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NYU Criticized for Ties to Aramark

By HTOO MIN Deputy News Editor

A petition circulating the NYU community is asking the university to divest from Aramark Corporation — a food provider that has serviced 16 locations across NYU’s New York City campuses for over 20 years — due to concerns about the company’s practices.

The petition, which was created

by NYU Prison Divest, has been supported and signed by several hundred students and alumni, according to the group. In a statement to WSN, NYU Prison Divest said that the university should use more ethical and responsible food sources, and has made recommendations to the university accordingly.

The petition states that its goal is to end the relationship between Aramark and NYU, citing allegations published in a PBS article as reasons why the university should disassociate itself from Aramark. Prisoners in sites serviced by Aramark have reported finding maggots and rocks in their food. The company has also been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by Aramark employees toward inmates and an employee smuggling drugs into prisons.

Vice President of Corporate Communications for Aramark Karen Cutler said that Aramark strives to provide a safe environment in the public and state prisons that it serves, and it specifically works to provide incarcerated individuals with a meal that

meets all nutritional specifications.

The petition calls for the university to divest from private prison companies, but Cutler said that Aramark cannot be categorized as such.

“We do not manage or operate correctional facilities or do any business with federal penitentiaries or private prisons,” Cutler said. “We provide meals to offenders in state and county correctional facilities in the United States. We help these facilities maintain safe, stable environments for millions of offenders, officers and staff every day.”

Cutler said that the correctional facility determines the nutritional specifications for the menus that the company creates, including calories, portions and religious meals. She also said that all menus are designed by registered dietitians to meet the nutritional requirements specified by the facility.

NYU Spokesperson Matt Nagel said that Aramark serves a wide variety of institutions, but in no way benefits from privately institutionalized individuals. When considering NYU’s long-running history with Aramark and the facts presented,Nagel feels that NYU should not have a problem continuing relations with Aramark.

"Aramark is a large, nationwide food services company that serves many different types of institutions, including hospitals, universities and school districts,” Nagel said. “They have indicated to us that they provide services to county and state correctional facilities but do not, in

fact, provide services to private or federal prisons.”

Nagel said that based on the facts at hand and the university’s experience with the company, NYU sees no reason to alter its arrangement with Aramark. But NYU Prison Divest believes the action in and of itself is symbolic.

“Ceasing contracts from Aramark sends the message to formerly incarcerated persons that NYU is an institution that is actively working to truly be an all-inclusive university, as they so call themselves,” NYU Prison Divest said. “Formerly incarcerated people sometimes feel discouraged by the presence of ‘the box,’ so one can only imagine that NYU’s having contracts with a company such as Aramark could be ever so discouraging these folks from even applying to NYU.” Email Htoo Min at hmin@nyunews.com.

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A number of NYU groups are petitioning for the university administration to divest from Aramark Corporation.

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By COCO WANG Deputy News Editor The NYU Department of Public Safety received two reports of larceny and two reports of harassment between March 20 and March 26.

Larceny

On March 21 at 1:52 p.m. Public Safety reported that a nonNYU male attempted to remove items from the NYU Bookstore without paying for them. The male was apprehended and arrested by NYPD.

Harassment On March 21 at 12:30 p.m. a student reported being harassed in Bobst Library and over phone calls and text messages. The incident is under investigation.

On March 21 at 12:45 p.m. a student reported that an unknown male harassed them while walking on Washington Place. Police notification was declined.

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NYU Professors Identified as Distinguished

By HERMAN LEE Staff Writer Students aren't the only ones who have been thinking outside the box, as demonstrated by the talent recognized by the University Distinguished Teaching Awards.

The winners of the awards for the 2016-2017 academic year were announced March 20 in an email to the NYU community. According to the email, six faculty members were given the award: basic science and craniofacial biology clinical professor Elena Cunningham, pediatrics professor Benard Dreyer, clinical associate professor Gregory Erickson, Wagner clinical professor John Gershman, chemistry clinical professor John Halpin and LS clinical professor Heidi White.

The award was designed to recognize faculty who have demonstrated excellence as educators over a sustained period of time, as explained on the NYU website. The winners are chosen based on nominations by students, faculty and alumni, and each school within NYU selects one candidate to send to the All-University Committee to make the final recommendation.

Cunningham said she thinks the award was granted to

her because of the excellent teaching community at NYU. She also credited her success to the motivated students in her classes.

“I feel like I have a very great community that I work with, and so there is a lot of support to try new things,” Cunningham said. “There's a real sense of community about finding the best way to teach, and that is very helpful in becoming a good teacher.”

Cunningham said that in addition to her fellow faculty members and the administration, her students at the College of Dentistry have also helped her cultivated a great teaching experience.

Halpin said that he enjoys teaching at NYU because of the students he interacts with. He particularly appreciates that he can help students understand their potential.

“Instead of struggling to help them to learn, it's helping them to learn just how capable they can be,” Halpin said. “I’m an NYU graduate myself, so it's very nice to still be here and see how the student body has changed since I was a student.”

Halpin also said that he is glad that the profession of teaching can have such a direct impact on students. He enjoys

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The six NYU faculty members — Heidi White, Elena Cunningham, Gregory Erickson, John Halpin, Benard Dreyer and John Gershman ­­— have been awarded the 2017 University Distinguished Teaching Award. The recognition — received by nominations from students, faculty and alumni — is given to faculty who show prowess in their teaching ability. the immediate gratification of watching his students succeed.

One of Halpin’s students, School of Medicine graduate student Ravi Pancholi, said that Halpin is an inspirational professor who gave her helpful direction on teaching.

“He gave me some of the best advice I ever had when I first started off teaching," Pancholi said. "[He said] something along the lines of, ‘The role of a teacher isn't just to provide their students with information — it is to inspire them

and to lead them along a path based on the teacher’s own experiences, giving them the information that can make them better learners.’”

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NYU Helps Open Neighborhood Innovation Lab

By GRETA CHEVANCE Staff Writer NYU is to helping improve urban life throughout New York City by eliminating technical difficulties arising on a daily basis through its collaboration with New York City’s first Neighborhood Innovation Lab. New York’s Mayor’s Office of Technology Innovation, the Economic Development Corporation and NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress recently worked together to open the city’s first Neighborhood Innovation Lab at Osborn Plaza in Brownsville, Brooklyn last week. The first forum open to the community is set to occur in May. Civil and Urban Engineering Assistant Professor Constantine Kontokosta is CUSP’s Deputy Director and the university’s leader in the Neighborhood Innovation Lab partnership.

Kontokosta said that the lab will allow for a forum where the government, educators, community members, researchers and technology companies can collaborate on using technology to improve urban life and address issues occurring throughout the city.

“The Neighborhood Innovation Lab initiative kicked off this week with a series of strategic planning sessions for com-

munity leaders,” Kontokosta said. “Over the summer, the first set of new technologies — including CUSP sensors, trash cans that alert sanitation workers when they are full, solar-powered benches that offer free cell phone charging and interactive digital kiosks — will be rolled out in Brownsville's Osborn Plaza.”

Various community advisors such as Progress Playbook, which helps entrepreneurs further their goals, and the Kinnon Group, which supplements youth development programs will also be working in collaboration with the lab.

“Over the next four months, these community advisors will work with the city to define neighborhood needs and explore how smart city technologies can help improve quality of life and support local economic development,” Kontokosta said.

CAS sophomore Nina Bisbano believes that students and educators are responsible for involving themselves in these types of city-wide initiatives.

“I think that it is our civic duty as a city and a university to advance economic and social equality by doing research into the roots of inequality, and finding ways to fix these issues in order to make these communities more equitable and hab-

itable,” Bisbano said. “NYU’s engagement in this initiative demonstrates its interest to be even more integrated and involved in the city, and emphasizes how it really is a university without walls.”

Kontokosta said that NYU wanted to become involved in this project because CUSP’S goals are very similar to those of the Neighborhood Innovation Lab. “CUSP's mission is to both instrument New York City and use existing data from a network of agencies to transform the city into a living laboratory and classroom,” Kontokosta said. “Our goal is to make sense of the vast amount of data it collects to help cities around the world become more productive, more livable, more equitable and more resilient.”

NYU will be primarily involved in data collection and analysis for the lab as part of Kontokosta’s Quantified Community Project, which is also being conducted in Lower Manhattan, Red Hook, Brooklyn and Hudson Yards. Kontokosta said that sites are chosen based on the objectives of the institutions involved.

“Site selection revolves around the goals of supporting neighborhood development and bridging the digital divide

for communities that often lag behind,” Kontokosta said. “We believe that this partnership will allow for vast improvements in the observations, analyses and models of cities, leading to improved urban systems and quality of life in New York City.”

CAS sophomore Althea Meer said that she is excited by the lab’s promotion of a crossover between technological innovation and public service. She believes that technology has the ability to impact underdevel-

oped communities.

“As someone who studies both computer science and English, I am looking for ways to apply my knowledge of data analysis to my interest in social action and public service,” Meer said. “The projects underway at the Innovation Lab open up [a] new possibility for students like me who want to integrate data knowledge into social movement.”

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Jazz Collective C3 Sinks its Teeth into NYC

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C3 is a jazz collective of Steinhardt students. They will play at Gold Sounds on April 16 and at Bitter End on May 12.

By CONNOR GATESMAN Staff Writer Named after the basement level in Third North where its members met, C3 is a budding jazz collective.

The group is a musically diverse host of musicians and composers, including Kyle Brenn on percussion, Rohan Chander on keyboard, David Mayers on guitar, Dani Strigi on bass, Shyam Natarajan on tenor saxophone, Paul

Hutchings on both the trumpet and flugelhorn and Zachary Voelbel on trombone and keyboard. All members are Steinhardt freshmen with the exception of Natarajan, who is a CAS freshman. While the group is jazz-focused, it defies all conventional genre and any categorization.

“We do a lot of jazz influence in our music, but there’s also a lot of hip-hop. There’s this one song we’re doing with rapper Ryan

Waller,” Natarajan said.

C3’s lineup has grown organically as they've met fellow musicians in their various classes.

The composition-focused nature of their workflow allows for effortless musical structure and progressions that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

The band draws from a wide-ranging set of musical influences that ebb and flow throughout their music.

“We’re heavily inspired by bands like Snarky Puppy,” Brenn said.

“That larger, jam band sort of deal.”

Chander agreed and elaborated on the band’s hip-hop influences as well, stating that the band members' diverse backgrounds are what make them so much fun to perform with.

“We also like a lot of old-school hip-hop like J-Dilla — that stuff’s great,” Chander said. “[The large range of influence is] probably the best part about this particular project.”

As the group responds to and in-

tuitively riffs off each other’s ideas, it is clear how a big group could collaborate in such harmony with one another. There is no set style or mode of operation for the musical outfit, and C3 takes pride in that.

“When you have that sort of process where there’s a very open musical dialogue in terms of what we want to create, and we’re all sort of feeding off of each other’s influences and inspiring each other, it creates music that we couldn’t make alone,” Strigi said.

The band has seen a rapid rise in momentum since its first single, “Slanza,” a 16-piece orchestral epic, which they played live at their wildly successful first show at the Brooklyn Bazaar in February. The song is warm and expansive, and it shows the high degree of talent and potential the group has cultivated over the past two semesters. Riding along an unforgettable musical path that constantly careens into unexpected stylistic motifs, the tune has marked a definite jumping off point for the group both cre-

atively and promotionally.

When describing how the recording came together, Brenn said it took the last three or four weeks of fall semester. Through contacting other musicians and booking time to rehearse at the Kimmel Center for University Life, they pieced together the full orchestration.

“We crowdfunded all the money that we used to record the tune,” Brenn said. “Once we started writing and planning to record, things started escalating really quickly from there. Our original intention had never been to become a band and start playing out, but then we realized we could turn this [project] into a whole EP, so that’s where we are now.”

C3’s upcoming EP “The Unanswered Question” will be released in late April. The group is playing at Gold Sounds April 16 and at the Bitter End May 12.

Email Connor Gatesman at music@nyunews.com.

‘Life’ Makes for Lifeless Horror New Soccer Mommy: Springtime Sadness

By SYDNEY RAPPIS Staff Writer With the tiny hands of the apocalypse ever looming on Earth, it’s no surprise that filmmakers are taking to the skies for their stories. In genre-blending films like “The Martian,” “Interstellar” and “Arrival,” audiences have been pampered with well-executed space movies. “Life” clearly wanted to jump on that spaceship and hitch a ride into box-office success, and this “Alien” retread had potential.

With a loaded cast of heavy hitters, such as dreamy Jake Gyllenhaal, bad boy Ryan Reynolds and icy hot Rebecca Ferguson, this alien horror film promised gut-wrenching gore and distressing suspense. Unfortunately, not even Seamus McGarvey’s breathtaking cinematography could bandage the ET-sized wound in the plot.

The story begins in chaos as a team of astronauts on the International Space Station is forced to execute a mission to retrieve

the first samples of life from Mars. Alarms blast and people float around the spacecraft as the captain's calm voice fills the radio. “Remember your training,” she repeats. Gyllenhaal, playing the time-worn medic who has spent more hours in space than anyone before him — which, if you weren’t paying attention to George Clooney, is as damning a sentence as “I’ll be right back” — mumbles something about how this particular mission was not something they trained for.

Once they successfully catch the rover, the resident scientist Ariyon Bakare immediately sets out to revive the amoeba-like cell called Calvin, which is found in the soil samples.

The crew observes that Calvin grows at an astonishing speed, evolving from an amoeba to a plant-like specimen at a rate that would make Darwin roll over in his grave. The ensuing carnage begins almost immediately — though not before we see crewmember Hiroyuki

Sanada FaceTiming his wife as she gives birth, really nailing in the motif of the title. What begins as a potentially refreshing alien horror film spirals from here into a surprisingly lazy compilation of tropes. The crew falls into their assigned home invasion-inspired archetypes — a soft-spoken intellectual with almost too much intuition, an altruist, a person blinded by their feelings, a hot-headed American and a token final girl.

The film also wanders into shark-horror territory when shots from Calvin’s point of view hint at a thirst for blood. What Calvin wants is increasingly unclear, and this seemingly invincible martian octopus-bug only gets less intimidating as the story unfolds.

A good monster has some sort of weakness and remains in the shadow long enough to keep the audience guessing — Calvin, on the other hand, seems to exist in a world without rules in plain sight.

While Calvin’s super strength and slightly erotic scene with a crew member make for entertaining viewing in a campy sort of way, “Life” is a parody that doesn’t know it yet. While we can definitely look forward to the film's interactive screenings at dive bars, it’s hard to say that “Life” is any more frightening than the actual looming techno-horror of life on Earth in the 21st century.

“Life” was released in theaters nationwide on March 24.

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Jake Gyllenhaal stars in “Life,” a film about the potential dangers of finding extraterrestrial life on Mars.

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By GILCHRIST GREEN Music Editor Soccer Mommy’s new tracks feel like borderline-warm March days — days when the sun hits your forehead but the cool breeze billows up your dress. With sweet and hypnotizing swirls of guitar paired with melancholy “Dear Diary”-esque confessions, she seamlessly pairs bright and cloudy.

Steinhardt sophomore Sophie Allison is Soccer Mommy.

With the three stars of the Tennessee flag tattooed above her right knee, Allison’s Nashvillian roots are proudly visible. But her music is far from its southern counterparts — sonically, it draws from more northern sad-pop influences like New York’s Frankie Cosmos and Eskimeaux. Self-described on her Bandcamp page as “chill but kinda sad,” Allison’s milky jams are perfect for early-morning listening under the covers in your bed.

Her latest singles “last girl” and “be seeing you,” which were released March 22, tell stories of feelings and relationships. Backed by a full band, this 7’’ has a much-welcomed layered depth unheard of within the rest of her discography. The first track sings the tune of insecurity and doubt, as the lyrics, full of yearning, focus on her boy’s last girl.

The guitar is melodic and the drumbeat is simple, putting Allison’s unique cadence in the driver’s seat.

Shooting from high to low, her voice is muted, calm and reassuring even if the lyrics aren’t. Full of honesty through lines like “why would you still want to be with me / when she’s got everything you’ll need?” “last girl” is a song for young hearts. “be seeing you” is the reminiscence of a summer’s love. Cute, dreamy and lonely, you could just sway forever in someone’s arms to this song — or maybe, more likely, silent-cry alone to the overwhelming feeling of missing someone.

Both tunes are deep from the heart, unabashedly sad with an undercurrent of high-quality poppy cheer and a clear sign of more gems to come.

Soccer Mommy is playing April 6 at the Mercury Lounge.

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‘Black Renaissance Noire’ Marks Newest Issue

By KHRYSGIANA PINEDA Staff Writer

Panelists Sonia Sanchez, Tyrone Mitchell, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hermine Pinson filled the room with heartbreak and love, echoing ghosts of the past and harmonies of the present and future through their displayed work and an insight into their artistic strategies. That Friday night of March 24 was a reading and reception for the upcoming winter 2017, volume 17, issue 1 release of “Black Renaissance Noire Literature Magazine,” published by NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs.

Black Renaissance Noire presents the contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, art and photography of some of the most celebrated artists of our time. The journal addresses political issues and black concerns while celebrating cultural beauty and triumph.

Its opening night was primarily devoted to the presentation of sculptures

by Tyrone Mitchell and to poetry readings, including two of Sonia Sanchez’s haikus attributed to Emmett Till and Patrice Lumumba.

Mitchell’s sculptures are abstract and use various colors and materials — such as kuba cloth from the Congo — to tell stories.

“Artists tend to be idealists and in that way, express political ideals,” Mitchell said.

“I’m really trying to use as many things and methods in a piece as possible because it seems that the conversation becomes more intense,” Mitchell said. “It’s this effort to try to be more articulate with different languages as much as possible. Each one of them is kind of dealing with African and African-American reality.”

Sanchez shared the impacts of growing up in a family of musicians paired

with her brother's illness and eventual death from AIDS. She also outlined quirks and tactics that she uses to help her write.

“Many of us sleep with textbooks and notebooks under our pillows," Sanchez said. "Or at least I do.”

She also discussed how rhythm and music have inspired her writing over the years.

“Here it is; here it be — I’m deconstructing these sounds, and I put them back together,” Sanchez said. “I have always heard music when I wrote.”

Sanchez surprised the audience with her scatting abilities, bursting into beats and sounds to express how rhythm is related to poetry. She explained the difference between writing in form and writing in free-verse.

“You really do have to understand form in order to understand freeverse,” Sanchez said. “Form will not deform you. Everything you write has form. You can smell it. You can taste it.”

Art provides expression and dialogue in both a political and aesthetic world.

Black Renaissance Noire ensures that these expressions are collected and given to the world in a publication that is both celebratory and demanding of emotional movement and political action.

“Sometimes there’s stuff you can’t get out any other way,” Pinson said.

Black Renaissance Noire and the artists it represents inspire light through culture, beauty and hope. Sanchez used metaphors of that same light while reading a haiku to an audience of avid listeners, reminding everyone how storytellers communicate truth to the world.

“You are the sun’s power as it spreads,” Sanchez said.

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by NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs. The release of the new issue was marked by poetry readings and sculpture presentations on March 24.

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From left to right, Phil Jimenez, Ramzi Fawaz, Jennifer Camper and Margaret Galvan joined the panel hosted in Strand to discuss LGBTQ representation in the comic industry. The panel occurred on March 22.

Panel Addresses LGBTQ Representation in Comics

By RYAN MIKEL Staff Writer

As children, we grew up idolizing the superheroes we saw on-screen and read about in books, but who exactly gets to be a superhero? Why are superpowers and genetic anomalies designated exclusively to heterosexual, white men?

This lack of equal representation still present in comics today instills a sense of inferiority in children at an early age when they have no Man of Steel to represent them.

This past Wednesday, the Strand Bookstore held a panel called Queer Studies and LGBTQ Representation in Comics to discuss this lack of diversity. Ramzi Fawaz, author of the book "The New Mutants," moderated the discussion.

The panel included queer scholars, active artists in the industry and speakers who are a combination of both.

The first panelist to speak was cartoonist and graphic artist Jennifer Camper, creator of the biennial Queers & Comics Conference. Beginning the evening on a humorous note, Camper presented excerpts of her work, which is centered on female and queer stereotypes and being Lebanese-American in post-9/11 New York City, drawn from her own experiences as such.

“I became a cartoonist when comics were a bastard art form, and now you can get an MFA in them,” Camper said.

“We did comics because that’s all that was there for us. I wanted to talk about the world from my point of view.”

Phil Jimenez, known for his work as an artist and writer for “Wonder Woman” and “New X-Men,” was the next to chime in. Jimenez got his start in comics almost 26 years ago because the style of highly colorful, over-thetop, fantastical and often bombastic, overtly-sexualized characters seemed

evidently queer to him.

“Today’s mainstream comic book universes are products of an industry that is straight, white, American, male and often rooted in religious ideals,” Jimenez said. “It is opposite of ‘the other.’ But with characters like ‘America Chavez’ and ‘Iceman and Romeo,’ we are finally being seen. Maybe not in huge numbers but substantially more than before.”

Departing from the panelists’ autobiographical conversations and their bodies of work, Fawaz and Camper spoke of established and forthcoming strategies that both readers and writers can use to shatter the glass ceiling of LGBTQ representation not only in comics but also in the media. Fawaz commented specifically on the ways of expressing difference — either directly, or through the use of metaphors.

“What compels me about comics of the past is that you may not have always had direct LGBTQ representation, but there were characters who were incredibly heterogeneous, living in fictional universes that were committed to democratic and egalitarian engagement of ‘difference,’” Fawaz said.

Audience members asked when readers would see more intersectional identities in comics, and Camper said that people must first feel urgency for corporations to hire more people of color, female and queer writers to create these heroes. Unfortunately, Camper and other established LGBTQ cartoonists are still obscured by an industry dominated by white men and produced for white men. Therefore, he said it is up to the next generation of writers to continue the fight, to ensure that every boy, girl and non-gender conforming child has their champion in a red cape.

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The Pineapple Pizza Debate That's Slicing the World Apart

By ALLIE DEGEN Contributing Writer

The argument over pineapple as an acceptable pizza topping has escalated to new heights. Sparking enormous controversy on the internet, the issue of pineapple pizza divides mankind. But why has pineapple pizza stirred up so much hysteria?

There’s not much evidence as to when, where or why this matter became so publicized, but it inflated recently after President Gudni Johannesson of Iceland proclaimed that he would ban pineapple as a pizza topping if he had the power to do so. As soon as word of this got out, an outcry erupted across the world wide web. People everywhere either derided or glorified him. Johannesson later admitted that while the ban itself was a joke, his hatred of the topping was not.

One of the most remarkable aspects of this debate is that people are extremely assertive about their opinions, regardless of which side they take. Perhaps this is because only the people with the strongest opinions choose to post them on social media. But maybe after recent heated political controversy, people have come together to focus on this more lighthearted dispute.

But as we now know, the pineapple pizza debate is far from lighthearted. People who have never even met in real life trash each other on social media over their contending opinions. This once-underrated food combination has driven people to pure revulsion toward those on the other side.

Search “pineapple pizza debate” on Google, and an absurd number of results appears.

At NYU, there is a similarly extensive range of opinions. As one of the

most globally diverse universities in the United States, NYU accommodates students from many different backgrounds, suggesting that everyone falls differently on the attitude spectrum toward the contentious food combination.

CAS sophomore Allison Griffith has an appreciation for pineapple pizza and said she most likely won’t ever turn to hating it.

“My favorite pizza combination is pepperoni and pineapple,” she said.

“The pineapples add some extra zest , and I love it!”

In contrast to Griffith's adamant love for it, CAS sophomore Bryant Kim expressed a deeply rooted hatred toward pineapple pizza.

“It triggers me,” he said. “There should be a safe space dedicated for it, honestly.”

CAS sophomore Nancy Faber is not as assertive in her opinion on pineapple pizza as some.

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Although pineapple pizza is a staple of most American pizzerias, whether pineapple deserves to be on pizza is a major debate, especially on social media.

“I’m torn about it,” she said. “It combines my two favorite places — Hawaii and Italy — but then again, some Italians say it’s wrong. It’s just not right — I’m either in love with it or I hate it, kind of like my ex-boyfriends.”

Apparently the world is not ready to make a final decision on pineapple pizza. It is interesting to see how

something as simple as a pizza topping can cause a huge controversy.

Nonetheless, now that we are aware of how intensified this debate has become, we know better than to suggest it as a topic of discussion at the next Thanksgiving dinner.

Email Allie Degen at dining@nyunews.com.

Memes for Millennials: Now on Sale!

By THOMAS CHOU Staff Writer

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Fashion designer brands are beginning to incorporate meme advertising to appeal to millennials.

Gucci, for example, worked with Instagram meme creators to create meme advertisements.

Fashion has been especially transfixed on social media lately — it’s impossible to miss. A simple scroll through Instagram will show one of the oddest marketing techniques ever — the new meme campaign launched by Gucci. In an effort devised by creative director Alessandro Michele, Gucci collaborated with popular Instagram meme creators such as @beigecardigan and @youvegotnomale to generate meme ads for its new line of luxury watches, the Les Marché Des Merveilles collection.

Described as a “new collaborative art project in the digital space” on

Gucci’s Instagram, the meme advertising campaign begs the question whether this is an attempt to appeal to Instagram’s main demographic — millennials. Gucci’s popularity on social media has exploded in the last three years after a complete overhaul with Michele’s creative direction, so this meme campaign does not seem too offbrand for the quirky Italian fashion house. Yet its success is uncertain.

Only time will tell whether other brands will follow suit, but we’re on board with collegiate-aimed advertising and tried it out on several other high-fashion ads.

Email Thomas Chou at bstyle@nyunews.com.

NYU Feels Climate Change in Wild Winter

By LAURA RUBIO Staff Writer

Nice weather we’re having. This year, there were several days in February when the temperature was 60 or more degrees and March came with 70-degree highs. There’s no denying that recent weather patterns have been wacky, but some students, such as Tisch junior David Scherker, view this as cause for concern about climate change.

“It could be something similar to the calm before a storm, but on a grander, world-wide level,” Scherker said. “Something that changes so largely on a global level usually doesn’t end well.”

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States had the second warmest February in a 123year period of record and the sixth warmest winter overall. The World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists, confirmed that the February heat was

a direct cause of climate change.

Despite the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community that climate change is man-made, deniers remain. Prominent congressmen such as Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Marco Rubio have spoken against man-made climate change.

Some NYU community members such as Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Tyler Volk believe that the country’s twoparty system might be the cause of this denial.

“The denying that exists in the United States does not exist in Europe,” Volk said. “There’s something about the polarized, political conditions in the United States with the locked-in two-party system that may lend itself to these kinds of absolute denials as a way to get political backing from a certain kind of base.”

Volk’s claims are backed by a 2016 Pew Research study called “The Politics of Climate," which

found that 79 percent of liberal Democrats believed in man-made climate change as opposed to 15 percent of conservative Republicans — an evident divide along party lines.

Deniers like McConnell and Rubio argue that climate change activism does nothing but hurt the economy and threaten the jobs of those in the coal and oil industry.

However, some beg to differ.

Scherker believes that there are probably as many jobs available for sustainable resources as there are for unsustainable resources that fuel climate change.

Professor Volk expressed similar sentiments.

“I’ve heard there’s more jobs in wind and solar happening than in coal,” Volk said. “Coal jobs are gonna happen where there are coal mines. Solar and wind can happen almost anywhere."

Bloomberg reported that in 2016 there were more employment opportunities in the solar

industry than in the gas and coal extraction industries. The report also said that employment in clean-energy jobs increased by five percent between 2015 and 2016.

Tisch junior Matiss Kaza, an international student from Latvia, is also looking at the long-term consequences. He worries about the impact climate change will have on the ecosystem — wildlife, plant life and human life — in the next 50 to 200 years.

“I think this is just one instance of a very global problem,” Kaza said. “It’s the same thing in my country — the weather is getting much warmer in that we’re experiencing these record high temperatures every summer”.

If communities work together both locally and globally, it is possible to bring down greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions to more natural levels, according to the EPA. However, this is a slow geological process that can take hundreds of thousands of years.

Professor Volk believes that one of the most effective changes we can make right now is to help those who are hurt the most by climate change — the people in impoverished areas who burn the least fossil fuels.

“We have to do something ultimately about the energy system,” Volk said. “A lot of the world is in poverty. They need more [sustainable, renewable] energy, not less.”

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NYU's Recent Star Students

By SHERAH NDJONGO Staff Writer

It’s no secret that NYU and celebrities go hand in hand. Countless stars make a home of our campus, so often that NYU has now inadvertently branded itself as the hotspot where A-listers choose to get an education. Whether you’re a star-struck freshman or a jaded senior, famous NYU students are a topic that never fails to spark conversation.

Dylan and Cole Sprouse Best known as former Disney Channel stars, Dylan and Cole Sprouse graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study with honors in 2016. Dylan’s concentration was in video game design, while Cole was an archaeology major. In addition to their academic achievements, both twins were heavily involved in extracurricular activities. Dylan showed an interest in student leadership aspresident of his first-year residence hall Third North, while Cole was in charge of the Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association during his junior year.

Dakota Fanning

Often seen heading to class dressed to impress, actress Dakota Fanning currently roams the campus as her senior year comes to an end. The notoriously private Gallatin student opted to live off campus rather than in housing.

Despite entering NYU in Fall 2011, the Gallatin BA candidate is still a student due to her busy schedule.

Karlie Kloss

While she’s one of the most sought-after models in the world, Karlie Kloss is also taking on the role of a Gallatin undergrad. The 24-year-old famously posted a picture on Instagram in 2015 that

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Dylan and Cole Sprouse, known best for their roles as Zack and Cody Martin, respectively, on “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” are NYU 2016 graduates.

documented her first day of class at NYU, as she pointed at the school’s iconic violet flag. Talk about school pride! She is enrolled in a feminism class this semester but is reported to only show up about half the time. While she’s rarely spotted on campus, when she is sure to be wearing her best model-off-duty look.

Nastia Liukin

A five-time Olympic medalist best known for her outstanding gymnastics performance at the 2008 Beijing Games, Nastia Liukin did not stop after Beijing. She worked as a gymnastics analyst for NBC while completing her studies at NYU and earned a degree in sports management from the School of Professional Studies in 2016.

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The actress has largely managed to keep out of the spotlight at NYU since joining Gallatin in 2014.

Since then she’s often been spotted around campus working in study lounges like any other student.

Celebrity students at NYU are ultimately Violets who just happen to be in the public light. Famous or not, one thing ties us all together — we’re all just trying to graduate.

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FBA Fashion Show

By SOPHIE SHAW Beauty & Style Editor

A lively crowd of stylish students filled the Rosenthal Pavilion last Friday to support eight student designers —- selected from NYU, Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute — at the Fashion Business Association’s annual Spring Fashion Show. The event married fashion and philanthropy, as all of the proceeds were donated to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Foundation, a not-forprofit organization that supports charity and operations within the industry. With members of NYU FBA’s e-board planning the event and students designing the collections to be modeled by other students, the runway show was a testament to students’ ability to create, support and succeed.

This year’s lineup included a range of skills and styles, with collections that highlighted the designers’ ambitions and revealed the effort that went into them.

Victoria Mernard, NYU

A clean palette and the use of tulle throughout gave this light collection a strong, cohesive identity. Despite being all white, the individual ensembles still stood out. The collection included several dresses, offering different silhouettes and embellishments.

The last look, a shift dress with a tulle overlay and delicate pearls spaced throughout, was simple and delicate.

Arrissara Ronnakittipisut, Pratt Institute

Ronnakittipisut focused on asymmetry, with a collection of mostly black garments. Each piece had at least one detail of origami-like folding, strategic layering or careful pleating. This created unique silhouettes that shifted with movement. One of the strongest looks was the most subdued — a black top with a popover

layer and asymmetrical sleeves and hemline, paired with black pants with slits up to the shins.

Shelby Grochowski, Pratt Institute

The only completely menswear collection of the night, Grochowski presented detail-oriented designs. Wide leg cropped pants looked fresh on men, as the style was originally prominent in womenswear. Tunic length t-shirts also played with proportion and gave a grunge vibe to a couple looks. A short trench coat appeared standard on the front but revealed triple-layered back panels. Other jackets had straight silhouettes and abandoned collars, adding to the streamlined look.

Jamie Lee, Pratt Institute

womenswear line. The varied collection was unified by the black and white color scheme. A funnel neck dress was manipulated to have a high-low hem by two straps that went from the shoulders to the skirt, essentially holding up the front of the skirt. Another top had a basic foundation, but featured draped straps in an “X’” formation across the model’s bust and arms. This was paired with gray pants that had strips of black jeweled ribbon sewn on as a print. The ribbon accent was another unifying factor, as several of the looks included different iterations on the embellishment.

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Bondage undertones influenced Lee’s line of men’s and women’s clothing. A men’s leather jacket was worn only by asymmetrical straps across the model’s chest, letting the jacket fall on his back.

Another female model wore a leather harness and not much else on top — only black tape “X’s” covered her breasts. A more conservative full-length white dress added an unorthodox detail with a clear plastic train.

Hannah Thomas, Pratt Institute

Thomas’ took advantage of prints and color to elevate her feminine collection. A coordinating bandeau and tapered leg pant set in a bright abstract print was polished, yet summery. With various shades of green and magenta, the color scheme was vaguely floral, which allowed it to have a natural and vibrant impression. The final look, a halter dress in ombre brown and white tulle with sequined accents at the sides, also gave the same vibe.

Jamileh Nadelmann, Parsons School of Design

Draping techniques and structural details defined Nadelmann’s

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NYU student models walked down the runway in a variety of eye-catching designs.

Food Waste is Taking Over America

Americans throw away enough food every year to fill 730 NFL football stadiums, according to "American Wasteland" by Jonathan Bloom.

Food waste has been steadily increasing in the United States over the past century. A research study published in Plos reports that food waste has increased by 50 percent since 1974. A lot of perfectly viable

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fresh produce is discarded, because it doesn’t meet the strict aesthetic standards that have become normalized in American dining culture, and this practice is a large contributor to food waste.

Tisch freshman Cam Tejada expressed her disappointment concerning food waste.

“With all the homeless people living in New York, it’s really disappointing to see resources going to waste,” Tejada said.

The Natural Resources Defense Council reports that Americans throw away 40 percent of the food produced in the United States.

We often base our diet on what we see. Before anything else, we look at our food to decide whether it’s worth eating. From Instagram accounts dedicated solely to aesthetically pleasing foods to Facebook feeds drowning in Tasty

videos, food has become just as appearance-based as anything else in our lives.

Students can minimize food waste by being more open to eating fruits and vegetables that may not be the most aesthetically pleasing but have the same nutritional contents as any other fruit or vegetable.

Steinhardt freshman Amelia Murray thinks that people are simply greedy.

“I think that the amount of food we buy is so disproportionate to the amount of food we eat, which makes the amount of resources we’re using unsustainable,” Murray said.

An important problem concerning food waste is the huge amounts of food from restaurants that are thrown out. A lot of food from retailers and restaurants is thrown away instead of donated. This is

because it actually costs money to do that. Companies must box, store and ship anything they donate on their own time. It’s much less expensive to just throw extra food away, and companies cannot be blamed for being profit-driven.

This issue lies within the policies in place that make it difficult for businesses to donate extra food if they want to. Students can help by signing petitions and working for legislation reform that changes these economic hindrances on donating food.

CAS freshman Izzy Stein thinks that this gross wasteage of food is obnoxious.

“That kind of waste comes down to laziness,” Stein said. “Sure, it’s more expensive but in the long run it seems worthwhile.”

This practice has a huge environmental impact. Uneaten produce

collects in landfills and produces massive amounts of methane, a gas about 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, according to MSNBC. A company that can help students decrease their food waste is BuffetGo. The company aims to eliminate food waste by giving users the opportunity to eat the leftovers from buffets for a cheap price. Food that is still good can stop being thrown into the trash, and people can get a full meal for a cheap price.

Hunger and poverty are pressing issues around the world, and food waste is a growing problem in the United States. Thankfully NYU prioritizes food and water conservation and works toward the amelioration of extraneous waste.

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Say Hello to the New, Not Goodbye to the Old

By SIERRA JACKSON, Managing Editor

Dalton Corr wants his listeners to twist and shout to a Beatles-inspired sound. The Steinhardt senior enjoys pairing 1960s songwriting styles with EDM, electronic and pop music in an effort to bridge the gap between his old interests and his forward-thinking mentality.

Corr said his experimentation with this unlikely genre pairing began when his friend invited him to a performance by French electronic musician Jacques at a Williamsburg church.

“His whole performance is based around having his audience bring in any random object that they want and then put them on stage,” Corr said.

“And he takes those objects, records them on stages and makes an entire piece out of that. That really launched me into the world, that energy and that community.”

Corr also said that after the concert, he became an avid fan of Jacques and attended many of his other shows in the city. Corr now identifies Jacques as a major inspiration for his own electronic sound.

But Corr hasn’t always dabbled in alternative music genres. When he spent a semester studying abroad in Prague in 2014, he formed a band with several other NYU musicians. The group mostly performed covers of Beatles songs but occasionally played original music.

He explained that being in a band made his

songwriting style differ greatly from his current techniques.

“I was really focused on making music that sounded good live, and I think that’s just the nature of that fact that I had a band,” Corr said. “Now I don’t have a band. I’m by myself — I’m here in Brooklyn just making music and I think that’s why my sound can become a little bit more guitar-based, a little bit more DJ set-up because I don’t have that band.”

Corr admitted that, although he did produce a few songs for the band, being in the group limited his ability to further explore his own interests. As a solo artist, he now has more freedom to reflect on the message he wants to convey through his songs.

Instead of just imitating his favorite legends, Corr said he also wants to embrace more contemporary and modern musical trends.

“For a while I was doing pretty basic songwriting — basic harmonies and melodies and whatnot — but over the [last] couple years I’ve become more interested in electronic music production and a lot of the DJ music scene in Brooklyn,” Corr said. “And right now I’m trying to combine those two interests and compose music with [a] more traditional pop melody but produce it with this really exciting, energetic live DJ music.”

His current genre-bending sound pays homage to The Beatles and his favorite band, Vampire Week-

end. But the added electronic element acknowledges the effect the New York City music scene has had on his songs.

He also said that the city’s musical diversity has introduced him to new styles and methods of producing music. Corr said that the resources available to him in New York have helped him express his feelings for his small hometown of New Hope, Pa. The tools he’s acquired in the big city have allowed him to incorporate the positivity and acceptance of his upbringing into his musical creations.

With the release of his new single “I Think of You” scheduled for April 14, and his recent signing to NYU’s Village Records, Corr is looking toward the future without forgetting his past.

“I’m trying to combine two disparate genres of music that I don’t see overlapping much,” Corr said. “But it just feels like a natural me for me to create because it’s really a convergence of who I was before I moved to New York and who I am now, four years after moving to New York and about to graduate from NYU.” Check out Dalton Corr’s original music at daltoncorr.com.

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Namaste-ing Mentally Present

By DIAMOND NAGA SIU, Editor-in-Chief

Rather than just visiting the Wellness Center for stress or other mental health burdens, MindfulNYU provides students free and educational resources to help them live in the moment. From free yoga workshops to affinity groups and meditation classes, the program aims to help students change their perspectives on daily situations to cultivate a less worrisome atmosphere at NYU. Reka Prasad, the assistant director of both MindfulNYU and Global Spiritual Life, delved into the finer points of mindfulness and meditation and their roles in students’ lives.

Washington Square News: What are some benefits people have reported after engaging with MindfulNYU? Reka Prasad: Student feedback has been that it’s the time in their day when they can de-stress, where they can relax, learn something new, find a different approach to their lives and begin a meditation practice. They learn a new idea [about] how they [can] be more in the present moment and how that could be useful around all sorts of issues, particularly around anxiety. So a lot of students have said that meditating regularly has helped them reduce their anxiety, improve relationships, improve their sleep, help them with addictive behavior and just really calm down their lives in a lot of ways.

WSN: Is this something people do with their friends? Or do people normally come alone?

RP: A lot of people come by themselves — it’s in a community, but the practice is individual. Some people come with friends, but you’re welcome to come to any of our stuff by yourself, and you’ll generally meet somebody.

WSN: With so many benefits and advantages, could meditation and mindfulness eventually replace medicine?

RP: I’m a therapist, so I’m probably going to tell you that meditation in particular and mindfulness is a good supplemental tool — so you’ll have a lot of students who are in recovery or who are in therapy or on medication, and this helps them manage their lives better. So it’s a good additional tool in your pocket, but I wouldn’t say it’s a replacement. And meditation is not about psychoanalysis, so you’re not going too deep into your thinking.

It’s really just figuring out what’s there and then. If you need to go to your therapist to talk about Mom or Dad or family life, then that’s probably the place to do it — it’s not really during meditation.

WSN: What’s the difference between meditation and mindfulness?

RP: Meditation and mindfulness are really two different things. Mindfulness is really our intentional engagement with the present moment, and that can happen in any way. That can be when we’re brushing our teeth or when we’re exercising or talking to a friend. It is just about bringing our full presence into the situation that we’re in and not really bringing any judgment, because judgment comes from the past. But meditation, which is the most powerful tool of mindfulness, is available to you at any time — it’s free of charge. It’s really about coming to the senses of your breath, experiencing some silence and being with your senses. So anybody can access that, and it’s useful for everybody. These are not religious practices. These are really tools for wellbeing.

So if you believe in God, don’t believe in God or are just spiritual enough or religious — whatever it may be — you can use these tools to help bring greater use to your life, and that’s really for anybody.

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Get Off the Liberal High Horse

By LOUIS RODRIGUEZ Contributing Writer At NYU, many of us are passionate about fighting for social justice and an open, inclusive environment. Yet this frequently comes in the form of gloating obscured by fake humility. Young progressives who preach compassionate politics must also make an effort to understand viewpoints intensely different from their own.

Protests against hard-right speakers at universities are salient examples of how dangerously easy it is for the fight for equality to teeter toward the restriction of

free speech. The social justice warrior brand of college liberals may or may not abuse divergent opinions, but searching for reasons to be offended makes all of us more pretentious. It is way too easy — and cheap — to dump on Trump supporters, and I have made this mistake more than I would like to admit. But the more that we elite urbanites think we’re above the middle-of-nowhere average Joe, the easier it is for us to marginalize that community and the very real worries they have.

If we make an effort to recognize the anxieties that generate extreme voices, it becomes eas-

ier to bridge the divide. Internet trolls, neo-Nazis and demonstrable racists are tough company to sympathize with, but these hateful people are still people.

They arrived at their opinions the same way we did — a certain set of experiences and educational circumstances produced

their specific outlooks. For example, a commonly held viewpoint among the far right is the rejection of multiculturalism because of the belief that immigrants will displacethe economic or social status of some Americans.

Hateful actions should never be condoned, respected or allowed, but when we persecute people who hold an opinion that we despise, we only strengthen the views that we want to annihilate, deepening the rift. Educating and empathizing with those we view as misinformed shows compassion and reduces inflammatory polarization on both

sides of the spectrum.

Moreover, criticizing the extreme aspects of conservatism without acknowledging our own fringe behavior is rather regressive, especially since we’re not the only ones assuming that the vocal extreme of a party represents their entire philosophy. When you can see where your faceless political enemy is coming from, you can better realize where you stand in their eyes, and hopefully gain an ounce of modesty in the process.

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By CARINE ZAMBRANO Staff Writer

Healthy Relationships Are Needed on TV

Television series are becoming increasingly prominent in the entertainment world. With streaming services like Netflix, old TV shows can be re-watched and sometimes even gain more relevance, while new ones can reach a larger audience, including international screens. However, the sphere of influence from television shows has also grown, pushing showrunners to be more aware of the content they produce. Characters are beginning to be seen as real life people, and their relationships analyzed, instead of being consumed for pure amusement.

Even still, many of these relation-

ships are unhealthy and sometimes even abusive, but they are still seen as ideal and desirable.

The ‘90s sitcom, “Friends,” exemplifies this. While Monica and Chandler are the healthy and stable relationship of the show, it is Rachel and Ross that are in the spotlight. Even though I rooted for Rachel to get off the plane to be with Ross while watching “Friends” for the first time, it is undeniable that their relationship displays unhealthy signs. Throughout 10 seasons, Rachel and Ross never seem to decide to either cut their romantic ties entirely or commit to working on them, causing constant confusion for both of them and for the group. However, fans still idealize their relationship

and see it as hashtag-relationship-goals — when it is Monica and Chandler who should receive that title.

These unhealthy traits in relationships are worse in shows targeted at younger generations.

Chuck and Blair’s relationship in “Gossip Girl” also makes constant cheating, lying and deceiving seem like signs of “true love.” The late ‘90s supernatural drama “Buffy the Vampire

Slayer” seems to be the only show targeted at teenagers and young adults that has healthy relationships. While the title character has some controversial involvements, she usually has loving relationships with her partners — that usually escalate to unforeseeable consequences.

Nonetheless, Buffy’s best friend, Willow Rosenberg, is the best example in the show. Willow manages to not only have one but two long-term and caring relationships, while still being her own person and discovering herself. Other young adult-targeted shows as “The O.C.” and “Riverdale” seem not to prioritize the veracity and sanity of the characters’ relationships, instead using them to attract more viewers

and create drama.

Because young people are particularly influenced by the media they consume, writers should be especially careful when developing characters’ relationships. But not all television relationships must be completely perfect. They should simply be representative of real life — encapsulating all the messiness and imperfection — including the connections they make with other people. While depictions should still show the implications of bad involvements, they should also normalize healthy relationships, instead of portraying them as boring or stagnant.

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Bumble Won’t Change Dating Norms

By ADRYAN BARLIA Contributing Writer By now many of us have heard of the dating app Bumble, which gives women the choice to initiate a conversation with a potential romantic partner within 24 hours of being matched with them. Although there are mixed consumer reviews, some find the concept of the app interesting and new. In an interview with The New York Times, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe said that her app is “helping to change some very archaic norms” in the dating game, specifically women being harassed by men on dating apps.

Although Wolfe’s idea of having women reach out first may be different from other popular dating apps — such as Tinder and OKCupid — it’s hard to believe it will cause any substantial change in online dating culture.

According to a Pew Research Cen-

ter study, 42 percent of female online daters have experienced some form of harassment via online dating sites. An app like Bumble will not eliminate problems like these but rather delay their occurrence.

Let’s take two scenarios into consideration — one where a man and a woman swipe through Tinder, and in the second, where they use Bumble. If the man in these scenarios is a harasser, he will perhaps begin the conversation by making derogatory comments or continuously chatting with the woman.

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a match on Tinder rather than after a woman has initiated contact on Bumble. When looking at it in terms of male behavior, the order in which comments are made becomes irrelevant — the men still say whatever they want to, either on Bumble, Tinder or anywhere else. The problem of using dating apps will not be fixed by changing the order of who initiates contact.

Although Wolfe's goal of stopping online harassment is important, there are larger issues here that cannot be simply fixed with one app. While Bumble’s goal may have been to minimize harassment and to make women feel more confident through greater power, society itself does not change. Jerks online will still find ways to target women, regardless of whether they say it in the first message or the second.

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Bumble Won't Change Dating Norms

As pointed out by a New York Times article last week, NYU is one of many colleges currently investing heavily in science, technology, engineering and math — also known as STEM — fields. While NYU’s seemingly never-ending Greenwich Village expansion has been labeled problematic by both this publication and city residents, this particular investment is a giant leap forward for NYU. Currently, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering — which focuses solely on STEM disciplines — is not ranked as favorably as the rest of the university's other schools are. Therefore, this investment is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that NYU offers all of its students the outstanding education it advertises.

NYU's expansion into Brooklyn follows a national trend of universities, including Columbia University and Cornell University, that are greatly increasing investments in science and technology institutes on their campuses. A recemt initiative expands the Tandon campus by adding new audio labs, virtual reality rooms, exhibition and lecture spaces and 1,100 new students by 2022. In addition, a study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that while women are well-represented in fields like biology and mathematics, they earn less than 20 percent of computer science, engineering, and physics undergraduate degrees. Yet despite this gender disparity, NYU remains in the top ten colleges for women in STEM. NYU’s investment in science and technology development, therefore, will not only increase STEM presence within the city but will also hopefully promote the number of women in STEM fields.

This investment is clearly an attempt to raise Tandon’s world rankings, which are much lower than the rest of NYU’s schools.

According to U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, NYU ranks 63rd in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, which is drastically different from our rankings in Business Programs and Best Undergraduate Drama programs where we take the 12th and fourth place spots respectively. The hope is that the sciences at NYU, starting with Tandon, will be improved from the investment. But this STEM investment has raised concerns on how much funding would be redirected from liberal arts and entrepreneurial programs. However, NYU has dedicated time to creating unique engineering programs that combine creativity with STEM to help bridge the gap, including Enterprise Learning. The investment will go toward bettering a wide variety of entrepreneurial programs that support engineering-based businesses.

With this massive investment in STEM fields, NYU has made its commitment extremely clear. The university’s continued efforts to better Tandon will in turn help to improve both the school and the gender disparity within the engineering field as a whole. NYU’s considerable investment will help to create a more well-rounded university and make it a top school for a broader range of majors.

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New York Baseball: A Tale of Two Teams

By SAYER DEVLIN Deputy News Editor

A familiar story in New York baseball plays out something like this every season — one team has its sights set on winning the World Series, while the other hopes to use the season to develop its prospects as it looks to the future. Historically, the Yankees have been the former and the Mets the latter, but over the past few seasons their roles have flipped, with the Yankees winless in the postseason since 2012.

The Mets will remain largely unchanged from last season.

They re-signed star outfielder Yoenis Céspedes to a four year $110 million contract and brought back left-handed pitcher Jerry Blevins and right-handed pitcher Fernando Salas to round out their bullpen, but the team lost starter Bartolo Colón to the Atlanta Braves. Neil Walker also accepted the $17.2 million qualifying offer he was extended.

Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson believes that this team

can win the World Series — if it can stay healthy. The team had a top-ten run differential in baseball last year. Last season, Céspedes missed 30 games largely due to a quad injury. The team’s star-studded starting rotation — which led the league in wins above replacement — of Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Steven Matz was half gone by season’s end.

If the rotation stays healthy, if Céspedes can play 150 or more games, and if everyone else performs as well as they did last season, the Mets should be a force to reckon with.

The Mets have a lot of ifs but should have the depth — with the aid of pitchers Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo and Zack Wheeler — to mitigate any injuries.

The Yankees, on the other hand, are in the midst of a youth movement. Though they splurged to sign reliever Aroldis Chapman — who was suspended 30 games in 2016 for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy — to

a five year $86 million deal, the next generation of Yankees will be led by Gary Sanchez, who led the Yankees with 3.2 wins above replacement and hit 20 home runs in 53 games. First baseman Greg Bird, who missed last season to a knee injury, should progress, and the Yankees have a glut of outfield prospects including Tyler Austin, Aaron Judge and Aaron Hicks.

Meanwhile, top prospects shortstop Gleyber Torres and outfielder Clint Frazier — who were respectively acquired for Chapman and Andrew Miller — are waiting in the wings and should get a taste of the big leagues this September. The Yankees of old are mostly gone.

The Yankees lack what the Mets have in spades: pitching.

The Yankees next best starter after Masahiro Tanaka is CC Sabathia, who will turn 37-yearsold in July. Behind him is Michael Pineda, who saw his walk rate more than double from the previous season, followed by Adam Warren and Luis Severino.

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As Major League Baseball comes into season, there remain mixed expectations for both the Yankees and the Mets.

Perhaps the most telling detail in this tale of two teams can be found in their TV ratings. Despite the New York Times’ claim that most New Yorkers are Yankees fans, SportsNet New York's website shows that last season's Mets games averaged 263,850 viewers, compared with roughly 218,000 for the Yankees as shown in the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network's records.

Though the divergent expectations for New York’s baseball teams are familiar, their roles have been reversed. Time will tell as the Mets will open their season April 3 in Atlanta against the Braves and the Yankees begin their season April 2 at the Tampa Bay Rays.

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Training the Athletes: Arturo 'Roy' Flores

By TREVOR FRANCESCONI Contributing Writer

Since Eagle Scouts as a child, NYU Athletics trainer Arturo “Roy” Flores has soared in both his academics and career.

Flores grew up in Westchester County just north of New York City. Raised in a close-knit family that worked in various medical fields, Flores developed an early passion for medicine and sports.

In high school, Flores excelled in swimming and continued his aquatic passion, competing at Stony Brook University, where he studied a multidisciplinary concen-

tration of biology, sports and music history. His time as a student-athlete introduced him to the athletic training profession.

As a second generation Filipino-American with two siblings, family involvement and staying with one another was and still remains very important to Flores, contributing to his development as both a leader and role model.

“As a college junior I was recommended to be a part of a presidential student board focusing on diversity,” Flores said. “Being a minority myself, that is one of the things I would like to push toward in this profession.”

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WSN profiles Arturo Flores, who is an athletic trainer at NYU. He has been surrounded by sports his entire life and continues to be active even outside of NYU.

Training is a complex and multifaceted affair, that Flores says is for everyone.

“Athletic training is a health care profession dealing with prevention, acute care, concussions, head injuries and nutrition,” Flores said. “Athletic training is for all active persons, not just athletes.”

After graduating from Stony Brook, Flores worked in higher education, acting as a mentor to current college students. But after two years of work in Stony Brook’s student life department, Flores wanted to return to sports and medicine. Now at NYU, Flores works with teams such as volleyball, basketball and baseball.

Flores said the best thing about being an athletic trainer is seeing the student athletes overcome season-ending injuries and watch them return to the playing field, doing what they did before just as well — or sometimes, at an even higher level. While at Stony Brook, Flores was a teacher for athletic training students.

“Seeing [athletic training students] grow in the profession and become my peers is another

highlight of becoming an athletic trainer,” Flores said. “With all the influences that are out there today, I want to help people figure out where they want to go, whether it’s following my footsteps or guiding them towards their own journey.”

Aside from work, Flores enjoys exercising and being a swim coach. Acting as a role model is what Flores strives to do on a daily basis. He is currently a member of the Ethnic Diversity Committee and is a District Two representative for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. This area includes New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

“We advise the board of directors as to what the issues are regarding minorities and ethnically diverse persons in athletic training,” Flores said. “Whether it be dealing with an ethnically diverse active person or getting more ethnically diverse individuals and minorities within the profession.”

Despite never playing baseball or watching it as a kid, Flores has learned to love the sport through his experience as an athletic trainer and is now a large fan of

the New York Yankees. Working alongside many baseball teams, Flores enjoys the little things about the sport, from the sideline chirping to the more complex aspects of the game.

Freshman pitcher Sal Cammisuli discussed Flores’ demeanor in working with the baseball team.

“Whether it’s stretching my arm to get ready to pitch or working on my back in between innings, [Flores] is truly great at what he does,” Cammisuli said. “He's very approachable, lively and helpful.”

In the future, Flores wants to remain in athletic training, whether it be with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association or in a college setting.

“I think the college setting is the right place for me, because you are dealing with 18 to 21 year-olds who are learning what they want to do next, making that transition from high school to college and beyond,” Flores said. “Anyway I can help in that phase of their lives is where I want to be.”

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WEEKLY SPORTS UPDATE Nathan Pike Wrestles to the Top

By NIKA WOODFILL Deputy Sports Editor

Softball (8-4) The softball team concluded a week with mixed results on Saturday, splitting two doubleheaders against Montclair State and Rutgers University, Newark.

Rutgers earned a 7-6 win in the first game, but the Violets rallied to a 12-4 victory in the second game, maintaining the lead for the entire game.

The team fared similarly against Montclair, winning the opening game by 10-6 but falling 4-3 in their second match up.

The team will face off against Stevens Institute of Technology for another double-header Wednesday, March 29.

Baseball (9-3)

The baseball team gained a close 6-5 win over St. Joseph’s College on Thursday.

The Violets started out strong, obtaining a 2-0 lead after the first inning, but after the first half of the third inning, St. Joseph's surpassed NYU 3-2.

But bolstered by sophomore Colman Hendershot’s mid-game home run, the Violets were able to recover, securing the lead for the remainder of the game.

Saturday, in a double-header against Haverford College, NYU split its decisions. The Violets won their noon game over the Fords 11-9 but dropped their later game 4-7.

Like the softball team, the baseball squad will play again Wednesday, March 29. They’ll be home at MCU Park in Brooklyn, playing Maritime College.

Men’s Tennis (4-2)

The men’s tennis team took an3-6 loss against Kalamazoo College earlier this week, but the team was able to recover, defeating Hobart College 8-1 on Saturday.

Despite the Violets’ loss to Kalamazoo, the team obtained notable victories in both singles and double plays, two coming from freshman Michael Li. On Saturday, the team regained its confidence, dominating both singles and doubles play.

Sunday’s Senior Day saw the men take on the University of Rochester with an incredible performance, matching their 8-1 win from Saturday.

The team will hit the court next Wednesday, March 29 in Ewing, N.J. against the College of New Jersey at 3:30 p.m.

Women’s Tennis (4-3)

The women’s tennis team took a painful 8-1 loss from California State University, Northridge on Friday but recovered Saturday, gaining an 8-1 victory over

Mar. 20 to Mar. 26

By MADDIE HOWARD Staff Writer

William Smith College.

The team’s sole win against CSU Northridge was secured by freshman Rupa Ganesh, who won her singles match.

The Violets’ win on Saturday against William Smith College, during their own Senior Day, was marked by significant wins, with all six singles players obtaining victories. The final score was 8-1.

Yesterday against the University of Rochester, the team also matched the previous day’s total, earning an 8-1 win over the Yellowjackets.

The Violets won’t be back in action until Saturday, April 8 against SUNY Geneseo at their home Stadium Tennis Centre in the Bronx.

After coming up short during last year's finals with a second place finish, senior Nathan Pike won the first place title in the 133-pound championship this year — becoming NYU Wrestling's first NCAA Division III National Champion in program history.

“First of all, it’s a huge honor,” Pike said. “It is something that not a lot of people do. There’s only 10 [winners] in Division III, 10 in Division II, and 10 in Division I, so it feels pretty special to be one of those 30 — not a lot of people get that experience.”

While Pike has been putting in countless hours of work to reach this point in his wrestling career, he described how he and the entire team are still in disbelief.

“It’s hard to explain — I was just feeling a lot of emotions then and I was just really happy,” Pike said. “I had all my teammates jumping off from the stands and getting in trouble with security for me, it was a good experience. I was happy to see my coaches really happy, because I know they wanted it just as much as I did. That felt pretty special. That moment it-

Men’s Volleyball (12-7)

The men’s volleyball team secured a comfortable straight sets (25-16, 25-19, 25-21) victory over Rutgers University, Newark on Thursday.

The Violets had a slow start in the first set, with Rutgers scoring the first three points.

However, the team bounced back, taking the next five points and producing a winning surge that lasted the remainder of the match.

Additionally, senior Derrick Chiu delivered a notable performance, securing 17 assists over the course of the match.

The Violets will play against Ramapo College on Tuesday, March 28.

self, I will just never feel again.”

While his accomplishment was a win for NYU, Pike’s collegiate career did not begin in Manhattan. He spent one year at Mount San Antonio College in California before

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I think you need to find that healthy balance where you work hard, but at the same time you don’t do overkill kind of stuff. Don’t make reasons to hate the sport, because no one is good at what they hate.

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being recruited by the NYU coaching staff.

“I transferred because [Coach Corey Luce] recruited me out of nowhere when I was at my old college and I was at the state tournament,” Pike said.

“He came to me after I won.

He’s the reason I came here, he changed my life and I am grateful for that.”

NYU Wrestling Senior Assistant Coach Corey Luce has been

Track and Field

The NYU track and field squad was in Collegeville, Pa. over the weekend, competing in the Ursinus College Invitational.

Highlight reel results included sophomore Mimi Conti’s thirdplace finish in the women’s 100m dash and senior Dana Placentra’s third-place win in the pole vault.

Over on the men’s side, strong performances included senior captain Budd Brown’s second-place finish in the 400-meter race and sophomore Julian Marrufo’s second place in the 10,000-meter contest.

The team will hit the track next for the Roadrunner Invitational hosted by Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J. from March 31 to April 1.

Fencing

NYU’s one contingent in NCAA’s Division I took part in the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, finishing in 11th place after three days of competition.

Additional reporting by Rachel Ruecker.

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a member of the staff for 11 seasons. Luce was proud of Pike's victory, and commented on his stand-out work ethic. “[Pike] is probably one of the most deserving kids I’ve ever coached, and it was great to see

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CAS senior Nathan Pike placed first in the 133-pound championship in wrestling. With the season coming to a close, Pike plans to focus on graduating with an economics major.

him win a national title at the end of his senior year,” Luce said. “It was tough watching him fall short his junior season. As soon as he got off the mat, his mindset last year was that he was going to come back his senior year and prepare for a national title. Anything less wasn’t acceptable.”

Pike’s teammates were also excited about his win. Junior and fellow California native Jacob Donato felt that Pike's victory was well-deserved. He said the win is motivating the team for next year's season.

“We both come from California, so our styles of wrestling are a little different from East Coast styles of wrestling so it was very enjoyable to compete and scramble with Pike over the years,” Donato said. “He’s a great kid on and off the mat, and his national title is well deserved. It makes my teammates and I very hungry for next year, and something tells me this is just the start of many more national titles to come for NYU Wrestling.”

Now that his wrestling career has come to a close, Pike plans to switch gears to planning for life post-graduation. While he will no longer be wrestling competitively, Pike offered a few words of advice to those pursuing the challenging goal of a national title.

“You shouldn’t burn yourself out,” Pike said. “That happens a lot with people, where they take it too seriously and then it’s not fun anymore. They stress out over [it] too much.

I think you need to find that healthy balance where you work hard, but at the same time you don’t do overkill kind of stuff. Don’t make reasons to hate the sport, because no one is good at what they hate.”

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NYU Classes And Clubs For The Fashion Enthusiast

By SHERAH NDJONGO Staff Writer

within it — through networking opportunities and recruiting support.

When talk turns to the colleges that provide the best start in the fashion industry, NYU is almost always mentioned. It’s located in New York City, one of the major fashion capitals of the world. There are many fashion internships available in the city, and the street style is to die for. However, without an actual fashion major available at the university, how is this start possible? To fill the gap, NYU offers a plethora of fashion-related classes and clubs that will give fashion fanatics the head start they need.

For those who are looking to get involved in fashion as a career, the Fashion Business Association is an excellent option if related classes aren't available. The club is best known for it’s phenomenal fashion shows, which feature work from a diverse range of talented student designers and models. Their meetings also live up to high expectations with helpful guest speakers, workshops that prepare members to launch their careers and newsletters that pass along exclusive internship opportunities.

This popular Gallatin course is open to undergraduate students from any NYU school. However, you must apply for enrollment, which is decided by the Guess Distinguished Visiting Professor in Fashion and Fashion Business. Teaching the class alongside this professor is a member of the Gallatin faculty with expertise in the subject.

The class’s primary focuses are innovation, design and, above all, business, within a constantly changing fashion industry heading toward specialization and globalization. There are also interactive group projects and readings beyond the business aspect of fashion that cover subjects like consumerism and merchandising.

The Master of Arts in Costume Studies is a program in Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions that educates students about the history of costumes and the art of bringing them to life. Those enrolled in this specialized curriculum become well-rounded professionals through classes such as Dress and Textiles in World Culture, History of Fashion Photography and Dress in World Cultures.

Practicum in Fashion Business

The Luxury and Retail Association (LARA)

Stern’s Luxury and Retail Association (LARA) is known for hosting informative events and inviting prominent industry professionals to speak at its meetings. The events educate and inspire members interested in leaving marks on the luxury and retail industries. LARA is a professional development organization that focuses on introducing students to various aspects of the industry — and the many jobs

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Steinhardt’s Media, Culture and Communication program offers this fascinating course at the Washington Square campus as well as abroad at NYU Paris. According to the class’s description it “examines fashion as a form of communication and culture.” It involves analysis of fashion’s impactful role in various aspects of society that are often overlooked, from celebrity culture to production and consumption to differing youth cultures. These topics are taught through the lens of visualization of fashion and the power it holds.

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