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Opinion: Covering course fees is a necessary step toward affordability
If students are paying over $90,000 to attend the university, the least it can do is cover a few extra fees.
Molly Koch, Opinion Editor
• February 8, 2024
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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
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Opinion: Midterm progress reports are the change we needed
The university’s new reports for undergraduate courses might just be the solution to its low midterm grade submission problem.
Molly Koch, Opinion Editor
• January 25, 2024
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Staff Rants: Holiday Overload
It's the end of the term, which means it's the holiday season! WSN staff shares their thoughts about it — the good and the bad, but mostly the bad.
Krish Dev, Alisha Goel, Alexa Donovan, Molly Koch, Qianshan Weng, Sabrina Lee, Bruna Horvath, Natalie Thomas, Katherine Welander and Naisha Roy
• December 1, 2023
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Off Third: NYU takes course registration completely off the grid
After many complaints about Albert’s course registration system, the university announced it would make the program entirely analog — paper, pigeons, trolls and all.
Katherine Welander, Deputy Copy Chief
• November 17, 2023
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Opinion: NYU needs to talk about gentrification
More university resources should be put toward educating students who aren’t from New York about the role they play in perpetuating gentrification.
Nikkala Kovacevic, Deputy Opinion Editor
• March 1, 2023
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Opinion: You need to fill out your course evaluations
Giving course feedback is anonymous, a good place to vent and it helps professors with future job applications — you can take five minutes to do them.
Aksha Mittapalli, Contributing Writer
• December 12, 2022
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Opinion: You should love 8 a.m. classes
Whether you willingly chose an 8 a.m. or got stuck with one, these classes are not as bad as you think.
Molly Koch, Staff Writer
• November 22, 2022
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Carmo Moniz, Editor-at-Large • September 6, 2024
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Karina Rower, Under The Arch Editor • September 6, 2024
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Hope Pisoni, Investigative Reporter • September 5, 2024