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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 67
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
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NYUGreen Day of Service brings students, faculty to Lower East Side As part of the Sustainability Initiative Task Force’s partnership with groups like the Lower East Side Ecology Center, students and faculty volunteered in the Lower East Side by sprucing up the neighborhood.
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Students to dig into NYU Urban Kagame, Weisel genocide discussion Farm Lab for Harvest Day disappoints crowd By ALEX PASTRON
Bustling cities like New York City can sometimes seem almost colorless, but the NYU Urban Farm Lab is giving the city a spot of bright green to contrast with the greys of the surrounding concrete jungle. Located on a green plot of land on the Houston Street side of the University Village Silver Towers, the NYU Urban Farm celebrated
its first Harvest Day on Sept. 26, welcoming both NYU students and local community members to pick fresh produce planted and grown by NYU students over the summer. “So far we have sowed seeds in trays … and once the roots systems are established, we can transfer them back into the garden,” food studies graduate student Rachel Gill said. “It’s a trip to be planting veg-
etables next to taxi cabs,” Gill said, gesturing toward the bustling street just on the other side of the farm’s fence. The farm project was initially proposed in 2010 by Daniel Bowman Simon of SNAP Gardens, which is an extension of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The project faced many extraordinary challenges in
By MARIA VERBAITE
Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Rwanda President Paul Kagame discussed U.S. intervention in Syria at The Bronfman Center
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Violets defeated by Farmingdale State in double overtime By KEVIN DANG
In their second straight overtime effort, the NYU men’s soccer team lost 1-0 on Saturday afternoon against Farmingdale State College in Farmingdale, N.Y. Although the Violets played well in the first half and maintained more possession throughout the game than the Farmingdale Rams, they ultimately fell in the second overtime period to
a late, 102nd minute goal from sophomore midfielder Alexis Escobar. “I think that FSC came out strong and we struggled to find our rhythm,” junior goalkeeper Forrest Sexton said. “The game was pretty evenly matched.” Escobar capitalized on a hole in the Violets’ defense. He was able to get away from the defensive line, face off with Sexton and beat him with a low shot.
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Rwandan President Kagame and Elie Weisel hold a talk.
for Jewish Life as part of a controversial event titled “Genocide: Do the strong have an obligation to protect the weak?” on Sunday. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach moderated the discussion. The event was a prelude to the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide and coincided with the UN General Assembly week, taking place in the UN headquarters from Sept. 24 to Oct. 1. Many people stood in line for over an hour to see the discussion. A half-hour before the event, organizers told attendees that the event had been overbooked and that many people would not be admitted, regardless of whether they prebooked their tickets. While the event was wellattended, several people protested Kagame outside. At the beginning of the
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