Noah Zaldivar is a senior studying psychology at CAS and a member of WSN’s editorial board. You can find him sternly reading up on Alan Moore or Aleister Crowley, rewatching video essays on Youtube and seething with spite at the state of the world, usually while blasting his ear drums out with industrial metal or psychedelic pop. Send comics and songs to be judged at [email protected].
Rob Schneider — former star of the piddling TV show “Real Rob” and currently selling a new book, “You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America.” — recently laid out an...
After months of bureaucratic delay and years of being trivialized as nutjob conspiracy fodder, the Epstein scandal has ostensibly taken one of its final steps toward being unraveled....
Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo's AI ad draws from an old bag of dirty political tricks and shows how Cuomo is grasping wildly as the election draws nearer.
Ahead of California’s 1934 gubernatorial election, William Randolph Hearst and MGM Studios cooked up a batch of attack ads aimed at besmirching the socialist upstart Upton Sinclair....
While setting new standards for comic book raunchiness, this new entry in James Gunn’s DC Universe will have you wishing for a different creative vision.
Warning: This review contains spoilers for seasons one and two of “Peacemaker.”
Hot off the success of “Superman” and “Creature Commandos,” season two of “Peacemaker”...
NYU’s obfuscatory and mendacious treatment of its noble journalists is unacceptable. Will the university finally step in, or will they continue to turn up the heat for the press on campus?
Off-Third is WSN's satire column.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 14,000 Americans have died directly from heat-related causes since 1979. Since...
“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That...
On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced their plan to eradicate all of the state’s vaccine mandates. DeSantis also...
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign-produced films only serve to further the interests of Hollywood executives at the detriment of menial workers and foreign filmmakers.
President Donald Trump shocked film fans across the country with his nonsensical announcement on Truth Social that he’d be ordering a 100% tariff on all films “produced in...
As part of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposed plan to find the cause of autism, the National Institutes of Health has announced its plan to collect troves of...
The radical Zionist group based in the United States has used its platform to attack noncitizen students and faculty who protest Israel's ongoing siege in Gaza.
Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken advantage of the ongoing war in Gaza to push his anti-education agenda. Recently, his administration was handed...
President Donald Trump’s stance on immigration has long been defined by fearmongering and dehumanization — boldly claiming that legal immigrants take advantage of loopholes...
This past Wednesday, Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a startling change of direction for the government agency. Rather than...
Between 2005 and 2015, nearly three-fourths of issued drug patents were for already existing drugs. A common argument in favor of the current patent approval process for drugmakers...
“There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based...
Despite its supposed commitment to freedom of speech, the Trump Administration’s actions reveal its commitment to stifling political opposition and controlling narratives.
One of the biggest talking points of the alt-right has been the so-called destruction of free speech, which they often blame on the rise of politically correct speech, or wokeness,...
In our performance-driven world, students find themselves on the receiving end of two toxic trends — hustle culture and its commercialized counterpart, self-care.
As college students, academic stress, burnout and demanding expectations are all familiar experiences. The job market has raised its standards, and the constant pressure...
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was killed in broad daylight on the curb outside the Hilton in Midtown. A man wearing a hoodie — identified by the New York City...
For the past two years, the war in Ukraine has intensified. While President-elect Donald Trump has called for an immediate end to hostilities, he neglects the disadvantageous position Ukraine is in.
To the non-apocalypse-minded among us, the Doomsday Clock tracks the human race’s relative proximity to self-caused human annihilation, measured by the number of hours and minutes...
Watergate was a political scandal of unprecedented scale, which revealed the seedy underbelly of political espionage rampant in the halls of government. While the whole ordeal...
“Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” is the 24th game in the “Call of Duty” franchise, which is a ridiculous statement in and of itself. I've been playing these games since 2010...
Following a recent trend of universities adopting institutional neutrality, NYU has expressed commitment to practicing “institutional restraint” in order to give “respect to the diverse experience and backgrounds at NYU.”
Naisha Roy, Editor-at-Large:
The concept of institutional neutrality is inextricably linked to freedom of speech. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which gave...
Some think beauty products are reserved for women, but that is far from the truth. For the good of humanity, we must acknowledge that taking care of yourself is not inherently...
The Democrats have severely underestimated the power of the insecure white man.
— Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief
To the women from our grandmothers’ generation and to the...
Misinformation is almost as rampant as mistrust of the news is, and it’s furthering the interests of those in authority. Modern journalism isn’t speaking truth to power — it’s feigning the truth on behalf of those in power.
Media being used to mislead the public in the interest of policy makers and government is nothing new. The explosion of the U.S. battleship Maine on Feb. 15, 1898 — and its subsequent...
Enshittification, the American Dialect Society’s word of the year for 2023, refers to “a gradual worsening in the quality of service on digital platforms.” It’s perhaps...
The university and protesters have been backing diverging accounts of what is happening on campus. If NYU wants to ease divisions, it needs to take new steps toward transparency.
Around the country, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have organized in protest against their universities — more specifically, against their ties to Israel’s ongoing siege in...
Reinstating standardized test scores is, perhaps surprisingly, the equitable admissions policy NYU needs.
Noah Zaldivar, Deputy Opinion Editor
• April 17, 2024
Recently, NYU announced that it will reevaluate whether it should make standardized tests mandatory for future admissions cycles. The announcement raised some concerns — after...
In the wake of Alumni Hall being evacuated due to a false bomb threat, the university needs to take steps to hasten communication with students during emergencies.
Last Thursday, residents at Alumni Hall were told to evacuate the building, anxiously waiting in the cold from 11 p.m. to around 1:45 a.m. while the New York City Police Department...
This month has been tumultuous for the College of Arts & Science Student Council. Two weeks ago, amid elections for the council’s next president, one of the candidates, Adiba...
Course registration can be a very complicated process, and many wind up unsatisfied with what they choose. Here's a guide on how to pick a schedule that works best for you.
One of the most stressful parts of college is selecting which classes you’re going to take each semester and when you’re going to take them. You log into one of NYU's many...
Picture the scene: You signed up for a course titled something like "Interdisciplinary Perceptual Psychology of Architecture.” For some reason, you’ve always wanted to take...
Life sucks sometimes. School is hard. It’s OK to complain about it.
Noah Zaldivar, Contributing Writer
• December 14, 2022
It’s finals season and we all know what that means: everybody is complaining. Just walk through Bobst Library, and you’ll hear the classic “Writing the Essay is killing me!”...
New York City has the highest demand for social workers of any city in the country. NYU should make tuition free to fill that demand.
Noah Zaldivar, Contributing Writer
• November 2, 2022
Although gratifying, the field of social work is stressful and emotionally taxing. In their interactions with clients and communities, social workers often encounter feelings of...
The prominence of NYU’s Greek life is minimal. Maybe it’s time we brought it back.
Noah Zaldivar, Contributing Writer
• October 18, 2022
I’ve often heard it said that joining a fraternity at NYU is a social death sentence. Though frat propagandists might try to tell you otherwise, Greek life is barely a part of...