NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper
WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 54
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
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Fund aims to assist undocumented students By MARIA VERBAITE
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Steinhardt to perform ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ in honor of musical’s writer Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away in August 2012, will be inducted into the NYU’s Musical Theater Hall of Fame. Steinhardt students will also put on “Sweet Smell of Success,” a musical Hamlisch wrote based on the movie with the same title.
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A new fund is providing a way for admitted undocumented NYU students to afford the citizenship application fee when asking the government to defer deportation. Alina Das, an NYU School of Law professor and co-director of the Immigration Rights Clinic at the law school, co-founded the initiative, dubbed the Tejani Immigrant Pathways Fund. “We want undocumented students at NYU to have every opportunity to realize the dreams that brought them to NYU in the first place,” Das said. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security initiated a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival application process that allows individuals who entered the United States before the age of 16 to request up to two years of additional time to finish their studies. Undocumented students are not allowed to work and are ineligible for any federally funded aid such as scholarships, loans, grants and work-study money. The Tejani Immigrant Pathways Fund will help undocumented NYU students pay the $465 DACA application fee. The grants are funded by private donations. DACA does not offer a pathway to citizen-
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Women’s soccer competes, NYU alumna discusses volunteers abroad breakout role in ‘Teacher’
By MARY JANE DUMANKAYA
The NYU women’s soccer team spent 10 days in the United Kingdom this past August as part of the TeamNYUGlobal:Education, Service and Sport Initiative. The program launched in August 2012, sending varsity NYU athletes abroad to serve as ambassadors in various cities in NYU’s Global Network University. There are three parts of the program. The first part, education, takes place while the athletes are still in New York and includes learning the culture, history or language
of the global site. The second is conducting a youth clinic and volunteering at children organizations. The third is competing against local teams. The National Association of Student Affairs Professionals awarded the program the National Silver Medal for being an outstanding program. NYU men’s basketball successfully completed the inaugural trip to Italy touring Rome, Florence and Milan in August 2012. The Violets volunteered with children at the Dynamo Camp outside of Florence and played
local teams such as Interperformance Selezione. The soccer team began their trip in London, England on Aug. 6, and ended in Glasgow, Scotland on Aug. 16, with stops across the United Kingdom. The first few days were spent in London, which included a walking tour of London’s neighborhoods with NYU London’s assistant director for Student Life Nigel Freeman, as well visits to the Tower of London, Covent Garden and Old Trafford — Manchester United’s stadium.
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By JEREMY GROSSMAN
School is back in session, and there’s no better time for the release of Hannah Fidell’s new drama, “A Teacher,” about a high school English teacher’s dangerously intimate relationship with her student, in theaters Friday. For lead actress and NYU alumna Lindsay Burdge, “A Teacher” is the type of breakout role that actors dream about — an opportunity for Burdge to showcase her incredible range. Her character progresses from a dreamlike haze to a horrific nightmare as she realizes the pitfalls of her behavior. In an interview with WSN, Burdge discussed what it was like to play the deeply troubled Diana Watts, and her refusal to provide a history or explana-
tion of how her character came to this state of mind. “What’s kind of beautiful about it to me is, much like when you’re sitting on the subway and you’re just watching somebody across from you who you can tell they’re just going through something, all that you can do is imagine what’s going on with that person,” Burdge said. Burdge created an in-depth backstory for her character, but when asked to share, was tight-lipped on the details. Instead, she would prefer viewers to come up with the answers themselves. Burdge then referred to a line from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” a book she browsed through
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