By ANNE CRUZContributing Writer

NYU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams hosted an invitational meet this weekend at the Palladium Athletic Facility and Coles Sports Center. NYU hosted 10 teams from all three divisions of the NCAA as well as one ju-nior college, including Drexel University, SUNY Delhi and United States Merchant Ma-rine Academy.

The invitational, while not team scored, marked the beginning of the champion-ship season. This invitational will lead into the University Athletic Association champi-onships in Atlanta, Georgia starting this Wednesday. The championships will culminate with the NCAA Division III Championships in March for those who qualify.

During the two day invita-tional, both the men’s team and women’s team had success-ful races. The freshmen on the men’s team performed espe-cially well, earning a few first place finishes. Freshman Aus-tin Palmer won the 1650-yard freestyle, 400-yard individual medley and 500-yard freestyle. In addition, the women’s team placed in several events. Sopho-mores Maia Brearton and Emily Sanders both placed second in their races: 200-yard back-stroke and 200 yard breast-stroke, respectively. Fresh-man Annie Driscoll won the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle.

NYU is currently ranked eighth for men and fifth for women in the Collegiate Swim-ming Coaches Association of America poll and is unde-feated this season. This home invitational gave the team an

opportunity to momentarily celebrate their victories be-fore focusing on the upcoming championships. After months of early morning practices and rigorous workouts, the swimmers’ training will need to adjust for the added rest in between competitions. Fresh-man Avery Soong elaborated on tapering, just one aspect of the hard work the team has put forth all season.

“Taper is a time of rest and to prepare oneself to compete at their highest potential,” Soong said. “All of us can take confi-dence that we are in the best possible position to achieve our end goals.”

Soong also expressed the team’s aspirations to win a na-tional championship, and how the high stakes for the upcom-ing meets translated into this

By NIKITA METHARAMANIContributing Writer

“From Ancient to Modern: Ar-chaeology and Aesthetics” exam-ines how archaeological objects transform from artifacts into artwork. The exhibit opens this thursday at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

ISAW is a center that focus-es on scholarly research and graduate education at NYU. Its primary focus is to create con-nections and comparisons to the ancient world. With “From Ancient to Modern: Archaeol-ogy and Aesthetics,” ISAW will present 50 Mesopotamian ob-jects and over 100 documents, drawings and photographs from present-day Iraq.

Jennifer Chi, ISAW director of exhibitions and chief cura-tor, and Pedro Azara, profes-

sor of aesthetics and theory of art at Polytechnic Univer-sity of Catalonia, curated this avant-garde exhibition with assistance from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Ar-chaeology and Anthropology.

Apart from the other exhi-bitions at ISAW, this project gives us a different outlook on archaeology by presenting 10 modern works of art to go along with the ancient arti-facts. This inclusion is a first for ISAW and shows the ongo-ing influence and impact of archaeological artifacts in our present-day lives.

“All ISAW exhibitions stand at the intersection of archaeology, art and ideas, and this is no dif-ferent,” Chi said. “What distin-guishes this show is the fact that

By MAGGIE O’NEILLStaff Writer

As part of their 10th Annual MLK Week, NYU awarded faculty members Patricia Morris Carey and Allen M. McFarlane the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Humanitar-ian Award during an event at the Kimmel Center on Thursday.

The program, “Beyond a Dream”, included rapper Talib Kweli, activist writer Nikki Giovanni and vice chair of voter registration and participation for the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile. The event was held to promote dis-cussion about King’s vision.

The discussions centered on the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and the protests that erupted after the re-cent grand jury decision. Brazile discussed the injustices that still plague America decades after Dr. King made his famous speech.

“We’re not there yet,” Brazile said. “We’re not post-racial. We can draw a straight line from

Trayvon Martin to Ferguson to here.”

A video of NYU President John Sexton was presented at the dis-cussion, during which he spoke about Dr. King’s dream.

CAS junior and president of NYU Black Student Union Arielle Andrews introduced Brazile and said she hoped the event would promote conversations about di-versity on campus.

“Our main initiative when we held the die-in was to push diver-sity,” Andrews said. “We think it should be at the forefront of NYU’s agenda, especially since we are a global university, and we think it hasn’t been so far. So we just hope that it furthers the conversation of putting diversity first and making everybody feel included here on campus.”

Tisch alumna Callie Nichole Lyons said she attended the event because she is still inter-ested in what happens in the NYU community even though

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Shaping Puerto Rico’s FutureThe NYU Journal of Law and Business and the NYU Latino Law

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Although Voice Over Internet Protocol services such as Skype, Viber and FaceTime have never been licensed in the UAE, the blocking of these applications has slowly been coming into ef-fect for over a year. An official clarification on the illegality of Viber and similar apps was an-nounced in Sept. 2014, but the implementation has been un-even. Skype calls to landlines are currently not working, while computer-to-computer calls con-tinue to work even though both services are illegal.

Until recently, NYU Abu Dhabi students were able to use prox-ies, including the NYU proxy and VPN proxies, to make Sky-pe computer-to-landline calls. Skype’s website now confirms that the app is blocked in the UAE, while encouraging us-ers to “speak to your [internet service provider] and ask why they are blocking Skype and re-quest that they unblock our site and services.”

VoIP services are blocked in the UAE because only two opera-tors, Etisalat and du, are licensed to provide telecommunication services in the UAE. According to Daniel Hanratty, Support Site Lead at NYUAD’s Campus Tech-nology Center, both Etisalat and the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority seemed unclear about the policy until Sept. 2014.

“There’s no definitive time for how long [Skype] has been blocked, because for a while, Etisalat was saying it was the TRA that was blocking it and the TRA was saying that it was Eti-salat blocking it,” said Hanratty. “They’ve been blaming each other for it.”

In response to past media at-tention about blocked Viber ser-vices last year, the TRA released a statement in Sept. 2014 to con-firm the illegality of Viber and other VoIP services: “We have recently seen local newspapers and social networks publishing news with regards to the Viber service being blocked in the UAE. We would like to clarify

that the service was never li-censed in the UAE. Moreover, the VoIP regulatory policy has only licensed Etisalat and du, The Licensees, to provide tele-communication services in the UAE, including VoIP services. This policy still exists and has not been amended.”

“The clarification [on Skype’s ban] came out end of last year, but [blocking has] been happen-ing on and off for a year or so now,” said Hanratty. “It would work, then it would stop work-ing, then it would work.”

Senior Laura Evans said that computer-to-landline calls on Skype stopped working during her junior year at NYUAD.

“In my freshman year and probably my sophomore year as well, you could use Skype to call landlines very easily,” said Evans. “It was only in my junior year that I realized I couldn’t [call] anymore. In the end I found some workarounds using a couple of VPNs because it’s one of the only ways I have to call home.”

Now, however, she is unable

to use computer-to-landline calls on Skype at all. Evans was surprised that NYUAD did not release any information on navi-gating the sudden implementa-tion of Skype’s block in the UAE. The uneven functionality of other VoIP services that Evans explored, such as Google Voice and FaceTime, was also unad-dressed by the university. Ev-ans commented that the ban on these low-cost VoIP apps seems unnecessary, especially given large demand from expatriates and migrant workers in the UAE.

NYUAD Professor of Biol-

ogy Claude Desplan noted that Skype is useful for academic work as well as personal calls. Since the block, he has been us-ing Google Hangouts.

“We use extensively Skype for classes, especially when the vid-eo system of NYU does not func-tion properly, which is quite often, and for lab [meetings] between people in NYC and people in [Abu Dhabi], at least once weekly,” wrote Deplan in an email to The Gazelle.

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By CHRISTINE PARKDeputy News Editor

The NYU Department of Pub-lic Safety has received reports of four incidents of larceny, one incident of controlled sub-stance possession and one inci-dent of physical assault in the past week.

Larceny

On Feb. 2, at 11:30 a.m. Pub-lic Safety received reports that a faculty member was missing their cell phone after having left it unattended at 9:45 a.m. at 627 Broadway.

On Feb. 2, at 11:59 a.m. a stu-dent reported 20 euros missing from her wallet after leaving it unattended at 8:30 p.m. and re-turning at 11:50 a.m. the next day in her dormitory room in NYU Florence.

On Feb. 2, at 3:03 p.m. a faculty member filed a report to Public Safety that an unidentified per-son in a laboratory at the Silver Center stole two laptops, a back-pack and a wallet between 12:15 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. The New York Police Department filed a report and the incident is still

under investigation. On Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. a faculty

member reported her purse missing from her desk after hav-ing left it at the Duke House on Dec. 24, 2014 and returning to it on Jan. 24.

All but the incident in NYU Florence are still under investigation.

Controlled Substance

On Feb. 2, at 3:20 a.m. stu-dent life staff said they confis-cated a small amount of mari-juana from a dormitory room of the Osadni Apartments at NYU Florence. The incident is closed.

Physical Assault

On Feb. 3, at 10:30 p.m. a stu-dent at Gramercy Green Resi-dence Hall reported that her roommate hit her on the face at 10 p.m. The NYPD came to the scene but the victim did not file charges against her roommate. This incident is still under investigation.

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she graduated.“In situations like this when

we have conversations and the main goal is to get people to make change outside of the walls of the university I hope

it opens up dialogue because I think that’s the first thing that has to happen in order to make change,” Lyons said. “I hope that people that were present tonight are able to take this to people

who may not have come, may not have an interest, or may not have known about it.”

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From navigating the city to documenting every moment of the experience, living and studying in New York City can get a little hectic. Here are five apps that are guaranteed to help a student survive this con-crete jungle, juggle workloads and make the best of the col-lege experience.

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From subways and bicycles to buses and your own two feet, there are many ways to get around the city but it is hard to navigate them all. Citymap-per helps you stay on top of your game by providing every-thing from bike share availabil-ity to time estimates for public transportation arrivals. This app will tell you the best form of transportation to get to and from your destination. It also includes travel time, fare calcu-lations and even the amount of calories you might burn on your trip. Free in the App Store.

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It is easy to let yourself in-dulge a little too often or get carried away with midnight dol-lar pizza. That is why we love Ar-gus, a health app that helps you

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Every day, record one second of your day for a year and watch your memories and moments compile into a 365-second video that captures everything from the simple to significant bites of your life. This app provides the perfect way to capture, rem-inisce about, and treasure your journey and reminds you not let the days just pass by. $0.99 in the App Store.

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With the days becoming bus-ier and colder by the minute, GrubHub saves you time so you can spend fewer minutes outside in the outside world. Just enter your location and the app will provide you with

menus, reviews and “the option to pick up or get delivery from hundreds of nearby restaurants. Orders can be paid in cash, credit or PayPal. There is also an option to save your past favor-ite orders so the next time you want to dine-in, you’re only a tap away. Free in the App Store.

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Never lose your recorded thoughts or fumble with which file, drive or notebook you put your lecture notes in. Evernote syncs all the notes recorded from your laptop, whether it is class notes or to-do lists. The app syncs the documents into both your phone and comput-er with no hassle. Free in the App Store.

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it is as much about the endeavor of archaeology as it is about the objects that archaeologists have unearthed.”

Chi hopes that the exhibit will put archeology into a more ani-mated perspective.

“We want visitors to the show to leave with an understanding of archaeology as a living, ever-changing endeavor,” Chi said. “We hope that the exhibition will demonstrate that the way we look at archaeological artifacts is not static, but that ‘biographies’ for such artifacts continue to be written and rewritten.”

The exhibit emphasizes that archaeology is more than just an-

tiquity. Sebastian Heath, a Clini-cal Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at NYU, agrees that the in the field of archeology has ex-tended from the likes of ancient Mesopotamia to encompass cities like New York City.

“The power of this exhibit is that it reminds both experts and the public that archaeology can create active connections to the past and inspire us to think about the modern world,” Heath said. “Any approach that makes the past more relevant to our current lives is very welcome.”

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NYU helps recover Houdini filmBy TEJAS SAWANTContributing writer

“The Grim Game,” a 1919 silent film starring the famous illusion-ist Harry Houdini, was believed to be lost for about four decades. But thanks to a collaborative effort in-volving Turner Classic Movies and NYU’s Barbara Goldsmith Preser-vation and Conservation Depart-ment, the film has now been made available to the world again.

The recovered 71-minute feature film is expected to make its come-back during the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood this upcoming March. Tisch professor Brane Živković composed an ac-companying soundtrack.

The film follows the story of a young man named Harvey Han-ford, or Harry Houdini, who is framed for murder but escapes from the police and goes after the true culprits. The film is a re-flection of Houdini’s skill as an escape artist.

The film’s preservation journey began when Rick Schmidlin, a film preservationist and silent-film scholar, learned about the film from his friends at the Houdini

Museum in Scranton, Pennsylva-nia. He decided to bring Professor Živković on board.

“I first met Brane at his NYU lecture. Since we became good friends, I reached out to him after learning about the film,” Schmid-lin said.

After several weeks, Schmidlin located the owner of the only ex-tant copy of the film. It belonged to Brooklyn resident Larry Weeks, a 95-year-old ardent fan of Houdini who had refused to sell the film to many prospective buyers in the past.

“After a long conversation, Larry finally agreed to sell the film. We were really lucky to reach out to [him] in time because he passed away soon after in October,” said Schmidlin. “And had the film not been procured, it would have been lost to the world forever.”

Schmidlin and Živković ap-proached the Bobst Library’s Pres-ervation and Conservation Depart-ment, where they received active cooperation from Head of the Preservation Department Paula De Stefano. The film finally arrived in two old metallic cans at NYU’s on-site vault at Bobst.

“For several months, the restored

film was guarded like a secret in-side NYU,” Schmidlin said.

Kimberly Tarr and Benjamin Moskovitz, who are part of the me-dia preservation team, undertook the job of transferring the film to vented cans to protect it from fur-ther degradation.

“The only surviving part of the film known to the world was a five minute footage of an actual plane-crash that had occurred while filming,” said Tarr, who was excit-ed about the breakthrough of this project. “It was an honor to work with such a great team. It was a great collaboration and we’re delighted to get to play a role in that.”

Živković, a lauded composer who undertook the challenge of taking the audience back to 1919 through the score, felt the goal of the project was realized.

“I wanted to recreate the am-biance of a silent film theater of the early ‘20s, where local musi-cians played the score to enhance scenes, especially those involving action, emotion and heroic deeds.”

He is eager to watch his very first attempt at scoring a full-length

film from scratch come to life at the upcoming premiere.

Schmidlin, who has actively been involved in the recovering of “The Grim Game” since the project’s beginning, felt pleased about the results of this project.

“[This was] a rare and entertain-ing experience,” he said. “It was the dream team that everyone wanted to have.”

Email Tejas Sawant at features@nyunews.com.

NYU helped in the conservation of Houdini’s “The Grim Game.”

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The NYU men’s volleyball team suffered a tough loss to SUNY New Paltz in three straight sets at Coles Sports Center on Thurs-day. The loss dropped the No. 11 ranked Violets to 3-2, while the Hawks improved their record to an undefeated 3-0.

The first set was relatively close, as the Hawks and Violets split the first 20 points at 10 apiece. The Hawks and the Violets traded points until the score reached 23-18 in favor of the Hawks. The Violets then scored three straight to come within two points of the lead. Ultimately a service error by the Violets and a service ace from the Hawks led to New Paltz tak-ing the set, 25-21.

NYU did not fare as well in the second set, falling by an over-whelming margin of 10-1. The Hawks rolled from there, and eventually went on to end the set 25-12.

In the third and ultimately final set, things almost seemed to turn around for the Violets. They came out fighting, taking the Hawks to the wire at 13-11. There were multiple times in

the match in which the Hawks took the lead by as many as sev-en points. NYU could only come within five towards the end, dropping the final set by a score of 25-20.

In spite of the loss, there were some impressive individ-ual performances. Sophomore setter Patrick Merrick had a match-high 21 assists, while junior opposite Colin LaPorte tied a match high with eight kills, and also added two digs. Middle hitter sophomore Sean Leahy had three kills, while junior Nick Benson had five kills, along with a team-high-tying four digs. Sophomore Chase Klein had a positive out-look on the Violets’ early sea-son stumble.

“We are ready to learn from our mistakes and move on into conference play,” Klein said.

Though LaPorte was disap-

pointed in the Violets’ effort against city rival New Paltz, he mentioned some positives after the game.

“It was a really tough match for us, but I am glad it happened early on in the season,” LaPorte said. “New Paltz is a great team, and we now know what it is go-ing to take for us as a team to compete with the best teams in our division.”

The Violets return to the court Sunday, as they open up United Volleyball Conference play with a tri-match in Elmira, New York. They will play the host Elmira at 11 a.m. before going up against Vassar College at 2 p.m. Despite their setback, the Violets are moving for-ward, hoping to fare better in conference play next Sunday.

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last competition before UAAs.“Coach Miele says, ‘We are

here to win a national cham-pionship,’” Soong said. “I be-lieve each year we come closer to that. I am confident we will have an impressive showing.”

Soong and the rest of the Vi-olets will enter the pool next at Emory University in Atlanta

for the UAA Championships on Feb. 11-14. Their performance there will determine how many Violets will qualify for the NCAA championships, thus determining their chance at a national championship.

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By KYLE LUTHERDeputy Editor

The men’s and women’s basket-ball teams came out of their match-ups this weekend with mixed re-sults. Both teams dropped their first game on Friday night to the Uni-versity of Rochester, but won close matches against Emory University on Sunday.

The men’s team was unable to get over the hump in their second match against Rochester this sea-son, losing 85-75. The Violets fell be-hind in the first half, shooting just 44 percent while the yellow jackets shot 56 percent. NYU allowed Roch-ester to shoot 60 percent from be-yond the arc. By the end of the first half, the Violets had fallen behind by 10 points after a 19-7 run by the Yellow Jackets.

In the second half, the Yel-low Jackets were able to match the Violets point for point and maintain a solid lead until the final buzzer rang.

Junior forward Evan Kupfer-berg continued his stellar sea-

son by posting 15 points and 7 rebounds. Junior guard Hakeem Harris led the Violets with 20 points while shooting a perfect 9-9 from the charity stripe.

The NYU men’s game against Emory was a more exciting, hotly contested affair. Each team’s lead was never more than razor thin for the entire game, but the Violets’ first-half shooting was enough to outlast the Eagles as both teams struggled in the second half. With just 1.5 seconds left on the clock, Kupferberg hauled in a full court pass and banked in a short jumper to give the Violets the win.

Junior guard Max Ralby was proud of the way his teammates stuck together.

“It was an incredible game to be a part of,” Ralby said. “It was a game of runs. We made ours, they made theirs. But ultimately we stuck together as a team and whatever they threw at us we stuck together. These are the games we live for and these are the games we want, and wouldn’t want to do it with any other groups of guys and coaches.”

Not surprisingly, the Violets were led by Kupferberg and Harris, with 24 and 18 points, respectively.

The women’s team fared no bet-ter than the men did against Roch-ester, and lost their second game of the season 72-63 to Rochester. The Violets were in control early in the first half, going into the break 41-32. They ended the first half on a 14-2 run and looked primed to carry that momentum into the second half. Things turned quickly, however, as the Yellow Jackets went on runs of 7-0, 12-2 and 17-6 in the second period.

The Violets were out-rebounded

by 16 and their field goal percent-age only got worse as the game continued. The Violets shot a dis-mal 36 percent from the field and went 0-5 from beyond the arc in the second half.

Sophomore guard Kaitlyn Read led the team with 18 points, one of only two players that scored in double digits for NYU. Sopho-more Emily Rowe also finished with a team high 10 rebounds along with 8 points.

In their game against Emory, the women rebounded in much the same way as the men, winning 67-60. After a close first half, the

Violets held the Eagles to only two points in the first seven minutes of the second half and out-rebounded them 59-31. The game got back to within four points, but it was Kai-tlyn Read’s free throw shooting down the stretch that sealed the deal. After that win, the Violets im-proved their record to 18-2.

The men and women will hit the court again on Friday at Coles Sports Center against Case Western Reserve University in a back-to-back during Violet Nation Giveaway Day.

Email Kyle Luther at kluther@nyunews.com.

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UAE Skype censorship poses threat to intellectual freedomSTAFF EDITORIAL

WSN welcomes letters to the editor, opinion pieces and articles rel-evant to the NYU community, or in response to articles. Letters should be less than 450 words. All submissions must be typed or emailed and must include the author’s name, address and phone number. Members of the NYU community must include a year and school or job title.

WSN does not print unsigned letters or editorials. WSN reserves the right to reject any submission and edit accepted submissions in any and all ways. With the exception of the staff editorial, opinions ex-pressed on the editorial pages are not necessarily those of WSN, and our publication of opinions is not an endorsement of them.

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NYU Secrets creates communityPOINT

By MATTHEW TESSLERDeputy Opinion Editor

NYU does not have a tight-knit community, and is not particularly de-signed for one. The sense of a campus is sacrificed for location, which offers boundless entertainment as well as internship and job opportunities. Stu-dents go about their lives without won-dering about the other 40,000 people, emitting blank stares as they pass from class to class. Many college students worry about missing out on typical experiences, but this fear is particu-larly prominent at NYU, where Greek Life is small and the student body overwhelmingly large. The only sense of community at NYU is a unanimous agreement that there is none.

This is where NYU Secrets comes in. The popular Facebook page aims to fight the sense of isolation that so many NYU students feel throughout their time at the New York campus. Personal barriers are dissipated online in exchange for anonymity. People spill their thoughts and secrets, things they would never say aloud under normal circumstances. This forum, stripped of the political correctness, personal judgement and repercussions of the real world, allows people to be open in a way they never would be in public.

This page has become a perfect storm of anonymity, creating a platform for opinions in a community looking to voice their feelings without worrying

about the consequences. The ubiquity of NYU Secrets means that tens of thou-sands of people see any secret posted on the page.

NYU Secrets is not perfect, but that’s what makes it genuine. It lacks the fluff of Welcome Week’s forced, easily mock-able spirit or any of the political correct-ness that comes with liberal leanings. It has trolls and instigators that know just what buttons to push, as most websites do. It also has real, heartfelt confessions. Whether they are stories of unrequited love, suicidal thoughts or tales of bad days, these confessions can make peo-ple feel like they are not alone in their troubles. Accompanying the rants about NYU 2031 and John Sexton are shoutouts to people who did good deeds. The page posts a wide range of political opinions, and through Ferguson, Eric Garner, the Bobst die-in, ISIS and Charlie Hebdo, it offered a set of reactions just as diverse as the student body.

NYU Secrets gives a voice to the 40,000 students who would otherwise go un-heard due to NYU’s fragmented nature. Comments on the page can be hurtful, but the imperfections on the page are preferable to a complete lack of NYU community. The page certainly does not offer the perfect community, but if it ap-peared to do so then it would be offering a false representation. Founder Aristo Orginos may be ready to retire, but he has made the right choice to pass the torch by endorsing a new page and con-tinue fostering an NYU community.

Email Matthew Tessler at mtessler@nyunews.com.

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Over the past year, NYU Abu Dhabi students have slowly been blocked from being able to use Skype to make computer-to-land-line calls. This is due to the United Arab Emirates’ increasing intoler-ance for Voice Over Internet Proto-col services. Though none of these services have ever been licensed in the UAE, NYUAD students were previously capable of using NYU and VPN proxies. While computer-to-computer calls still work despite illegality, this mildly inconvenient ban is representative of a larger issue. It shows that in spite of the “cultural free zone” NYUAD grant-ed in the UAE, the government is still able to restrict campus life.

Two telecommunication com-panies, Etisalat and du, operate in UAE. Both have shifted the blame

for the Skype block to each other and to the government for the several years. Daniel Hanratty, the support site lead at the NYUAD Campus Technology Center, said, “There’s no definite time for how long [Skype] has been blocked” and “blocking has been happening on and off for a year or so now.” There are concerns that the ban could eventually impact computer-to-computer calls on campus as well. Skype has recently confirmed that their website and services have been blocked in the country, and encouraged users to appeal to their internet service providers.

Skype and similar services are often utilized by students and fac-ulty for communication and educa-tional purposes. NYUAD professor Claude Desplan told NYUAD’s stu-

dent newspaper, The Gazelle, “We use extensively Skype for classes … and for lab [meetings] between people in NYC and people in [Abu Dhabi], at least once weekly.” Al-though other services can be used for the time being, each new restric-tion on VoIP services creates further inconveniences. WhatsApp mes-saging service may also be blocked in the country right now, as users have reported uneven service. Inter-estingly, WhatsApp plans to launch international VoIP services soon.

Regardless of location, no NYU student should be prevented from utilizing technology because of gov-ernment censorship. Students were previously able to rely on proxies provided by NYU, but this latest block has rendered even that dif-ficult. NYUAD has yet to officially

comment on the situation.All of these concerns speak to

the larger problem of NYU’s pres-ence in Abu Dhabi, which has been heavily criticized for labor law violations. Given that the UAE frequently censors media and im-prisons citizens over online com-ments, the limitations placed on VoIP services are not especially surprising — NYU’s complacence, however, is. NYUAD maintains academic autonomy, but its fund-ing depends entirely on the gov-ernment of Abu Dhabi. Continued cooperation with the UAE needs to at least include an agreement to allow all forms of open commu-nication on campus. But given the UAE government’s repressive posi-tions, this cooperation should be seriously reconsidered.

NYU Secrets creates disharmonyCOUNTERPOINT

By HANNAH WEVERKA Contributing Writer

“Share your secrets,” says the description of the Facebook page NYU Secrets, “Let’s build a community — once and for all.” This goal strikes a chord with many students who feel that community is lacking at NYU. With over 40,000 students, no of-ficial campus and a student body scat-tered around the city and the world, it is easy to understand why many NYU students feel isolated. NYU Se-crets has often claimed to be the an-tidote to this problem. But now that founder Aristo Orginos, a Steinhardt senior, has announced that he plans to end the page once it hits 9,000 se-crets, it is time for NYU to consider whether the page was a solution to this problem — or something that made it worse.

Communities are built around trust, intimacy and common values. Despite its admirable goals, NYU Secrets often promotes toxicity. It regularly features mean comments and petty arguments: “Ur wasting our secrets with stupid shit like this,” says one commenter, and “Someone is temperamental today. No need to be so snotty,” says another. If this is what the NYU community looks like, perhaps we are better off without one.

NYU Secrets, like many Internet fo-rums, tends to breed hate, viciousness and cruelty because it provides a rela-tive degree anonymity. It creates an

opportunity to express every type of offensive thought and opinion. While Facebook comments are associated with real names, people are far more likely to be cruel online than they are in person. It normalizes the callous nastiness that the Internet can bring out in people and allows it to grow without consequences for the commentor.

A common defense of NYU Secrets is that it allows people to vent about problems they would never otherwise be able to express. Students talk about their struggles with mental illness, their difficulties at home and even share suicidal thoughts. These prob-lems need to be addressed, and people struggling with these issues should be encouraged to seek help through the proper channels— not through a Facebook page. The commenters on NYU Secrets aren’t therapists or doc-tors; their advice tends to be well-in-tentioned misinformation at best and outright dangerous at worst. Relying on an unsupervised crowd of strangers for emotional support is rarely healthy behavior. Far from allowing students to deal with their problems, it can eas-ily trigger even worse progressions of mental illness.

Orginos has said that he plans to choose a successor to the position of NYU Se-crets administrator. But this isn’t what NYU students need. Instead, it is time for NYU students to go out and create a community themselves — one free from hurtful comments.

Email Hannah Weverka at opinion@nyunews.com.

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