Washington Square News March 5, 2018

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Monday, March 5

Volume L, Issue 7

ARTS

FEATURES

OPINION

SPORTS

‘Thoroughbreds’ is Delightfully Sinister

The Fine Art of Drunk Dining

NYU Hockey Concludes First Club Division I Season

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President Hamilton Needs to Leverage NYU’s Influence to Enact Gun Control ON PAGE 9

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NYU Sued Over Retirement Plans — Trial Set for April By ALEX DOMB and KRISTINA HAYHURST Deputy News Editors

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YU has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over alleged mismanagement of faculty retirement plans. The case will be tried in a Manhattan federal courthouse this coming April and has the opportunity to set precedent for similar cases pending against other universities. The lawsuit was initially brought forth in August 2016. The plaintiffs — six NYU professors — accuse NYU of allowing employees to be charged excessive fees on retirement savings plans and for providing imprudent investment options on these funds. These actions would violate a federal tax law known as the Employee Retirement In-

come Security Act. The class-action lawsuit was filed against two separate 403(b) retirement plans — that of NYU’s core campus, known as the Washington Square package, and that of the NYU School of Medicine. The plaintiffs’ lead attorney Jerome Schlichter is highly confident in the plaintiffs’ chances. “We’re very much of the opinion that this will be a success for these employees and retirees,” Schlichter said to WSN. “We’ve heard that [they would not prevail] in other similar cases. We’ve heard that there would never be a successful case for excessive fees, and that has not turned out to be the case. We are expecting to be heard.” VIA TWITTER

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The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

EXPOSURE

SPORTS

Lookalike: Dogs and Their Owners

NYU Women’s Basketball Coach Earns 100th Win By BELA KIRPALANI Staff Writer

PHOTO BY VERONICA LIOW

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The NYU Women’s basketball team defeated Brandeis University 54-53, resulting in coach Lauren Hall-Gregory’s 100th win as head coach of the NYU Women’s basketball team on Saturday, Feb. 24. She is only the third coach in NYU history to reach this milestone. Coach Hall-Gregory has been immersed in basketball her whole life. She played collegiate basketball at Hofstra University, where she was captain for three years and the Pride’s MVP her sophomore year. She ended her

career fourth in school history with 454 assists. Hall-Gregory came to NYU after spending her previous four seasons as the recruiting coordinator and first assistant coach at the Division I program at Sacred Heart University. This season, coach Hall-Gregory guided the Violets to their fifth consecutive winning season in her sixth season as head coach. In 2014-15, she was named WBCA Region 2 Coach of the Year. Captain, 2017-18 UAA Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Kaitlyn Read has played under coach Hall-Gregory for five consecutive seasons.

“Coach Hall[-Gregory] will tell you she’s been so successful because she’s been able to recruit great people, but in reality, she’s the one who fosters such a cohesive sense of team unity within her teams,” Read said. “I’ve been a part of five very different rosters, but each and every year I feel as though I’m part of a family, an evolving family, but a family nonetheless.” Assistant Coach Mary Kate Tierney also admires how Coach Hall-Gregory fosters a sense of unity and inspires her players. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10|


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