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Face-to-Face With Seniors

May 4, 2017

WSN gets up close and personal with seniors as they prepare for graduation.

Thomas Devlin: Gallatin, Good English

Thomas Devlin May 4, 2017

For my last piece in WSN, I thought about writing a sentimental reflection on my time at NYU. Every time I started, however, the piece transformed into a sappy, trite mess. Instead,...

Sophie Lewis: Steinhardt, Media, Culture and Communications

Sophie Lewis May 4, 2017

During my first week at NYU, I walked into the WSN office for an open house, spoke with the Beauty and Style Editor and a week later, attended my first runway show at my first...

Joseph Myers: Gallatin, Marketing and Theater Studies

Joseph Myers May 4, 2017

As trite as it may be to point out, New York is always changing — for the better, for the worse and often for the indistinguishable. I feel that my past four years have been...

Staff Recs: NYU/NYC Bucket List

Staff Recs: NYU/NYC Bucket List

WSN Staff May 1, 2017

New York City has no shortage of things to see and do. When you go to school here, the plethora of possibility can even — and sometimes often — feel overwhelming. So here are...

Why NYU? Remembering the Dream

Why NYU? Remembering the Dream

Natasha Roy, News Editor May 1, 2017

When I committed to NYU around this time last year, I went against everything I had been saying to myself throughout senior year of high school — that I wanted to go to a university...

Class of 2017 To-Do List

Class of 2017 To-Do List

Taylor Nicole Rogers, Features Editor May 1, 2017

At a school like NYU, it’s easy to get caught up in all the unique experiences that life in New York City and at the abroad sites provide. However, the class of 2017 says there...

The Crossover Between Service and Activism

The Crossover Between Service and Activism

Natasha Roy, News Editor April 24, 2017

Activism and service are often seen as separate entities, but when combined, they have the potential to produce truly significant change for any cause. The environmental movement...

Project Sunshine Spreads Light in Hospitals

Project Sunshine Spreads Light in Hospitals

Natasha Roy, News Editor April 24, 2017

Project Sunshine, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of children in hospitals, thrives at NYU. Whether it be through visiting hospital patients or sending items...

Alternative Breaks: Substitute Lounging for Social Outreach

Alternative Breaks: Substitute Lounging for Social Outreach

Jemima McEvoy, News Editor April 24, 2017

NYU Alternative Breaks offers a service-oriented option for students who want to cast aside their sweatpants and Netflix subscriptions for service work during their spring...

NYU's Prison Education Program seeks to educate incarcerated individuals.

‘It Started in Prison’

Sayer Devlin, Deputy News Editor April 24, 2017

CAS junior Jose Diaz was hoping to be transferred to Attica Correctional Facility, a prison with TVs. Instead he was transferred to Auburn Correctional Facility. Though Auburn...

Selly Djap

Pamela Jew, Staff Writer April 20, 2017

Looking across the ocean as a child, Selly Djap drew inspiration from the depths of the surrounding Indonesian waters. That inspiration was later transformed into her most...