Listen to ‘The NewsFlash’: Aramark’s Troublesome Past

Sayer Devlin, Managing Editor

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Aramark’s troubles didn’t begin last week when they served what President Andrew Hamilton deemed an “inexcusably insensitive” meal in Downstein. The company has a history full of controversy.

On Today’s Episode

CAS sophomore and Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Nia Harris, whose email informed NYU administrators of the insensitive Black History Month meal in Weinstein Passport Dining Hall.

Kristina Hayhurst is a Deputy News Editor for Washington Square News.

Background Reading

The breaking news story on Aramark’s apology that followed the day after Harris alerted NYU to the meal.

A student group’s effort to combat misinformation in the days following the story.

Reporting on Aramark’s history of controversies.

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