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Stern Follies: The Little Sternmaid

By Raymond Liang on May 5, 2020

I got the chance to interview the cast and creative team of this year’s Follies’ production of The Little Sternmaid, which will be airing this Friday, May 8th at 8pm on the Stern Follies Club YouTube!
If you want the inside scoop on what you can expect from the biggest virtual Stern event of the year, continue reading below!

What was your favorite or most rewarding part of Follies this year?

“The day the full cast filmed the last scene together, virtually! It was so great to see the dedication of the full cast and crew. You could feel the positive energy emanating from each Zoom screen!!”…

Playing Hooky is Hard Work

Playing Hooky is Hard Work

By Oppy Staff on April 6, 2020

By Maxine Rusbasan

Playing hooky has taken on a whole new meaning lately. Not just about how schools and businesses across the globe have gone remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but also about the newly formed MGM/United Artists Television and its first deal with Play Hooky Productions, founded by the Oscar-winning actor, Sam Rockwell, and NYU Stern’s own Mark Berger.

You may know Sam Rockwell from his roles that definitely stole my heart as the dastardly villain, Eric Knox in Charlie’s Angels (2000), the Southern cop, Dixon, in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017,) for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, or, most recently, as the endearing Nazi, Captain Klenzendorf in this year’s Oscar-winner, Jojo Rabbit (2019).…

Trapped in Morocco

Trapped in Morocco

By Deirdre Keane on April 4, 2020

I would like to preface this article by saying that my friend and I now realize how risky it was to travel during Spring Break, and we probably should have heeded the University’s advice to stay home. Nonetheless, we thankfully did eventually make it back safe and now have a great story in the arsenal for future cocktails parties, when social distancing is a mere memory.

My classmate, Teresa and I were supposed to go on DBi Morocco a few weeks ago. Teresa is in my block and always sat in the front with me in our foundation classes. To her dismay, I call those days the “acquaintance days.”…

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What I learned from my terrible, no-good summer internship

What I learned from my terrible, no-good summer internship

By James Prager

May has finally arrived. Classes are done, Follies has wrapped, and the MBA2s are ready to graduate. And that means the MBA1s are preparing for their summer internships. Despite the strange and/or virtual setup most of you will have, I am certain that the majority...

Farewell

Farewell

By James Prager

After two years at Stern and four semesters writing for The Oppy, this will be my last issue. My first article in The Oppy was an in-depth look at the political bent of the student body on the eve of the 2018 midterm election. This...

The Biden Veepstakes: Let’s get premature!

The Biden Veepstakes: Let’s get premature!

By David Kalan

With the United States stuck in a holding pattern, I would say you might have forgotten we’re just six months away from the “Most Important Election of our Lifetimes” since we had the 2018 Midterm “Most Important Election of our Lifetimes,” but let’s be real....

Running to Combat Food Insecurity in the Bronx

Running to Combat Food Insecurity in the Bronx

By Deirdre Keane

The charitable nature of the Stern community has become more evident than ever during this crisis. Sternies have gotten involved with nonprofits that raise money for PPE and feed our healthcare workers. Classmates have been checking in on me and other frontline Langoners to make...

Incoming SGov Presidents: New Year, New Challenges, and New Opportunities

Incoming SGov Presidents: New Year, New Challenges, and New Opportunities

By Oppy Staff

By Antonella Tellez and Ashwin Chandra Remember early March? It feels like it’s been about ten years since then. The days were unseasonably warm and we were full of excitement for spring break travel and on-campus events ahead. Needless to say, our spring semester hasn’t...

This Starfish

This Starfish

By Oppy Staff

By Rebecca Goldberg Someone once told me this fable: One day, an old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked, he came upon a young boy who...

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Stern Follies: The Little Sternmaid

Playing Hooky is Hard Work

Trapped in Morocco