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The outside entrance of N.Y.U Langone Health’s main campus with a road sign in front of the modern building with a glass facade.

NYU Langone terminates nurse after speech about ‘current genocide in Gaza’

The labor and delivery nurse was fired after saying women in Gaza are “going through unimaginable losses” in an acceptance speech for a compassionate care award.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 29, 2024

A labor nurse at NYU Langone Health was terminated earlier this month after she spoke about the suffering of women “during the current genocide in Gaza” in a speech when accepting...

A group of faculty hold hands at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

Faculty group threatens NYU with service strike if demands are not met by fall

A representative for Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine said the university has until Aug. 1 to fulfill the group’s demands, which include the removal of police from campus and pardoning students and faculty facing disciplinary action for their involvement in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 24, 2024

Some faculty and staff at NYU are threatening to withhold administrative work for the fall semester if senior leadership does not remove police from campus and pardon those facing...

A man in a black mortarboard and purple robe with a white and black scarf holds up a cardboard sign reading “Free Palestine”

Students protest war in Gaza at graduation ceremonies

Pro-Palestinian disruptions, including students chanting and waving Palestinian flags, occurred at the ceremonies for Tisch, Gallatin and NYU Law.
Aashna Miharia, Bruna Horvath and Dharma Niles May 21, 2024

Graduates across NYU’s schools wore keffiyeh scarves, carried signs and held Palestinian flags at their respective graduation ceremonies last week in protest of the war in Gaza...

This photo shows the brightly-lit exterior of N.Y.U’s Liberal Studies building. In the bottom right of the image, a pedestrian is walking by the building entrance, and a black car is parked in the foreground of the image. The shadows of the entrance are shown on the light beige walls, and a purple sign with white text that reads “Liberal Studies” is hung inside a big square window on the left of the image.

‘Not celebratory’: GLS valedictorian not permitted to deliver pro-Palestinian speech at graduation

The student told WSN they did not want to write a speech “tailored towards the sensitivities of the administration.”
Bruna Horvath, Editor-at-Large May 21, 2024

This year’s valedictorian in Global Liberal Studies was not permitted to deliver a speech at the program’s graduation ceremony — which criticized NYU’s ties to Israel,...

(Krish Dev for WSN)

Dozens walk out of Yankee Stadium as Mills gives commencement address

The walkout is the latest of several demonstrations by pro-Palestinian student protesters over the last few weeks.
Carmo Moniz, Editor-at-Large May 15, 2024

Dozens of students, many wearing keffiyeh scarves and booing in dissent, walked out of this year’s commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium as NYU president Linda Mills gave her...

(Jason Alpert-Wisnia for WSN)

Human rights scholar Martha Minow on civil rights, race and gender at commencement

Martha Minow, the former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered this year’s commencement address, during which she highlighted the importance of fighting social injustice and inequality.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2024

Human rights scholar Martha Minow addressed around 30,000 graduates and guests at NYU’s 191st commencement ceremony in Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, after receiving an honorary...

(Krish Dev for WSN)

2024 commencement exercises begin at Yankee Stadium

The ceremony comes amid heightened tensions between the university’s administration and pro-Palestinian protesters, and follows cancellations of commencement ceremonies at Columbia University and the University of Southern California.

At NYU’s 191st commencement exercises — President Linda Mills’ first as head of the university — this year’s 22,000 graduates filled the stands of Yankee Stadium as rain...

A portrait of Yezen Saadah.

Washington Square News: Yezen Saadah appointed editor-in-chief

May 14, 2024

The Managing Board of the Washington Square News is excited to announce it has elected Yezen Saadah as editor-in-chief for the 2024-25 school year. Yezen Saadah, a 19-year-old...

(Lianna O'Grady for WSN)

Students arrested at Gould Plaza required to complete ‘dozens of writing assignments,’ faculty group says

The Office of Student Conduct allegedly informed students that they must complete the assignments before May 29 to avoid receiving a sanction for the “violation of university policy” on their academic transcript.
Dharma Niles, Deputy News Editor May 14, 2024

NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete...

Dozens of students and faculty were arrested at Gould Plaza on April 22. (Manasa Gudavalli for WSN)

NYU allegedly drops charges against protesters arrested at Gould Plaza

A legal representative for student and faculty protesters also challenged NYU’s report of the number of arrests carried out by police at the encampment.
Yezen Saadah, Deputy Managing Editor May 13, 2024

NYU dropped criminal charges brought against all protesters arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza, including students and faculty, a member of the university’s...

A purple N.Y.U. flag hangs on a building.

A search firm failed to find misconduct allegations against NYU’s former athletics director. Here’s why.

A search firm executive and a director of hiring at a top university said executive search firms like the ones used in higher-level hiring decisions by NYU can miss key information on applicants’ criminal backgrounds and details kept in internal misconduct records.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor May 12, 2024

Lawsuits, human resources reports, calls from victims and allegations compiled by labor unions — this is just some of the evidence of sexual misconduct NYU missed when it hired...