While You Were Here: 2013

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SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 50 | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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There were certainly some days when you ran through the same activities in a mundane, repetitive schedule: school, work, sleep — or maybe no sleep — and repeat. But there are also the memories you will never forget and the moments that changed your life.

college experience is made of memorable moments folded together, each leaving a unique mark on each of us. Another year at NYU has flown by, so now I ask that you pause and think about the events you remember the most. Think about how you arrived here and how each instance has made an impression on your journey thus far.

From Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift to the end of the Iraq War. From the opening of NYU Abu Dhabi to the revolution in Egypt.

From Hurricane Sandy to the Boston Marathon bombings, you have experienced history.

With this special issue, I invite you to remember how you arrived at this moment. Remember your favorite classes and professors.

Remember how you felt when you were studying abroad. Remember all the times you spent with your friends. All of those moments were part of your destiny to lead you to where you are now.

JUNE 25, 2009 Famed pop music artist Michael Jackson dies at age 50. His death is later ruled a homicide committed by Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray.

AUGUST 6, 2009 Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. She would become the commencement speaker for NYU’s class of 2012 graduation ceremony.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 Rather than continue to offer students free 24-hour printing, NYU institutes $50 printing budgets for each semester.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 Kanye West crashes Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at MTV’s Video Music Awards as she is accepting the award for Best Female Video.

2009/2010

One of these events might not be a first meeting with the love of your life on a subway platform, but life does not always play out in perfect, Disney fashion. Take risks, explore options and remember. Some things may not go according to plan, and some attempts will fail to hit their mark. But in the end, everything will fall into place. You’ll be exactly where you need to be.

We have provided a starting point, but I ask that you allow nostalgia to fully take hold as you read these pages. Go ahead, think about the past and relish in the possibilities the future has to offer.

JORDAN MELENDREZ Deputy Managing Editor

OCTOBER 28, 2009 NYU institutes a smoking ban on campus, ruling that no one can smoke within 15 feet of an NYU building.

COURTESY OF NYU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 President Barack Obama appoints NYU Tisch School of the Arts dean Mary Schmidt Campbell to be vice chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old warrant after being charged with having unlawful intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

NOVEMBER 3, 2009 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is re-elected for a third term after the City Council votes in favor of extending the term limit.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010 NYU announces the Meals-2Go Program, where students can purchase a reusable container as a takeout option for their dining hall meals.

APRIL 2, 2010 NYU hosts its first annual Hackathon, where over 100 students develop their own programs and products within a 24-hour deadline.

APRIL 11, 2010 NYU announces its 2031 plan, which is a project that will expand the university’s size by about 40 percent. The plan includes the addition of property and redesign of pre-existing locations.

COURTESY OF VINCENT DUSOVIC FOR NYU ATHLETICS

NOVEMBER 21, 2009 For the first time in the program’s history, the NYU women’s cross country team qualifies for the NCAA championships. The team finished 24th out of 32 teams.

DECEMBER 17, 2009 NYU alumnus Alec Baldwin donates $1 million to the Tisch School of the Arts to establish the Alec Baldwin Drama Scholarship Fund.

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JANUARY 22, 2010 Conan “Coco” O’Brien leaves the NBC late-night staple, after only hosting “The Tonight Show” for seven months.

JANUARY 27, 2010 Apple introduces the first generation iPad, marking a new era for tablet production. Twelve apps were offered on the device at launch, with thousands of more apps available on the iTunes store.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010 New York Fashion Week is held at Bryant Park for the last time before the tents are relocated to Lincoln Center.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010 Former New York Gov. David Paterson ends his 2010 campaign after entangling himself in a domestic violence scandal involving top aide David Johnson.

MARCH 12, 2010 NYU aims for climate neutrality by 2040 with a comprehensive plan to make the campus more environmentally friendly.

APRIL 20, 2010 A large BP Amoco PLC oil rig spills 4.9 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Reports show that 5,000 barrels from BP’s rig were flooding into the ocean every day.

COURTESY NYU SCHOOL OF NURSING

MAY 7, 2010 The NYU College of Nursing receives $300,000 from the Brookdale Foundation to support scholarships for geriatric nurse practitioners.

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2010/2011

JUNE 2, 2010 The NYU Bookstore, now with a Think Coffee inside, moves to a larger, more central location at 726 Broadway.

OCTOBER 10, 2010 The NYU women’s golf team wins first championship in program history at the Eastern College Athletic Conference.

AUGUST 9, 2010 NYU and Ohio State University win a $46 million i3 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which will be used to improve literacy among first-grade students by revamping training programs for grade-school teachers.

NOVEMBER 2010 In one of the most successful fall seasons of NYU athletics, the NYU men’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross-country teams make the NCAA Tournament.

AUGUST 31, 2010 Obama announces the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the withdrawal of troops, marking the end of the Iraq War.

COURTESY OF EATALY

AUGUST 31, 2010 Eataly, Mario Batali’s gourmet Italian grocery store and restaurant, opens in New York near Madison Square Park.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 The NYU Abu Dhabi portal campus begins classes in the fall semester of 2010. The campus is financed by the government of the United Arab Emirates.

OCTOBER 7, 2010 NYU announces that subsequent all-university commencements will no longer be held in Washington Square Park. All ceremonies since have been held in Yankee Stadium.

COURTESY OF WIKILEAKS

NOVEMBER 28, 2010 WikiLeaks releases thousands of confidential United States Embassy cables from around the world.

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JANUARY 27, 2011 A record-breaking blizzard leaves many institutions, including NYU, closed. The 20 inches of snow that fell overnight broke an 86-year record for January snowfall.

APRIL 2011 After a decade of using a magnetic swipe system, NYU announces its decision to upgrade and implement the NYUCard system that utilizes updated technology.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010 The popular alcoholic, caffeinated drink Four Loko is sold legally for the last day. The beverage contains roughly the same amount of caffeine as one cup of coffee and the same alcohol content as five beers.

JANUARY 8, 2011 United States Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, is shot and critically injured along with 18 others outside a supermarket where she was meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz.

JANUARY 21, 2011 NYU completes its natural gas-fired cogeneration plant, which decreases greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 23 percent while reducing air pollutants by 68 percent compared to its 30-year-old, oil-fired predecessor.

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JANUARY 25, 2011 The Egyptian revolution begins with citizens taking to the streets of Cairo and protesting against poverty, unemployment and the rule of president Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011 The New York City Council passes a bill that bans smoking in public parks and beaches. The bill is passed in February and implemented citywide in May of 2011.

MARCH 25, 2011 Union group Workers United hosts a march in commemoration of the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which occurred in the top three floors of what is now NYU’s Brown building.

MARCH 28, 2011 After Abu Dhabi, NYU chooses Shanghai as the second international portal campus, which will begin operations in fall 2013.

APRIL 29, 2011 Prince William marries Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey in London. The two met at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2001.

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MAY 2, 2011 Osama bin Laden is killed in Pakistan by a special team of Navy SEALs known as SEAL Team 6.

Obama informs the nation at approximately 11:35 p.m. EDT.

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2011/2012

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011 Protesters gather in the Financial District’s Zuccotti Park, initiating an international movement later called Occupy Wall Street.

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AUGUST 26, 2011 Hurricane Irene causes subway closures and Bloomberg orders the mandatory evacuation of low-lying parts of the city.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 University residence hall opens a new dining option called Burger Studio. The dining hall is located in the bottom level of U-Hall and accepts Dining Dollars and Campus Cash.

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JUNE 16, 2011 Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner resigns after the public learns he sent partially nude photos of himself to a woman he never met.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 The U.S. military officially ends its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy by prohibiting the dismissal of openly gay, lesbian or bisexual service members based on his or her sexual orientation.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 After a long fight with colon cancer, women’s swim coach Lauren Beam passes away. Beam had graduated cum laude from NYU in 1999 and began coaching in 2004.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011 Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, passes away after a decade-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs was first diagnosed in October 2003.

JUNE 17, 2011 NYU and the Paris School of Economics announce a global partnership that will have faculty members teach courses at study abroad campuses.

COURTESY OF 9/11 MEMORIAL

JUNE 24, 2011 New York announces that it will legalize gay marriage, propelling the national gay rights effort forward.

The law was enacted on July 24.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 New York City recognizes the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center with the limited opening of the 9/11 Memorial.

OCTOBER 22, 2011 The University of the People at NYU holds its first teach-in at the park, marking the free university’s first expansion into NYU. The university would go on to hold various open lectures for the public on campus.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011 The St. Louis Cardinals win their 11th World Series Title.

The Rangers lost their second straight World Series 6-2 at home in what would be future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols’ final game with St. Louis.

NOVEMBER 8, 2011 Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno is fired and university president Graham Spanier resigns because of the way they handled child sexual abuse accusations against an assistant football coach.

NOVEMBER 15, 2011 Occupy Wall Street members are evicted from their base, Zuccotti Park, after the New York Police Department began clearing out protesters at 1:20 a.m.

JANUARY 18, 2012 Online communities like Reddit and Wikipedia protest proposed Internet regulation laws, the Protect Intellectual Property Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act, by blacking out their pages.

APRIL 27, 2012 Justin Bieber visits NYU to be honored at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, which is hosted by the Stern School of Business.

JANUARY 23, 2012 NYU opens the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life as a multi-faith initiative and sacred space for all students in a building paneled by faux floral siding.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011 NASA launches the Atlas V rocket to Mars. The rocket holds the Curiosity Rover onboard.

FEBRUARY 5, 2012 The New York Giants win Superbowl XLVI. Eli Manning wins his second ring and second Superbowl MVP award, beating Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the final.

FEBRUARY 26, 2012 Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old in Sanford, Fla., is shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman.

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DECEMBER 17, 2011 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies of a heart attack at age 69. He is succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un.

MARCH 1, 2012 NYU students protest the Chick-fil-A on campus in an attempt to ban the corporation from campus. In 2009, the company reportedly donated $2 million to anti-gay groups.

HANQING CHEN FOR WSN

MAY 18, 2012 Bobst Library installs new barriers in the staircases as part of renovation plans, prompting the media to speculate on whether recent student suicides factored into the decision.

MAY 4, 2012 “The Avengers” opens and makes over $200 million in its first weekend, breaking the all-time record.

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2012/2013

NOVEMBER 17, 2012 NYU evacuates students at its Tel Aviv site as a precaution against possible violence that could erupt between Palestine and Israel.

COURTESY OF MAX WISELTIER

JUNE 28, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court rules to uphold Obama’s Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, with a 5-4 vote.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 NYU students from the Student Labor Action Movement ally against NYU trustee Daniel Straus, who allegedly hires anti-union workers to counter SLAM’s protest.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 Construction on the final stages of renovations to the High Line begins. The new section, to be completed in 2014, will surround the Hudson Yards development.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012 Stern sophomore Max Wiseltier accidentally replies all to an email sent to 40,000 NYU students, prompting a “Replyallcalypse.”

DECEMBER 14, 2012 Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man, fatally shoots 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

JULY 27, 2012 The 2012 Olympic Games in London commence with the opening ceremony, which includes an appeareance by Queen Elizabeth II.

OCTOBER 15, 2012 NYU Timekeeper John Votta passes away at 70, leaving behind a legacy as a crossing guard and constant reminder of passing time.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 José Angel Santana, who was fired from NYU, files a defamation suit against actor James Franco after he called Santana a bad professor.

OCTOBER 29, 2012 Superstorm Sandy hits New York City, causing widespread blackouts downtown and in the outer boroughs. NYU cancels all classes for a week following the storm.

DECEMBER 15, 2012 A group of Tisch students produce and upload a cover of Rihanna’s single “Diamonds” to YouTube as part of a competition. The video garners 30,000 views after two days.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Britain’s Andy Murray wins the Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open, becoming the first British man to do so in 76 years.

NOVEMBER 7, 2012 Obama is re-elected for a second term as president, defeating his opponent Mitt Romney with 332 electoral votes.

JANUARY 15, 2013 Gov. Andrew Cuomo leads New York as the first state to pass sweeping gun control initiatives in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn.

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JANUARY 28, 2013 NYU begins phase three of its transition from Blackboard to NYU Classes.

The project will be used universitywide by the end of summer 2013.

FEBRUARY 1, 2013 Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch dies at age 88. Koch served as the city’s mayor for three terms, spanning from 1977 to 1989.

FEBRUARY 12, 2013 NYU Langone nurse Menchu Sanchez is honored during Obama’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., for saving the lives of newborn babies during Superstorm Sandy.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013 Tisch alumnus Ang Lee wins Best Director at the 85th Academy Awards for his film, “Life of Pi.” FEBRUARY 27, 2013 Bloomberg announces that the annual Fashion’s Night Out is canceled by Vogue Magazine, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and NYC & Co.

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MARCH 15, 2013 The Faculty of Arts and Science votes in favor of a statement of no confidence in NYU President John Sexton. The vote was 298-224 for the statement.

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APRIL 3, 2013 Jimmy Fallon is announced as Jay Leno’s second replacement on “The Tonight Show.” The “Late Night” host is set to take over in spring 2014.

APRIL 15, 2013 Bombs at the Boston Marathon kill three and injure over 260 people. The culprits were later identified as brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

APRIL 4, 2013 Legendary film critic Roger Ebert passes away at age 70. Ebert’s final published review was of “To the Wonder.”

APRIL 23, 2013 Cooper Union announces its decision to charge tuition beginning in fall 2014, citing its inability to sustain a free-education model.

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