"Penniless" student's account holding up, so far

After the New York Times wrote yesterday about an NYU student who couldn't afford housing and had spent the semester sleeping in the library basement, I mocked his tale and suggested it was a hoax. But today the New York Daily News jumped on the story and didn't seem to uncover any big holes. They found the kid's parents, and didn't contradict the story that he's 20 years old. (I think his picture makes him look a lot older.) Last night on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann interviewed the editor of NYU's student paper, which broke the story last week, and she confirmed the story as well.