NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete “dozens of writing assignments,” a recent Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine press release stated. The release said that in emails sent last week, the university informed students they...| Washington Square News
NYU suspended nine students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Bobst Library’s atrium Friday afternoon, a recent NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition press release states. A university spokesperson had told WSN that students who participated in the protests, which took place in the lobby and outside the building, would “be subject to the university’s disciplinary...| Washington Square News
More than 5,000 NYU alumni sent letters to administrators demanding that the university remove police from campus and meet the demands of the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition — including divestment from companies with ties to Israel and pardoning disciplinary action against students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. The letter, written by the...| Washington Square News
This is a developing story, check back for updates. Around 14 students were arrested in a sweep of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside the Paulson Center early Friday morning, NYU’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition confirmed in a recent statement. Tents and supplies at the encampment, which was set up on the Greene Street Walk last week,...| Washington Square News
President Linda Mills said less than half of the protesters arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza “were current NYU students, faculty or staff” in a universitywide email earlier this evening. Mills stated that hundreds of demonstrators on campus last Monday “did not have permission to be at NYU” and “significantly threatened” the...| Washington Square News
NYU terminated a postdoctoral instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences earlier this month, after he was seen taking down posters of hostages taken by Hamas, a Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine statement said and a copy of a termination letter obtained by WSN confirmed. The instructor, Darren King, appears to have...| Washington Square News
The NYU School of Law is demanding that 31 students contractually pledge to halt protests in order to access campus buildings following a pro-Palestinian sit-in outside Dean Troy McKenzie’s office last week. The move has sparked criticism from hundreds of students and legal organizations who argue that it violates the First Amendment and inhibits students...| Washington Square News
Graduates across NYU’s schools wore keffiyeh scarves, carried signs and held Palestinian flags at their respective graduation ceremonies last week in protest of the war in Gaza and the university’s recent crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, which have led to dozens of student and faculty arrests. NYU president Linda Mills — who has faced...| Washington Square News
Executive Vice President Martin Dorph will retire in October after 18 years at NYU, President Linda Mills announced in a Friday memo to senior leadership. Dorph, one the longest standing members of the university’s administration, has overseen all university business and administrative operations since 2015 after previously serving as its chief financial officer. Dorph oversees...| Washington Square News
NYU spokesperson John Beckman will retire at the end of 2025 after 29 years at the university, President Linda Mills announced in a Tuesday email to senior administrators. Kyle Kimball, vice president for government relations and community engagement, will also step down in early September. Mills said that the departures are “entirely independent.” Beckman and...| Washington Square News
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” css=””] For 13 years, Lisa White was a steady presence in the emergency department at NYU Langone Health’s hospital in Brooklyn. A charge nurse with a doctorate of nursing practice, she spent the past three decades caring for the people of the New York tri-state area. But last fall, just weeks after undergoing...| Washington Square News
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=””]Over the past two years, NYU has faced mounting pressure to address antisemitism on campus — however, the concerns are all but recent. After years of complaints, a 2020 settlement between the university and U.S. Department of Education led NYU to standardize antisemitism training for staff and administrators. Several of the university’s subsequent...| Washington Square News
Families will see a 4.25% increase in NYU’s sticker price next year, marking the university’s largest tuition hike in over a decade. The rise is coupled with a tightened budget for faculty awards and ongoing hiring freeze amid the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle higher education. President Linda Mills, Provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice...| Washington Square News
Tens of thousands of protesters flooded Fifth Avenue Saturday afternoon as part of nationwide “No Kings” rallies, where millions denounced the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, proposals to purchase the Gaza Strip and deep cuts to higher education and federal programs. The group first rallied at Bryant Park, where speakers including actors Ilana Glazer and...| Washington Square News
Amid heightened threats from Washington and a turbulent year for local politics, New York City is facing soaring rents, growing public safety concerns and one of the nation’s largest income gaps — all culminating in a critical mayoral election this November. Faced with a crowded slate of candidates who have spent months vying for the...| Washington Square News
A portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hangs on the wall of the Jasper family home. It’s the first thing you see when you walk into the Hayes Theater to watch Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new family drama, “Purpose.” No matter if the Jaspers are in a vicious fight or a contemplative silence, that portrait looms...| Washington Square News
It’s easy to imagine Mary Todd Lincoln sitting in the Oval Office in the 1860s, supporting her husband through his presidency — not, say, drinking paint thinner for fun and then throwing it up. However, in “Oh Mary!,” a new Broadway play currently showing at the Lyceum Theatre, she does the latter and much more. ...| Washington Square News
“Maybe Happy Ending” is a tale as old as time — boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl also happen to be robots. The new musical playing at the Belasco Theatre is a classic boy-next-door romance with a technological twist, and is one of the most refreshing shows on Broadway....| Washington Square News
Tisch alum Sean Baker won four Oscars for “Anora” at the 97th Academy Awards, sweeping best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best film editing. “We’re all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies,” Baker said in his acceptance speech for best director. “Right now, the theater-going experience is under threat....| Washington Square News
I was — and still am — a theater kid. So much so that when I was young, I begged my parents to take me to New York City from Washington state to bask in the lights of Broadway. When they so graciously fulfilled that dream, the first Broadway show I saw was “Wicked The...| Washington Square News
NYU alumni secured best play and best new musical at this year’s Tony Awards — two of the night’s top honors, and just a couple of the 22 total awards won by former Violets for content, design and production. The Sunday ceremony named 18 alumni across five NYU schools. Among the big winners were Steinhardt...| Washington Square News
Palestinian scholar Rami Salameh, the chair of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University, spoke to the NYU community about academic limitations on higher education in Palestine under Israeli occupation. Dozens attended the conversation, which was organized by NYU Students for Justice in Palestine, at the Kimmel Center for University Life on Monday, Dec. 5. ...| Washington Square News
NYU president Andrew Hamilton gave his final Presidential Welcome speech to a crowd of new and returning students on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Hamilton, who announced in April that he would step down from his role at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, addressed over 100 students in the auditorium of the Skirball Center for...| Washington Square News
Based on a true story, Suad Amiry’s “Mother of Strangers” tells a devastating love tale in Jaffa during the end of British rule in Palestine.| 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
NYU is withholding the diploma of a Gallatin graduate after he condemned “the atrocities currently happening in Palestine” during his speech at the school’s graduation ceremony on Wednesday. The university has faced significant pushback for its decision from several student, faculty, alumni and civil rights groups. Logan Rozos, the student speaker at this year’s ceremony,...| Washington Square News
Dozens of graduates booed and some wearing keffiyehs walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU President Linda Mills’ commencement address on Thursday, marking the second year in a row that students left the arena in protest of NYU’s continued crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech amid a federal attack on higher education. Mills, whose speech focused on...| Washington Square News
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Molly Shannon told graduates to push through challenges and embrace their talents in a recount of her postgraduate years spent searching for work during her honorary address to tens of thousands of students and guests at NYU’s 192nd commencement exercises on Thursday. Shannon, a three-time Primetime Emmy nominee and Screen...| Washington Square News
A sea of violet robes flooded Yankee Stadium on Thursday morning as nearly 30,000 graduates and guests entered the arena in celebration of NYU’s class of 2025, amid what President Linda Mills called “times of intense change” in the wake of a federal crackdown on higher education. The May 15 ceremony opened with a mashup...| Washington Square News
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=””]For 60 years, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine invited students to join its Medical Scientist Training Program — a federally funded, dual-degree MD-Ph.D. program — and develop the specialized skillset of physician-scientists. However, the tradition came to a halt when administrators suddenly rescinded nine prospective students’ acceptances in January after losing the...| 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. I write this as an open letter to our university’s Office of the President, as all other open requests for constructive conversation remain ignored or sabotaged — and I mean it to be an invitation,...| 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
Four years later, my Brightspace page is still glitchy and Bobst Library’s fluorescent lighting is still dizzying and disorienting. I’ve lost my NYU ID in every nook and cranny of campus and dining hall food has certainly given me a mild case of food poisoning — but that’s not why I feel sick. The violet...| Washington Square News
Dear readers, Three years ago, I stepped into the basement of Third Avenue North and, unbeknownst to me, began a long journey at the Washington Square News. Coming to NYU, I was convinced I wanted to be a filmmaker, or at the very least work in something remotely cinema or arts-related. I was admitted into...| Washington Square News
With no shortage of contentions and controversies to cover at NYU, our tenure as news editors has been defined by record-late work times and countless all-nighters. When you’re stationed in the basement of Third Avenue North from late afternoons until early mornings, a caffeine boost is necessary — and Celsius has become a news-desk staple. ...| Washington Square News
As those last few assignments and exams hang over your head, remember that the torture will soon cease. Come May 14, the dark ages will officially end, and summer will be in full swing. There are a million ways to spend your summer: From bed rotting to globetrotting, it’s hard to figure out what option...| Washington Square News
NYU condemned a message from the People’s Solidarity Coalition which the university claims to have included “a deplorable ‘embrace’ of ‘armed struggle’” in a public statement Thursday, a message the group said was “intentionally misread.” In the statement, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said the university “is shocked” that members of the campus community would endorse...| Washington Square News
Some faculty and staff at NYU are threatening to withhold administrative work for the fall semester if senior leadership does not remove police from campus and pardon those facing disciplinary action for their participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations by Aug. 1, NYU’s Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine group announced this morning. The strike would...| Washington Square News
NYU said the Office of Student Conduct will begin looking at ways “to improve the quality” of reflection papers imposed on students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza later in the fall, after hundreds of faculty complained about the practice in a letter to university leadership. In the May 15 letter, over...| Washington Square News
