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Tech championed no-strings-attached cash. Now it’s under attack
Advocates narrowed “universal” basic income to vulnerable groups only. That might make it more effective — or easier to kill.
By Ania Keenan,
 
Black babies in SF are at greater risk of early birth than ever
The city is turning away millions of dollars that could help Black mothers, even as they face nearly triple the risk of premature birth as white mothers.
By Ania KeenanPhotography by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
 
‘Panic mode’: Visa crisis threatens SF parents’ summer nanny plans
A pause on J-1 student visa interviews threatens to strand foreign workers and upend summer child-care plans for thousands of California families.
By Ania Keenan,
At least 2 NYU affiliates involved in organizations that promote anti-trans practices
An adjunct professor and alum have ties to nonprofits accused by human rights and medical experts of engaging in medical practices opposing gender-affirming care.
Ania Keenan and Raea Lovett • February 24, 2025
 
A search firm failed to find misconduct allegations agaianst NYU's former athletics director. Here's why.
A search firm executive and a director of hiring at a top university said executive search firms like the ones used in higher-level hiring decisions by NYU can miss key information on applicants’ criminal backgrounds and details kept in internal misconduct records.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor • May 12, 2024

Lawsuits, human resources reports, calls from victims, and allegations compiled by labor unions — this is just some of the evidence of sexual misconduct NYU missed when it hired…
NYU announces new athletics director, Jake Olkkola
Olkkola will be NYU’s first permanent athletics director since the university’s previous director, Stuart Robinson, left last semester following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor • April 24, 2024
 

NYU’s athletics department announced that Jake Olkkola, who currently serves as the deputy director of athletics at Johns Hopkins University, will be the university’s next…

How NYU has operated programs in Cuba for years, despite travel restrictions
The university has sent groups of students to the country since 2002 through a license provided by the federal government.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
February 12, 2024
U.S. State Department official discusses media and diplomacy at roundtable discussion
The head of the Bureau of Global Public Affairs spoke to students and faculty at the Tisch School of the Arts about the intersection between entertainment and diplomacy.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
November 9, 2023
Staff Rants: New beginnings or old complaints?
WSN staff shares their thoughts on the beginning of the 2024 spring semester.
 
Julia Diorio, Molly Koch, Abi Rivera, Yezen Saadah, Ania Keenan, Mick Gaw, Carmo Moniz and Krish Dev
January 30, 2024
NYU rejects student demands to shut down Tel Aviv site at Bobst protest
Student groups protested outside Bobst Library on Thursday, calling for NYU to shut down its study abroad program in Tel Aviv.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
November 3, 2023
How Stuart Robinson’s misconduct went overlooked for years
For nearly three decades, staff at NYU and students and staff at the State University of New York, New Paltz were allegedly harassed and discriminated against by former athletics director Stuart Robinson.
Ania Keenan, Features Editor, October 28, 2023
HR dismissed complaints about former athletics director, sources say
A human resources representative at NYU’s athletics department allegedly told multiple staff members to “just suck it up” when they brought sexual harassment and misconduct complaints against the department’s former director.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
October 25, 2023
NYU knew about allegations against former Athletics Director, source says
A former State University of New York, New Paltz student said she called NYU’s Title IX office about Stuart Robinson’s behavior shortly after he was hired at the university.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
October 9, 2023
‘We’ve been suffering in silence’: NYU ignored misconduct complaints, sources say
Complaints about former Athletics Director Stuart Robinson’s behavior were ignored by human resources at the university, the sources allege.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
October 3, 2023
NYU breaks ties with athletics director after sexual harassment allegations
Stuart Robinson is no longer employed at NYU, according to an email from an administrator to the athletics department.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
September 27, 2023
Former employee sues NYU, alleging racial discrimination in Athletics Department
The plaintiff claimed that he was paid less than other directors in the department because of his race. The university denies the allegations.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
September 30, 2023
Athletics director placed on administrative leave after alleged inappropriate behavior
Sources told WSN that Athletics Director Stuart Robinson was placed on administrative leave due to misconduct accusations.
 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
September 19, 2023
‘Lessons were learned’: CAS vote revises election rules, but president-elect to stay

Schoolwide vote passes amendments to student government election code and affirms results of student council presidential race.

 
Ania Keenan and Bruna Horvath
May 3, 2023
NYU Law dean confronts protesters for heckling Israeli politician

Dozens of pro-Palestine students protested an event hosted at NYU Law last Thursday that featured an Israeli politician.

 
Ania Keenan and Yezen Saadah
April 24, 2023
CAS student council to hold schoolwide vote on campaign rules

After a candidate was disqualified from the CAS Student Council presidential election last week, the council has decided that the student body should have the chance to vote on proposed election guideline changes.

 
Ania Keenan and Bruna Horvath
April 20, 2023
NYU receives $2 million to study suicide prevention hotline

The National Institute of Mental Health awarded researchers at the university’s School of Global Public Health to study how suicide hotlines impact care.

 
Ania Keenan, Features Editor
April 12, 2023
‘It pains me that you are in pain,’ Tandon dean says to disgruntled graduates

Aggravated students from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, unhappy that they will not be able to walk across the stage at graduation this year, sat down with their dean at a town hall on Wednesday.

Ania Keenan, Features Editor
April 6, 2023
Trump rally outside Manhattan DA’s office sees scant attendance

A small group of protesters was surrounded by reporters outside of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Monday as they protested the potential indictment of former president Donald Trump.

Ania Keenan and Carmo Moniz
March 20, 2023
Acquired, Stored, Forgotten. NYU Dentistry’s Collection of Indigenous Remains

How an NYU college came to possess the remains of over 200 Indigenous people, and how they were forgotten for 25 years.

Ania Keenan, Features Editor, Feb. 6, 2023
The Cheap Labor of Academia
The history of the fraught relationship between NYU and its unionized adjuncts.
Ania Keenan, Staff Writer, Nov. 3, 2022
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