NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper
WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 47
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013
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Petition targets Wasserman internships By NICOLE BROWN
Last week, two NYU students started an online petition to stop the Wasserman Center for Career Development from posting certain unpaid internships. Tisch sophomore Christina Isnardi, one of the organizers of the petition, defined illegal unpaid internships as those that require academic credit, but either treat interns as full-time employees who would normally be paid, or require them to perform menial labor with no educational value. In his article in the New York Law Journal, “Unpaid Internships Under Legal Scrutiny,” NYU professor of law Samuel Estreicher said that unpaid internships should not simply benefit the employer, but also provide interns with skills that will benefit them in a specific field. “To satisfy Labor Department concerns, managers should be reminded that unpaid interns will be joining their department
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Wi-Fi service expands to 30 stations
The MTA plans to provide Wi-Fi and cell phone service to all New York City subway stations within the next three years. By FAY LIN Subway riders can now look forward to checking email, sending text messages and making calls from underground stations, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority expanded Wi-Fi and cell phone service to 30 additional stations last Thursday.
According to CBS New York, the plan to provide wireless service began when Wi-Fi was tested at six stations last year. The MTA plans to have all subway stations wired by 2016. The stations now equipped with Wi-Fi and cell service include subway stations from 14th to 96th Street in Manhattan as well stations at Times
NYU alumna talks being Tribeca’s youngest director By JEREMY GROSSMAN
For any filmmaker, having your work premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival is an incredible feat. But Tisch alumna Emily Harrold has accomplished something beyond even that. Harrold, only 22 years old and a member of NYU’s class of 2012, was the youngest director at this year’s festival. Harrold’s short documentary, “Reporting on the Times: The New York Times and the Holocaust,” premiered at Tribeca on April 20. The documentary, which exposes the truth behind The New York Times’ lack of coverage during the Holocaust — despite being a Jewish-run newspaper — is inspired by Laurel Leff’s book “Buried by the Times” and was featured at the Student Academy Awards in 2012.
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Tribeca is an entirely different experience, especially when you’re the youngest filmmaker there. “It was crazy,” Harrold said. “When I first found out I was the youngest, I was totally overwhelmed. Tribeca is such a preeminent festival, and I was nervous about stacking up.” “But it was really great,” she added. “I had the opportunity to meet a lot of successful directors, and I was continually impressed by how down-to-earth everyone was.” “In the end, we are all filmmakers, very excited to have our films playing at Tribeca,” Harrold added. Still, Harrold admitted that the festival did have its difficulties. “By far, the biggest challenge was fitting everything into a short amount of
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Square, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle. These 36 stations were chosen based on their ridership. The average annual ridership of one of these networked stations is approximated to be around 7 million customers per station. According to a press release by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, design work has already
begun on the next 40 stations in Midtown and Queens and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2014. Stations soon to be equipped include Flushing–Main Street, Grand Central and Herald Square. Jared Leavitt, a spokesman for Transit Wireless, the company
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K-pop popularizes Korean beauty By ARIANA DIVALENTINO
Decades ago, we would not have seen Americans idolizing South Korean pop stars and actresses alongside our own national starlets. But thanks to the Internet, people everywhere are following Korean pop culture and the flawless faces that headline it. Music groups like Girls’ Generation have achieved international fame not only by performing and releasing albums in various languages and countries but also in large part through international word-of-mouth and the sharing of online videos. K-pop now has its own chart on Billboard’s website, and there are numerous English-
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Girls Generation is of one of K-pop’s most popular groups. language Korean pop culture and beauty websites. BB cream, made popular by Korean celebrities, has spread to American markets as well, and users of Korean brands
such as Skin 79 and Missha still claim their superiority over Western copycats. Most K-pop boy bands and
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