pumping and made me glad I went. The ongoing chants were so hilarious I couldn’t help but join in as well.” The parade concluded with a ceremony at City Hall. Mayor Bloomberg awarded each member of the team a key to the city. “One of the things I was impressed about was watching these players on stage genuinely being as excited to see us as we were to see them,” said Sara Steinweiss, 34, one of the 250 people to receive a ticket for the ceremony. “Surreal is the only word I could use for it. I’m like on cloud nine.” Tony Chau is a deputy city/state editor. Email him at tchau@nyunews.com.
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New space for spiritual life
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NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life opened its doors last month. grounds to come together,” Marcella Hall, associate director of the Center for Spiritual Life, said. “It’s really going to be a dream come true.” Nancy Morrison, vice president of Academic Initiatives and Special Projects, said the Center was part of an initiative by the provost’s office to maximize and renovate spaces for students. “The Kimmel Center has become increasingly crowded and overbooked,” she said. “We realized that over one-fourth of all of the clubs in Kimmel were religious or for spiritual life. We wanted to give them a space of their own, and in turn, alleviate some of the pressure off of Kimmel. However, there are many classrooms here too. It’s really a multipurpose center, based off of both spiritual and secular need.” In fact, the fourth and fifth floors of the center are a sanctuary for spiritual groups on campus. In addition to prayer rooms, it will hold washrooms for Muslim worship,
meditation area, office spaces and meeting rooms. The first floor of the Center, where NYU’s Catholic Center will be located, will not be open until next fall, Morrison said. It is being commissioned in conjunction with the Archdiocese of New York. Imam Khalid Latif, executive director and chaplain for the Islamic Center at NYU, said the Muslim community used to rent space in the basement of St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue before the Center opened. The NYU Muslim community is excited to have a place to call their own, he added. “It is a place for meditation, but there are common areas that bring many different vibes to the environment,” he said. “It’s a place for people to organically come together. Cross-community work will facilitate conversation among different faiths and groups.” Claire Zajdel is a staff writer. Email her at university@nyunews.com.
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New office tower to arrive in Cooper Square By Katherine Hieber Demolition began late this past summer on the plot between Third and Fourth avenues. But recent progress to remove the 1950s building has taken some residents by surprise. “I don’t really remember what the building there was, but I just came back from break and it was gone,” said Gallatin student Michael Garate, a Third Avenue North resident. Real estate development and management company Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. was chosen by Cooper Union out of two dozen developers to build a new 12-story office tower. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, the new tower replaces Cooper Union’s former engineering building and the New York Film Academy Café. The
new building will be approximately 400,000 square feet. The upper floors will serve as commercial space with the ground floor intended for retail and educational use. A portion of the land will also be set aside for a public plaza. Megyn Nordt, an East Village resident and an employee at Village Scandal, a boutique near the construction site, finds the use of space unusual for the area. “It’s weird that it’s going to be office space,” Nordt said. “When I think corporate, I think downtown, Wall Street. But people in suits on St. Marks seem weird.” Developer Edward Minskoff plans to rent out the space for $88 per square foot to $115 per square foot, depending on the floor. The new building is adjacent to the Astor Place subway station, which of-
fers easy access to Penn Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal as well as popular residential neighborhoods where company employees may live. So far, the clamor of construction does not seem to be too disruptive to the neighborhood. “It’s not that bothersome,” Tisch freshman Nick Blatt, who lives in Founders residence hall, said. “You can’t really hear it a block or so away and you can’t hear from my room.” However, the old structure has only just been demolished, and Blatt said he worries the noise level will increase once new floors start going up. The building is scheduled to be finished and occupied by 2013. Katherine Hieber is a contributing writer. Email her at cstate@nyunews.com.
Debate: should gov’t tackle obesity? By Eric Benson The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts hosted the first Intelligence Squared Debate of the semester yesterday evening. Four participants wrangled over the role of government in combatting obesity. In support of the motion that the government should play a role in fighting obesity was David Satcher, the 16th Surgeon General of the United States, former director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Pamela Peeke, chief lifestyle expert for WebMD, a New York Times best-selling author and chief medical correspondent for nutrition and fitness for Discovery Health TV was also in support. Against the motion were John Stossel, a 19 Emmy Award-winning Fox business anchor, commentator and host of “Stossel” and Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado and author of “The Obesity Myth.”
Currently, according to U.S. Government data, over 33 percent of adults and 17 percent of children are obese. The U.S. spends almost $150 billion annually to combat these climbing rates. On the opposing side, the debaters argued that whenever the government tries to combat obesity, they do it wrong. “Government interventions to produce weight loss simply do not work, and we need to stop telling people that their bodies are pathological,” Campos said. In rebuttal, Peeke said, all in all, the point of government intervention is to promote health. “The point here is not to lose weight,” Peeke said. “The point is to improve health. This has everything to do with the government because without it where are the parks, sidewalks and playgrounds that exercise thrive on?” Surya Menon, a CAS freshman and an audience member, said she feels as though the debate was a way to foster productive dialogue. “After hearing so much on the First Lady’s initiative to take action
on obesity, I was interested to hear how the side stating obesity isn’t the government’s business frames their argument,” Menon said. Audience member Anthony Chan, a Steinhardt freshman, said obesity is a problem not only in the U.S., but also in China. “I feel that obesity is a growing problem not only in the US, but around the world as well, including China, where I have lived for the past four years,” Chan said. “I feel that it is one of those issues that is not discussed enough when it is among us everyday.” In the end, the side against the motion emerged victorious. Before the debate, 19 percent of audience members were for the can side while 35 percent supported the con side at the conclusion of the debate. On the pro side, no minds were changed, with 55 percent of audience members supporting the side before and after the debate. The remaining 10 percent were still undecided at the conclusion of the debate. Eric Benson is a deputy university editor. Email him at ebenson@nyunews.com
NYU celebrates Black Heritage Month By Arielle Levine Students of the NYU community took a glimpse into a seldomacknowledged segment of American life: child abuse. NYU and Women of Excellence, Strength & Tenacity Inc. hosted Knowing Your Element: A Conversation About Child Abuse to celebrate African Heritage Month and commemorate African-American HIV/ AIDS Awareness Day. The event featured Denise Flemming in her one-woman show “Winterkill,” portraying a fictional account of a prostitute and multiple personalities that resulted from a horrific abuse. As the sole creator and performer of this play, Flemming said she wanted to open up
a dialogue around issues of abuse, particularly for children who have experienced it. “What you give to children truly affects them for their entire lives,” Flemming said. “Whether it be good or whether it be bad, it determines and formulates the kind of adults they will become.” Introducing her work, Flemming said she wrote this play after interviewing several female prostitutes she lived with in New York City. “I chose to write about something that I found so devastating because I was surrounded by so much love and great parenting, that I couldn’t imagine how children survived without having that,” she said. Lisbel Rodriguez, a member of WEST and organizer of the event,
stressed the importance of educating people about the issue of child abuse. “Knowledge is power, so once you know better you must do better,” Rodriguez said. She said she hopes the event will open people’s eyes and show that there are different aspects of child abuse: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. “[The event is a] great way to bring different communities together across NYU and reach the most people possible,” WEST president Kelsie Price said. “Art is a great way to raise awareness about child abuse.” Arielle Levine is a contributing writer. Email her at university@nyunews.com.
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It is hard to come across a fashion publication now without a street style section; even Vogue, once reserved for models, has hopped on the bandwagon. “It’s about experiencing a moment,” said Sinding, who cites the blog JAK & JIL and the earlier photos of Garance Doré as his greatest sources of inspiration. After spending some time in Paris in 2005, Sinding began his street photography blog, Le 21ème Arrondissement, in Oct. 2007 “to do something different for Seattle.” Sinding said there is no real ap-
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proach to street style photography: “It’s about the details.” The trends anticipated for 2012, as depicted in the exhibit, include leather jackets, bra tops, geometric prints, yearround shorts and the polished button-up. Sinding said Wasserman was responsible for choosing the trends she translated from his photographs. Sinding stresses that style is not about dressing entirely in expensive designer clothes. “I like people who look like individuals and are not dressing to impress people,” he said.
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Walking around NYU’s Greenwich Village campus, it is evident that students are influenced by these trending style blogs and have fashion on their minds. LSP sophomore Natasha Turk cited The Man Repeller and HonestlyWTF as her most frequently read style blogs. “I really like Leandra Medine from The Man Repeller only because a lot of blogs seem quite repetitive, but The Man Repeller is actually enjoyable,” Turk, said. “HonestlyWTF I read everyday because they fo-
cus on style as a whole rather than just clothes.” Turk also said she reads Kate Loves Me, WhoWhatWear, JAK & JIL, Le Fashion and Streetfsn, which Sinding also said is his visual preference. With New York Fashion Week starting up this week, bloggers and style photographers are undoubtedly gearing up with anticipation for various Lincoln Center sightings. Shannon Loughran is beauty and style editor. Email her at sloughran@nyunews.com.
New exhibition displays jewelry as art
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Metallic accents can transform a boring barrette.
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By Emily McDermott By Rachel Perlman Hair accessories are an absolute must for amplifying an otherwise blasé outfit. A pop of color or metallic accent is undervalued but fashionable. Your mother probably told you that your hair accessory should match your outfit — I say no. For those afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves, here is a subtler way to show your Valentine’s Day spirit. Materials: 1. A flat-backed barrette 2. Craft glue 3. Mirror ovals from notions store 4. Heart-shaped buttons from notions store 5. A hammer 6. A box
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Directions: 1. Put all of the supplies in a box to make sure no broken mirror pieces get on the floor. 2. Take the mirror ovals and hammer them. Do not hammer too quickly or the mirror will break into unusable, small bits. Broken mirror edges will not be sharp. 3. Position broken pieces as desired on the barrette, securing it by putting tacky glue on the back of the mirror piece and on the barrette. 4. Let the mirror piece dry for a minute, and then continue placing the pieces haphazardly along the barrette. Make sure there are no pieces hanging off of the barrette for a more polished look. 5. Once all the mirror pieces are in place and the entire barrette is covered, glue the heart buttons in the desired positions. 6. Let the barrette dry for 10 minutes, and then remove any excess stringy glue. Wait another hour to dry thoroughly, and you are ready for Valentine’s Day.
Rachel Perlman is a contributing writer. Email her at b/style@nyunews.com.
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Jewelry has always been a form of expression, serving as an artistic outlet for both women and men. Jewelry is an art form of sculpture and innovation, varying from simply functional to creatively representational. On display at the Museum of Art and Design are 75 pieces of jewelry by over 70 artists from around the world in the exhibition. The exhibit, Hanging Around: Necklaces from the MAD Collection, consists of primarily necklaces and is on view until May 21. While some of the necklaces on view represent typical chain and pendant combinations, many are unique and diverse pieces of art from the museum’s collection. Artists have employed techniques like papier mâché and an assemblage of Lego bricks. Some necklaces hang while others stand on their own as self-sustained sculptures. “These free interpretations of this ancient form encourage us to reconsider the role of the necklace as more than an accessory or a status symbol, but as a reflection of our physical and social environment,” MAD’s curator of jewelry Ursula Ilse-Neuman said. A necklace titled “Siberian Necklace #1,” by Dutch designer
Ted Noten, is composed of 18-karat gold chains linking together glass spheres. The spheres encapsulate various trinkets and objects including a miniature gold pistol, a resin-encased housefly with a diamond, grasshoppers, birch wood and a synthetic ruby. Ted Muehling’s piece, “Thorn Necklace,” appears to be a direct allusion to the crown of thorns Jesus Christ supposedly wore. The designer’s necklace is made of silver thorns joined in a circle, complete with a miniature droplet of blood serving as the pendant hanging front and center. Though not all the pieces on display are wearable, they are all works of expressive art. The designers used the creation of jewelry as a form to express themselves, just as many NYU students adorn their outfits with necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings to make personal statements. “I use jewelry to express myself by wearing items that aren’t
generic,” CAS junior Evelyn Ng said. “I wear things that used to be my mom’s because they have sentimental value, and they’re just a part of me.” Steinhardt sophomore Sam Stevenson said she believes accessories are more than just a wardrobe choice. “Accessories add to my wardrobe and my identity as a whole,” he said, sporting a Timex Vintage Field Army Watch and bracelet made of plant seeds. “Choosing an accessory says a lot about you because they’re very personalized.” The jewelry on display at MAD serves as a wealth of inspiration. From necklaces made of traditional goldsmith materials to neck piece sculptures made of fruit wrapping paper, Hanging Around reinforces the basic ideas of being bold and indulging in the creativity of fashion. Emily McDermott is a staff writer. Email her a b/style@nyunews.com.
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At the Museum of Art and Design, 75 pieces are on display.
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Versatile spring florals update the trend
By Rachel Sanderson
While floral prints may not be a groundbreaking springtime trend, it did not stop designers from displaying their flowery designs on this season’s spring runways. From Dolce & Gabbana’s floral printed bustiers to Erdem’s demure floral dresses, you were hard-pressed to find a show without floral prints. Although this playful pattern is common for spring, new ways to wear florals have emerged. Many designers creatively used florals in their collections. Roberto Cavalli created unique and vibrant floral printed blazers that he previewed on the runway for his Spring 2012 collection.
The floral print blazer’s popularity has blossomed and can now be found in a variety of stores. The versatility of a blazer combined with the playfulness of a flowery print makes this piece a spring staple. It can easily be paired with both skinny and high-wasted flared jeans, a pant in a bright hue or a solid-colored maxi skirt for a daytime look. For a night out, you can toss the blazer over your favorite embellished party dress. Do not feel obligated to splurge on a couture blazer when you can find one for a more reasonable price. Contemporary designers such as Free People, Rebecca Minkoff and Juicy Couture have available versions of this trend, as do major retailers like Forever21, Topshop, Zara, Urban Outfitters and online websites asos.com and modcloth.com. To acquire this spring trend just walk into a big-name retail store on Broadway in SoHo or a shop in your local mall and search the racks for a floral printed blazer.
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Avoid the cold with alternative exercises By Kayla Keegan
The cold weather may seem like a good excuse to skip taking a jog or walking over to the gym, but avoiding exercise all winter can be disastrous to your health. Stay in shape without facing the elements with these indoor exercise options.
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1. Yoga to the People
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Located in the heart of the East Village, this studio provides a serene atmosphere and a good workout. No prior Yoga experience is necessary. The studio requests $10 donations for each class, but you can donate as much or as little as you want. The daily sessions are about an hour long. Mat rentals are available for $2 and water bottles are provided for $1. Walk to 12 St. Marks Pl. for an hour of pure tranquility while burning calories and sculpting muscles.
This video provides a workout promoted by the perfectly chiseled Kelly Ripa, guaranteeing results in just eight workouts. This intense program has been featured in People’s Style Watch, Vanity Fair and Bravo TV. The 57-minute session incorporates isometric exercises and intense stretching to help you develop a strong core and become flexible. You can pop it in a DVD player and have an intense workout without leaving your dorm room. Free 30-day trials and $24.95 DVDs can be ordered at physique57.com. If you use it regularly the system is worth the price.
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3. Rock Climbing at Palladium Athletic Facility Palladium’s 30-foot high nicros wall and bouldering cave can bring fun and excitement into your daily routine. New climber? There are many Palladium rock wall experts who will help make your climb as safe as possible. The Palladium staff provides climbing shoes and harnesses, and the wall is free for NYU students. The novelty of this exercise makes it feel more like fun than work, but it still burns calories and builds muscles.
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Dance lessons are a fun way to develop rhythm and break a sweat. Re-Inventing Self Expression offers salsa, zumba, tango, hip hop and belly dancing classes all for under $20 a session. Grab a friend and learn basic dancing techniques while burning calories and meeting new people. All experience levels are welcome. Classes meet at 500 8th Ave.
On a strict budget and don’t feel like wandering over to the gym? Make use of your dorm room resources for an effective workout. Use your filled backpack for added resistance while doing squats. Your desk can be used for modified push-ups and tricep dips. Add an ab element by doing sets of bicycle crunches, regular crunches and sit-ups. For a cardio workout, purchase a jump rope. If you don’t have enough space for a jump rope, jumping jacks are a great way to increase your heart rate. For more information on dorm room exercises, visit livestrong.com.
Kayla Keegan is a contributing writer. Email her at b/style@nyunews.com.
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OPINION
edited by olivia gonzalez opinion@nyunews.com
nutrition
Fro-Yo nutritional values are deceptive By Elizabeth Brody For many people, frozen yogurt is thought to be a healthy alternative to ice cream. I have never even heard another NYU student or frozen yogurt connoisseur draw attention to the soaring sugar content or misleading healthy labels commonly associated with frozen yogurt. The empty sugars and simple carbohydrates in frozen yogurts are broken down and saved for later — that is, converted into fat — if you don’t use them during exercise post-consumption. I’m not saying people should stop eating frozen yogurt. However, there are a few things they might not want to know about their favorite frozen snack. I interviewed numerous NYU students. Most of the them thought that frozen yogurt is more of a weekly or monthly treat than a daily snack. Given these students’ proximity to campus and dorms, the reigning favorite yogurt spots were 16 Handles and Pinkberry. When I asked why these yogurt places were top picks, the taste of the yogurt and topping variety seemed to be of the most importance.
Based on the popularity of these two specific yogurt chains, I was curious to look into what’s really in the yogurt beyond the façade of those active bacterial cultures and claims of probiotic bliss. Simply navigating through the company websites, one can easily find the nutritional data for every flavor of yogurt from both 16 Handles and Pinkberry. Up until a point. It is unsettling that 16 Handles does not provide information beyond calorie count and macrobiotic breakdown of their yogurt flavors (grams of fat, carbohydrates, sugar and protein). Pinkberry, on the other hand, has a complete ingredient breakdown for each product. For example, one can find what the original flavor is composed of simply by accessing Pinkberry’s online nutrition table. Their ingredients essentially translate to a slimmer form of milk and sugar, making this frozen yogurt the skim milk and Splenda version of other companies’ whole milk and sugar. However, not all frozen yogurt is created equal. Companies that do not give such extensive nutritional information (such as 16
Handles) can hide information that consumers should know. Certain yogurt shops have been using yogurt formulas and powders containing trace amounts of partially hydrogenated oils — or trans fats — to create their healthy frozen yogurts. Apparently, trace amounts do not warrant a warning to customers on the label either. Despite the partially hydrogenated oils used in the product, the label can legally state 0g trans fat if there are less than 0.5 grams per serving. Consumers have a right to know exactly what they are ingesting. Next time you decide to feed your frozen yogurt craving, be conscious of exactly what toppings you add to your frozen probiotic bliss. Hey, maybe if you’re crazy, you’ll be willing to try something a bit more au naturale. However, if you do plan on regularly keeping this treat in your diet, I urge you to do some research. Consider what you’re putting into your body and the negative impact it could potentially have. Elizabeth Brody is a contributing columnist. Email her at opinion@nyunews.com.
Health
Library naps detrimental to health By Richard Zhang At three in the morning, if you go to the lower levels of Bobst Library, you’ll see quite a number of tired people sleeping on the tables or couches. I decided to approach one of the library sleep-in students. An NYU junior under the alias X accepted my surprise interview. “I have an internship during the day, so I have to stay until two or three to catch up on my school work,” X said, stretching his fatigued body, “ And if I get really tired, I simply sleep on the table.” Sleeping in a public space like the library is not unusual for college students. American dancer Agnes DeMill once said, “I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.” The couches and tables in Bobst are “horizontal” enough for exhausted students. Nevertheless, one should sleep in the library
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as few times as possible because, surprisingly, the practice can lead to various health issues. When sleeping in the library, people do not have very many options with respect to sleeping positions. Two common positions are placing one’s head upon folded arms on the table, or to sit on the couch with one’s head resting against the back of the couch. Both sleeping positions can potentially injure the spine. A human’s spine is naturally curved, but poor sleeping position can deform the natural curvature. To be more specific, when you lay your head on a table, you exert more stress to the backbone, making it more curved than it should be. And when you lean your head against the couch, you severely misalign your spine. Direct effects of spinal deformation is back pain and neck muscle strain. During the interview, X admitted his neck is often in pain after he takes a nap on the table. Furthermore, the library is very bright. The hormone that
makes us sleepy is known as melatonin. The daylight, particularly blue light, limits the secretion of melatonin, keeping us awake during the day. At night, the shortage of light encourages the secretion of melatonin, which makes us sleepy. As a reuslt, exposure to full, intense and unnatural light while sleeping in the library jumbles our sleeping patterns. Unfortunately, sleeping in the library is often inevitable for college students due to the insane amount of work we have. While students try to avoid sleeping in the library, Bobst should also help students improve their health. A feasible way to do this is to allocate a specific area in the library for students to take naps after midnight. The area should be as dark as possible, with comfortable couches that do not cause backbone deformation. Richard Zhang is a columnist. Email him at opinion@nyunews.com.
staff editorial
Vance’s dismissal of Kelly justified Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced yesterday that Greg Kelly, coanchor of Good Day New York and the son of New York City’s Police Commissioner, would not be charged following an accusation of rape recently brought against him. The accuser maintained that after meeting Kelly on the street in Manhattan in early October, the two exchanged contact information and decided to meet a few days later at Jeremy’s Ale House, a bar on the Lower East Side. At this point Kelly’s account differs from that of his accuser. Kelly insisted that the two engaged in consensual sex, yet the woman now claims that it was anything but that. Over three months after the night in question, the accuser reported the incident at the 13th Precinct. Since the allegation surfaced, Kelly has taken a leave of absence from his popular local morning television show and an investigation of the accusation has been launched. Tuesday’s announcement brings this investigation to a close, but Kelly’s reputation has been indelibly tarnished. Though only Kelly and his accuser know what transpired between them, we at the Washington Square News Editorial Board feel the D.A.’s decision not to pursue the case further is justified due to the lack of evidence available. It would be irresponsible to press charges based on the sheer dearth of damning evidence against Kelly. Sources have claimed the 17 text messages exchanged between Kelly and the woman were “explicit” and “sexual,” but the anonymity of these sources calls their credibility into question. Some critics view the quick dismissal of this case to be the result of Kelly’s father’s position. But, the accuser reportedly has ties to the NYPD — her brother is a crime scene investigator for the Department. Though the difference between the positions of these two men is great, the idea that nepotism prevailed over justice and that Ray Kelly was about to exonerate his son despite his guilt seems far-fetched. The case is further complicated by the fact that the allegations emerged soon after the woman’s boyfriend reportedly discovered that she had an abortion after a pregnancy resulting from her encounter with Kelly. While the emotional trauma and fear of accusing such a prominent figure of rape may have discouraged an earlier allegation, her delayed report undoubtedly made it harder to prosecute an already unclear case. We hope the D.A.’s announcement will lay to rest the tabloid frenzy that has engulfed Kelly since the accusation was made public on Jan. 24. Email the WSN Editorial Board at editboard@nyunews.com.
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SPORTs
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MBBALL continued from PG. 1
Violets on best start in 19 years to slow things down and limit our shots on offense.” Rebounding was key for the Violet’s victory. NYU controlled the boards and were able to grab 40 rebounds. Stein dominated in the paint and led the game with 17 boards — only three less than New Paltz’s entire roster. NYU’s top-scoring center also led the Violets with 20 points and held Hawks center Alan Siergiej to six points. Early in the second half, New Paltz made consecutive threepointers to bring their deficit to one point. NYU quickly responded with back-to-back breakaway lay-ups by junior forward Max Wein, which put the Violets up by 10 with just over 10 minutes left in the game. Junior captain Kyle Stockmal came into the game leading all of Division III in three-point shooting at 52.1 percent. In fact, NYU’s 43.2 three-point field goal percentage leads Division III. Stockmal displayed his gifted jumper again, shooting 55.5 percent from beyond the arc en route to 19 points.
“I’ve been having confidence in my ability to shoot,” Stockmal said. “I’ve worked hard my whole life, shooting everyday, and I have been receiving great passes from my teammates.” “The key to executing on offense is getting into our offense as soon as possible and to stay confident and find the open shooter,” he added. The Violets also lead Division III with 20.5 assists per game. With an 18-2 record so far, NYU is tied for the lead in the University Athletic Association and is currently ranked 16th in Division III. On Friday night, NYU will play against Emory University, who currently sits at third in the UAA and 23rd in Division III. “Emory presents a very different challenge, and it will be tough to stop them in transition” Nesci said. The game against Emory will begin at 8 p.m. at Coles Sports Center. John Axelrod is a deputy sports editor. Email him at jaxelrod@nyunews.com.
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