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Students mourn massacre victims

Softball hits stride with no-hitter

By ALEX BAZELEY Deputy News Editor

It has been a rollercoaster of a season for the NYU softball team, but things are finally starting to click for the Violets.

After a disappointing 14-game losing streak to start the season, the team has rebounded with a 7-5 record since then, including a 5-1 record at home. Their recent success peaked on Sunday, as freshman pitcher Sage Scheiwiller tossed a no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader against Baruch College — a first for the yearold program.

“Coach Cassie worked with mostly spins, and I focused on getting ground balls or fly balls,” Scheiwiller said.

“From there it was trusting the team at my back to field them.”

Junior Lauren Parnaby, who has taken over most of the catching duties as of late and was behind the dish for Scheiwiller’s no-hitter, commented that her rise ball

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By LEXI FAUNCE Staff Writer

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Students listen during a vigil for the Kenyan students slain at Garissa University College on April 2. The vigil started on the steps of Kimmel, where mourners took a five minute moment of silence and heard from a number of religious groups. Following the speeches, the group walked quietly to the square to set candles in the fountain.

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Brooklyn band talks first headlining tour

By RACHEL A.G. GILMAN Staff Writer

Brooklyn-based folk pop duo Oh Honey, which comprises Mitchy Collins and Danielle Bouchard, set out on their first headlining tour March 24. “Wish You Were Here,” the fourth and final installment “The Postcard Series” of EPs, was released prior to touring. Oh Honey spoke with WSN to discuss their upcoming tour and performance in New York.

“When you go on a headlining tour, it is like, ‘OK, are people going to show up?’ until you’re at that level where you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, people are definitely showing up,’” Collins said.

Their hometown show will be on April 15 at The Studio at Webster Hall, which will be their first proper headlining show in New York City, Collins said.

“It is definitely nerve-wracking and exhilarating and exciting to finally check that off the bucket list,” Collins said.

However, it will be Bouchard’s first time playing The Studio at Webster Hall.

“I have been going to shows there for years. It is a pretty cool venue,” Bouchard said.

The band is looking forward to playing new material, including songs from “Wish You Were

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In remembrance of the 142 students at Garissa University College in Kenya who were killed by terrorists on April 2, students gathered in the Kimmel Center for University Life for a vigil Monday night. More than one hundred students proceeded to Washington Square Park after the event to light candles in honor of the lost lives.

Islamic, Buddhist and Christian university chaplains led members of all faiths in prayer, followed by moving speeches from students and faculty members.

Buddhist chaplain Doyeon Park said students should not dwell on religious differences and instead should focus on honoring the dead. Park added that all students must share the pain of this loss.

“It is time now for all of us to gather and open our hearts in

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Sophomore finds Instagram fame

By KENDALL LEVISON Staff Writer

Emily Carlo seems to be a typical Steinhardt sophomore, but she has something of a double identity. She is the mind behind the popular Instagram account Miss New Foodie, where her tempting food photos and witty captions have attracted an audience of almost 40,000 followers.

Carlo had no plans for Internet fame when she opened the account in the fall of her freshman year.

“I literally just started it one day, there’s no special story,” Carlo said. “I don’t remember exactly what triggered it.”

At first, her followers were limited to her friends and

residents on her floor of Third North Residence Hall, but Carlo’s social media presence expanded quickly. The biggest jump in followers came this summer after the popular website The Infatuation reposted one of Carlo’s photos.

“I realized that if you comment on other people’s photos, they’ll look at your account and follow you back” Carlo said. “So I started commenting on random people’s photos, and that’s how I started getting followers.”

Many of Carlo’s classmates are unaware of her alter ego, but she has translated her Instagram expertise into her schoolwork as a media, culture and communication major.

“We did a project about audiences in social media, and I did mine on different cultures on Instagram,” Carlo said. “I made my presentation about Miss New Foodie.”

Being an Instagram celebrity takes more than just eating great food. Carlo’s own tastes sometimes have to take a backseat in order for her to create the best content.

“The other day, I posted eggs for breakfast and then when I went out to lunch, I wanted eggs again,” Carlo said. “But I knew I couldn’t do that, so I got tacos or something.”

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BY TOMMY COLLISON

FROM TIPPERARY TO MANHATTAN In my bio for the Washington Square News, I write that I grew up “among cows, computers, and not much else” in Tipperary, a small town in rural Ireland. My older brothers were fond of taking old laptops apart to see how they worked, and I think that love of tinkering was passed to me in turn. But growing up in such an isolated spot wasn’t always fun — there was an almost total lack of LGBTQ community.

Ireland’s political and social situation has definitely improved in the last 3 or 4 years, but when I was in my early teens, being gay wasn’t something that was often discussed. In my experience, people rarely spoke out against it, but that’s a long way from there being a positive community around the idea that it’s okay to be something other than straight. Two posters that read “he’s gay, and we’re okay,” was the extent of LGBTQ programming that we enjoyed in high school. I was lucky in that my parents and friends were supportive after I came out, but there was still a distinct lack of a sense of community. It wasn’t that I was actively unhappy, I

just couldn’t look around and see people like me.

Moving to a new country as a teenager to start college was vaguely terrifying, as to be expected. Will I make friends?

What does “my community” look like, and will I find it? At the end of my freshman year, I visited the LGBTQ Center at NYU, housed on Kimmel’s sixth floor.

Then, I started working there as an OUTSpoken Peer Educator, doing outreach and advocacy on issues on campus relating to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Students can chill and grab free coffee at the center’s lounge, and it’s become something of a second home to me this year.

Part of being an OUTSpoken Peer Educator is conducting Safe Zone trainings, two- to three-hour workshops where other students, facultymembers and administrators can learn more about LGBTQ issues.

We’re given a script but we’re encouraged to make the presentation personal with anecdotes and flourishes. When I facilitate these discussions, I often describe growing up in Ireland and not knowing what having a community felt like. I do this because I’m trying to convey that

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Tommy Collison leads a Safe Zone training.

Safe Zones are, in a sense, recruitment tools. By signing up for one, you’re saying that you want to be an ally. By learning about the issues, we’re making NYU not just a more accepting place, but a place where people can feel safe and comfortable, regardless of how they present their gender or their sexuality.

In May, Ireland is going to vote on whether our constitution should be amended to allow same-sex couples to marry. I go back about once a year, so I’ve been watching the progress of the referendum since it was first announced. The work I’m doing at the LGBTQ center is based on

trying to improve the community at NYU, and it makes me wonder if I can or should be doing more at home. Since coming to the U.S. two years ago, I’ve thought a lot about what it means to adopt a country — and to be welcomed by one. One of the things that makes me proud to live in New York is that my friends and I aren’t limited in who we can marry based on their gender. I hope to soon see the day when the same is true in Ireland.

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#BlackTransLivesMatter On the second day of Ally Week, CeCe McDonald is coming to NYU to discuss mass incarceration, allyship and trans liberation. The talk will be in the Kimmel Center for University Life Rosenthal Pavilion at 6:30 p.m.

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Students fight sexual assault with awareness

By AMANDA MORRIS Contributing Writer

In recognition of April being sexual assault awareness month, Students for Sexual Respect at NYU have organized a series of events ranging from film screenings to presentations to encourage students to engage in a conversation surrounding sexual abuse.

Gallatin sophomore Josy Jablons, President of SSR, said the events this month are designed not only to raise awareness, but also to promote action.

“Students for Sexual Respect approaches April in two ways: a month for awareness, but also a month for activism,” Jablons said. “We strive to create awareness campaigns, such as our photography project, #BetterSexTalk, educational efforts, [Sunday’s] Female Orgasm event, a program about sex ed and meetings that encourage greater change — like meaningful policy reform.”

The monthlong series will conclude with a Take Back the Night rally on April 30 in Washington Square Park, during which students will stand in solidarity with those affected by sexual assault.

Tisch junior Alexandra Hoopes, who attended SSR’s

Female Orgasm workshop, said she hopes the events will aid in reducing sexual assaults on campus.

“Sexual assault awareness is important to me because it’s a topic that many people are uncomfortable addressing, whether they are bystanders or victims,” Hoopes said. “I don’t think this week is just about awareness — that is, knowing what constitutes assault — because it’s unique to each person, but rather the actions we can take to prevent assault from happening in the first place.”

CAS junior Meghan Racklin, who is president of The Feminist Society at NYU and treasurer of SSR, said it is particularly important to create a safe environment on college campuses where students feel comfortable discussing sexual assault.

“In the case of campus sexual assault specifically, this is an issue of equal opportunity to access a safe education,” Racklin said. “We need survivor-centered policies so that those who are assaulted are not denied their right to feel safe on campus, and denied their ability to access their right to education in safety.”

Racklin added that the month allows people from underrepresented communities to express their views.

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Students for Sexual Respect and the Feminist Society host “The Female Orgasm” event on Sunday.

“Sexual assault impacts people of every sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity and ability,” Racklin said.

“Our activism, both in terms of content and in terms of participants, needs to reflect that. It is, ultimately, up to us to ensure that all voices are being heard.”

THE GAZELLE: LIBRARY COMMITTEE’S CONTROVERSIAL MOVE FOR INDEPENDENCE Published on TheGazelle.org, NYU Abu Dhabi’s weekly student publication, on April 11, 2015

By MELINDA SZEKERES The Room of Requirement Facebook page was alight with debate this past week in response to a post by freshman Maisie McCormack, the former Chair of the Library Committee that Student Government has recently dissolved.

McCormack posted on the page, a popular university forum for frequently asked questions, to inform students that she had been asked to resign from her position as Chair. She said that members of the dissolved committee had established a newly-independent group called NYUAD Library Committee, and included a link to the new group’s public Facebook page in her message.

The students on the new committee, who refer to themselves as an alternative voice for the student body, had initially tried to promote their news on the Student Life Facebook page, which is managed

by Student Government, only to find that their post was subsequently removed.

After another unsuccessful attempt, McCormack turned to Room of Requirement, where her post soon became a site for

debate and eventually spiraled into what students commonly refer to as a typical NYU Abu Dhabi Facebook fight. Commentators expressed a wide range of opinions, from concerns over the post’s tone to expressions of support for the new group.

The decision for members of the former Library Committee to establish an independent committee can be traced back to the 24-hour library campaign, which had been enacted by the former Library Committee and then halted before spring break for investigations, after it was alleged that the campaign had gone against administration and Student Government orders.

The former committee claims that it had started the poster campaign after discussing the idea for a 24-hour library with Library Director Virginia Danielson. Official minutes of the discussion reveal that library employees had been concerned about a perceived lack of funding for such an initiative. With the goal of demonstrating support for the idea and therefore possibly increasing funding, the committee had decided to start a campaign that would invite students to voice their reasons behind wanting a 24-hour library.

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Several days after the posters were put up, the committee received warnings from a Student Government member not to proceed with the campaign. McCormack said that the committee decided to go ahead because they had discussed the campaign with Danielson and had received funding from Student Government for the campaign prior to its launch.

The committee hung posters on the glass walls outside the library, and the campaign was mentioned on the official NYUAD Library Facebook page.

After half a week, however, the posters were taken down

by Student Government Vice President Alex Nyikos, a senior who had been working closely with the Library Committee since internal conflicts began.

Nyikos had acted with the support of the Executive Board of Student Government.

The Library Committee said that they did not accept the reasoning behind Student Government’s decision to remove the posters, 200 of which had been received from participating students.

For the rest of the story, go online to TheGazelle.org.

Steinhardt freshman KatieRose Nunziato said the events planned for this month serve as a platform for people who have experienced sexual assault to open up.

“As for me, since I myself am a survivor of sexual assault, I will take advantage of this month to

make my voice heard and add my own story to the countless others that have been told,” Nunziato said. “The more personal we make these issues, the less people can look away.”

Email Amanda Morris at news@nyunews.com.

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Over 100 attend vigil for murdered Kenyans

solidarity,” Park said. “We need to let go of all these labels so that we can really meet heart to heart.”

The gunmen began by storming a Christian prayer service and moved throughout the university, killing any non-Muslim students they found. Kenyan police have now arrested five suspects in connection to the attack

by Al-Shabaab militants. A total of 147 people were killed and another 104 were injured in the wake of explosions and gunfire on the university’s campus.

Associate Director of Africa House and Kenyan native Eddie Mandhry represented his countrymen and women. Mandhry said it is important to stand together in solidarity and to live in peace and dignity.

“In times of great adversity, we are afforded the opportunity to redefine what it means to be a global citizen,” Mandhry said.

“Working collectively, we can challenge extremism and stand up for the values that we all believe in.”

CAS sophomore Julianna Corbett first proposed the idea of holding a vigil to commemorate the fallen students and worked in conjunc-

tion with the Black Student Union and the African Student Union to organize the event. Corbett said something needed to be done to recognize these Kenyan students, and said she was willing to take the first step.

“It’s absolutely frightening that although most members of the NYU community are aware of the attacks that have happened a couple of weeks ago, many have forgotten,” Corbett said. “It is the NYU community’s duty, as those living, to remember their lives as similar to our own and respect the fact that we are still carrying on our lives today, with little interruption.”

Corbett added that the vigil will help NYU students realize how much they share with the Kenyan students.

“We are all students,” Corbett said. “We are as much them as they are us. Hopefully, students can walk away from this knowing that these lives cannot be forgotten like they have been for the past two weeks by the rest of the world.”

Email Lexi Faunce at news@nyunews.com.

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Photography exhibit showcases hip-hop’s early days

By TALIA MILAVETZ Contributing Writer

“Hip-Hop Revolution: Photographs by Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo and Martha Cooper” is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York, detailing the humble beginnings of hip-hop in the Bronx and Harlem and how it has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon.

Through their photographs, Beckman, Conzo and Cooper helped expose the world of hip-hop to the mainstream United States. In more than 80 photographs on display, viewers find the story of early hiphip between 1977 and 1990, tracing the culture’s origins and how it became what it is today.

Martha Cooper started taking pictures when she was only three years old. She photographed many subjects over the years, but when she took a shot at street culture in

the ’70s, she fell in love with the rawness of the material. One of Cooper’s earliest and most iconic photos features eight young boys working together to haul a large cardboard box. Following the photograph, the boys used the cardboard box as a smooth surface to practice break dance. This photo from 1983 shows the beginnings of early hip-hop as it became a generational movement.

Janette Beckman photographed musicians in Britain, initially specializing in capturing that country’s punk rock scene. After photographing three Police album covers, Beckman turned to the hip-hop scene in the early ’80s. Many credit her work with introducing the faces of hip-hop to popular culture, through photographs of icons like Salt-NPepa, LL Cool J and Run DMC. On display at the museum is the first album cover for Salt-N-Pepa, which

Beckman photographed. She also helped bring attention to women in the genre by photographing Women of Rap, a photo spread that accompanied an article about female artists in hip-hop.

Joe Conzo became interested in photography when he began photographing his daily life as a teenager.

He took pictures for his senior yearbook at South Bronx High, where many students were also at the forefront of hip-hop. When he was still in school, Conzo documented a classmate performing hip-hop in the park, and has been involved in documenting the movement ever since. In addition to his photographs of the scene, the museum displays Conzo’s old report cards, Polaroid pictures, cameras and other personal belongings. The exhibit also includes listening stations, providing visitors with samples of contemporary New York City hip-hop.

Along with “Hip-Hop Revolution,” the museum will host public programs, including “Documenting Hip-Hop from Three Angles” on April 15 at 6:30 p.m., where Beckman, Cooper and Conzo will discuss their experiences

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The “Hip-Hop Revolution” photography exhibit runs to Sept. 13.

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Film plays audiences ‘Song from the Forest’

By CARTER GLACE Staff Writer

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The Brooklyn folk-pop duo Oh Honey is known for their 2013 hit song “Be Okay.”

Oh Honey hopes to stay on tour

Here.” “It Can’t Rain Forever,” a tune about keeping your chin up, is on the set list. Bouchard voiced her preference for “Compass,” a predominantly acoustic track. It is mellow and heartfelt, like much of Oh Honey’s music.

“It’s kind of about trying to make a relationship work with someone you never see and the challenges you face,” Bouchard said.

Collins said they made the decision to release a series of EPs so that they would always be producing music.

“You put out a full-length record and people only really kind of care about, like, three or four

photographing hip-hop.

“Hip-Hop Revolution” is on display at the Museum of the City of New York until Sept. 13.

songs,” Collins said. “So we were like, ‘Why don’t we just break up an album and release a foursong EP every couple months?’

It keeps music coming from the band, it keeps people excited.”

Bouchard said the name for “The Postcard Series” originated from the band’s 2013 EP, “With Love.”

“It’s kind of the way you would sign off on a letter,” Bouchard said.

Collins added that Oh Honey made the decision for each EP title to follow the sign-off formatting of a letter.

“Each of these EPs is kind of like a letter to our fans,”

Collins said.

Many of Oh Honey’s songs have been featured in commercials for Best Buy, Chili’s and “Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast.”

In the future, the band aspires to produce more music and continue touring.

“We like to stay on the road as much as we can,” Collins said.

“There is hope to put out a fulllength next year. No set plans or anything but it is definitely something we are hoping and always writing for.”

Email Rachel A.G. Gilman at music@nyunews.com.

The life of Louis Sarno, a member of the the Bayaka Pygmies, sounds like a Hollywood film on its own. “Song from the Forest,” based on the memoir of the same name, is a movie that explores Sarno’s life as part of the tribe in untouched regions of Central African rainforests. Drawn there in search of music, Sarno ultimately became a member of the tribe, which he is to this day.

Viewers enter the story as Sarno has become a guardian for the tribe, with a 13-year-old son he is preparing to bring on a trip to the United States. The film explores Sarno’s efforts to preserve the tribe’s music and Bayaka Pygmies’ fear for their future due to deforestation, the loss of culture and growing debt from a lack of tourism in the area.

The concept of cultures colliding is well worn in cinema, but “Song from the Forest” makes it feel fresh and engaging. The film has the advantage of being based on real events, allowing it to present tribe life in realistic detail. This is achieved largely through sound. The tranquil, insect-filled buzz of the rainforest and jovial tribal songs that make the transition to the city’s constant, oppressive assault effectively jarring. Sound ultimately is the film’s most successful touch.

Michael Obert, the director of “Song from the Forest,” uses small details to map this bridge between the cultures. In one instance, it is striking how practi-

cal Sarno’s son is, upset that his father continues to buy him toys instead of clothing or a real gun.

Each of his families — tribal and blood-related — confront this unusual situation in different ways; his tribe simply says “he is one of us” while his blood family fails to understand his reasoning.

However, the film is a little too ambiguous, presenting fascinating discussion points but not addressing them. For instance, Sarno illustrates how long he has been in the forest by explaining that most of the original tribe members have died, leaving him with the now-grown children. Instead of dealing with Sarno’s role as a soon-to-be lone elder, protector and kind of legend in the rainforest, the film is limited to only one dialogue on the matter.

More importantly, Sarno’s transition into the tribe is scarcely referenced. Viewers enter the film in medias res, which is effective, but only the slightest context is provided for Sarno’s search for the tribe. It is explained that he searched the world for the origins of their music, but how he assimilated into the community and how he dealt with transitioning into the tribe are never directly addressed.

Despite these shortcomings, “Song from the Forest” is still an engaging look into a unique lifestyle, depicting the return to a forgotten culture and dealing with the differences that keep that culture isolated.

Email Carter Glace at film@nyunews.com.

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Dining hacks to improve dorm cooking

By KENDALL LEVISON Staff Writer

We all know it — cooking in college can be a pain. With limited time, money and kitchen space, it is no wonder many students graduate without cooking anything more complicated than ramen noodles.

Luckily, the Internet has come to the rescue with thousands of kitchen hacks promising to provide stress-free ways to cook anything in a dorm kitchen.

While some of these ideas are rather unconventional, others actually provide good advice. Here are some of the best kitchen hacks we have found.

1. Use your microwave for more than popcorn. The microwave is a great way to save time while cooking. If you microwave a potato for about 10 minutes before baking, it will only take half an hour in a 400-degree oven, so you can have a perfectly baked potato in half the time.

2. Because most college kitchens lack basic cooking equipment, you have to get creative with your cooking tools. A smooth-sided bottle, such as a wine bottle, can be used as a rolling pin, and tongs can be used to juice citrus in a pinch.

3. Do not waste money by throwing out spoiled groceries. Bananas will last longer if you separate them and wrap the stems in plastic wrap. Onions and potatoes last longer if you keep them apart, as the onions will make the potatoes rot more quickly.

4. If you have a recipe that calls for room-temperature butter and yours is cold, all is not lost. Just cut the butter into small pieces, place them in a small bowl and then microwave them in five-second bursts, stirring after each one. It should be soft in about 30 seconds.

5. Making brownies is always a good idea, but having to chip them out of the bottom of the pan can be a hassle. Save your

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An empty wine bottle makes for a good substitute rolling pin, a better use than dorm window decor. pan, and your brownies, with a cheap investment — a roll of parchment paper. Cut two pieces and lay them crosswise in the pan before you add the batter. Using this method, you can abandon your can of cooking spray forever.

6. The right way to reheat

pizza is not the microwave, oven or even the toaster — your best bet is actually a skillet.

Place your pizza in a cold pan and heat it on medium until the crust is crisp. Add a teaspoon of water and cover until the cheese is melted.

7. Keep your cutting boards

and bowls from slipping all over the counter while you are cooking by wetting a paper towel, folding it into quarters and placing it under the board or bowl.

Email Kendall Levison at dining@nyunews.com.

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Birreria, a restaurant on the roof of Eataly, boasts high quality food and beer.

Enjoy weather with rooftop dining

By VANESSA HAUGHTON Contributing Writer

As spring arrives and New York City slowly thaws, NYU students can once again be found lounging in the park and enjoying the city. Spring is a great time to try some of New York City’s rooftop restaurants. For graduation celebrations, a meal with family or just an excuse to get out and see a spectacular view, rooftop dining is a uniquely New York way to spend an evening. Here are a few suggestions for students that want to make their meals truly Instagram worthy.

Eataly’s Birreria: 200 Fifth Ave. Most Italian food lovers already know about Eataly — the Italian marketplace across from Madison Square Park — and Birreria is the establishment’s rooftop restaurant. From underneath the glass enclosure, diners have a view of the Empire State Building and the park. Birreria has an extensive beer and wine menu, and the appetizers range from cheese plates to octopus dishes.

Unfortunately, the menu has no pasta options and the entrees are expensive on a student budget. However, this option is close to campus, and the delicious food and incredible view merits the splurge.

Pod 39 Rooftop: 145 E. 39th St. Perched atop the modern Pod 39 Hotel is an open-air bar and restaurant. Guests can enjoy the views as they try the variety of cocktails. The real draw for college students, however, is the menu.

Salvation Taco — located on the ground floor of the hotel — serves treats to the boozy crowd upstairs.

The Rooftop just opened on April 6, and students should remember Pod 39 when planning their endof-semester celebrations.

Haven Rooftop at Sanctuary Hotel New York: 132 W. 47th St. Brunch is the one of the few reasons NYU students should venture to Times Square on a weekend, because the Haven Rooftop restaurant should not be missed. Warm

weather will make this spot a perfect place to enjoy views of the city on a Sunday morning. The FrenchAmerican restaurant serves a wide variety of entrees during dinner as well, including several signature dishes that unexpectedly mix in Cajun spices. Haven Rooftop also has salad options for vegetarians and vegans.

MyMoon: 184 N. 10th St., Brooklyn Located in an abandoned factory space, the multi-level patio restaurant has gained a reputation for its unique ambiance. The Williamsburg restaurant began as a traditional Turkish eatery in 2005, but has since transformed into a Spanish spot with attentionworthy tapas. Though tapas are traditionally small, customers can order several dishes and share with friends. MyMoon’s menu is surprisingly long, and ranges from $7 spinach croquettes to pan-seared duck magret for $18. A taste of these dishes is worth a trip on the L train.

Email Vanessa Haughton at dining@nyunews.com.

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Emily Carlo has almost 40,000 followers on her Instagram account.

Student photographs food for fun, not fame

for inspiration for the clever captions that go along with her photos.

“I’ll sit with my iPod open and listen to song lyrics and try and formulate a caption out of them,” Carlo said. “I also Google jokes about a food, like waffles, and do something around that.”

Carlo said everything she eats does not show up on her Instagram feed. As a former nutrition major she does take health into consideration and eats lots of whole grains, fruits and vegetables in addition to the sugar and carbs featured on Miss New Foodie.

“People don’t want to watch me eat my healthy food,” Carlo said. “They just want to see the fun stuff.”

While Carlo might be known for her food, the fun is really her main focus.

“I’m not interested in being a food reviewer,” Carlo said. “I use Instagram more as an entertainment piece. Obviously it’s surrounded by food, but the captions are meant for you to tag your friends and talk about it.”

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OPINION

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COLLEGE TUITION STAFF EDITORIAL

Problem of rising tuition hardly unique

By RICHARD SHU Deputy Copy Chief

A recent New York Times opinion piece published on April 4 discussed the national ballooning cost of college, a concept to which NYU is certainly familiar. These tuition increases are following excessive administration costs. The cost of college, including tuition, housing and fees, has increased twelvefold since 1980, roughly four times faster than the increase in the consumer price index. From the 201314 to 2014-15 school year alone, tuition at private, nonprofit four-year colleges increased by an average of 3.7 percent.

The real beneficiaries of more expensive educations, however, are not the professors and faculty but the university administrations that watch over them. From 1975 to 2005, administrator-to-student ratios have increased drastically, from one administrator per 84 students to one per 68. During the same period, teacher-to-student ratios have remained roughly the same.

Under the pretense of improving the university’s quality of education, bureaucrats are taking money that would otherwise go toward more teaching staff. Meanwhile, administrations

have relatively little to show on their behalf — since 2002, national six-year graduation rates have barely improved from 55 to 58 percent.

This lopsided growth suggests a distressing trend to a more bureaucratic, top-heavy university organization, more committed to looking busy than doing actual scholarly work. The more striking examples of this organizational shift include team-building retreats to Hawaii and extravagant houses for high-ranking faculty. The greater ranks of administrative pencilpushers — and their salaries — make up a more pernicious drain on university coffers.

This misappropriation of funding is felt especially acutely here at NYU. The lavish estate holdings of NYU President John Sexton are hardly news anymore, and his generous $800,000 yearly severance package certainly has not

helped his image. Many other administrators have seen six- or seven-figure salaries and retirement packages, as well as university-paid housing priced around millions of dollars. As NYU expands under NYU 2031, its administration is sure to expand along with it.

Reversing this trend would be as simple as remembering we are a university first and a real estate developer second. By scaling back on administrative spending and hiring more fully contracted teaching faculty, NYU would be able to funnel resources directly into improving its quality of education. Not only would the salaries and job security attract better professors, but it would also cut back on a detrimental corporatized, centralized organizational culture. If the administration has the gall to ask its own faculty and current students to help boost its endowment, it could do well to take a long, hard look at its own spending habits. More administration hurts students, while better-paid and longercontracted teaching faculty help. Only when NYU adjusts its staffing style will its money finally be put to good use.

Email Richard Shu at rshu@nyunews.com.

RIGHTS

Privacy loss, price discounts do not mix

By TOMMY COLLISON Deputy Opinion Editor

U.S. insurance companies are starting to give discounts to people willing to share their private data with insurers, according to an April 8 New York Times article. When Andrew Thomas, featured in the article, allowed his insurance company to access his location, he received discounts for “healthful behavior” such as using the gym regularly. Several insurance companies around the world are capitalizing on this concept, which is an example of the economic savings possible when data is accessed on a huge scale — it has long been common knowledge that healthy people cost health insurance companies less. These discounts, however, come at the cost of a reduction in personal privacy. Companies need to be more sensitive to consumer privacy, especially considering how hard it is to control what happens to the data once it is collected. Until there are hard and fast rules about how data can and cannot be used, it is reckless of the companies to gather it.

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and malicious exes can remotely turn on our webcams. We produce data about ourselves and others at historic rates: 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years. Americans still have not had an informed public debate on government surveillance. Experts keep saying that privacy is dead and that millennials overshare, but there is a lot of evidence pointing toward the fact that millennials still care very much about their privacy. Snapchat’s meteoric rise is telling, given that 71 percent of its users are under 25 and that photos can only be accessed for a few seconds. This is the state of technology today: we are creating data about ourselves — who we are dating, where we are, what websites we visit — and instead of being sensitive to potential privacy violations, insurance companies are

asking for more and more information about us so they can monetize it.

Benjamin Franklin reportedly once said “three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”

When there is so much data about us online, it becomes exponentially harder to keep our personal information to ourselves and out of the clutches of advertisers and telemarketers. We are living in a time when our laws and social norms have not quite caught up with the impressive stalking applications of Facebook and Instagram. It makes business sense for insurance companies to harvest as much data as they can about us, which is why they offer price discounts. We are starting to see informal taxes on private information crop up too, when a grocery store gives us membership discounts in return for our email address. The implication is clear: you can be a private individual, but it will cost you. It does not have to be this way — as consumers, we must demand that companies be more responsible with user data.

Email Tommy Collison at tcollison@nyunews.com.

Clinton announcement too early for Democrats

After several days of anticipation, Hillary Clinton officially announced her 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday. The move is unsurprising, but questions remain about how she will fare in the general election. The recent email scandal in which Clinton was thought to have broken the law by exclusively using a private email address from an unsecured server undermined her integrity. Despite Clinton’s overwhelming popularity, voters must fully scrutinize her platform and consider possible alternatives to her candidacy.

Other well-known potential Democratic candidates include former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren is a particularly progressive candidate who has already shown she is unafraid to take on controversial topics like government profit on student debt and Wall Street’s influence on Congress. While she has said that she will not run this election cycle, supporters are practically begging her to do so. At a book signing event at Strand Bookstore, the audience repeatedly ask her to run during question time and chanted “Run, Liz, Run.” On her recent “Daily Show” appearance she fired up the audience as she talked about finance reform and student debt. She has declared she will not run this cycle, but the landscape could change drastically as things progress.

Even before she announced her candidacy, Clinton controlled news cycles by not making moves to dispel the rumors that she would run, which denied valuable time to other potential nominees to get a word in edgewise. In contrast, other Western countries’ election cycles are limited in time. In 2010, David Cameron took over as U.K. prime minister after a campaign that lasted only a month. The U.S. electioneering machine would do well to take inspiration from the British.

Many political figures, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have already endorsed Clinton’s candidacy a year and a half before the November 2016 election. These type of early affirmations will only hurt the Democrats in the long run by limiting discussion on the merits of other candidates. Mayor Bill de Blasio has notably held off endorsing Clinton, saying he would like to see more of her economic platform. Clinton now has plenty of time to make her positions clear, but the early announcement may hinder the Democratic Party as a whole. While Clinton is overwhelmingly qualified to be president, voters passed on her in 2008 for a reason.

Democrats who question Clinton’s commitment to communities of color and her hawkish foreign policy are now in the awkward position of deciding whether to throw their full weight behind her. A better outcome for Democrats around the country would have been to float and support alternate candidates in the months and years before this. Now that the full weight of the Clinton election juggernaut is getting in gear, it will be harder for another Democrat to contest the nomination.

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Senior golfer reflects on time at NYU

By KYLE LUTHER Deputy Sports Editor

As the golf season comes to a close, senior captain Matthew Gjonaj has a lot of memories at NYU to look back on. But the time he has spent with his teammates has been the best aspect of his Violet golf career.

“They make every practice enjoyable,” Gjonaj said. “This is the most solid team we have had from 1-9 so the competitive nature really comes out at practice making it even that more enjoyable.

They are all great guys, and when I look back it will be the memories I’ve shared with them that I’ll remember, even more so than any individual tournament.”

Gjonaj was born and raised in Lagrangeville, New York, and went to Arlington High School where he juggled golf, school and volunteer work. One of the most satisfying experiences he had before coming to NYU was volunteering. As a member of his school’s Amnesty International Club, he found opportunities to give back through charities like Operation Donation. However, his most rewarding volunteer work, came with the Special Olympics and the GO Project.

“Both were such great experiences,” Gjonaj said. “The feeling you get after is indescribable.

There’s really nothing like seeing the happy smiling faces of all those participating.”

During high school, Gjonaj led the golf team to three straight sectional championships, all while maintaining an honor roll GPA. Gjonaj came to NYU to study economics in the College of Arts and Science.

Though he competed in only three events in his first year at NYU, he managed a 27th place finish at the UAA Championship after shooting a 173 and followed up his performance with his then-season low of 171 at the NYU Manhattan Spring Invitational. Unsurprisingly, he was was on the Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee Spring Honor Roll.

Gjonaj really began to excel during his sophomore year, competing in seven out of 10 events. He was able to improve his best by almost 20 strokes, completing the Farmingdale State Invitational with an impressive 154 score. Gjonaj’s follow-up junior year was even more impressive, as he scored a career best 150 and 151 while competing in all 10 events.

Golf will always be an interest of Gjonaj’s, but with such a busy future ahead he will have to carve out time for it.

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Matthew Gjonaj Gjonaj said. “I will try to play local club tournaments along with New York State Amateur and try to qualify for the U.S. Amateur if I have time.”

When he puts his clubs down, Gjonaj enjoys playing baseball, soccer and basketball. He also enjoys spending time at the beach — the only place where he likes to be in the sand.

Although his performance this year hasn’t been what he hoped it would be, Gjonaj is still determined to keep improving his game for the foreseeable future.

“I played better last year, but my swing has been improving,” Gjonaj said. “I have still been able to put up some mediocre scores, but golf is a frustrating game. I feel like if I can continue to practice after I graduate, then the best golf is yet to come.”

Email Kyle Luther at kluther@nyunews.com.

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After rough start, softball rebounds looked especially good.

“It was such a breeze in the best way possible,” Parnaby said. “I really did very little except for catch the ball.”

Scheiwiller and sophomore Jacqueline Tremblay have shouldered the bulk of the innings for the Violets, combining for a 4.86 ERA over 139 2/3 innings pitched.

Tremblay’s performance was not lost in the historic game on Sunday, as she held the opposition to two hits.

The Violets have seen a huge improvement in their pitching since returning from UAA play in Florida. While they averaged 9.71 runs allowed per game in the first 14 contests, they have since allowed 3.75 runs per game, one of the major reasons the team has been picking up wins.

“Sage is throwing her rise ball really well,” Parnaby said. “She’s really managing to get such great, tight spin which is so paramount

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Scheiwiller notched the program’s first-ever no-hitter on Sunday. for that pitch to work. Jackie similarly — she’s started to throw her screw, otherwise working to keep the ball low in the zone to eliminate the big hits we were seeing earlier in the season.”

Tremblay discussed how her and her teammates have been able to keep opposing hitters off balance.

“The pitching all around has been more consistent,” Tremblay said. “Sage and I have both gotten better since those first games.

We’ve been scoring a lot more runs offensively so it takes some of the pressure off.”

The team has finally been able to practice outside as the weather improves, which Scheiwiller said has made all the difference in their on-field play.

“It is a big difference between

the gym inside and the dirt outside, and being outside more is helping us in pitching,” Scheiwiller said.

Junior shortstop Kahala Bonsignore, a team captain, noted that the team members have gotten more comfortable with each other.

“I think the longer we have worked together, the better our trust in one another has grown, and team dynamics are so important to success both on and off the field,” Bonsignore said.

The Violets will try to keep their forward momentum going on Thursday as they take on Farmingdale State College in a doubleheader in the Bronx at 3 p.m.

Email Alex Bazeley at abazeley@nyunews.com.

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Garcia won a close match against Peterson by a majority decision.

Boxers face off during televised NYC event

By MICHAEL THOMPSON Staff Writer

Primetime boxing was back in New York City on Saturday, as NBC’s telecast of Premier Boxing Champions aired from Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The two main events of the night featured junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia defeating Lamont Peterson and then Peter Quillin defeating Andy Lee. Garcia was the aggressor in the first half of the bout, pursuing Peterson, who tried frustrating Garcia early by staying away and avoiding many of his punches. Garcia was still able to connect with solid combinations and right hands, however, as Peterson slowly began trying to work his jab into the contest.

The momentum swung to Peterson in the final six rounds of the fight, as he slowly began to come forward rather than retreat. Landing solid shots to the body, Peterson slowed Garcia down and took control, backing Garcia into the ropes and landing a number of power shots. With the fight seemingly on the line, both fighters gave it their all in a thrilling 12th round finish that brought the Brooklyn crowd of 12,300 to its feet.

Though the final scorecards were close, many of the fans in attendance believed Peterson deserved to win. With scores of 114-114, 115-113 and 115-113, Garcia hung on, but was open for a rematch when asked in the post-fight interview.

“Yeah, we could do it again,” Garcia said. “We could do it again at 147.”

Garcia, who is ranked as one of the top 140-pound fighters in the world, will likely move to 147 pounds, the welterweight division, after fighting Peterson at a catchweight of 143 pounds Saturday night.

The move up in weight will give the Philadelphia native a slew of great opponents, including Floyd Mayweather and

Manny Pacquiao.

In the other main event of the evening, Brooklyn Native Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin fought Irish middleweight belt holder Andy Lee to a draw in a back and forth battle. The fight, originally planned to be for Lee’s WBO middleweight title, ended up being a non-title fight due to Quillin failing to make the weight limit of 160 pounds.

Knocking down Lee twice in the fight, Quillin seemed to have done enough to earn the win. ESPN’s Dan Rafael, for example, scored the bout 116-110, but the other judges thought differently with scores of 113112 for Lee, 113-112 for Quillin, and an even score of 113-113.

The fights marked the second NBC primetime edition of Premier Boxing Champions, boxing adviser Al Haymon’s concerted effort to put boxing back in the spotlight. Haymon has secured deals to air fights on NBC, CBS and ESPN/ABC and several other cable outlets.

For the first time ever, broadcasting greats Al Michaels, Marv Albert and Bob Costas worked the same event together. Costas narrated a video that documented boxing’s prevalent history in New York City, highlighting legends of the ring such as Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali. Saturday’s card comes at a busy time for boxing, as the entire sports world anticipates the showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather on May 2, expected to be the most lucrative fight in the sport’s history. However, before their epic showdown, boxing returns to Madison Square Garden on April 25 when heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko fights in the United States for the first time since 2008 against undefeated U.S challenger Bryant Jennings.

Email Mike Thompson at sports@nyunews.com.