via The Sun Daily.

PETALING JAYA (May 24, 2012): Home Ministry has banned liberal Muslim author Irshad Manji’s books titled “Allah, Liberty and Love” and its Malay translation “Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta.”

Calling all Wagner Alumni:  Remember to buy your tickets for the 6th Annual ‘Wave the Flag forWagner’ Celebration!  

Join Dean Schall, Rogan Kersh, David Schachter, John Gershman, Mitchell Moss, Dennis Smith and many more faculty and staff to network and socialize!
Purchase tickets online by May 29th or at the door.

6th Annual ‘Wave the Flag for Wagner’ Celebration
A Celebration and Salute to Wagner Alumni Benefiting the Wagner Annual Fund

Catch up with old friends, reconnect with your favorite professors, hear the latest updates from Dean Ellen Schall, and help us drive up our alumni participation rate in the Wagner Annual Fund!

Cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres and simple open bar.

Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby Street (at Houston Street)
New York, NY  10012

Purchase tickets online or at the door!

Tickets for Wave the Flag for Wagner:

Standard Alumni: 
•    $30 now – May 29th ($20 tax-deductible) 
•    $35 at the door ($25 tax-deductible)

2011 - 2012 Graduates: 
•    $20 now – May 29th ($10 tax-deductible)
•    $25 at the door ($15 tax-deductible)

All proceeds go to the Wagner Annual Fund.

Interested in joining the host committee? Contact Ms. Billie Hughes at 212-998-7537 or atbillie.hughes@nyu.edu.

We asked our students, faculty and staff to submit tweets, posts and photos using the hashtag #NYUWgrad. Here’s the story behind the NYU Wagner Class of 2012!

The Athenian Oath was recited by the citizens of Athens, Greece, more than 2000 years ago. It is frequently recited by civic leaders in modern times as a timeless code of civic responsibility, applicable at the local, national and global level.

Here at NYU Wagner, it is a tradition for our graduating masters and doctoral candidates to recite the oath upon graduating from the program.

We will never bring disgrace on this our City by an act of dishonesty or cowardice.

We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many.

We will revere and obey the City’s laws, and will do our best to incite a like reverence and respect in those above us who are prove to annul them or set them naught.

We will strive increasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty. In all these ways we will transmit this City, not only less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

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More Facebook updates from our graduating NYU Wagner students!

Graduating NYU Wagner students are beginning to celebrate! Today is NYU’s 180th Commencement exercises and tomorrow, we are heading to Beacon Theatre for NYU Wagner 2012 Convocation.

 via @nyumeatless #meatlessmonday Yum-o! On the menu today is “Scratch the burrito bowls, the NYU Student Food Co-op went all out and made shaved asparagus and beet salad w/ mustard vinaigrette and walnuts, lettuce wraps with veggies & tofu, coconut rice, and their own chocolate truffles.” 

The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management today released their newest publication, Getting Started with Open Data: A Guide for Transportation Agencies. 

Here’s what you need to know:

• This guide is intended to result in streamlined use of transportation services and promote a productive dialogue between agencies and their constituents.
• It is being released as a living document, intended for input from both transportation data owners and users, to result in the most complete open transportation data guide possible.

For more information, head to the NYU Rudin blog.