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NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper

WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 36

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

nyunews.com

Students organize against university expansion

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By FAY LIN Student opposition to NYU 2031, the plan to expand the university by as much as six million square feet, flared yesterday as the student group’s first public protest stopped pedestrian traffic outside Bobst Library. With signs and flyers in hand, the members of the student-run group NYU Students and Alumni Against the Sexton Plan expressed concerns about the plan’s size, cost and possible impacts on tuition. Protest organizer and CAS sophomore Kristina Mayman said that students need to take more action if they have problems with the administration. “I’ve been seeing how the faculty is getting involved and doing a great job fighting NYU President John Sexton’s leadership, and I was just surprised that there wasn’t student involvement already,” Mayman said. “This issue is a student problem, and we should be out in the streets to do something about it.” Signs used during the protest brought attention to financial issues and concerns about the university’s leadership. Students and Alumni Against the Sexton Plan has received some guidance and support from NYU faculty, including members of the Faculty Against the Sexton Plan group. CAS professor Adam Becker said students should voice their opinions, and that successfully fighting the administration entails collective effort. “This isn’t something where we have a vote and then Sexton loses the vote, he steps down and everything’s great,” Becker said. “It’s a long-term project, and it will require faculty, it will require students and, with regards to 2031, it has so

Students and Alumni Against the Sexton Plan rallied outside of Bobst yesterday, raising its voice against NYU 2031.

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Malick delivers cinematic Iconic sushi rolls out scavenger hunt ‘Wonder’ in romance film By LILY CHIN

By ALEX GREENBERGER

The stars of Terrence Malick’s “To the Wonder” are quite accustomed to mainstream entertainment. Olga Kurylenko and Javier Bardem have both played characters in James Bond films, Rachel McAdams starred in a Nicholas Sparks adaptation and Ben Affleck’s latest film won Best Picture at the Oscars. Perhaps “Wonder” is fascinating because it is the most cinematically ambitious work associated with these actors to date. Some viewers may come to expect that filmic boldness in a Malick film by now, but “Wonder” is esoteric, even by the standards of Malick’s filmog-

raphy — this is about as far from streamlined narrative storytelling as film gets. There is a story to be had in “Wonder.” The basic gist is that Neil (Affleck) escapes a torrid relationship with Marina (Kurylenko) and then questions whether he’s done the right thing when he begins another passionate relationship with Jane (McAdams). Neil’s philosophical quest is paralleled by Father Quintana (Bardem), a priest undergoing a crisis of faith and living in the same Oklahoma town. But watching “Wonder” for its narrative is pointless. In fact,

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Iconic Hand Rolls, an East Village temaki shop, will begin its hand roll hunt April 15. The restaurent will place 50 Iconic logo stickers within a five-block radius of the store between Third and 13th streets and Third Avenue and Avenue B. Clues on the whereabouts of the stickers will be posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Those who find the stickers can use them to redeem a free temaki roll, a cone-shaped and hand-rolled sushi, from the store. Founded by Stern alumnus David Ravvin, Iconic

Hand Rolls recently hosted a question and answer session at the Stern Entrepreneurs Exchange, a club that helps students, alumni and affiliates explore aspects of entrepreneurship and earlystage investing. Before Ravvin arrived at NYU, he spent a month traveling in Brazil, where he was inspired by temaki shops. Instead of eating pizza after going to a bar, Ravvin remembered joining Brazilians in sit-down shops and eating a waffle cone-sized temaki. “I saw this idea there, and I thought it was so

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Iconic Hand Rolls will offer free sushi to contest winners.


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