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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014
Friends reflect on Oliva
German art on display uptown
L. Jay Oliva, former NYU president, is remembered after his passing on April 17.
The Neue Galerie is hosting an exhibition of Nazi-era art until June 30.
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Ally Week gives voice, support to immigrants By KRISTINE THOMASON
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The fourth annual Ally Week closed with “Undocu (stories),” a panel that shed light on issues undocumented students face.
Students and faculty gathered in the Kimmel Center for University Life’s Rosenthal Pavilion on April 18 for “Undocu (stories): A Call to Action” — the closing event of NYU’s fourth annual Ally Week. “Undocu (stories)” capped off a week filled with workshops and training sessions meant to deepen students’ understanding of societal injustices, as well as ways they can help advocate for marginalized groups. Assistant Director of NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs Selima Jumarali said she wanted this closing event to have a learning opportunity. “I think focusing on one lens of
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Student trades summer Graduate students research film job for volunteer gig By LORENA TAMEZ
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When most of her peers will be leaving New York City or pursuing internships at the end of the semester, Stern freshman Abigail Donoghue will be departing on a threemonth cross-country bike ride. The ride will benefit Bike & Build, a non-profit organization that raises awareness for the affordable housing crisis in the United States. Donoghue plans to depart from Charleston, S.C., and reach Santa Cruz, Calif., on Aug. 11. She will be among 33 other cyclists between the ages of 18 and 28. Donoghue said that the cyclists will bike between 35 and 117
miles each day and will sleep in community centers, churches and other free spaces. The group will build houses with Habitat for Humanity and other local organizations for 17 days throughout the trip, including an eight-day stay in Colorado Springs, Colo., where they will build a house. Donoghue said she was initially unsure of how to spend her summer. She originally considered interning, but ultimately decided to volunteer while she still has the summers free. “I really wanted to do something that helped people, as well as teach
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The Tisch Graduate Film Program recently announced Forest Conner, Artel Great, Michelle Ow and Collin Whitlow as the 2014 fellows for the Cinema Research Institute, which will support their research on financing, producing, marketing and distributing films. “The fellowship is a great opportunity for people who want to think about independent film in a different way,” said Ow, whose project will focus on how movie ticket pricing affects different demand variables such as attendance and profit. “The motivation behind something like this is not just that you want to be nostalgic,” Ow added.
“[It] is that you want to be exploratory, you want to be curious about where the industry is going and what its future [is].” Great will explore the future outside of conventional Hollywood productions, focusing on the development of Project Catalyst, a distribution model that emphasizes the importance of multicultural films. “As a media scholar I have been studying that in the mainstream there had been more diversity, but somewhere along the way that changed,” Great said. “What happened to the personal stories, to the intimate stories that reflect true American life?” With Project Catalyst, Great hopes to recognize unheard stories and build community through
cinema and art to promote more diversity in media industries. Other fellows’ projects will examine the future of financing and marketing films. Whitlow’s project intends to create an index based on film financial returns to provide more transparency for prospective investors. “People tend to react negatively when you try to put math into art, but I think the opposite. I think film can only benefit from it,” Whitlow said. Whitlow’s goal is to increase investment in everything from small independent films to big blockbusters by providing a more securely calculated film performance.
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