Ania Keenan, Features Editor
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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
NYU announces new athletics director, Jake Olkkola
Olkkola will be NYU’s first permanent athletics director since the university’s previous director, Stuart Robinson, left last semester following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 24, 2024
How NYU has operated programs in Cuba for years, despite travel restrictions
The university has sent groups of students to the country since 2002 through a license provided by the federal government.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• February 12, 2024
Staff Rants: New beginnings or old complaints?
WSN staff shares their thoughts on the beginning of the 2024 spring semester.
Julia Diorio, Molly Koch, Abi Rivera, Yezen Saadah, Ania Keenan, Mick Gaw, Carmo Moniz and Krish Dev
• January 30, 2024
U.S. State Department official discusses media and diplomacy at roundtable discussion
The head of the Bureau of Global Public Affairs spoke to students and faculty at the Tisch School of the Arts about the intersection between entertainment and diplomacy.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• November 9, 2023
NYU rejects student demands to shut down Tel Aviv site at Bobst protest
Student groups protested outside Bobst Library on Thursday, calling for NYU to shut down its study abroad program in Tel Aviv.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• November 3, 2023
How Stuart Robinson’s misconduct went overlooked for years
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• October 27, 2023
Staff Rants: Spooky season
Our staff shares their thoughts on Halloween.
Molly Koch, Krish Dev, Julia Diorio, Yezen Saadah, Kevin Wu, Nikkala Kovacevic, Abi Rivera, Naisha Roy and Ania Keenan
• October 27, 2023
HR dismissed complaints about former athletics director, sources say
A human resources representative at NYU’s athletics department allegedly told multiple staff members to “just suck it up” when they brought sexual harassment and misconduct complaints against the department’s former director.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• October 25, 2023
NYU knew about allegations against former Athletics Director, source says
A former State University of New York, New Paltz student said she called NYU’s Title IX office about Stuart Robinson’s behavior shortly after he was hired at the university.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• October 9, 2023
‘We’ve been suffering in silence’: NYU ignored misconduct complaints, sources say
Complaints about former Athletics Director Stuart Robinson’s behavior were ignored by human resources at the university, the sources allege.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• October 3, 2023
Former employee sues NYU, alleging racial discrimination in Athletics Department
The plaintiff claimed that he was paid less than other directors in the department because of his race. The university denies the allegations.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• September 30, 2023
NYU breaks ties with athletics director after sexual harassment allegations
Stuart Robinson is no longer employed at NYU, according to an email from an administrator to the athletics department.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• September 27, 2023
‘Sexually crude and puerile’: suspended Athletics Director named in 2018 Title IX lawsuit
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• September 22, 2023
University denies foul play after adjuncts’ courses changed
NYU is attributing shifts in adjunct course assignments to pandemic-related enrollment and budget changes, but the union representing adjuncts says the university is undermining their job security.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• September 19, 2023
Athletics director placed on administrative leave after alleged inappropriate behavior
Sources told WSN that Athletics Director Stuart Robinson was placed on administrative leave due to misconduct accusations.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• September 19, 2023
‘Lessons were learned’: CAS vote revises election rules, but president-elect to stay
Schoolwide vote passes amendments to student government election code and affirms results of student council presidential race.
Ania Keenan and Bruna Horvath
• May 3, 2023
Recipient of $12,500 NYU journalism award will report on climate crisis
Adam Willis, a reporter for the local news nonprofit The Baltimore Banner, received NYU’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 25, 2023
NYU Law dean confronts protesters for heckling Israeli politician
Dozens of pro-Palestine students protested an event hosted at NYU Law last Thursday that featured an Israeli politician.
Ania Keenan and Yezen Saadah
• April 24, 2023
CAS student council to hold schoolwide vote on campaign rules
After a candidate was disqualified from the CAS Student Council presidential election last week, the council has decided that the student body should have the chance to vote on proposed election guideline changes.
Ania Keenan and Bruna Horvath
• April 20, 2023
Ryan Carney elected next NYU student government chair
NYU’s Student Government Assembly elected Ryan Carney, a senior in Liberal Studies, as its new chair.
Ania Keenan and Bruna Horvath
• April 14, 2023
CAS student council ousts president candidate from election
One of two presidential candidates for the CAS Student Council was removed from the election at a meeting on Tuesday after being charged with two campaign violations.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 13, 2023
NYU receives $2 million to study suicide prevention hotline
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded researchers at the university’s School of Global Public Health to study how suicide hotlines impact care.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 12, 2023
‘It pains me that you are in pain,’ Tandon dean says to disgruntled graduates
Aggravated students from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, unhappy that they will not be able to walk across the stage at graduation this year, sat down with their dean at a town hall on Wednesday.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 6, 2023
‘Totally unpredictable’: NYU class discovers new fluid flow laws
A simple mathematics exercise turned into a three-year-long study as researchers discovered limitations in the laws of fluid dynamics.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• April 4, 2023
Trump rally outside Manhattan DA’s office sees scant attendance
A small group of protesters was surrounded by reporters outside of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Monday as they protested the potential indictment of former president Donald Trump.
Ania Keenan and Carmo Moniz
• March 20, 2023
Acquired, stored, forgotten: NYU Dentistry’s collection of Indigenous remains
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
• February 6, 2023
The cheap labor of academia
Ania Keenan, Staff Writer
• November 3, 2022
Mariapaula Gonzalez, Deputy News Editor • October 7, 2024
Aidan Levin, Staff Writer • October 7, 2024
Eva Zhong, Staff Writer • October 7, 2024