NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper
WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 46
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013
48,579
applicants
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55,079
applications
NEW YORK 14,065 students 31% admission rate 32% early decision 31% regular decision
ABU DHABI 201 students 5% admission rate 11% early decision 3% regular decision
NEW YORK & ABU DHABI/SHANGHAI 336 students
SHANGHAI 115 students (and counting)
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University releases preliminary admit rates By HANQING CHEN
NYU has accepted around 30 percent of applicants to the class of 2017, according to preliminary admissions rate calculations provided by admissions officials. As of April 15, the university has admitted around 14,700 students across all three campuses, said Shawn Abbott, assistant vice president of admissions. While previous years’ admissions rates include students admitted to both the university’s New York and Abu Dhabi
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Cooper Union to implement tuition for first time in 2014 By GABBY KAUFMAN and SOFIA FERRANDIZ
After 18 months of deliberation, the Cooper Union Board of Trustees voted April 21 to effectively end the school’s wellknown universal scholarship policy, beginning with freshmen entering Cooper Union in 2014. Peter Cooper, who founded the art, architecture and engineering university in 1859,
had a progressive vision of “equal to the best,” which mostly revolved around the provision of a full scholarship included with admission. The small size of the college of about 1,000 students, combined with the selectivity of the admission process, allowed this model to endure for over 150 years. Now, all students will still be automatically awarded a
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: NYU’S GOSSIP SQUIRREL IS NUTS ABOUT CAMPUS RUMORS:
Gossip Squirrel, the university’s informant of campus scandals, answers questions about being the source for gossip around Washington Square Park. VIA FACEBOOK.COM
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NEW YORK FOOTBALL TEAMS STRENGHTEN ROSTERS AT DRAFT:
The Jets and the Giants made their draft picks strategically for next season, as both teams are hoping to come back from big losses suffered this year. COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS
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smaller scholarship — 50 percent of the $38,500 tuition — in addition to need-based aid. However admissions will remain “need-blind,” according to a statement on the Cooper Union website. For some, the decision marks the crossing of an institution of higher learning with a business. Peter Buckley, associate professor and unofficial historian of Cooper Union, stated
his opposition to the decision of the Board of Trustees. “Peter Cooper believed in a high social purpose,” Buckley said. “Now, from 2014, we are to be a brand offering a marketable product.” Although the policy only affects the students entering Cooper Union from 2014 onward, current students said they feel strongly about the historical, social and moral
ramifications of this vote. “What they fail to understand is that the excellence of this institution is in the students, in the faculty and in the conversations we hold, largely due to the fact that we come as equals,” said Andy Overton, a freshman in the Cooper Union School of Art. “No one questions, or even
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Grey Art Gallery displays artist’s eclectic, multidisciplinary work By DEEKSHA MEHTA
Visitors to museums and galleries are presented with finished, polished works of art. Less often do they see the work and planning that go into each finished piece. The Grey Art Gallery’s current exhibition, “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating,” offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings and imaginative mind of acclaimed artist and sculptor Alice Aycock. The exhibition, which opened on April 23, features the art-
ist’s detailed drawings, five 3-D models, a film and several photographs that document the developmental stages of her work. On display are 48 of Aycock’s pieces from 1971 to 1984, and 55 works from 1984 to the present are currently being showcased at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y. “I divided it at 1984 because there are major shifts in both style and subject at that point,” said Jonathan Fineberg, the exhibition’s curator and professor of art history at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “While the first half is very conceptual, architectural, black and white, the second half is a startlingly different-looking show.” After coming to New York in 1968, Aycock quickly gained recognition in the 1970s art scene. Her unique and highly multidisciplinary style is inspired by science, architecture and technology, but also has elements of fantasy, imagination and emotion. Many of her large-scale sculptures
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