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Bobst Is Not The Place To Protest

If there is one commonality that connects all NYU students, it is the love of political protest. Despite our many differences, it seems that nearly every student can at least agree that they are all...

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How NYU Is — Or Isn’t — Aiding Students

Prestigious as it may be, NYU is not necessarily known for dishing out the most financial aid. NYU self-assessed its finances, financial aid and tuition in a letter sent by the university to the New...

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NYU’s Slam Team Welcomes All Poets

Standing in front of a group of strangers and telling them your most personal thoughts and experiences can sound terrifying to some. To NYU’s slam poetry club, it’s just another Wednesday. Slam! meets...

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Poignant Poetry Grand Slam Sends Five NYU Students to Compete in Finals

It’s no secret that slam poetry leans towards the political, the emotional and the controversial, but this weekend’s Grand Slam, hosted by Slam! at NYU at Kimmel’s Rosenthal Center, was a slam for the...

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Despite Resistance, SLAM For Student Representation on Board of Trustees

NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement is continuing its efforts to get a student representative on the Board of Trustees, notwithstanding President Andrew Hamilton’s pushback on the initiative in a WSN...

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Student Representation on Board of Trustees Wins in SSC Vote

Students are one step closer to having a seat at the boardroom table. In a 17-8 victory for NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement today — better known as SLAM — the Student Senators Council voted in...

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Board Representation Needed for Students

On March 1, at the town hall featuring NYU President Andrew Hamilton, NYU Student Labor Action Movement hijacked the discussion on affordability to raise its concerns regarding NYU’s board of trustees....

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Administrators and SLAM Talk Representation Post-Protest

NYU administration and Student Labor Action Movement are discussing greater representation and involvement for its student body. President Andrew Hamilton and two other administrators met with five...

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How the Left Came Together by Splintering Apart

A dozen or so members of the Student Labor Action Movement sat in a circle on the floor of Kimmel during their weekly Monday meeting as they discussed, planned and organized their next actions. The...

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A Brief Introduction to NYU’s Leftist Clubs

While many college students spent Club Fest on Sept. 6 browsing Greek organizations and cultural affinity groups, a handful of NYU’s leftist clubs lined the room hoping to add to their legion of...

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SLAM Plans to Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

After a three-month break from its campaign to get a student on the NYU Board of Trustees, NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement met in Washington Square Park this past Monday to continue discussing ways...

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SLAM Keeps Pressure on Hamilton in Fight for Student Representation

Members of NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement attempted to deliver a letter to President Andrew Hamilton yesterday urging him to place a student on the Board of Trustees. Three members of SLAM waited...

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De Blasio’s Endorsement of SLAM Will Not Change Anything

Slideshow • 2 PhotosCourtesy of The Student Labor Action Movement SLAM members wrote a letter to NYU’s President Andrew Hamilton urging for student representation in the Board of Trustees. Close This...

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SLAM’s Recent Protest is Spot On

Of all the clubs and organizations on campus, perhaps the most vocal is NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement. In the past, the club has been successful in using peaceful protesting to obtain a $15...

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Beckman and Hamilton Slam SLAM

NYU President Andrew Hamilton and university spokesperson John Beckman recently opposed the Student Labor Action Movement’s campaign to add a student representative to the Board of Trustees because...

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Fact Checking SLAM’s Board of Trustees Claims

At the Student Labor Action Movement’s demonstration on Saturday, Oct. 21, the group paraded posters accusing Board of Trustees members William Berkeley, John Paulson and Anthony Welters of connections...

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How NYU Is — Or Isn’t — Aiding Students

Prestigious as it may be, NYU is not necessarily known for dishing out the most financial aid. NYU self-assessed its finances, financial aid and tuition in a letter sent by the university to the New...

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Image may be NSFW.
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NYU’s Slam Team Welcomes All Poets

Standing in front of a group of strangers and telling them your most personal thoughts and experiences can sound terrifying to some. To NYU’s slam poetry club, it’s just another Wednesday. Slam! meets...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Poignant Poetry Grand Slam Sends Five NYU Students to Compete in Finals

It’s no secret that slam poetry leans towards the political, the emotional and the controversial, but this weekend’s Grand Slam, hosted by Slam! at NYU at Kimmel’s Rosenthal Center, was a slam for the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Despite Resistance, SLAM For Student Representation on Board of Trustees

NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement is continuing its efforts to get a student representative on the Board of Trustees, notwithstanding President Andrew Hamilton’s pushback on the initiative in a WSN...

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