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By JEREMY GROSSMAN

Millions of people know her as Clarissa Darling, and millions more know her as Sabrina Spell-man. But now, with the release of her new autobiography “Melissa Explains It All: Tales From My Ab-normally Normal Life,” fans have the opportunity to finally know Melissa Joan Hart as herself.

In an exclusive interview with WSN, the “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” star spoke about her book, which covers everything from her time as an NYU student to her ex-periences as a ’90s teen star to her current role on ABC Family’s hit series, “Melissa & Joey.”

“I have been asked for many, many years to write a book,” Hart said. “I finally decided that maybe I had some stories I wanted to tell.”

While the book covers nearly every aspect of Hart’s life, in-cluding tension with former child star Drew Barrymore and a steamy kiss with Ryan Reynolds, NYU students may be most inter-ested in the chapter devoted en-tirely to her college experience.

Having lived in Manhattan as a teenager, Hart’s “only choice” was NYU. She enrolled in the Tisch School of the Arts in the spring of 1995, but immedi-ately transferred to the Gallatin School of Individualized Study because she loved the way it al-lowed her to explore a diverse range of academic interests. In particular, she referenced study-ing abroad in Florence while taking a course with Gallatin professor Bella Mirabella as an experience “that really influ-enced a lot of [her] life going forward.”

Although Hart never gradu-ated — but hopes to someday return — she left NYU for good reason, and that was to play the role of Sabrina for an impres-sive seven seasons.

“I always knew that I had an absolute blessing [to be] on that show, because it’s so hard in this industry to find a good job that lasts a long time, that also has people you really enjoy being around,” she said. “And that show was fulfilling on every level.”

Still, Hart admitted that her current role as Mel on ABC Fam-

ily’s “Melissa & Joey” is her fa-vorite role to date.

“I got to develop [this charac-ter] a little bit … I didn’t really identify with Sabrina’s person-ality very much, about wanting to hide out [and] be normal,” Hart said. “I mean, I guess in some sense, I am a witch, try-ing to hide out and be normal,

Hart writes about her life be-hind and in front of the camera.

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Ellis Island once again

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By GRAHAM RAPIER

After being closed for 12 months following the devasta-tion suffered in the wake of Su-perstorm Sandy, which crippled the region last year, Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum reopened Monday, Oct. 28 — 364 days after the storm.

According to the National Parks Service, the storm flooded 75 percent of Liberty Island, which opened on July 4. Nearly all of El-lis Island was flooded, and most of the infrastructure on both is-lands was destroyed.

But on Monday morning, nearly everything was the same as it was over a year ago. The captains of the Statue Cruises’ fleet announced once again that after leaving Liberty Island, the boat would stop at Ellis Island.

ONE YEAR LATERSANDY: For coverage of how New York City and the

neighboring areas have recovered from Hurricane Sandy, turn to pages 6 to 7.

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Up-and-Comer Charlie Walden films unique online comedy seriesTisch senior Charlie Walden and his twin brother Jack have developed a web series call “Significant Brothers.”

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Dream Team, A/P/A provide dialogue about undocumented immigrantsThe NYU Dream Team and Asian/Pacific/American Institite discuss the many races of undocumented immigrants — specifically students.

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Ten teams at Rebuild by Design presented their newest designs at a breakfast reception at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life on Oct. 28.

An initiative of President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Re-building Task Force, Rebuild by Design is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Ur-ban Development and The Rock-efeller Foundation. After over 100 applications were narrowed down to 10 teams in June, the groups designed a total of 41 ideas for rebuilding the regions affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The 10 teams proposing plans included BIG Team, HR&A Advi-sors Inc. with Cooper, Robert-son & Partners, Interboro Part-ners, MIT+ZUS+URBANISTEN,

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Chuck Wilson, 42, who was chaper-oning a group of almost 100 students from Wales, U.K., said the opening of the island was a pleasant surprise for him and the students.

“It is a great coincidence that it opened up while we were here,” Wilson said. “We were able to do the Statue [of Liberty] and Ellis Island.”

Matt and Lisa Herlocker, both 48, from Sacramento, Calif., originally thought they would not be able to visit Ellis Island during their time in New York City.

“We were originally very disappointed,” Matt said. “But our daughter saw it on Twitter yesterday and told us.”

Despite opening to visitors again, pieces of the museum remain missing.

“Because of the storm, most of the mu-seum collection is currently stored at the National Park Service’s Museum Resources Center, a climate-controlled facility in Land-over, Maryland,” the NPS said on its website.

The exhibits and artifacts should be fully restored early next year, a park ranger said while welcoming visitors to the island.

Statue Cruises, the company contracted by the NPS to provide ferry service to Liberty and Ellis islands also took a hit from Sandy.

“Post-July 4, our attendance has been down 8 to 12 percent for want of Ellis Is-land,” Statue Cruises chief operating of-ficer and vice president Michael Burke said. “We are relieved for our employ-ees and owner and our partners at the National Park Service that this night-mare year is over.”

Some students, like Steinhardt soph-omore Elise Conklin, whose great-

grandparents immigrated through Ellis Island, are glad to see the island and museum open once again.

“It’s valuable to the heritage of our na-tion for [Ellis Island] to be open again because it connects Americans,” Conklin said. “It’s a reminder that we all came from somewhere to here, for a reason.”

Repairs will continue on the islands, and the Department of the Interior es-timates that the project will cost $77 million for the Statue of Liberty Na-tional Monument, which includes Lib-erty and Ellis islands.

*Elise Conklin copy edited for WSN during the fall 2012 semester.

Graham Rapier is a contributing writer. Email him at news@nyunews.com.

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OMA, PennDesign/OLIN, Sasaki/Rutgers/Arup, SCAPE/LANDSCAPE ARCHITEC-TURE, unabridged Coastal Collective and WXY/West8. Each of the teams presented multiple proposals, which are also fea-tured on the Rebuild by Design website.

Jeremy Siegel, a designer with Bjarke In-gels Group and member of the BIG Team, said he and his teammates are learning more about the impacts of flooding.

“Flooding is something that hasn’t re-ally been part of the discussion in archi-tecture and urban design,” Siegel said. “We’re learning a lot about how cities re-act to flooding and how cities might have to change as a result.”

BIG focused on building on the water-front. Siegel said one of the team’s ideas requires building a U-shaped, nine-foot wall, creating a large bench that would provide social benefits.

“Use the fact that you’re building anew to actually raise the land or make protective measures, but in a way that’s integrated,” Siegel said. “If you integrate buildings with [the wall], if you integrate parks, then [the wall] becomes a thing that is a benefit for the city and not a detractor from the city.”

Abbie Rudow, a second-year urban planning student at the Wagner Gradu-ate School of Public Service, was sur-prised by the BIG’s proposal.

“I was struck by how much of an em-phasis there is on being on the water-front,” Rudow said. “Part of me still finds it kind of scary. I think I still have to be convinced that the waterfront is a place for strong infrastructure.”

Claire Weisz, a fellow of the American In-

stitute of Architects and a founding member of WXY Architecture + Urban Design, said design is the first step in making a change.

“Everything’s design,” Weisz said. “So the idea of actually having a design discussion about our future, basically, it admits that we [were] going to design something at some point. Well let’s start now.”

Each of the teams will have until March to develop their design into a solution that will be evaluated by a competition jury, which will receive feedback from experts, stakeholders and the public.

Klein Aleardi is a staff writer. Email her at news@nyunews.com.

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LGBTQ students share study away experience

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By TOMMY COLLISON

A discussion about preparation for NYU LGBTQ students who are planning on study-ing away took place at Pless Hall on Oct. 28.

The event, titled LGBTQ & Studying Abroad: NYU Perspectives, consisted of a panel of NYU LGBTQ students and alumni who shared their experiences of studying abroad. The event was mod-erated by Marc Caporiccio, a graduate student at the Steinhardt School of Cul-ture, Education and Human Develop-ment, who wanted to start a dialogue between student and alumni who have cross-cultural LGBTQ experiences with other students planning to go abroad.

Among those speaking on the panel was Steinhardt graduate student Dena Lago-marsino, who studied abroad in South Africa.

“I definitely think that for marginalized students, studying abroad is a really impor-tant experience to have,” Lagomarsino said. “It gives you the space if there’s someone you’ve always wanted to be and you feel like you can’t be that person at home.”

The complexities of identifying as LGBTQ abroad were raised during the panel. NYU Abu Dhabi senior Tom Tay-lor, who has studied abroad in New York City and Paris, spoke at the panel through Skype and said students some-times experience coming out a second time when they are abroad.

“What’s interesting for me person-ally is working out when you come out and who you come out to,” Taylor said.

“There’s a more conscious decision-making process there than you might have back home in New York.”

Panelists also discussed whether students should be provided with information on LGBTQ services in the host country.

“I’m hesitant to say that every program should provide this, this, and this, because part of studying abroad is vulnerability, experiencing as international students the daily challenges and cultural differences,” Caporiccio said.

Student Services Coordinator at the Tisch School of the Arts Sarah Ryndak attended the panel and said having LGBTQ students feeling comfortable and safe while study-ing away is imperative.

“I would love if we could connect with the LGBTQ center here, and have refer-ences, whether that’s an alum, links, travel guides or resources, that we could connect students to,” Ryndak said.

Speaking after the event, Caporiccio said he saw the panel as a starting point for a larger conversation on what it means to be LGBTQ and studying abroad.

“I have some meetings set up with representatives in the Office of Global Services, the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs and the LG-BTQ center,” Caporiccio said. “I would like to see what resources have been offered in the past, and to see what we can develop moving forward.”

Tommy Collison is a contributing writer. Email him at news@nyunews.com.

Dream Team panel focuses on undocumented races

By ANJANA SREEDHAR

The NYU Dream Team and Asian/Pacific/American Institute teamed up to host an open panel discussion titled Beyond the Shad-ows: Unpacking the Undocumented Ameri-can Experience on Oct. 28.

The NYU Dream Team is an on-campus organization that provides a safe space for undocumented students. NYU’s A/P/A Institute similarly provides an ac-ademic space for dialogue about Asian- and Pacific-American issues.

Latino studies professor Luisa Heredia moderated the panel, engaging with some of the pioneers of the undocu-mented youth movement.

Hong Mei Pang, an undocumented orga-nizer for Revolutionizing Asian-American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast and panelist at the event, emphasized that Asians, along with Latinos, account for a majority of undocumented residents.

“I think that analysis and movement building has to include a racial context as well,” Hong said. “A lot of the work we have done at [Revolutionizing Asian-American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast] has been to include the pan-Asian and Asian-American voice in this movement.”

Dream Team member and Gallatin se-nior Mark Putterman also stated that the discussion of immigration often excludes non-Latino immigrants.

“Calling attention to the fact that this is a broad issue impacting not only La-tinos, but also Asians, Pacific Islanders, and even European, African and Carib-

bean immigrants is important in com-plicating the conversations we all have about immigration,” Putterman said.

Another panelist and undocumented NYU law student Razeen Zaman, discussed the efforts to pass the Dream Act in 2010. Za-man, who is also a campaign organizer for New York State Youth Leadership Council, explained that the Dream Act would have created expedited pathways to citizenship for young people if it had passed.

“We realized that lobbying wasn’t going to cut it,” Zaman said. “The politicians wanted to put the Dream Act up for a vote because they wanted to tie it into the comprehensive immigration reform. We saw that as a failing strategy and sought to put up the Dream Act as a stand-alone legislation.”

Queens College graduate student Nicole Pimentel, who works in the Parsons Scholars Program, where she often encounters un-documented high school students, said she attended the panel to learn more and be a resource for these students.

“There are undocumented students who need more information,” Pimentel said. “I want to be informed and share my knowl-edge with the students we help.”

Dream Team member and Silver senior Maria-Monica Andia said the group hopes to start a conversation about undocu-mented students on campus.

“We consider this event a success if it broad-ened peoples’ perspectives on what the un-documented youth movement is,” Andia said.

Anjana Sreedhar is a contributing writer. Email her at news@nyunews.com.

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Arcade Fire reflects on past, experiments with fresh sound

By KIM HART

For the past few months, strange geometric-like graf-fiti images bearing the word “Reflektor” have been popping up in cities all over the world, including New York. The mean-ing behind the images became clear when Arcade Fire con-firmed the upcoming release of their new album “Reflektor.” During the marketing stunt, they even assumed the guise of a band called “The Reflektors.”

Arcade Fire’s unique, world-wide announcement of their return paved the way for a record that explores different sounds but stays lyrically true to the band’s roots.

The title track kicks off the 75-minute double album with a pulsating boom of disco — a far cry from Arcade Fire’s earlier, more folk-inspired sound. But this opening song, complete with traces of Caribbean in-fluences, alludes to the synth-filled track “Sprawl II (Moun-tains Beyond Mountains),” off their previous record, 2010’s “The Suburbs.” With produc-tion by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, who also pro-duced 11 other tracks on “Re-flektor,” and backing vocals by David Bowie, the titular song prepares the listener for the energy that flows through the rest of the album.

Following the first song, the tracklist offers insightful, ex-

istential questions about life and death, alongside shim-mering synths, vibrating bass lines and pummeling beats. On “Here Comes the Night Time,” a groovy, reggae-tinged jam, frontman Win Butler asks, “if there’s no music up in heaven, then what’s it for?” In the airy “Afterlife,” Butler contemplates the inevitability of death and what succeeds it, if anything.

On “Normal Person,” Butler wonders, “Is anything as strange as a normal person?” He contin-ues by turning the questioning on himself with, “I’m so confused, am I a normal person?” The rep-etition of the word “normal” and what it implicates should be enough to make listeners ask themselves these questions, and potentially come to the same conclusion as the band — being normal is overrated.

The band has explored these types of introspective and dark lyrics before on previous al-bums, especially their debut, “Funeral.” But the style of “Re-flektor” marks a different mu-sical direction, one Butler said was inspired by his wife and bandmate Régine Chassagne. Butler said he wanted to make an album that “[Chassagne] could dance to.”

The majority of the songs on “Reflektor” are at least six min-utes long, so discerning James Murphy’s influence on the re-cord is easy. Furthermore, the addition of two Haitian percus-

sionists, Willinson Duprate and Verrieux Zile, to the Arcade Fire lineup seems to drive the afore-mentioned foray into reggaeton and Caribbean-inspired music.

Fans of LCD Soundsystem and reggaeton will enjoy these as-pects of “Reflektor.” However, those who prefer Arcade Fire’s sound from the days of “Funeral” and “Neon Bible” may not take to “Reflektor” as readily.

The varying textures and de-grees of complexity on “Reflek-tor” demonstrate Arcade Fire’s ability to create a record that not only appeals to the ears, but also to the mind. While it may lead to some division among fans, innovation and ex-perimentation with new sounds and ideas are the only ways for artists to improve and build their musical muscle. Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor” is certainly an example of such innovation.

Kim Hart is a staff writer. Email her at music@nyunews.com.

UP-AND-COMERS

By MOHAMED HASSAN

Comedy is a tough art form to innovate, but every now and then, a comedian will emerge to produce new — and at times controversial — work in the field. For NYU, that radical co-median may just be Tisch senior Charlie Walden, as well as his twin brother Jack Walden.

Together, the brothers have developed a web series called “Significant Brothers” — a light and romantic comedy-psycho-sexual horror story about the two brothers entering an exclu-sive and intimate physical rela-tionship with each other.

“We first came up with the idea last summer around a table with our family, and the name was just the first thing [we came up with] because it was kind of funny,” Charlie said. “Every time we mentioned the name to people, they laughed, and we kind of made it a chal-lenge to make this super crazy idea and make it good.”

Walden said he and Jack are optimistic about their show’s potential.

“We want you to root for us and buy [us]. Well, not root for us or buy us because we’re not selling anything,” Walden said. “We’re not making any money from [‘Significant Brothers’]. We want you to buy the relation-ship. The job we’re giving our-

selves is to sell the love as much as the jokes because that makes the jokes more effective.”

Walden also said the current comedy landscape is varied and engenders experimentation.

“There is good stuff and there is bad stuff,” he said. “It’s all the same brain muscles that you’re flexing. There are no rules, and when people implement their own new rules, that’s when you get cool, new, fresh stuff.”

He also explained how his show has brought him and Jack closer.

“My brother and I weren’t al-ways as close as we are, but we kind of knew we would [work well] together,” Walden said. “We’ve been hanging out more a lot lately. Since July, we’ve been sleeping in the same master bed-room in two different beds.”

Fame has the tendency to corrupt the most innocently intentioned comedians, but Walden said this will not be a problem for him.

“Fame seems like a pain in the ass,” Walden said. “Hopefully I make enough people uncom-fortable that I’m not making a million dollars [doing some-thing like] ‘Modern Family,’ though I’d like to make a mil-lion dollars doing something.”

Mohamed Hassan is a staff writer. Email him at entertainment@nyunews.com.

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Former ‘Sabrina’ star delves into autobiography, explains career moves, past controversies

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but I’ve also always been the … kind of person that likes to be loud and obnoxious and in the center of everything. So I never understood [Sabrina’s] sort of sheepish atti-tude about things.”

Through Twitter, Hart has been able to bring her sociable per-sonality to several gen-erations of fans. How-ever, she noted that there is something to respect about celebri-ties who avoid the so-cial media site.

“What’s lacking in Hollywood right now is this sense of mystery that used to exist. You didn’t know that much about Marilyn Monroe … you never knew who Paul Newman’s kids were,” Hart said. “Some

of these icons, you didn’t know much about their lives, but you didn’t care because you loved them on screen.”

Hart was the subject of controversy on Twitter when she tweeted her support for Mitt Romney in November, receiving a surplus of hateful tweets accusing her of being ho-mophobic.

“I think that it’s funny that sometimes people label me as cer-tain things when I’m such a fan of the world, of people of all walks,” Hart said.

A portion of her book is even devoted to her relationship with the LGBTQ com-munity while growing up in Manhattan.

“I heard recently that Cher said, and I stand by

this as well, that when everyone else kind of disappears and starts calling you a has-been and whatnot, it is the gay and lesbian commu-nity that stands by you, that remembers you and thinks of you, like not just what you’re do-ing at the current mo-ment,” she added.

In her autobiogra-phy, Hart is also can-did about trying drugs when she was younger.

“I experimented,” she said. “I was testing the waters, and I was trying to figure out who I was.”

“I did what most kids do in their college years, and I don’t think I was that abnormal for do-ing it,” Hart said. “The great thing is I came out of it okay. I managed to avoid the trappings of

it, and learned from it, and became a good person and then, hope-fully, a good wife and good mother.”

Jeremy Grossman is arts editor. Email him at jgrossman@nyunews.com.

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SANDY: ONE YEAR LATER

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2.4 million people were without power in New Jersey.

Over 360,000 businesses or homes were damaged. 30,000

of those were destroyed.

Around 2,000 Bronx residents applied for aid from Federal Emergency Management Agency.

More than 75,000 residents of Staten Island — about 15 percent of the population — were affected by the storm.

%Twenty-three people on Staten Island died — most from flooding — contributing more than half of the

total deaths in New York City from the storm.

When a substation operated by Con. Edison exploded, a quarter

of a million residents in Lower Manhattan were left without power.

New Jersey implemented the Sandy Recovery Division, which manages the

federal funds given to the state and Governor Christie implemented the

“Stronger than the Storm” campaign — a tourism and general repairs campaign.

The damaged Seaside Boardwalk experienced a fire in September, 2013 that destroyed more than 50 businesses, prompting the

state to pledge $15 million in aid for those affected.

The Brooklyn Recovery Fund has spent $3.5 million in the borough for aid,

concentrating efforts in Canarsie, Red Hook, Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach,

Brighton Beach and Coney Island.

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The American Red Cross donated over $700,000 to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers

Foundation in early October, 2013 to continue Sandy recovery

efforts in Staten Island.

New flood lines have been drawn to include about 600,000 more

residents in evacuation flood zones.

“Superstorm Sandy was by far the worst disaster to ever befall the MTA, causing an estimated $4.7 billion worth of damage.”

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METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SPOKESMAN ADAM LISBERG

“The railroads began running trains within 24 hours of the storm, subways within two days. 80 percent of subway service was restored within five days.”

“MTA New York City Transit has also established a new Sandy Recovery and Resiliency Division dedicated to launching, advancing and managing the rebuilding from Sandy,”

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“I have friends who will never live in the homes they grew up in again. Hopefully

this anniversary will remind Staten Islanders that we are a part of a strong and diverse community, something we are not always

mentioned for. We are more than the ‘forgotten borough.’”

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Mandatory evacuation was put in place on Oct. 31 for dorms that remained without power.

About 6,000 students were displaced from their residence halls, about 600 students stayed at the Kimmel Center for University Life and about 200 stayed at Palladium athletic facility. Students in

Weinstein and Goddard, which did not lose power due to the cogeneration plant, also housed students.

All new construction plans for buildings on the main campus have been updated and by 2017,

the medical center will be able to withstand storm surges higher than the new FEMA advisory 500-

year storm level.

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SANDY: ONE YEAR LATER

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QUEENS

90 percent (11 million) of Long Island Power Authority’s customers were without power until November 14, 2012.

Two counties – Suffolk and Nassau – had some of the most severe damages.

Because of fires and floods in Breezy Point, a neighborhood in the Rockaways, 350 homes were destroyed and had to be demolished.

Around 2,000 Bronx residents applied for aid from Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Much of the recovery has been managed by Federal Emergency Management Agency-affiliated programs.

Long Beach had its boardwalk repaired after being obliterated by the storm, but 20 percent of the city’s homes still remain uninhabitable.%

A third of the homes in Breezy Point remain unoccupied. In accordance with FEMA’s new flood maps, the houses

being rebuilt will stand above their predecessors.The Brooklyn Recovery Fund has spent

$3.5 million in the borough for aid, concentrating efforts in Canarsie, Red

Hook, Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Brighton Beach and Coney Island.

“Superstorm Sandy was by far the worst disaster to ever befall the MTA, causing an estimated $4.7 billion worth of damage.”

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METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SPOKESMAN ADAM LISBERG

“The railroads began running trains within 24 hours of the storm, subways within two days. 80 percent of subway service was restored within five days.”

“MTA New York City Transit has also established a new Sandy Recovery and Resiliency Division dedicated to launching, advancing and managing the rebuilding from Sandy,”

“It took me a week to even get into contact with my parents, which was absolutely

terrifying, because I knew they had stayed in the house during the storm - by the time our

neighborhood was announced as a mandatory evacuation zone, our cars had already flooded

and the tides were still rising. Waves had already started to destroy the first story of

my house. Thankfully, my family only lost our possessions ... I can honestly say that the

only reason I now have a home is because my house was rebuilt by the hands of friends.”

ALYSSA YURASITS | GALLATIN SOPHOMORE, FROM MASSAPEQUA, LONG ISLAND,

(WAS LIVING IN WEINSTEIN LAST YEAR, NOT AT HOME)

“Spiritually and emotionally, Sandy victims are still healing. And for some the healing may never come hundred percent.”

REBEKKAH THOMPSON, 38, ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS AT TURN THE TIDE AND A RESIDENT OF ROCKAWAY, QUEENS.

“I think that Sandy made me realize how susceptible metropolitan areas really are to natural disasters. I always imagined cities being the places most out of touch with

nature, but it seems like nature has a way of getting to you wherever you are.”

GRANGER WILSON | TISCH SOPHOMOREFORMER RUBIN HALL RESIDENT

“People who think New Yorkers are cold didn’t see New Yorkers after Sandy ... It’s important to remember that there are people whose homes were destroyed and are still recovering and that there are people in this country and around the world that live

every day like we lived for a week.”

HALEY QUINN | CAS SOPHOMOREFORMER THIRD NORTH RESIDENT

Mandatory evacuation was put in place on Oct. 31 for dorms that remained without power.

About 6,000 students were displaced from their residence halls, about 600 students stayed at the Kimmel Center for University Life and about 200 stayed at Palladium athletic facility. Students in

Weinstein and Goddard, which did not lose power due to the cogeneration plant, also housed students.

“We are very proud of the way the NYU community came together to handle the

challenges the University faced in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and the

subsequent power outage.”

“To address awareness of disaster preparedness, [the university] created a new website, ‘Be Safe,’ that describes

how members of the University community should respond to a variety of emergencies.”

NYU SPOKESMAN PHILIP LENTZ

All new construction plans for buildings on the main campus have been updated and by 2017,

the medical center will be able to withstand storm surges higher than the new FEMA advisory 500-

year storm level.

TOTAL DAMAGES FOR NEW YORK STATE

$32 BILLION

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By MARCELO CICCONET

In one of its standard product-release events last week, Apple an-nounced an upgrade in the speed and slimness of its line of tablets. Most people were not impressed. The predictability of these events has become somewhat monoto-nous. Nick Bilton of The New York Times even called the event bor-ing, as it followed the same stale routine. Mr. Bilton has a point.

Nevertheless, Apple in fact an-nounced something interesting and genuinely new last week. The new version of the Mac OS X operating system, called Mavericks, is free of charge, along with the iWork suite for new buyers.

The free release of iWork with new devices is welcome, but Apple would have caused more impact — an actual impact — if it had made the suite free to modify rather than just free to use. I’m referring, of course, to free soft-ware as defined by the Free Software Foundation — a software that allows the users freedom to run, study, copy, modify, improve and redistrib-ute the product.

The philosophy of free software has been around for about three decades now, and has a supportive audience in software development and academic circles. Besides the appealing features of having no charge and allowing program-mers freedom to tweak the soft-ware to comply with the particu-lar needs of users, proponents argue open software also have more subtle advantages com-pared to proprietary software.

Tech guru Richard Stallman said that free software would mean a lot of “wasteful duplication of system programming effort will be avoided,” so that the effort “can go instead into advancing the state of the art.”

There’s in fact a lot of duplica-tion in software designed for of-fice usage. Not only Apple, but also

Google and Sun Microsystems have products similar to Microsoft Of-fice. Apple’s iWork simply cannot compete with either Microsoft as a priced product or Google as a free one. Yet none of these companies have provided truly free software for customers to modify and redis-tribute. The fact that Apple has lost the battle as both a priced and free office suite implies it would gain much more by making their soft-ware truly free.

Some Mac, iPhone and iPod users will undoubtedly benefit from a free-of-charge, compatible, well de-signed, office suite. Yet the chunk of market interested in using a free version of Microsoft Office has likely already been taken by ex-isting high-quality free products, such as Google Docs. Given Apple’s large asset of worldwide develop-ers and the reach of its products, not only the company but our en-tire society would do better with an office suite that was truly free not only to use, but to modify.

Marcelo Cicconet is a staff columnist. Email him at opinion@nyunews.com.

By PETER KEFFER

Last Thursday, a Manhattan federal appeals panel ruled that the five-year detention of a convicted terrorist was not an unconstitutional delay in his right to a speedy trial. Ahmed Khal-fan Ghailani was captured in 2004 by Pakistani forces, under indict-ment for complicity in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Before his trial and ultimate convic-tion in 2010, Ghailani was detained at Guantánamo Bay for five years, where he was subjected to what the Bush administration insisted were enhanced interrogation tech-niques. The criminal prosecution’s case against Ghailani was substan-tial and proved his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. This does not negate the readily apparent fact that Ghailani was denied his right to a speedy trial, which should have been seriously addressed in the panel’s opinion.

Last week’s decision was justified by appealing to national security interests. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that Ghailani’s de-tention was necessary in obtaining “valuable information essential to combating al-Qaeda.” Kaplan in-sisted the information would not have been obtained “if [the govern-

ment] had prosecuted him in fed-eral courts.” However, this claim is at best questionable.

As I have argued in a previous piece, federal courts are a capable and preferable venue for process-ing terror suspects. Additionally, the use of torture in military deten-tion centers is counterproductive. A 2006 report within the intelli-gence community asserted torture “can actually increase a source’s resistance and determination not to comply” and “degrade [the sus-pect’s] ability to report the intelli-gence information they possess in a valid, comprehensive fashion.” However, one might insist the Mi-randa requirement significantly impedes investigators, as it affords suspects the right to remain silent. This is nonsense. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed ex-ceptions to the Miranda require-ment in cases concerning public safety. Terror suspects would there-

fore be justly stripped of any legal right to resist interrogation.

That critical information can be acquired through federal courts necessitates that the five-year detainment at Guantánamo was unreasonable. But if the court ruled in the claimant’s favor and affirmed that he was denied a fundamental right, the panel would have been confronted with an arguably more severe prob-lem. The Speedy Trial Act of 1974 necessitates that a recognition of Ghailani’s deprived right would mean all charges against him would have to be dropped. With this in mind, the panel’s decision to deny Ghailani the right to a speedy trial is grounded in legal technicalities. The court has con-structed a faulty justification to avoid Ghailani’s acquittal.

The method employed by the Bush administration in the detain-ment of Ghailani has impaired the function of the federal court. This is an impairment that would have been avoided had Ghailani enjoyed the right to a speedy trial years before he first appeared be-fore a judge.

Peter Keffer is a deputy opinion editor. Email him at pkeffer@nyunews.com.

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum reopened its doors yesterday after being shut down Oct. 29, 2012, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The museum’s restoration comes a day be-fore Sandy’s one-year anniversary, marking a decisive moment in a long, national recovery effort that has gained significant ground since the hurricane struck the Eastern seaboard, tak-ing over 100 lives and destroying $65 billion of property.

The Metropolitan Transport Authority reported that repairing all damages would cost $5 billion. New York’s vast underground subway system poses a significant engineering challenge in flood-proofing, which will unavoidably require a substantial amount of time. However, the MTA has yet to acquire the fed-eral funding necessary for a full recovery. In March of this year, it received $1.4 billion in federal recovery funds.While this is a large figure, it still falls considerably short of the $5 billion nec-essary. Nevertheless, this federal aid shows improvement.

A significant number of tri-state residents lost jobs because of the destruction of Sandy. New York and New Jersey lost 29,100 and 8,100 jobs, respectively, with some of this unemployment persisting because of the destruction of computers, offices and equipment necessary for businesses to function. The federal government has facilitated “more than $28 million in Disas-ter Unemployment Assistance to disaster survivors,” and “$47 million in National Emergency Grants.” It seems unclear, as of yet, what effect these grants have had on New York City. The current citywide unemployment rate of 8.7 percent is virtually the same as the 8.6 percent rate after the hurricane.

Although significant rebuilding challenges remain, New York City is making progress on its recovery efforts. Entire communities on Staten Island and Long Island still need help reconstructing devastated homes and businesses, and last week’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provides hope that New Yorkers will be receiving relief soon. HUD officials have allocated more than $2 billion to rebuild devastated neighborhoods — 80 percent of which is intended for Long Island. Additionally, thousands of families whose homes were at risk of foreclosure are pro-tected by the Federal Housing Administration’s foreclosure moratorium, protecting New Yorkers from undue harm.

An emblem of New York City’s mosaic of different cultures and ethnicities, Ellis Island once greeted millions of immi-grants into the United States, offering a promising new life to those who could not find one before. The reopening of Ellis Is-land is not only symbolic of hard-won recovery and a resilient nation, but also of a continuation to offer relief to the millions affected by Sandy.

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Violet Booster club celebrates 30 years of support to sports program By FERENC PUSKAS

The NYU Violet Booster club is revving up to partake in its 30th year of existence.

Since 1983, the club has given supporters, parents and proud alums a channel to donate mo-ney to the NYU athletics depart-ment in order to enhance it, as well as support its ongoing operations. In return, the Vio-let Booster club gives several benefits to boosters in order to not only thank them for their generous donations, but also to encourage them to continue supporting the NYU Violets.

These benefits to boosters include a 2013-14 NYU Basket-ball season ticket book, catered

food and an open bar follow-ing every NYU home game and post-game receptions with fel-low boosters, alums, parents, coaches and athletes. Another benefit boosters receive for donating is that they are given the chance to meet people like them who support NYU athlet-ics whether it’s other boosters, alumni, or athletes.

The money that the booster club has received has gone to improving the NYU athletic experience by ensuring the up-keep of programming, improv-ing facilities throughout the athletics department and to sup-port athletic-based scholarship in order to ensure that some of the best athletes from around

the country are coming to NYU.With the goal of continued

improvement in mind, student atheletes have said they have felt the effects of the club. On what the booster club had done for his sport, freshman Owen Lin, a member of the NYU golf team, explains that “we are able to have to best equipment because of the boosters. We’re able to stay competitive with the funds.”

Not only does the booster club benefit varsity sports, it also aids the intramural program. Because of the additional funds made by the club, NYU is also able to offer these intramural sports with com-petent referees and great competi-tion and practice locations.

“The intramurals are great,

they’re a lot of fun, they go smoothly and the accommoda-tions are great,” said Al Shin, a student at Steinhardt and intra-mural basketball player.

Fellow student Esteban Jaramillo, an intramural soccer player, agrees.

“The whole experience re-ally makes it seem like the real thing,” Jaramillo said. “The refs, the fields, and the transporta-tion provided by the school really make intramurals stand out for me at NYU.”

In order to join the booster club, an annual donation of 70 dollars is required. The booster club accepts gifts via the Inter-net, mail and through match-ing gifts between companies, individuals and charities.

Ferenc Puskas is a contributing writer. Email him at sports@nyunews.com.

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By TATIANNA HUNTER

Oct. 30 is Buy a Doughnut Day. It is a perfect excuse take a study break, buy a warm cup of coffee and eat a sweet doughnut. Here are places within walking dis-tance of NYU that can fill this craving.

Everyman Espresso | 136 E. 13th St.Everyman Espresso, located across the street from Pal-

ladium residence hall, is great for a sweet treat after a gru-eling workout. They have coffeecake, hibiscus and glazed and passion fruit doughnuts ($3) from Dough in Brooklyn.

Bottega Falai | 267 Lafayette St. Bottega Falai in Soho sells bombolone Italian dough-

nuts ($3). The delectable doughnuts come plain, va-nilla, chocolate, Chantilly cream or jam-filled. The cafe is also a nice place to sit down and enjoy lunch.

Balthazar Bakery | 80 Spring St.Although it usually has two doughnut flavors,

sugar and chocolate, this bakery is also selling pumpkin doughnuts ($3) for the fall season, which pair nicely with a warm cup of apple cider.

Breezy Hill Orchard | Union Square GreenmarketOn a crisp, fall day, walking around the Union Square

Greenmarket is a pleasant experience. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, Breezy Hill Orchard sets up a booth with baked goods and cider. There are homemade clas-sic apple cider doughnuts and a cinnamon variation.

Doughnuttery | 425 W. 15th St.In Chelsea Market, Doughnuttery puts a unique spin on

traditional doughnuts. It sells plain, mini doughnuts ($6 for six) with flavored sugar on top. Popular flavors include green tea buzz with matcha green tea; honey and ginger; mulled apple cider with spices; green apple and orange

zest; and urban monkey with coffee, banana and coconut.

The Donut Pub | 203 W. 14th St.The Donut Pub is a perfect 24-hour spot to grab

a doughnut, sandwich or popular black-and-white cookie. Old-fashioned doughnuts ($1.15) come in cinnamon, sugar, plain or whole wheat options. For more variety, try a filled-doughnut ($1.15) with fla-vors like pineapple or blueberry.

Carpe Donut Food Truck Carpe Donut Food Truck only uses natural and organic

ingredients. Apple cider doughnuts ($2.25) are served warm. The truck’s ice cream sandwiches ($4.50) are made with homemade doughnuts and vanilla Blue Marble ice cream. Check @CarpeDonutNYC on Twitter for locations.

Joe Coffee | 141 Waverly Pl. or 9 E. 13th St.Joe Coffee sells great coffee and tasty doughnuts in both

of their locations in the West Village and Union Square. Pumpkin, coconut cream, chocolate and apple cinnamon doughnuts ($2.75) from Doughnut Plant are available daily.

Dominique Ansel Bakery | 189 Spring StreetAlthough not technically a doughnut, cronuts ($5) from

Dominique Ansel Bakery are still worth mentioning. One must be willing to wake up early and wait two-and-a-half hours to buy one of these unique treats, but they are worth the hype. This week is the last chance to try apple crème fraiche, the flavor of the month for October.

Tatianna Hunter is a contributing writer. Email her at dining@nyunews.com.

Celebrate Buy a Doughnut Day with unique local options

Spice up autumn treats with

pumpkin recipes

Pumpkin Chai Tea

Ingredients:1 chai tea bag (such as Yogi

Chai Black)1 cup milk (whole, skim, al-

mond, soy)1/8 cup organic pumpkin

puree1 teaspoon pumpkin pie

spiceDash of cinnamon

Directions:Pour about 4 ounces of boil-

ing water over the chai tea bag. Let it steep while you prepare the pumpkin milk. In a saucepan, combine the pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice and milk until smooth. Pour the smooth mixture into the cup with chai and sprinkle with cinnamon. To turn this

into a pumpkin chai latte, sim-ply add your favorite coffee.

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients:Pumpkin seedsOlive oilPink sea salt

Directions:Place pumpkin seeds in a

bowl and drizzle with a gen-erous amount of olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt. Spread the seeds out onto a pan and toast them on the stove over a low heat until golden brown. Remove, let cool and enjoy.

Katya Barannik is a staff writer. Email her at dining@nyunews.com.The Donut Pub offers a variety of doughnut types.

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Inaugural Korean Restaurant Week delivers discounts, specialsBy NIKOLAS REDA-

CASTELAO

New York City’s Korean Restaurant Week, pre-miering for the first time for fans of Korean food, is scheduled to take place Oct. 20 to Nov. 4. For this special event, participat-ing Korean restaurants in Queens, Brooklyn, Man-hattan and New Jersey are offering three-course fixed price meals at a discount ($25 for lunch, $35 for dinner) and other specials to customers. These addi-tional offers mostly take the form of restaurant spe-cialties or popular meals that have been made more

affordable for both loyal Korean-barbecue fans and curious foodies.

Korean cuisine relies heavily on rice, vegetables and meats, such as beef and chicken, flavored with soy sauce and spices like ginger.

Do Hwa, a Korean res-taurant located in the West Village, offers an authentic Korean menu. Some of their Korean Restaurant Week specials include shul-lun-tang, an ox-bone beef broth with brisket ($16), and a dish called sam-gae-yang, wh-ich features Cornish hen soup with rice and red dates ($21). Normally, these dishes would cost

upward of $25, and the servings are generous.

The Korean Food Founda-tion, a government-regis-tered civil institution star-ted in 2010 with the sole purpose of promoting and spreading Korean food, de-cided to organize the new event. The foundation ini-tiated Korean Restaurant Week to bring Korean cui-sine to a more widespread and diverse audience.

CAS junior Audrey Yung had mixed feelings about her $25 fixed price lunch at Bann, a restaurant fea-tured at the event.

“I was pleased with the amount of food,” Yung said, “[but] assuming the entree

is the focus of the meal, I wasn’t blown away. Bibim-bop was a little bland.”

Locations throughout the city are offering deals for their acclaimed cui-sine. Mapo BBQ and Won Bo Ssam represent Queens; Moim is a restaurant in Brooklyn; Kang Suh and Do Hwa are among the many from Manhattan.

Check out all the partic-ipating restaurants at ko-reanrestaurantweeknyc.com and follow the event on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Nikolas Reda-Castelao is a staff writer. Email him at dining@nyunews.com. The bossam bun is one of many foods offered at Bann.

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As the leaves change color and the temperature starts drop-ping, it’s time to warm things up. Take out your favorite sweater, your warmest socks and cozy up with a hot drink to enjoy the fall scenery. And with Halloween around the cor-ner, there is no time like the present to throw some pumpkin into the mix. Pumpkins are a great source of vitamin A, and their seeds are packed with immune-boosting zinc.

By KATYA BARANNIK