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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 43, No. 46
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015
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Study: LS students feel stigma By MARITA VLACHOU and ALANNA BAYARIN News Editors
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Daita Goswamy developed Suppr, an app that matches people based on their dining interests and location so they can enjoy a meal together.
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CAS junior Krystal McLeod has been awarded with the highly competitive Truman Scholarship, an honor given to public service leaders across the country. The award recognizes her for co-founding “My” Right to Learn, an education initiative. She will receive $30,000 toward her graduate education, where she hopes to earn a law degree and a Masters in public administration focusing on nonprofit policy. McLeod launched “My” Right to Learn last summer as an eightweek program during which disenfranchised students took
classes to increase literacy and engagement in civics. McLeod’s was inspired set up an education program through her family background, which allowed her to see how public schools could fail their students. “I come from a family of 12,” McLeod said. “Some of my siblings graduated from our local high school functionally illiterate. They didn’t have the tools they needed to succeed in college. My mom really depended on the public school, and it failed her.” McLeod said she always intended to give back to disenfranchised
The Gazelle: NYUAD elections Controversy surrounds the General Assembly special session held recently. STORY on PG. 3
Tennis beats Rochester in UAA sets By KYLE LUTHER Deputy Sports Editor
The NYU men’s and women’s tennis teams finished off the University Athletic Association Championship in Altamonte Springs, Florida on Sunday by defeating the University of Rochester. The wins from both teams came after a tough weekend and season in general. From the start, the men’s season had been plagued with a string of two-or-three game losing streaks, only getting a win to break the streak every now and then. Although the Violets finished the season with a 4-9 record, they consistently played very well at home, earning a 3-1 record. Their achilles’ heel was their record during games on
the road, where they lost all six of their contests. After losing five games straight, the Violets ended the season with a victory against Rochester, beating them 6-3. The Violets had lost 4-5 to Rochester earlier in the season but were able to turn the tables with strong doubles play this time around. After losing in the first doubles matchup, the Violets were able to get wins in the second and third doubles games to take the lead going into singles play. The Violets won four out of the six singles matches, led by junior Sidd Thangirala at number one singles, senior CJ Leong at second singles and sophomore Matt DeMichiel at fifth singles. This was also the last colle-
Track UAA Championships The Violets competed in Emory over the weekend, with strong performances throughout. STORY on PG. 5
giate competition for seniors CJ Leong and Billy Smithline, who were able to secure two singles victories and leave NYU on a high note. The women’s team fared better than the men’s this season, but still finished below .500. Like the men’s team, the women snapped a five game losing streak against Rochester and ended their season with a 3-3 road record. The Violets began their season on a high note, winning four of their first five matches. They looked to be moving up in the rankings, and the addition of junior transfer Carmen Lai at the beginning of the season boosted an already strong
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LS students feel inferior to other NYU students, according to a study conducted by CAS junior Drew Kogon. The study included 110 participants, all of whom were freshmen. Originally an LS student, Kogon said his time in Liberal Studies served as motivation for the research — he wanted to see if there was empirical data to support the stigma he felt surrounded Liberal Studies. “I became pretty aware of the stereotypes that exist regarding the different colleges,” Kogon said. “I myself was a member of LS so from that and from observing my peers in how they perceived themselves and how some of them really felt they were, to some degree, second-class students added more bulk and more foundation to doing a study.”
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