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Guest Essay: We, a small group of LS faculty, call on Mills to resign

Some Liberal Studies faculty members share their concern about President Linda Mills’ leadership and the dean of Liberal Studies’ leave from NYU.

Guest essays reflect opinions from writers beyond WSN. If you’d like to submit a guest essay for consideration, please email [email protected]. Many of us watch...

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Guest Essay: Emma Bell for SGA chair

Dymond Walker is a senior at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Dymond Walker, Guest Contributor April 17, 2025

In the past few months, sweeping changes have been made across U.S. college campuses. Now more than ever, students don’t feel supported or valued at the schools they attend....

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Opinion: Gen Z activism is performative, not productive

Gen Z is known for their advocacy — but when you look beyond the clicks, likes and posts, there is not much left.
Leila Olukoga, Deputy Opinion Editor April 17, 2025

For years, Generation Z has touted itself as unprecedentedly socially conscious and politically outspoken, with many young people having mastered the language of social justice...

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Opinion: It’s time to end the stigma around gap years

Parents and professionals often look down on those who take gap years, but there’s no shame in acknowledging the merits of taking a break.
Shanay Tolat, Deputy Opinion Editor April 15, 2025

Gap years in college are often met with disapproval and skepticism in American academic culture — whether taken after graduating high school or during college. In all cases,...

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Opinion: Betar has no place at NYU

The radical Zionist group based in the United States has used its platform to attack noncitizen students and faculty who protest Israel's ongoing siege in Gaza.
Noah Zaldivar, Opinion Editor April 14, 2025

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken advantage of the ongoing war in Gaza to push his anti-education agenda. Recently, his administration was handed...

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Opinion: At NYU, not all hate speech is treated equally

Amid its strict crackdown on antisemitism on campus, NYU needs to show the same commitment to addressing racism and xenophobia.
Anna Baird-Hassell, Deputy Managing Editor April 10, 2025

NYU hosts hundreds of speaking events every semester, from academic panels to debates, on a broad range of topics and viewpoints. But what does it take for NYU to cancel one? If...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and NYU President Linda Mills. (Krish Dev for WSN)

Opinion: Mills and Sotomayor tiptoe around Trump at NYU Law talk

During an off-the-record event at the School of Law, President Linda Mills and Justice Sonia Sotomayor beat around the bush when discussing the Trump administration’s attacks on U.S. colleges.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief April 10, 2025

On Tuesday, NYU welcomed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a talk with President Linda Mills. The discussion — promoted as a conversation about “empathy,...

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Guest Essay: Ashlie Oxford for SGA chair

SPS graduate student Ashlie Oxford is running for chair of NYU’s Student Government Assembly.
Adrian Pica-Borjas, Guest Contributor April 7, 2025

For the first time in NYU’s history, the chair of the Student Government Assembly, the chief representative for over 61,000 NYU students around our global campuses, will...

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Opinion: Every NYU class needs a Zoom or recording option

Adding virtual attendance to regular classes would help alleviate the pressure and stress caused by mandatory attendance policies.
Shanay Tolat, Deputy Opinion Editor April 7, 2025

Most students have experienced rushing to class despite being physically and mentally drained, simply because attendance is mandatory and lectures are not recorded or available...

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Opinion: NYU is complicit in Trump’s pro-Palestinian crackdown

As the new administration has already begun to attack and detain pro-Palestinian student protestors, NYU has remained silent.
Leila Olukoga and Mehr Kotval March 13, 2025

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained on Saturday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for his previous leadership role in pro-Palestinian encampments....

Protesters holding hands amidst a crowd waving a Palestinian flag and holding signs that say “CEASEFIRE NOW LET GAZA LIVE!"

Guest Essay: NYU AAUP condemns detention of Mahmoud Khalil

The American Association of University Professors is a national organization of professors and academics with over 500 chapters at college campuses.

NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemns the unlawful abduction and detention of U.S. permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil is a recent...

(Kyra Reilley for WSN)

Opinion: Tandon’s diversity statistics don’t tell the whole story

Despite nearly equal gender enrollment, the engineering school must promote more mentorship and diversity programs for minorities.
Antonia Ang, Staff Writer March 4, 2025

Despite being in the second semester of my junior year, I still have never taken an engineering course taught by a female professor. At NYU Tandon School of Engineering, out of...