For years it’s been supposed that New York University is the most gay-friendly school because it’s right in the heart of Greenwich Village, which is an extremely gay-friendly environment. The argument against NYU is that the campus itself isn’t necessarily the easiest place for homosexual people to apply to. The school that’s spearheading this argument [...]
Almost two months after NYU students occupied their student center demanding budget transparency and were forcibly removed, about sixty students from the New School have done the same on their own turf. Of course, the NYU occupation was in part inspired by a similar stunt by New School last fall.
The Washington Square News is reporting [...]
In a move that has me–a soon-to-graduate New York University student–green with envy, UCLA has chosen James Franco to be this year’s commencement speaker for the UCLA class of 2009. In the wake of the announcement, many students have expressed discontent over this decision, claiming that Franco “has not done anything significant enough besides live [...]
College mascots tend to range from the stereotypical to embarrassing. In my own experience, it’s tended to be the latter. My high school team, the highly questionable Bellarmine Bells, had a mascot called the Bellarman. Literally, a giant bell with a mean face. Not exactly fear-inducing.
Then at NYU, our team name was the Violets. And [...]
They didn’t even last forty-eight hours. After barricading themselves in the cafeteria of NYU’s Kimmel Student Center on Wednesday night, members of student activism group Take Back NYU! spent the last two days shouting demands to the security guards, students, and spectators gathered beneath their (in the words of one participant) “liberation balcony” and drumming [...]
Not coke as in cocaine, which is what I thought when I first say this headline. (I think it’d be pretty impossible to banish that powdery illegal substance from a large, urban institution with a prestigious drama and arts department.) I’m also embarrassed to admit that my second reaction to this article was prompted by [...]
Among the victims of super-douche Bernie Madoff’s giant Ponzi Scheme were three big New York metropolitan-area universities.
Bard College in the Hudson Valley lost $3 million it had invested in Ezra Merkin, who in turn invested the money with Madoff.
Yeshiva University lost $14.5 million despite being led to believe it had made more than $100 million [...]
