In other campus-media related program activities, after a year in which the WSN's anti-union editorials and anti-union staff columnists who happened to also be WSN editors frequently bled together (and I don't think the news coverage was by any means unscathed,) the new editorial board promises to change by creating a separate editorial board for the purposes of crafting staff editorials.

Until now, the editorial board of this paper was composed of the senior staff - the editor-in-chief, managing editor, desk editors and chiefs of production and copy. This system had an inherent ethical conflict: All of these positions, with the exception of opinion editor, include a responsibility to strive toward unbiased content. The job of the editorial board, of course, is to hold nightly discussions of issues, which inspire staff editorials. The staff editorial, one hopes, is never unbiased.

While we acknowledge that, to a certain extent, bias is impossible to eradicate from a newspaper, it is inappropriate for editors to publicly voice their opinions on issues they otherwise cover objectively. Furthermore, the editorial has at times been accused of masquerading as the voice of the NYU student body, when it was nothing more than the jaded view of snobby student journalists. This is perhaps a fair criticism, and we are reaching out to the community now to reverse this image.

It remains to be seen what kind of effect this will have. Hopefully, the WSN can become a better paper less beholden to the neoliberal and overprivileged opinions of some of its editorial staff, who will hopefully stop simultaneously writing news stories, opinion columns and staff editorials. I have to wonder, though why editors chose to describe in today's article graduate teachers' and researchers' overwhelming support for the union in last month's Graduate House Of Delegates election as an outside institution "dominating" a body whose legitimacy will always be in peril?

Also, NYU students have introduced to the administration a proposal for reform to the university's housing policies to reverse discrimination on the basis of gender identity and combat NYU Housing's transphobia, heteronormativity and sexism. Click on the links for more information.