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Long Island City Safe from NYU Expansion (For Now)
"The city's Economic Development Corporation had been 'pushing' N.Y.U. to look at expanding in Long Island City... However, she said, the university doesn't feel Long Island City is developed enough residentially as of now to be a fitting expansion area for N.Y.U." As of now. Queens residents, lock your doors. [The Villager via Curbed]
"The city's Economic Development Corporation had been 'pushing' N.Y.U. to look at expanding in Long Island City... However, she said, the university doesn't feel Long Island City is developed enough residentially as of now to be a fitting expansion area for N.Y.U." As of now. Queens residents, lock your doors. [The Villager via Curbed]
journalismisms
NYU Journalism Kids Plagiarize Don't Plagiarize?
Woof! Our plagiarism dog is on the case, sniffing out copying. Journalism students at NYU are launching NYU Local, a "24-hour" campus news blog, and are plagiarism trouble already. An article from the official campus newspaper, Washington Square News, was on their site as a placeholder before pre-launch. But they put one of their writer's bylines onto the article, which has since been removed but is cached here. We hear that the advisor for this rowdy group is NYU Journalism Chairwoman Brooke Kroeger. We'd suggest a shorter leash! Update: the editors of Washington Square News say, "We were in contact with NYULocal's editors about this issue over the weekend. They promptly reassured us that this was a mistake — a leftover placeholder article from when they were designing their site, which has not yet launched. They apologized, [and] removed the article in question... we see no reason to doubt them on this matter and are satisfied with that response."
recession watch
NYU Freezes Hiring In Face of Coming Economic Meltdown
New York University announced a plan last Friday to save $25 through an administrative hiring freeze and restructuring. While the school announced the plan in the name of efficiency and passing the savings onto the students, a memo from NYU President John Sexton placed the blame squarely on NYU's "high ratio of dreams to resources," also calling out "a world where financial markets are in turmoil, the US economy and currency are weakening, and our elected officials are raising serious questions about higher education." Not to mention that today's generation of high school students has never even heard of Felicity, and the Olsens have been gone for years. Details of the hiring freeze at NYUNews, Sexton's full memo after the jump. More »
julia allison
All Available Evidence Points To Julia Allison Liking It Raw
Star talking something Julia Allison recently shared that it wasn't until she was 24 that she first enjoyed the pleasures of a vibrator &mdash "huge mistake, btw." The prompt for this admission: Julia Allison's recent speaking engagement at the NYU "Sextravaganza!" (There is no audience on Earth to whom she will not overshare.) A tipster writes in to say she repeatedly asked the presenter to whip her. After Julia's past brushes and bruises with Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko, we predict she'll be showing her prized welts to any group of six or more by week's end. Full tip after the jump. More »
Overheard On Third Avenue
NYU GUY: "Hey guys, STA Travel. That's the travel agency they use in 'The Real World.'" NYU GIRL: "This is the real world."
NYU GUY: "Hey guys, STA Travel. That's the travel agency they use in 'The Real World.'" NYU GIRL: "This is the real world."
living in oblivion
Caroline is an NYU film student currently working on her final project. Her movie is called Phantom Vibrations and Caroline refers to it as "a freestyle mumblecore piece." It seems to be mostly about her roommate drinking beer. All shot on expensive, precious 35mm. Roving videographer Alex Goldberg went over to meet the future of independent film/food service.
(Full disclosure: I actually dropped out of NYU's Tisch School of the Performing Arts, where I was studying playwriting and screenwriting until I realized no one paid for the former and, as pictured above, no one thought they needed the latter. If I'd followed my dreams, though, I might be on strike right now. Sigh...)
Mumblecore Menace Infects Our Nation's Vulnerable Film Students!
Caroline is an NYU film student currently working on her final project. Her movie is called Phantom Vibrations and Caroline refers to it as "a freestyle mumblecore piece." It seems to be mostly about her roommate drinking beer. All shot on expensive, precious 35mm. Roving videographer Alex Goldberg went over to meet the future of independent film/food service.
(Full disclosure: I actually dropped out of NYU's Tisch School of the Performing Arts, where I was studying playwriting and screenwriting until I realized no one paid for the former and, as pictured above, no one thought they needed the latter. If I'd followed my dreams, though, I might be on strike right now. Sigh...)
ABC7, our favorite source for ridiculously overblown breaking stories, actually did wait until The View ended today before reporting that MANHOLE FIRES had KNOCKED OUT POWER in Greenwich Village, INCLUDING NYU. Which means like one law school dorm and a bodega on 3rd Street. PANIC! Is it terrorism? Sabotage from underpaid Indian foundry workers? Too soon to know but we say YES!
Vegan temple of soy mediocrity Zen Palate on Union Square is being replaced by a Jeffrey Chodorow backed Fatty Crab offshoot. NYU kids living in Carlyle, U-Hall and the Palladium will have to find some other place to get gooey overly sweet chunks of seitan to quench their munchies after smoking copious amounts of pot even though what they really want is a cheeseburger from Veselka but this cute hippie girl from Bethesda, MD who they're trying to get with and who is the whole reason they're smoking pot in the first place—though it makes them horribly paranoid and they have a ConWest paper due tomorrow—is, duh, also a vegan. [NYT]
Correction: Dudes, don't wig out. Fatty Crab is replacing the Zen Palate on 77th and Broadway. My bad. Blaze away!
unsurprising turns of events
Hey NYU Kids: Life Is Good! Stop Throwing In The Towel!
Yet another student at N.Y.U. has killed himself, this time in a Water Street dorm. The school has abided by the family's request not to send out a notification email to the entire university in order to protect their privacy, but apparently, such sensitivity does not apply to speaking to the school's newspaper, which university spokesperson John Beckman, who may or may not be paid some sort of suicide-and-pot-princess overtime, did quite readily.
unfortunate comparisons
NYU Student Announces World-Changing Knitting Project
A grad student at NYU's Steinhardt school, working on a project called "The New York Institute for the Humanities", recently sent friends and colleagues a letter alerting them to her group's upcoming workshops. It is a letter in which she coined and employed the wrongest analogy we've heard in, like, a week (the internet equivalent of years). More »
kids today
NYU Students Forced To Take Unreliable Transportation!
How bad are things for the beleaguered scholars of New York University? This bad:It takes more than a caffeine fix at Starbucks for Tisch junior Priya Shelly to make it to class. As a resident of Water Street residence hall, Shelly relies on university buses—the vital link between faraway residence halls and the Washington Square campus in operation since the late 1990s—in order to get to class. But buses that are crowded, frequently late and take convoluted routes have made Shelly's commute a constant inconvenience. "Sometimes, the bus doesn't show up at all," she said.Nooooo! But it gets worse! More »
The N.Y.U. Swarm Is Changing Our City's Aural Landscape
From the mailbag, a Facebook-loving reader sends this screenshot and writes: "One of these things is not like the others... do you think there's any correlation between #4 and N.Y.U. being back in session?" Yes.
From the mailbag, a Facebook-loving reader sends this screenshot and writes: "One of these things is not like the others... do you think there's any correlation between #4 and N.Y.U. being back in session?" Yes.
back to school
The NYU Swarm Is Upon Us
Hey, have you tried to walk down Third Avenue above St. Mark's lately? I say "tried to" because it is almost impossible. The strip is swarmed with seventeen year olds, walking six abreast on the sidewalk and talking very loudly about, usually, Facebook or dialectical materialism. Or, if it's late at night, being comically caricature-of-drunk. Or, if it's early in the day, walking a few steps ahead of their parents who are carrying their boxes, as if this will trick passerby into thinking that they and the older people who look just like them are unrelated strangers. Like the first rubescent leaves in Tompkins Square Park, the NYU hordes are an early harbinger of Fall in the East Village. Unlike the leaves, however, they are so fucking annoying. More »
campus revolutionaries
N.Y.U. Kids To Free Paris Hilton
Says the person who's organizing Thursday's rally (during commencement?) in Washington Square: "Even if you don't love her, you have to admit that 45 days in one of L.A.'s most dangerous female prisons is not a fair punishment for neglecting to renew your license. This is about the freedom to do what you want vs. overly conservative judges coming down hard on anyone who likes to party." Oh, so that's what this is about! Or is it? Some N.Y.U. students would beg to differ. More »
campus scandals
N.Y.U. Student Ex-Prez Defends Frolicking Ethics
According to now-former N.Y.U. College of Arts & Science Student Council President Meredith Dolgin, "the press can't seem to get anything right" when it comes to documenting the events surrounding the sudden end of her tenure last week. Know what? She's mostly correct! Dolgin got tabloid-raked through some Post-y muck for being a "renegade," "tampering with committee elections, frolicking in a pumpkin patch on the organization's dime—and helping to improperly use school funds to pay her own grandmother to speak at a symposium" in an article headlined "Student Prez's 'F' in Ethics." But on the "little known facts" page of a blog that Meredith has created in order to set the record straight, she points out that she actually got an A- in ethics. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. More »
drama nerds
Freshman Produces Broadway Show, Annoys
Eighteen-year-old N.Y.U.ster Rachel Helson has done some very impressive work for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation: she's about to produce her third benefit performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this time on Broadway, with all proceeds going to the charity! And she's managed to recruit some A-list Broadway talent, too, like Neil Patrick Harris and Wicked's Kate Reinders. But that's not even the most charitable part. Helson, who the Times described today as "perky" (later: "Perky is almost too mild a word"), will also be generously donating her own time on the night of the performance, starring in the production as ingenue Janet Weiss. "Students at Tisch are by nature ambitious," said Tisch dean Mary Schmidt Campbell, adding that "in terms of the scale of her ambition, this rates up there 10-plus." More »
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