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Opinion: Recitations shouldn’t be mandatory

NYU should allow students to take ownership of their learning.

Molly Koch, Deputy Opinion Editor • April 4, 2023

NYU is a large university, with over 50,000 enrolled students, which means class sizes are not always going to be small. Unless you are like me and lucked out with small discussion-based...

Teaching Assistants Plan a ‘Sick-Out’ Strike

Members of Sick-Out NYU plan to take a three-day strike to advocate for graduate students’ rights during the pandemic.

Nick Mead, Deputy News Editor • May 4, 2020

NYU Teaching Assistants plan to collectively take three consecutive sick days starting Wednesday, May 6 to demonstrate their essential role at the university and protest NYU’s...

HUMOR: TA Becomes Stuck-Up Prick After Getting PhD

Mai Tran, Contributing Writer • February 12, 2018

Students are upset that their TA is no longer as chill as he used to be.

Graduate Students Protest Tax Reform

Miranda Levingston and Sakshi Venkatraman • November 30, 2017

About 100 graduate and PhD students occupied Union Square Park on Monday to protest the proposed GOP tax reform bill.

Tackling the Topic of TAs

Rachael Heistuman, Contributing Writer • April 5, 2017

Teacher assistants can make or break your recitation experience, so read up on how NYU students feel about their TAs.

Letter to the Editor: Sexton administration should allow RAs, TAs right to unionize

September 9, 2013

The Sexton administration should uphold resident and teaching assistants' right to collective bargaining.