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2020 Thus Far

With the start of each academic year, it can be nice to take a moment and reflect on the calendar year so far, allowing us to review accomplishments and set new goals. Well, not this year. I think the majority of us would agree that 2020 is a dumpster fire, and we are no longer naive enough to hope it will turn around. After all, we do still have flu season and a presidential election to get through. On that note, let’s recap 2020 to now.

Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the disasters that occured this year.…

The Biden Veepstakes: Let’s get premature!

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. You’re stuck in your home all day with nothing to do but binge the latest Netflix miniseries and watch the news.

You definitely didn’t forget we’re just six months away from the 2020 U.S. Presidential “Most Important Election of our Lifetimes.”

Unless you’re as focused on your day job as, say, Alabama coach Nick Saban, you’ve known since November 9, 2016 that we would do the whole thing again in November 2020.…

Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known

In one scene of the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, Frank Sinatra’s character Bennett Marco tells the U.S. Secretary of Defense, “Mister Secretary, I’m kind of new at this job, but I don’t think it’s good public relations to speak that way to a U.S. Senator, even if he is an idiot.”

We often err on the side of politically palatable as opposed to morally expedient. In recent weeks, I’ve pondered this as I’ve tried best to articulate my feelings on the current administration and its response to the greatest public health crisis to hit the United States in a century.…

We are willing to get our hair mussed

I watched baseball on Monday night. For a few minutes, after a weekend with temperatures in the high 70s and the national pastime on my TV, it finally felt like spring. I wasn’t in the stadium, but it looked like a beautiful day for a game. Then again, I honestly don’t know how warm it is in Busan this time of year.

I also didn’t know I was such an NC Dinos fan, but they’ve won just as many championships as the Mets in the past 30 years, so it feels right.

Seven weeks ago, the United States and South Korea were in a very similar place in terms of COVID-related fatalities, with each country recording around 90 of them.…

Outgoing SGov Presidents: “Change. We did it (we think)!”

By Rebecca Dewy and Sohail Mathur

This year, Stern updated its brand to “Change,” as a “call to action to thrive in today’s business world.” For most of our time as SGov Co-Presidents, an apt slogan could have been “Change. Drive it.” But with the arrival of the coronavirus and the many changes it has wrought on our community, a more appropriate phrase might be, “Change. Ride through it.” We are living in unprecedented times. Our Class of 2020 is finishing their Stern experience far from friends, professors are teaching from their home offices and living rooms, and all of us are now aware of how much privilege we had to walk freely through the world, travel, and generally enjoy the presence of others. …

End of an Era: Outgoing LSG President Sandy Moheban

There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes of Life at Stern. Like many, I’ve enjoyed countless events and programs in the Stern Community. I had the tremendous pleasure to speak to the woman behind it all, LSG President Sandy Moheban. April marks the final month of Sandy’s tenure, so we sat down with Sandy to talk about her time at NYU and her hopes for the next wave of Sternies and LSG.

Sandy’s been steeped in New York life, growing up in Great Neck Long Island and training into the city at any opportunity. When I asked her what brought her to Stern she said: “I went to NYU for undergrad and very quickly learned that Stern was the college to be in.

Lessons from Super Tuesday: Congratulations, Michael Bloomberg!

In the interest of transparent journalism, I feel obliged to inform you that I have never been to American Samoa and, in fact, know very little about it. I do hear Pago Pago is lovely this time of year, though, and if Tuesday night is any indication, Mike Bloomberg might want to consider buying a vacation property there. That is, assuming he doesn’t already own one.

I mean, he probably owns one.

Whether or not he does, it seems he’s pretty popular there after snagging the most interesting prize of Super Tuesday. Bloomberg ran away with the American Samoa Caucus, which had a whopping six delegates at stake.…

Stern’s Suraj Patel eyes New York’s next progressive upset

Working in politics has the potential to expose you to some dark truths, but few of those are as stunning as the one NYU Stern adjunct professor and current Democratic Congressional candidate, Suraj Patel, discovered after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

“The next day my brother and I, at noon, went to the Olive Garden in Chelsea at 23rd and 6th and we were there for six or seven hours,” he said during a recent interview with The Oppy. “Our friends cycled through, and you know they charge you twice if you stay that long for all-you-can-eat pasta and breadsticks. …

Full Q&A with Stern adjunct professor and congressional candidate Suraj Patel

Stern Opportunity Langone Managing Editor David Kalan recently visited the East Village campaign headquarters of Suraj Patel, an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives in New York’s 12th congressional district. Patel previously ran for the seat in 2018, losing in the primary to incumbent congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. 

In a wide-ranging conversation, Patel discussed his campaign, several of his policy positions and the personal experiences that have informed them. Below is a full transcript of that conversation. 

[READ: Stern’s Suraj Patel eyes New York’s next progressive upset]

Answers have been edited for length and clarity.…

SGOV: Three presidential tickets propose sensible plans for improving student life

By Jeremy Russell

This week, the student body will have the opportunity to elect the co-presidents for the 2020-2021 academic year. This is an important annual expression of democracy at a micro scale that allows members of the Stern community to highlight their primary concerns to both student leadership and the NYU administration. The outcome of this week’s vote will of course affect current students, but also set the tone for the incoming class of 2022. While this may not be the most important election of 2020 (perhaps a close second), this contest could impact your life in more concrete ways, including increased SGOV responsiveness and transparency, fewer recruiting events during midterms, and free coffee.…

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