“This is the worst part, ... We just don't know. We think our apartment was able to survive the storm, according to the rumors, but what about the criminals? Even if our house is safe, who is going to stop it from being looted? It is sad that we are asked to evacuate and we can't even be promised our stuff will be safe.”
“It's so frustrating to not know what the next day is going to bring, and sitting here wondering if we will have anything to go back to when that day finally comes, ... We are only college kids and basically left our lives in our apartment.”
“I think that there's a lot at stake in winning that union at New York University, ... It was the only graduate student union at a private university, and I think winning back that union and protecting that contract gives graduate students at other institutions the hope that they can have a union too.”
“I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.”
“I tried catering first and then I put money into the restaurant as I got it. I've cooked all my life, since I was 7. I don't know what the secret is - a gift from God.”
