Graduating GSAS students are barred from wearing “decorated caps, sashes, stoles, cords, pins, scarves” at their school-specific convocation ceremonies due to “safety and security” concerns, administrators told students in a Thursday email. The convocation team also said that they will halt the event if any graduate “attempts to disrupt” the procedures, following a wave of...| Washington Square News
Dozens of graduates and faculty quietly called for expanded free speech policies and divestment from companies with ties to Israel at NYU’s school-specific graduation ceremonies, just days after NYU said it was withholding the diploma of a Gallatin graduating student who condemned “atrocities currently happening in Palestine” in his ceremonial speech. During the Tisch School...| Washington Square News
Guest essays reflect opinions from writers beyond WSN. If you’d like to submit a guest essay for consideration, please email opinion@nyunews.com. The Graduate School of Arts & Science 2025 convocation webpage features a smiling graduate wearing a kente cloth stole. Kente is a millenia-old West African weaving technique, taken up in the 1970s in the...| Washington Square News
