NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper
washington square news Vol. 40, No. 7
THURSday, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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Violets take down Hunter College
NYC taxi fares see first spike in six years By Nicole Brown
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NYU women’s volleyball avenged last year’s loss against Hunter College with a four set win last night at Coles Sports Center. By Nico Cantor Last night was Hunter College’s longest drive back up to the Upper East Side as the NYU Violets avenged last year’s loss against the Hawks in a four set win at Coles Sports Center. The Violets improved their record to 4-3 and held a winning record for the first time this year.
“I think the last two years we’ve had a hard time being mentally prepared for the match-up,” said head coach Jolie Ward. “Our goal was to come back and show that we were more prepared coming into this match.” The Violets lost to the Hawks at last year’s Tear It Up event, which had snapped NYU’s 19-match home winning streak.
Tisch junior collaborates on first EP, ‘Look UP’ By Sydney Wu
To find inspiration, all Tisch junior Kiah Victoria needs to do is look up. The vocalist, who studies at The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, released her first EP in August. Titled “Look Up,” the extended play album consists of five R&B-soul tracks that focus on a theme of looking upward for love, trying to find it and define it. “‘Look Up’ came to me because when I walked down the street [I realized] that I don’t look up that much,” Victoria said. “There’s a sky and there’s the buildings and it gets kind of
crazy. It’s kind of a metaphor to not get caught up in right here. All of the songs have [an allusion] to an upward motion.” Victoria began singing when she was a child. She was born in Germany and lived in several different places before moving to New York at age 10 to star as Young Nala in Disney’s “The Lion King” on Broadway for six months. During Victoria’s senior year in high school, she applied to several universities for musical theater, but felt she was meant to be at Clive Davis. The first song she ever wrote was to get into the department.
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“It was all about revenge,” said junior Alexandria Mao, a captain and outside hitter. The match began with NYU running a 6-2 offense with setters captain junior Hope Bogle and freshman Emily Moore. Outside hitter sophomore Vera Shulgina gave her team the momentum needed to wrap up the first 25 points while Mao put the set away
with her clean swings and uncontested kills. She was NYU’s go-to offensive attacker as the Violets won the first set 25-22. The second set was rougher on the Violets. After an early timeout where NYU was winning 5-2, the Hawks went on a huge run. Hunter middle blocker Lucia Stosic racked
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For the first time since 2004, the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission increased the cab fare. Last May, the commission received a proposal from the yellow cab industry to increase fares as much as 20 percent. After much consideration and the commission’s vote, NYTLC agreed to raise the fares by 17 percent in July. Under this change that took effect earlier this month, every one-fifth of a mile will cost 50 cents — instead of 40 cents — after the initial cost of $2.50. In 2004, the fare increased approximately 26 percent, and stopand-go traffic calculations rose two years later. NYTLC spokesman Allan Fromberg attributed the fare raise to the high gas prices. “[The last increase] was swallowed up by gas prices, and drivers are making less than they were then,” Fromberg said.
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App shows healthy dining options By Tatiana Baez and Hye Joon Lee ARAMARK launched CampusDish, a new mobile application that provides dining information to college students last month. Available for free download in the iPhone, iPad and Android app stores, CampusDish provides dining hall menus with nutrition facts, including calories, total fat and vitamin counts to its users. This semester, NYU teamed up with ARAMARK to offer the app to the university’s community. Vassar College, Baylor University and the University of Central Florida also provide CampusDish. The NYU section on the app contains dining menus for Hayden, Third North, Rubin and Weinstein dining halls. CampusDish allows
students to search for different locations and types of food on campus. Students can also advance their searches by inputting specific criteria to find which dining hall and which meal would best match their preferences. “[The app] gives students access to pertinent information quickly on their smartphones,” said George Hellen, senior district manager for NYU Dining. “It will help students make better choices when it comes to eating, and the ability to eat healthy is important to the university.” Hellen said NYU students have been asking the university to provide a service like CampusDish. “The research we’ve done pointed out that students would like to get this information on their phones without having to look to a book
via CampusDish
The app provides a nutrition guide to dining hall cuisine. or the computer,” he said. Lisa Young, a nutritionist and adjunct professor in the
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