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Rehearsal time! Check out these pictures we took at rehearsals from Beacon Theatre.

(Photo Credit: Myrna Suarez)

OMG I STILL can’t believe I walked on the SAME stage at the Beacon Theatre as One Direction when I graduated from NYU like a little over a week before they performed there in May. XOXO

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JUSTIN BIEBER WAS AT NYU TODAY. OMG.

The Biebs was at NYU on Friday…and I WAS NOT on campus that day. OMFG.

Reporter’s Notes - Final Article for Journalistic Inquiry


The most interviewing and reporting that I’ve done since I’ve started college (I’ve always been a Journalism major) has been for Inquiry and in particular for my final article.

My article was about the “Zipper Building,” a new building that is a part of the NYU 2031 Expansion Plan (along with another building, the “Boomerang,” to be placed in Washington Square Village), but that wasn’t my angle. My angle was on the plan to demolish NYU’s beloved and legendary core of NYU Athletics and Recreation, Coles Sports Center, in order for the Zipper to be built in its place. This then brought up questions of a new gym in the building, a temporary gym, and the construction’s effects on the NYU Athletic Department, student and full-time employees, the plethora of gym members, and most importantly, the sports teams that practice and play there.

The interviews, as reluctant as I was to do them, went really well. I interviewed people from both sides of the issue, which is the NYU side and the NYU Athletics and Recreation side. For the former, my best source was the developer of the NYU 2031 plan himself. For the latter, I interviewed key people in the Athletic Department, coaches and members of sports teams, student employees, and loyal Coles gym members.

Working on my final article really strengthened my interviewing and reporting skills (well actually, the entire semester of Inquiry with all those articles did too). I feel that I’ve greatly improved as a journalist because of this class, with this article in particular really challenging me.

It Might As Well Be Spring: “Spring-ter” at NYU

When Staten Island’s Chuck the Groundhog scurried from his underground home into the arms of Mayor Michael Bloomberg on local television, many New Yorkers gained high hopes of an early spring. But today, exactly seven weeks after the traditionally celebrated Groundhog Day, students at NYU pushed through snow and sleet once again, still yearning for the warm days of spring.

“Yes I’m very excited about spring,” stated NYU graduate student, Andrea Kutik, 25. “I’m excited because we had -sort of- a mini-spring, and that being outside is no longer a horrible ideal.”

Although many of the NYU students seemed less-than-hopeful about spring’s swift arrival, not all were as weighed down by this year’s record setting snowfall numbers- a whopping total of nearly sixty inches, with still more snow expected later this week.

“I liked the winter. It was my first winter in New York,” explained NYU freshman, Anna Barbosa, 18. “It was bearable. I didn’t think it was too bad, nothing to extreme.”

Regardless in the divide between those who appreciated the New York winter and those caught-up in the snare of spring, most students seemed to share a common response to the question of what to do when the warm weather finally arrives.

“I’d like to hang outside in the park more,” said Claire Uschersohn, sharing a sentiment similar to most of the other students interviewed. “I’d like to come out here and read, just to come out and be able to walk around without having to wear fifty coats.”

While Groundhog Chuck will likely spend most of his week tucked away in the warmth of subterranean abode, the students forced to travel to class through snow and hail have adopted a hybrid nickname for this time of year when the weather is so inconsistent- they call it “spring-ter.”
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