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By ANDERS MELIN

A recent study found that immi-grant students have slightly higher high school graduation rates than American students.

The report, which was conduct-ed by a non-partisan group called Independent Budget Office, surveyed 72,500 students in the class of 2009. This number does not include dis-charged students, which the IBO defines as students who left the school system without graduating or dropping out. About 20,000 of these students were born outside of the United States.

According to the IBO, which mon-itors the New York City budget and school system, about 67 percent of immigrant students graduated from New York City high schools in four years, compared to 61 per-cent of students born in the United States. Those from Europe, Asia and Africa averaged a rate close to 80 percent, significantly outperform-ing the 47 percent average among

By NEELA QADIR

NYU raised a record-high $120 million for financial aid fund during 2011-2012 year.

University spokesman Philip Lentz said this figure is double the amount that was raised for the previous fiscal year, which begins on Sept. 1 and ends on Aug. 31 each year.

He added the $120 million is the most that has been raised to date for the university’s financial aid fund.

The fund has made a dramatic jump within the past two years, Lentz said.

“This compares with $61.3 mil-lion raised for financial aid in the 2010-11 fiscal year and $42.7 mil-lion in the 2009-2010 fiscal year,” he said.

Other universities have also in-creased their financial aid. According to the Boston Globe, Boston College will spend $90 million on finan-cial aid this year, and Northeastern

By FRANCISCO NAVAS

By defeating Baruch College at the Metropolitan Oval in Maspeth, N.Y., NYU men’s soccer team sur-passed their seasonal record to a historic 6-0-0 start. The team, ranked 17th, broke the former re-cord set by current head coach Joe Behan’s 1994 squad.

This is the Violets’ second con-secutive 4-0 win, and the fourth shutout this season for goalies Jonas Poster and Forrest Sexton. They have now kept a clean slate for 287:42.

The Violets kept a clean defen-sive game and a strong offensive game with a 23-9 shot advantage over the Bearcats. Senior forwards Kyle Green and Paolo Luciano com-

bined for three goals, while sopho-more midfielder Mickey Ingerman scored his first goal of the season.

Luciano put his team on the score-board in the 20th minute as he beat Baruch’s goalie Peter DiBona with an unassisted goal. Although senior captain Niki Chow’s penalty kick in the 32nd minute hit the goal post, Green made up for the miss a min-ute later by putting a pass from ju-nior midfielder Chris Ramirez into the back of the net. The last two goals were also scored by Ingerman and Green within 46 seconds of each other in the first half.

“I’m very pleased with the fin-ish,” said head coach Joe Behan.

Green’s two goals and an assist

By EMILY MCDERMOTT

From messenger service to gal-lery space, a TriBeCa storefront was recently transformed, allow-ing two NYU grads to co-operate a business and curate their first art show.

Graduates of the art history department Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis, both 23, opened the gal-lery TEMP, a collaborative space for young artists, on Sept. 8. The current show, “Working On It,” features large-scale installations by 12 artists who represent the 20-something generation. No piece is simply a painting or sculpture, but rather each art-work requires space — some-thing many young artists are not given.

The installations revolve around central themes of our

generation’s thoughts: technol-ogy and preservation of youth. Photographs reveal rooftop bars, dancing topless in the subway, fire escapes and studio apart-ments. A success tent offers advice such as “question what

you think is natural.” As one walks through a spiral of plexi-glass painted with people clad in cocktail dresses and suits, the space becomes narrower —

Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis open TEMP gallery for young artists.CARINA WONG FOR WSN

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University will spend $188 million.Within the past five years,

there has been a national in-crease of $8 billion awarded as financial aid and scholarships to undergraduate students, according to the Globe.

Lentz said the Board of Trust-ees’ emphasis on aiding students has been the main force behind the dramatic increase.

“Financial aid is the university’s top fundraising priority,” Lentz said. “The record amount raised in the 2011-2012 fiscal year for financial aid reflects the importance the univer-sity and its trustees place on helping our students finance their education and scholarship.”

CAS freshman Caroline Idrovo said she was satisfied with NYU’s finan-cial aid package, which she said was significantly larger than ones from other universities.

“Even SUNY Binghamton, which is a state university, of-fered me less money and would have required me to take out a larger loan,” Idrovo said.

However, not all NYU students feel the money flow is heading to

their wallets. CAS junior Vishal Atri said

he was unaware of the new in-flux of money for financial aid and now expects his aid reward to increase.

“My financial aid is determined on how much NYU thinks my par-ents can contribute,” Atri said. “So although they may have more aid, students are still expected to have their standard familial contributions and loans.”

Atri plans to graduate a semes-ter early — mainly because it will save his family $30,000 in student loans.

“The question is, does NYU want to become a playground for students from elite classes of the world, or a true learning insti-tution that doesn’t force its stu-dents to think of money before education?” he said.

The goals for the 2012-2013 fiscal year have not been announced yet.

Neela Qadir is a contributing writer. Emailher at university@nyunews.com.

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By TAE YOUNG WOO

The NYU Wasserman Center has raised a record amount of funds to provide money fund-ing for students with unpaid internships for the 2011-2012 year.

Six years ago, the Wasser-man Center for Career De-velopment began granting $1,000 awards to students who worked for companies that do not offer paid internships.

James Sillcox, director of the Wasserman Center at NYU-Poly, said the fund is at its highest point to date. When the fund began in 2006, there were $15,500 available.

Sillcox said the funded in-ternships became vital for students, especially during these years of recession.

“We found that many NYU students felt they had to forgo educationally valuable un-paid opportunities in order to earn money for their day-to-day expenses,” Sillcox said. “Others elected to pursue

these internships, but had to subsequently secure addition-al paid work, exerting signifi-cant stress on their academic and extracurricular lives.”

Marc Wais, vice president for Student Affairs, said the funding comes from the Of-fice of the Provost, Student Affairs and various donors.

Wais said students who are eligible to receive financial sup-port must be working more than seven hours per week for more than 10 weeks. Students applying for a summer grant must work more than 20 hours per week for more than eight weeks. A 3.0 GPA and a secured unpaid internship are required for students to apply.

“[The program] opens the playing field for students who are going through financial struggles, but still want the connections and experiences unpaid internships bring,” Gallatin freshman Marcus Jones said. “Being able to cover transportation costs at the very least will help unpaid interns.”

The Wasserman Center is also working with NYU-Poly to bring more research opportunities to engineering students at startup companies.

Ali Al-Ebrahim, a junior at NYU-Poly, created NYU-Poly Incubator Initiatives by part-nering with the Wasserman Center. The initiative links stu-dents to start-ups that normal-ly do not pay their interns. So far, the initiative has offered grants to student interns at more than 50 companies.

He said the initiative has made more jobs possible for NYU-Poly students.

“[There are now] 550 full and part-time jobs includ-ing 220 student [internships] from Poly,” Al-Ebrahim said.

NYU students can apply for grants through their NYU Ca-reerNet accounts. Applications are available online at the end of May, August and January.

Tae Young Woo is a contributing writer. Email him at university@nyunews.com.

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their classmates of Mexican and Central American descent.

The study also shows that almost one out of four students in the lat-ter group drop out prior to gradu-ating, compared to less than a 10 percent dropout rate in the former group. The corresponding number for American-born students was about 12 percent.

“It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on regarding the variation in graduation rates,” said Raymond Domanico, director of Education Research and leader of the study. “There are many things the report doesn’t tell us, such as if students come from urban or rural areas and the type of education they were ex-posed to early on in their lives.”

Chinese-born Steinhardt fresh-man Ming Yang came to the United

States as an infant and believes the reason behind the differences is that foreigners embrace the idea of the American dream more than Americans do themselves.

“I think we just have more parental motivation,” Yang said. “Their children’s academic success is usually a huge reason for parents to emigrate in the first place, so they are going to make sure that the in-vestment will pay off.”

Pedro Noguera, executive direc-tor of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and Stein-hardt Education professor, said the strongest predictor for how a student will do in school is family income and education level.

“It tends to be that immigrant families who come from Europe, Asia and Africa have a stronger edu-

cational background,” Noguera said. “An educated parent is able to help [his or her] child more than a less educated parent.”

The New York Department of Education reported steadily rising graduation rates since 2001 — from 46.5 percent to well above 65 per-cent today — which Noguera credits the city’s political administration. But overall, he said the Department of Education must look into the con-centration of disadvantaged kids in certain schools.

“Once you start disintegrating the student bodies, you will see that certain groups are way, way be-hind in matters of pre-high school educational level,” Noguera said.

Anders Melin is a contributing writer. Email him at cstate@nyunews.com.

By ANDREW KARPAN

Jordan Eagles, a Manhattan na-tive and NYU alumnus, uses an unusual ingredient for his art-work: blood. On Sept. 5, Eagles opened his newest exhibition where each piece of art is made entirely from copper, resin and slaughterhouse-bought cattle blood at the Krause Gallery in Bowery, Manhattan. “Hemofields: A New Series of Multidimensional Works in Blood & Resin,” which will be on display until Oct. 16, dem-onstrates Eagles taking a new approach to defining his artistic niche for the last decade.

“Certain mediums give an energy that other materials just don’t have,” Eagles said. “Blood gives that energy.”

He discovered the source as a student in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While art always interested him, it was only after a philosophical debate with a friend about the meaning of life and the human body after death that he found his calling and decided to answer in blood.

“His work’s been extremely popular,” said gallery owner Benjamin Krause, who has been selling Eagles’ artwork for over five years. Selling pric-es for Eagles’ work range from $4,200 to $18,500.

Krause said Eagles allows “the medium to create for itself” and lets the blood react with the resin.

“He continues to reinvent

himself,” Krause said. “‘Hemo-fields’ is all about time.”

It is this philosophical edge that has defined and motivated almost all of Eagles’ work. Eagles said he treats his medium with a certain reverence and respect as he tries to connect life and death.

“The world is created with the idea of destruction ... and my work is trying to create some-thing beautiful [out of that],” Eagles said.

But not all have shared this view. During a showing of Ea-gles’ artwork at a gallery in Hart-ford two years ago, animal rights activists started to protest.

“I can’t understand them,” Krause said. “He’s taking a waste product and giving it life.”

But Jeff Sebo, assistant pro-fessor of Environmental Stud-ies at NYU, said he finds the exhibit ethically problematic and compared it to eating meat or wearing leather.

“We need to get rid of the idea that all is fair in love and war and art,” Sebo said. “We have an obli-gation not to cause unnecessary suffering in nonhuman animals.”

Gallatin freshman Hannah Co-hen had mixed views about the use of animal blood in artwork.

“I find what the artist is doing pretty interesting, but [he’s] try-ing too hard to be controversial.” Cohen said.

Andrew Karpan is a contributing writer. Email him at cstate@nyunews.com.

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FEATURES

By KAITLIN CHRISTY

Upon entering “Regarding War-hol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,” the new exhibit at the Metropoli-tan Museum of Art, visitors are

greeted by Andy Warhol’s famed, 1967 Pop Art self-portrait.

The exhibit features approxi-mately 45 works by Warhol and hundreds of works by 59 artists who were inspired by his work,

including Jeff Koons, Elizabeth Pey-ton and Cindy Sherman. Warhol’s influence is evident throughout the exhibit, which juxtaposes his paintings, sculptures and films with works by the other artists who

have responded to or reinterpreted his work. The exhibit represents a dialogue between these artists and their work across generations.

The exhibit is divided into five sections with different themes, including “Portraiture: Celebrity and Power” and “Queer Studies: Shifting Identities.” The artists featured in each section built upon Warhol’s ideas that were new to the ’60s, such as mass consumerism and pop culture.

“Regarding Warhol” features creative work in different medi-ums including a life-sized ciga-rette box, a video projection of Nintendo clouds and an instal-lation room of brightly colored wallpaper with silver balloons flowing overhead.

“The ‘Warhol effect’ [has a] pro-found and ongoing impact,” said NYU alumnus Ian Alteveer, the as-sistant curator for the exhibit.

Alteveer hopes viewers will think about Warhol’s overall impact on art.

“What does the Warhol effect look like, and is it really the case that he is the most influential artist?” Alteveer said.

Alteveer said the artists chosen to represent Warhol’s influence are the best of the best. The selected works support the argument that Warhol helped shape the artistic mind and world. The other 59 art-

ists expand on Warhol’s pervasive ideas, but use their own technique to convey their personal style.

“It seems to me that Warhol’s key influence on other artists is his appropriation of images from popular culture,” said Gallatin pro-fessor Lise Friedman, who teaches design courses.

The Met will also present “War-hol Today,” a series of talks, tours and performances from September through December that will ana-lyze Warhol’s influence on contem-porary art. The series features con-certs presented by musicians Patti Smith and Dean & Britta, a cabaret performance from Kalup Linzy, and talks and gallery tours with Alteever and co-curator Marla Prather.

This is the first exhibit to ex-plore Warhol’s artistic influence to its full extent.

Gallatin freshman Annie Schatz-berg is looking forward to the forthcoming opening.

“It’s amazing how [Warhol] changed art into being more of a lifestyle than just something pretty to look at,” Schatzberg said.

“Regarding Warhol” opens to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 18 and will be on display through Dec. 31.

Kaitlin Christy is a contributing writer. Email her at features@nyunews.com.

By DELIA KEMPH

The technology-driven age al-lows for people who live worlds apart to bridge gaps easily. At the click of a button, we can now have access to the intimate parts of the lives of the rich and famous, the parts that are not seen in the glossy pages of mainstream magazines.

Theyposted.com, a newly launched picture-sharing website, compiles photos shared on celeb-rities’ Twitter and Instagram ac-counts and consolidates them for one-stop viewing.

“Social media is allowing stars to share pieces of awesome-ness directly with their fans,” said Scott Perry, creator of theyposted.com. “And fans are loving [it] and love sharing [these] little peeks with their friends daily.”

Similar to Twitter, the site generates a trending list called “Hot Buzz,” under which ce-lebrity names with the most frequently viewed pictures ap-pear. Additionally, the website offers an “Explore” link which lists trending themes such as “Top Models,” “NFL Teams” and “Richest Rappers Alive Today,” and streamlines the search for photos that may relate to a particular interest.

“Even as big as Twitter and

Instagram are, and even as big as many celebrities’ followings are, we built the site as a means to amplify the efforts of these platforms and the celebrities,” Perry said. “We went far be-

yond the same top 100 celebri-ties you normally see on most sites, and added defined catego-ries for a wide range of viewing, whether it be film and TV, com-edy, reality, culture, society,

tech, news, sports and more.”However, Stern freshman

Michael Eichert feels that though the site is useful, he is opposed to the kind of celebrity-centric mentality it promotes.

“It’s nice that I can see all my favorite celebrities in one place without the clutter of Facebook or Twitter,” Eichert said. “But it promotes a general obsession with celebrities and celebrity status that I am fundamentally opposed to.”

Anna Akbari, an adjunct pro-fessor in the Media, Culture and Communication department at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Devel-opment, agreed that sites like theyposted.com contribute to a fascination with celebrity culture.

“The rise of social media has facilitated a surge in celebrity obsession,” Akbari said. “Fans feel they have direct access to celebrities via Twitter, Insta-gram and other social network-ing sites, and therefore develop a false sense of intimacy with them ... Suddenly mundane activities of their daily lives become newsworthy.”

Whether or not there is room on the Internet for yet another celebrity obsession -enabling website remains to be seen. The future of they-posted.com relies entirely on the willingness of the masses to succumb to celebrity gossip.

Delia Kemph is a contributing writer. Email her at features@nyunews.com.

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engendering nerves, anxiety and claustrophobia.

“This is young people trying to do young things that are interest-ing,” Ahn said. “It’s about new medium ... the comparison be-tween the analog and the digital.”

Ahn and Lipkis have been working on the project for nine months and met over 200 young artists during the pro-cess. They traveled to Bush-wick, Sunset Park, Harlem and other areas, venturing into art-ist collective-type warehouses and sub-basements.

They acquired the 4,500 square-foot gallery space from Ahn’s family friend who is allowing them to use the building between tenants. However, the co-owners are funding all other expenses themselves. The size and location of the space differentiates TEMP from other art galleries that focus on young artists.

“There are a lot of young art-ists in New York, but they really don’t get to show so much,” Ahn said. “For example, in Manhat-tan, or in a space where they can show large-scale installations.”

Throughout their project, Ahn and Lipkis received support from faculty at NYU, such as Dr. Julia Robinson of the Art History de-partment, who served as a men-tor for the co-curators.

“She really helped boost our confidence,” Lipkis said. “She gave us the support that we needed to feel strong enough to do this project.”

While at NYU, Ahn and

Lipkis served as co-presidents of the Fine Arts Society and in-vited art world figures such as Philippe de Montebello, Simon de Pury, Helene Winer and Mi-chelle Kuo to speak. Through FAS, students are able to learn about the art world in New York and meet with professionals in the field.

Gallatin senior Sara Baez, current FAS secretary, remem-bers Ahn and Lipkis from her freshman year.

“I was taken aback by how driven and interested they were in the art world,” Baez said. “They worked so great together.”

Ahn and Lipkis’s varying tastes in art — Ahn’s prefer-ence is American Abstraction while Lipkis’ favorite is the Ital-ian Renaissance — creates bal-ance in their decisions. When narrowing 200 artists to 12, Ahn and Lipkis learned what they gravitated toward, and their reasoning behind their selections became stronger.

The pair selected the artists because they fit the theme of TEMP’s first show. These 12 art-ists helped Ahn and Lipkis re-alize their vision to promote young artists and curators in an innovative and dynamic way.

“Working On It” is on display through Oct. 14. The gallery is lo-cated at 57 Walker St. and is open Thursday to Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 6 p.m.

Emily McDermott is a staff writer. Email her at features@nyunews.com.

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TEMP gallery offers local artists space to display in TriBeCa.CARINA WONG FOR WSN

TOP5 Spots to see the real stars of the city

TEMP gallery showcases work of local young artists

COLUMBIA ASTRONOMY PUBLIC OUTREACH

For an educational spin on a fun night out, head over to Pu-pin Hall at Columbia University. Every other Friday, university as-tronomers hold free lectures to update attendees about the lat-est news in the astronomy world. Afterwards, astronomers invite the crowd up to the rooftop to look through powerful tele-scopes at the stunning night sky.

CARL SCHURZ PARKLocated on the Upper East Side,

this park is a clear view of the heavens. On Friday evenings, mem-bers of the Amateur Astronomers Association set up telescopes on the park esplanade to enjoy the glimmering view of stars reflecting off of the East River.

INWOOD HILL PARKNear the north end of

Manhattan, the soccer fields of Inwood Hill Park are located just a few blocks from Isham Street and Seaman Avenue. Groups of astronomers visit on the first and third Friday of every month for stargazing parties on the open fields.

FLOYD BENNETT FIELDThis newly renovated field in

Gateway National Park on the edge of Jamaica Bay is full of things to do. The Brooklyn park hosts local astronomers who come out with their massive telescopes and allow the public to look through them on Fri-day nights. Floyd Bennett field is one of the most radiant and serene places in the city.

THE HIGH LINELocated on Manhattan’s west

side and overlooking the Hudson River, the above-ground park is one of New York city’s highlights. Featuring great food and many art and entertainment options, this location also has a great pro-gram every Tuesday for star lov-ers. At dusk during the warmer months of the year, people of all ages are welcome to appreciate the stars through high-powered telescopes. The event is spon-sored by the Amateur Astrono-mers Association of New York and Friends of the High Line.

For more star fun, be sure to check out the AAA Urban Starfest on Saturday, Oct. 20.

Priya Kamdar is a contributing writer. Email her at features@nyunews.com.

By PRIYA KAMDAR

In New York City you’ll see bright lights, tall buildings and celebrities walking down the street. But despite these endless opportunities, you’ll have difficulty seeing actual stars in the sky.

As fall approaches and the nights get longer, drop by these stargazing havens throughout the city.REBECCA CLEMENTI FOR WSN

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By RICHARD ZHANG

Last Saturday, something unexpected took place in China. Thousands of people took to the streets and protested against Japan’s purchase of a small island, called Senkaku by the Japanese and Diaoyu by the Chinese. Besieging the Japanese con-sulates in several major cities, the protest-ers asserted the sovereignty of the island. “Return our island,” some yelled. “Japanese devils get out.”

For the past few months, the anti-Japa-nese sentiment in China has escalated to the point of hysteria. Mobs obliterated anything Japanese. Across the country, Japanese-style restaurants with Chinese managers were raided. Japanese-made cars were set on fire, even though Chi-nese drivers owned them.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government barely interfered.

In China, protests would neither be al-lowed nor receive massive media cov-erage unless the government had their back. And in this case, the government’s support of the anti-Japanese protest serves two important functions: distrac-tion and unification.

China has been plagued with deep social problems. Corruption and power abuse are almost conventional practices among Chinese officials. Every year, mil-

lions of voiceless people, who are usu-ally victims of the corruption, travel to Beijing to voice their suffering — hop-ing to garner more attention. Instead, these appealers usually get rejected. They are beaten, detained or even killed by government officials at worst. Just days ago, 300 HIV victims, who were in-fected because of a government-backed blood transfusion scheme, protested in front of the local government building. Witnesses saw local police wielding ba-tons at these victims.

Coupled with serious social problems is the Communist Party’s 2012 power trans-fer. In a few weeks, Xi Jinping will replace Hu Jintao to become the new President of China. The Party understands too well that serious social problems are seeds of revolution that could uproot its ruling. To make sure the power transition takes place as smoothly as possible, the government needs to distract the public’s attention away from internal affairs. By identifying a common foreign enemy, the government not only projects citizen attention outward, but also portrays itself as the central unify-ing force, working with its people for the same patriotic goal. In this case, the Party chose Japan as the enemy because it is very easy to stir up public animosity against the Japanese. The hatred stems not only from the territorial dispute, but also the Japanese

invasion during the Second World War, in which millions of Chinese were murdered by the invaders.

By shifting focus to a specific issue, the Party can recede from public at-tention and focus on smoothing out the power transition. This technique is nothing new. When Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the dictator brainwashed his people into believing capitalists were the obstacles to actualizing communism in China. As a consequence, nearly all landlords and business owners were persecuted and often beaten to death by the proletar-ian mobs. By identifying capitalism as the common enemy, Mao became the leading hero in people’s mind, and, as a result, further consolidated his power.

But at the end of the day, it is the Chinese people who suffer. The Cultural Revolution that took away millions of people’s lives is a permanent scar in the hearts of Chinese people. And smashing Chinese-owned, Japanese-made cars or Japanese-themed restaurants does not hurt Japan in any pos-sible way. They only hurt Chinese people themselves. And guess who is the biggest winner of all this violence: the monstrous Communist Party.

Richard Zhang is foreign correspondent editor. Email him at rzhang@nyunews.com.

By JESSICA LITTMAN

Think the Occupy Wall Street movement is dead? Think again. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the movement, which, for many New Yorkers weary of planning routes around protest sites, sim-ply means there will be more traffic in the Financial District this coming week. But instead of focusing on the inconveniences of protests in the city, let’s look at what the movement has actually achieved.

Much of the discussion about Occupy over the last year has centered on its supposed ineffectualness — skeptics ask again and again, “What can you ac-complish by sleeping in a park?” A lot, in my opinion.

While policy changes may not have abounded because of the movement, Oc-cupy has successfully brought wealth inequality into the national discussion. Four years ago — or even one year ago — wealth inequality was not seen as one of our country’s major economic woes. One of the biggest scandals of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign came when a statement he made about sharing the wealth was taken out of context.

Now, even Republican lawmakers and

candidates are being forced to acknowl-edge the astronomical wealth disparities that are tearing our country apart.

At the same time, tangible non-policy changes have fundamentally altered com-munities. A branch of Occupy in San Fran-cisco succeeded in stopping banks from foreclosing on dozens of homes — all through grass-roots efforts. New labor unions have sprung up in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

These are not small achievements. Occupy Wall Street has yet to nominate candidates for national office, which some say should be their logical next stop. After all, the Tea Party’s success came after it grew out of a community group and became a voting bloc. But, as critics have cited again and again, Oc-cupy cannot be a voting bloc because it encompasses such diverse ideas. In-stead of trying to insert themselves into a system they believe has failed them, Occupiers are proving they can work outside the system to improve their lives and their country.

You may have noticed the uptick in Oc-cupy activities around the city this week-end. As the Occupiers build up to their anniversary — “S17” in Occupy jargon

— they are once again proving their pro-tests can make a difference, and that they can, in fact, Occupy New York. Today the protests will be even bigger. Occupiers will stage a sit-down in front of the New York Stock Exchange, followed by a complete occupation of the area with constantly moving protesters.

If you’re in the Financial District today, try to see past the inconvenience of hav-ing your city occupied by a huge public protest and look to what the protesters are trying to achieve. The greatest success today would come in the form of a large enough disruption that the stock market would have to be shut down for a few hours, pausing the constant trading of the wealth of the few who are very rich at the expense of the many. If that does not hap-pen though, Occupiers can still consider themselves successful if they convince one more person to join the movement, talk to one banker on his way home from Wall Street or get through to anyone the message that the financial system in this country is unfair and that the people can change that.

Jessica Littman is deputy opinion editor. Email her at jlittman@nyunews.com.

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Yesterday served as Week 2 of the National Football League season, and amidst the touch-down celebra-tions and goal-line stands, fans who watched the games were provided with

another reminder for why this season has been different than years past. Due to labor disputes with the 119 regular officials, the NFL started play with a hodgepodge of replacement referees — some of whom have never even stepped foot on a college football field.

Employing unprofessional referees raises serious safety concerns. These officials are inexperienced and intimidated when dealing with the high level of play that has resulted in countless head injuries. Yes, there are rules, but those rules are moot without an ef-fective means of enforcement. And when refs do not know the rules well enough, players’ safety is further jeopardized.

The referee strike was a direct result of the NFL’s proposal to change their pension plan, which, under new guidelines, would disap-pear and be replaced with a 401(k). Not sur-prisingly, officials from the referee’s union detested the proposal outright.

Commissioner Roger Goodell has been hypocritical by lauding his leadership in an age of medical awareness on traumatic brain injury inflicted by the sport. This is the same man who advocated for an 18-game season and has put a growing trend of player sui-cides and lawsuits from thousands more on the backburner.

The NFL fines players $50,000 for helmet-to-helmet hits and recently donated $30 mil-lion to the National Institute of Health for brain research, but the professionals paid and trained to directly protect the health and safety of the players can’t even make it onto the field.

If each team pitched in $100,000, a very tiny portion of their revenue, they would seal the rift between the demands of the ref-erees and the league’s alleged commitment to player safety. This is a small price to pay for ensuring the well-being of players and the future safety of the sport.

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to Ingerman moved him to fifth place in career points. Green now has 59 points, 24 goals and 11 assists.

“It is great to get some goals and move up on the points list,” Green said. “But, at the same time, the stat that I’m most pleased with is that we are 6-0.”

Brandeis University is the only other team that is unde-feated in the Violet’s Confer-ence with a record of 7-0.

“They have improved over the last three to four years, and I’m not surprised,” coach Behan said.

The NYU women’s soccer team also had an impres-sive win, defeating the State University of New York at Old Westbury 8-2 on Sunday, Sept. 16, at Panther Park in Old Westbury, NY. Seven dif-ferent players found the back of the net, and the Violets had a shot advantage of 26-10.

Senior captain Serra Tu-may had a big game with two goals and one assist. Junior forward Erin Ahmed scored the first goal 11:30 into the game. Tumay as-sisted Cami Crawford on her goal in the 15th minute and then scored in the 25th and 29th minutes.

“We just wanted to come out strong and high pres-sure from the start,” Tu-may said. “That helped us get an early goal and an early lead.”

Senior forward Ashley-Simone McKenzie made the score 5-0 right before half-time. Freshman midfielder

Haley San Giacomo scored her first career goal 1:49 into the second half.

Sophomore goalkeeper Meg Patten noticed a change in the team.

“I think we played a lot more fluidly, which helped us create better and more creative attacking move-ment,” Patten said. “We were also a lot more organized in the back in the first half of the game, which helped us establish a solid tempo.”

There was a surge of action in the last 10 minutes of play. After the Panthers made the score 6-1, the Violets reacted immediately with sophomore midfielders Claire Shanahan and Taylor Francoeur scoring one goal each. The Panthers scored their second goal with 47 seconds left in the match.

“We are using these first few games to perfect our style of play before con-ference games start,” Tu-may said. “We hope to have a solid winning re-cord in our conference to put ourselves in the best position we can to get into the NCAA tournament.”

The men return to the pitch at Gaelic Field on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. against the United States Merchant Marine Academy. The wom-en play their next game on Thursday, Sept. 20, at home at 7 p.m. versus Farmingdale State College.

Franciso Navas is a contributing writer. Email him at sports@nyunews.com.

By SEBASTIEN VAN HEYNINGEN and MARY JANE DUMANKAYA

Last week, the NYU men’s cross country team did not move in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Di-vision III poll. Even after a win in their opening race, NYU stayed steady at their 12th-place ranking. Now they are set to move up in the standings after yet another win at Saturday’s Monmouth Invitational.

With a score of 32 points, NYU cruised to an easy win thanks to solid running from the entire team. Six out of the top 10 finishers at the tournament came from NYU, with sophomore Sebastian Oja leading the way with a fourth-place finish and a time of 26:55.8. Senior Dylan Karten finished 10th in his first race of the season, and senior Kevin Bonilla, one of his co-captains, fin-ished sixth with a time of 27:06.8.

“Our top guys worked together, and Dylan ran a great race right with them,” assistant coach Jon Phillips said. “He’s real fit, and I’m excited to see how his season will progress.”

This was the NYU men’s cross coun-try team’s second consecutive win, with both victories coming at Mon-mouth University events. The next win may help pull NYU ahead of fierce conference rivals Washington Univer-sity, who are currently ranked third in the nation.

“Our first true test is going to be at Williams this weekend with a lot of ranked teams in the northeast racing up there,” Phillips said. “It’ll give us a better sense of our expectations for the rest of the season.”

The NYU men’s cross country team look for their third straight win when the team travels to Williamstown, Mass., to compete in the Williams Purple Valley Classic on Sept. 22.

Women’s cross country came in fourth of six teams this weekend, at the Monmouth Kickoff tournament. Last weekend, at the Monmouth In-vitational, the women had come in second of eight teams and the first of the three non-Division I teams. The Violets are now ranked 19th in the USTFCCCA Division III poll.

The Violets’ top finisher was junior Emily Cousens, who placed third at the invitational with a time of 18:53:20. The freshmen all finished well with Eloisa Cusi coming in 10th with a time of 19:21:30, Lily Corsaro in 13th with a time of 19:45:0 and Louisa War-wick in 23rd with a time of 20:42:70.

The fourth best finish for NYU was by sophomore Alyssa Binczyk, who had a time of 20:25:4 for a 21st-place finish.

Senior Kirsten Keller and senior cap-tain Georgina Norton both did not com-pete this weekend for NYU. Norton had the flu and was unable to run during the week leading up to the race.

“I am feeling 100 percent and get-ting back to solid training,” Norton said. “I will be racing this week at Wil-liams and am looking forward to our first 6k of the season.”

The NYU women’s cross country team will next compete on Sept. 22, at the Williams Purple Vally Classic at Williamstown, Mass.

Sebastien Van Heyningenis a deputy sports editor. Mary Jane Dumankaya is a deputy sports editor. Email them at sports@nyunews.com.

By NICHOLAS NEMEROFF

The NYU men’s tennis team com-menced their 2012-2013 season at the Lion’s Kickoff Tournament hosted by The College of New Jersey this past Friday and Saturday.

Friday’s schedule included doubles matches between NYU, TCNJ and Stevens Institute of Technology.

NYU put forth a well-balanced combination of newcomers and re-turning players with four freshmen and four upperclassmen taking the court on Friday.

Freshmen Zachary Green and Aar-on Meltzer made great first impres-sions, cementing two doubles vic-tories as a highly effective tandem. The duo took down TCNJ 8-5 in the first round and defeated Stevens 8-3 in the second.

It was his first time playing on the collegiate level, and Green was extremely satisfied with the results from Friday.

“It was a great sigh of relief to walk off the court with a win un-

der the belt,” Green said. “Leaving the tournament with a record of 2-0 is definitely a boon to the confidence.”

In more action, freshman Sidd Thangirala and junior Daniel Kil went 1-1 on the first day as did sophomores William Smithline and Ting Yee Lai. In total, NYU went 4-4 in doubles actions, which was a highly commendable effort in the first competition of the season given that there were many new members playing on the college level for the first time.

As the sun set on the doubles actions, NYU moved forward into singles action on Saturday.

Freshmen Aaron Meltzer, Sidd Thangirala and Nicholas Tan won their first collegiate singles victo-ries. Thangirala went 2-0 on the second day, recording a 6-1, 6-0 win over Stevens and a 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 over TCNJ. Tan eclipsed his opponent from Stevens 6-1, 5-7, 10-6. Meltzer defeated his Stevens opponent in straight sets with

scores of 6-3 and 6-1.The upperclassmen presented

an equally formidable showing as juniors Steven Wu and Bowen Xu, as well as Smithline and ju-nior Tim Wu. All went 1-1 on the day of individual matches. Xu and Smithline were comprehensive in each of their wins, with Xu sweep-ing both sets against his opponent from Stevens, while Smithline was equally as resilient, giving up a mere three games in his singles match against Stevens.

Matching their doubles record, NYU finished with a win percent-age of .500 in singles action, tak-ing eight of 16 singles matches this weekend.

NYU’s men’s tennis will travel to Ithaca College for the Intercolle-giate Tennis Assoiciation Northeast Regional Championships the week-end of Sept. 28.

Nicholas Nemeroff is a contributing writer. Email him at sports@nyunews.com.

Junior Erin Ahmed scored one of NYU’s eight goals.COURTESY OF NYU ATHLETICS

Captain Dylan Karten placed 10th in his first race of the season. COURTESY OF NYU ATHLETICS

Men’s tennis splits weekend at TCNJ Kickoff Tournament

Second consecutive win for men’s cross country

Men, women’s soccer run through competiton