Diverse in Race, Diverse in Thought
Colleges aren’t sacrificing intellectual diversity by focusing on racial diversity. They are helping to create it.
Girls Who Code Isn’t About Stealing Jobs From Men
After a jarring conversation with a fellow Tandon student who invalidated the Girls Who Code movement, our columnist Serena aims to explain what the Girls Who Code movement is and what it isn't, while incorporating her own experience with the organization.
How NYU Should Approach Free Speech and Trigger Warnings
People often reduce the campus free speech debate to a trade-off between open discourse and a culture of respect. But truly, we can have...
Foreign Language Placement Exams Need Fine-Tuning
Placement exams are an amorphous thing to first-years. Should I study? Should I care if I get placed in a low level of my...
I Should Have the Right to a Paid Internship
This month alone, I learned about a variety of incredible paid internship opportunities from amazing companies like CNN and NBC. However, I cannot apply...
The Labor of Student Loans
When asked to describe NYU, one word comes to mind: expensive. Whether you’re paying out of pocket or through loans, $75,000 a year is...
Purchasing Prestige For the UAE
As of March 2013, six international universities have begun operating campuses in the United Arab Emirates. NYU Abu Dhabi was one of them, inaugurated...
Letter From the Editor: College Newspapers Are Dying, Let’s Save Them
Dear readers,
Today, we’re having a conversation about journalism — a craft, a career path, an industry that is currently hemorrhaging before our eyes and at...
General Education As a Juice Cleanse
The first annual CAS Student-Alumni Debate, held earlier this month, was comprised of arguments for and against a three-year undergraduate education model. The debate...
