All content by Ava Emilione
![This semester, students find that NYU’s attendance policies contradict with the university’s messaging about student health and wellbeing. The various approaches to attendance policies of different schools and professors are more visible due to continuing effects of the pandemic. (Staff Illustration by Manasa Gudavalli)](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/culture-outsick.jpg)
NYU’s contradictory attendance policies raise health concerns
Students struggle with vague absence guidelines and apathetic professors.
Ava Emilione, Staff Writer
• November 16, 2021
![With two very important roles to fulfill, student parents face a difficult balance to maintain.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-07-at-9.43.34-PM-900x294.png)
Unseen, overworked, underpaid: Student parents at NYU
Struggling with burnout, hectic schedules and financial adversity, NYU’s student parents call for increased representation and resources to help them balance college and raising children.
Ava Emilione, Contributing Writer
• November 8, 2021
![(Photo by Carlos Hernandez)](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-12.13.52-AM-900x644.png)
LGBTQ+ photographers in NYC decolonize the lens
Young LGBTQ+ photographers in NYC are using unconventional photography as a means of decolonial resistance and self-exploration.
Ava Emilione, Contributing Writer
• October 22, 2021
![The 5th Dimension performs at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969. In his directorial debut, Questlove’s Summer of Soul creates a time capsule of the essential music of Black America. (Photo courtesy of Searchlight Pictures)](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/arts-film-summerofsoul.jpeg)
Review: The spirit of ‘Summer of Soul’: An archive for the modern day
Questlove’s directorial debut both captures the magic of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and celebrates the essential music of Black America.
Ava Emilione, Contributing Writer
• September 24, 2021
![A purple N.Y.U. flag hangs on a building.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/news-childaistudy-1200x800.jpg)
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief • July 9, 2024
![Students stream past the clay-colored main entrance of Bobst Library on a bright fall afternoon. The green scenery of Washington Square Park is reflected off the library’s windows.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/news-sustainability-900x600.jpg)
Julia Smerling, Photo Editor • June 18, 2024
![A woman with brown hair and a blue shirt.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/dopico.jpeg)
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief • June 18, 2024
![A woman dressed in red and holding a purple sign that reads NYU is Complicit in Genocide.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RallyForHesen-3-1200x800.jpg)
Mikaylah Du, Under the Arch Editor • June 15, 2024