Comments on: Financial Aid Flyer a Fake

By: Caroline G

Caroline G — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:58:01 +0000

@ Claire Lewis: Maybe I’m overreacting, but that kind of insensitivity is going to hurt the cause (”‘Wow, glad to know how you feel about the poor kids…’”). It is not just poor students who cannot afford NYU, but plenty of middle class students as well. Isolating this to a poor/rich issue is oversimplifying the problem and it is dehumanizing those you refer to as “poor.” I would like to point out that this is an issue for the entire student body, regardless if whether you can afford tuition or not, because fiscal diversity is an extremely important factor in creating well-rounded members of society, which, i hope, is something that most NYU students want from their education. With that said, I think that the students with the least financial means should under no circumstances be brushed aside.

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:02:43 +0000

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By: Claire Lewis

Claire Lewis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:04:28 +0000

John Sexton said that quote verbatim at a University Senate meeting. I remember reading it in the minutes, and being like “Wow, glad to know how you feel about the poor kids…”

By: Farah Khimji

Farah Khimji — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:04:59 +0000

the flyer was a fake, but the sexton quote is definitely real. he’s expressed similar sentiment several times.