The Soapbox: Pussy Riot, Haiti, US-Mexico border, climate crisis
In Moscow, “the police keep re-arresting Pussy Riot members” The feminist performance art and protest group Pussy Riot — which gained international attention in 2012 after three of its members were...
View ArticleFaculty say NYU enables BlackRock’s greenwashing
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s August 2021 report warns that climate change is the main cause of the extreme weather events — such as droughts, superstorms, wildfires and floods — that...
View ArticleOpinion: Hurricane Ida highlights need for a more comprehensive climate strategy
Hurricane Ida dumped record levels of rain across New York City on Sept. 1, shutting down packed streets and highways and flooding subway stations. Damage and tragedy overwhelmed the city as officials...
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‘A Costco food sample of climate justice’: Tisch sophomore Jamie Margolin...
Tisch sophomore Jamie Margolin knows that $1,000 will not solve the global issues many students are passionate about. But Margolin, 19, is hoping that her new Climate Justice Scholarship will allow...
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Thousands of students march in NYC Global Climate Strike
More than 2,000 students and climate activists participated in the Global Climate Strike march last week, which was organized by the New York City chapter of Fridays For Future, a youth-led...
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Sunrise NYU revives university divestment campaign
Sunrise Movement NYU, the local chapter of a nationwide student-led climate justice group, is launching a renewed Divest NYU campaign that aims to pressure the NYU administration into ending its...
View ArticleOpinion: The UN is taking substantial action against climate change
As the United Nations prepares for this year’s Climate Change Conference, starting on Oct. 31 in the United Kingdom, the efficacy of past efforts regarding climate change reduction and prevention is...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: COP26 climate summit edition
In Glasgow, negotiators are left to figure out the nitty-gritty of the climate crisis The “high-level segment” of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has ended, and major leaders have...
View ArticleAfter disastrous storms, NYU wins $1M grant to study subsurface NYC...
Hurricanes Henri and Ida tore through the New York City metropolitan area in late summer 2021, shutting down public transit, flooding basement apartments and killing 46 people. New York governor Kathy...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: New Delhi, Kashmir, white supremacy
In New Delhi, smog forces schools to close Authorities in the Indian capital of New Delhi initiated a lockdown of some government facilities, including schools and coal power plants, due to dangerous...
View ArticleOpinion: NYU investors must commit to sustainability
In 2015, NYU’s student body led an “NYU Divest” campaign urging the administration and board of trustees to stop investing the university’s endowment in fossil fuels. Prompted by a student group...
View ArticleOpinion: Adams’ new tree-planting program will bring New York back
Mayor Eric Adams joined the New York City borough presidents on Monday morning to announce another “Million Trees” program. The meeting, as The New York Times reported, called for the revival of a...
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Hundreds take over Brooklyn Bridge for climate justice
Hundreds marched from Brooklyn Borough Hall to Manhattan’s Foley Square on Friday, March 25, as part of a strike condemning government inaction against climate change. Members of New York City’s...
View ArticleClimate activists hold environmental justice festival in Washington Square Park
Extinction Rebellion NYC, an organization that advocates for climate justice via civil disobedience, hosted an art and music festival in Washington Square Park from April 19-22 to celebrate Earth Day...
View ArticleGallatin first-years mobilize students to donate meal swipes to mutual aid
It’s no secret that NYU has a food insecurity problem. The university’s Swipe it Forward program, which allows students to donate meal swipes that would otherwise go to waste, was in a meal deficit...
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Dan Goldman wins hotly contested NY-10 primary
Former federal prosecutor Dan Goldman won yesterday’s Democratic primary congressional election in New York’s 10th District, which encompasses Greenwich Village, SoHo, the Financial District and parts...
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Stern receives $20 million donation to create new real estate institute
Charles C.Y. Chen, a Stern alum and executive board member, donated $20 million to the school to establish the Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate, an academic center that will offer new...
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What to do this week: PowerPoint comedy show and the Little Red Lighthouse
An interview with author Edmund White 1 p.m. online Catharine Stimpson, the former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at NYU, will interview award-winning author Edmund White as part of...
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NYU commits to Tandon expansion with new billion-dollar investment
NYU president Andrew Hamilton announced a long-term $1 billion investment in the Tandon School of Engineering on Wednesday, Nov. 30, weeks after the university’s September purchase of 3 MetroTech...
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What to do this week: The Washington Square Christmas tree and holiday cabaret
Take a writing class with an award-winning playwright 5 p.m. on Zoom Participate in a virtual writing workshop with American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who is well-known for her 2001 Pulitzer...
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