Hi everyone!
It’s almost the end of the semester, it’s the end of WSN’s production calendar, and it’s the end of my term as Editor-in-Chief — but it’s also the start of so many things. Spring, another EIC’s term, and for graduating seniors, a new chapter. Wherever you are in your academic, professional or personal life, congratulations on making it to another springtime.
If you’re in the city, come see us at NYU’s Grad Alley event on Tuesday, May 17. Our tent will be at the southeast corner of Washington Square Park from 4 to 8 p.m. — come say hi and pick up a special mini print issue!
For the final Editor's Note of the semester, here are the week's top stories.
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Design by Charitssa Stone and Susan Behrends Valenzuela.
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The man who trespassed in the Rubin Hall dorm has been identified as Ahmed Mabrouk. (Image courtesy of Nicola Verani)
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A police report filed by NYU named Ahmed Mabrouk as the intruder who entered Rubin Hall in April, staying overnight multiple times and interacting with residents. Mabrouk was described as a former student and a known perpetrator.
Ukrainian and Russian NYU students and alums have been displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We spoke with an alum who left Kyiv for another Ukrainian city, a Ph.D. student forced to leave Russia after protesting against the war, an administrator at a Kyiv university, and a Tandon grad student living in Kyiv.
Demonstrators at Foley Square and Washington Square Park protested the Supreme Court’s apparent forthcoming decision that would rescind protections on abortion rights.
The citywide COVID-19 lockdown left students at NYU Shanghai confined to their dorms with limited access to food and menstrual products.
An anonymously created spreadsheet describing misconduct by male students circulated within the Tisch School of the Arts, prompting a response from administrators. |
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Grindr offers love, lust, validation or a mix of all three. (Staff Illustration by Susan Behrends Valenzuela)
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The leaked Supreme Court draft has reignited the debate over abortion. (Staff Photo by Sam Tu)
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Opinions, perspectives, interviews
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With Roe v. Wade likely to be overturned, it’s local abortion funds — not national organizations — that need your help the most, Srishti Bungle writes.
Mayor Eric Adams is waging a war on unhoused New Yorkers. From Steph Wittstruck, here’s how NYU students can help fight back.
There’s usually a hat on Max Tiefer. Here’s Max Tiefer on hats.
Some WSN Q&A’s from the past week:
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A Blue-headed Vireo in Prospect Park on Tuesday. (Photo by Alex Tey.)
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At the beginning of this semester, I wrote about transitions in my introductory Letter from the Editor. I’m fairly familiar with the concept of transitions, but the Editor-in-Chief role was a new one for me. Now, I’m transitioning out of it, and it’s almost as daunting.
If you’re graduating this semester, you’re probably facing a much more intimidating transition, leaving behind 17 or so years of being a student. Whether you’re going to grad school, seeking a job or something else, it’s going to be different now.
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently watching the migrating birds in city parks as they return from their wintering grounds, and thinking about how a lot of them don’t really know where they’re going either. For birds who hatched last year, this is their first time migrating back up north — they’ve never gone this way before.
But while the route is unfamiliar, they’re not flying blind. They’re guided by instinct, mysterious interactions of magnetism and biology, that give them some irresistible urge to go in a certain direction even if they’re not quite sure where they’re headed.
Your internal compass might not be so literal as a bird’s, but I think there are some valuable similarities between your paths. There is some conviction within you that there is something you must do (you wouldn’t be in this position in the first place otherwise) — the only uncertainty, although it is a big one, is where exactly that conviction will take you. In a state of transience, in uncertain times or unfamiliar lands, there is something within pushing you on.
Think of those birds in this time. Trust your instincts; they got you this far.
You can find me on Twitter at @teythemtheirs, and you can contact me at [email protected] (the “editor” address will be transferred to Arnav, our next Editor-in-Chief). You’ll hear from us throughout the summer, and we’ll return properly at the start of the fall semester.
Thanks for reading Editor’s Note, and thanks for reading WSN.
—the editor
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