https://nyunews.com/news/2022/02/02/maegan-jenkins-fashion-white-house-history/

This article from the Washington Square News is written by Tori Pinales and it is about featuring women at NYU’s mixed media articles in the White house. In this upcoming spring, first year Steinhart graduate student Meagan Jenkins will be digitally displaying her fashion exhibit that she designed to shine a light on women’s labor and identity. This display is a collaboration between the White House Historical Association (WHHA) and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The WHHA was founded by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961 and its goal is to provide access to the White House history.  Jenkins’s idea behind her work was to highlight the backgrounds of underrepresented women in history such as Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Sally Milgrim, Nettie Rosenstein, Ann Lowe, Ethel Frankau, Karen Stark and Mary Matise. This digital exhibit gives the opportunity to show the legacy of the White house using a different perspective and Jenkins hopes that she will help the people who see this exhibit learn about these designers and understand how they contributed to American history.

https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/01/24/letter-from-the-editor-alex-tey/

This article written by editor-in-chief of the Washington Square news, Alex Tey, is a little different than the first one I chose. He decided to write this article in the format of a letter, using it to comfort students as the environment around them changes. He writes about everyone’s favorite topic of conversation, COVID-19, bringing up the protocols that have come with it such as remote classes, mask mandates and the newest variant addition Omicron. Tey says that no matter what we choose to do, the world will go on nonetheless and he uses this COVID-19 talk to transition into a conversation about the paper itself. The change that the paper is undergoing is that it is now going to be online print only and that they have committed to being an online first publication, starting in Spring 2022. As he talks through all these topics, Alex Tey mentions that he is transgender and he uses this to emphathize with students, letting them know that he understands that change isnt always easy.