With a few weeks between now and Christmas, there’s still time to get on Santa’s Good List with some festive, on-campus charitable work. On Wednesday, December 1st, the CAS Student Council will be holding its first Holiday Gift Factory in Kimmel room 912 from 6-8pm. All attendees will be able to wrap and pack gifts for underprivileged children for the Children’s Aid Society, while enjoying holiday snacks and cheer. A gift donation is a plus but not mandatory.
Happy wrapping!
One of the most recent episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — “Gray” — detailed a thorny legal issue prevalent in college: date rape. As the episode aired in homes across the nation, a special screening of “Gray” was being hosted by the Center For Communication in the AOL building for invitees, followed by a Q&A panel discussing the problem of date rape on campuses across the country – NYU included. Read more…
Some say New York is a lonely city. The population density, the busy streets – they all hide the kind of strange loneliness that can strike you while somewhere as mundane as the subway. You pause while pausing your iPod and realize that you are alone in a packed Q train car, alone in a borough, alone in a city so crowded with people that you struggle to find an empty street block. New York can be the most profound and persistent example of feeling “alone among many.”
Naturally, NYU’s microcosmic relationship to New York City means that it possesses that same potential for loneliness. And though NYU provides us with many university outlets for events, there is still an undeniable feeling of being “alone” at some point during one’s undergraduate career. We discussed it here on NYU Local, after Maddi Gilje confessed that she was considering transferring out of the university that she once bubbled with excitement for on YouTube. However, many of us are perhaps quiet on the subject for fear that we are not adequately “experiencing” college-life the way that we are supposed to — maybe it’s my fault, we wonder. But one of the most ironic edges to the loneliness debates at NYU — what it means to be alone at this school, and how we could ever solve it — is the sense that NYU is a community of students struggling to feel a sense of community. Read more…
With fall semester winding down, we’re starting to realize that it’s that time of year again: internship application period. New York City is full of incredible internship opportunities that aren’t available to your friends that go to school a few miles from Canada. Take advantage of NYC internships and land yourself a spring internship with some of these helpful tips:
1. Start looking — now!
Many employers are already in their application period for spring internships. Make a habit of checking websites such as NYU’s CareerNet, Intern Queen, Ed2010, and even Craigslist for internship postings along with the websites of specific companies. Read more…
At their first ever slam on October 21st, the NYU Slam Poetry Team called fifteen NYU student poets to the stage to spit emotional, fiery, hilarious, poignant and altogether powerful spoken word poems in hopes of being named a member. The slam opened with featured performer Mahogany L. Brown, a respected and decorated slam poet and curator of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, who read her own spoken word poems along with excerpts from her new tweet-based book, #Dear Twitter (a sample: “Dear Justin Bieber: ask the Backstreet Boys and N*SYNC how this movie ends”). Student poets took the mic under low lighting next and were judged by select audience members on a scale of 1-10. Read more…
Most of you know him as that guy ushering you into Silver’s elevators, or that guy behind the front desk at NYU dorms. Razvan Gorea, one of NYU’s security guards, is a familiar face on campus. But when not in his NYU uniform, Razvan is known by his street name Tiny Love (Tiny, for short), and is a respected New York City street dancer with an international reputation.
Tiny was born in Romania during the communist reign of Nicolae Ceausescu. “The first 19 years of my life were very isolated,” Tiny told me. “We basically didn’t have contact with the outside world.” Tiny began dancing while living in Romania after seeing the movie Breakin’. “We used to have dance functions at my school where kids would battle each other.” Inspired by Breakin’s dancers such as Pop N’ Taco, Boogaloo Shrimp and Poppin Pete (some of Michael Jackson’s dance mentors), Tiny began studying Poppin, a freestyle street dance known for muscle control, robotic movement, liquid illusions and raw funk. Read more…
If free is your favorite number, then we’ve got the event for you! NYU is hosting its Wellness Expo tomorrow from 11am till 3pm at Washington Place and Washington Square East (otherwise known as between Silver Center and Pless Hall), and it’s chalk full of free stuff for NYU students: massages, hot cocoa, soup, snacks, t-shirts, flu shots (including H1N1) and more. Other activities include free health screenings and games like Wii Fit (no word yet if Gallatin Bingo will be available). Bring your NYU ID for admission.
Oh, did we mention it’s free?
For more information, visit the Wellness Expo website.
Elevator culture pervades most buildings at NYU. In between classes our personal space bubbles are rendered null and void as we are packed into elevators in a way that I can only describe as reminiscent of that time I thought moving towards the stage at a Terminal 5 GirlTalk concert was a good idea. Inevitably, “that guy” (or girl) shows up in the elevator. We all know him. We know the signs. Here’s a helpful list to help you identify which one you’re riding with:
1. Screw The Stairs! guy:
Screw The Stairs! guy sees that floors 7, 8, 9 and 11 are pressed, but presses 10 anyways — because, well, screw the stairs! He hits an elevator button that inconveniences other elevator riders (poor 11th floor guy) by making others stop on a floor that could have been accessed via the stairwell. Usually he hesitates before pressing the button — 5 when 6 is pressed, 11 when 12 is pressed — questioning himself…should I take the stairs this time? But that fleeting thought passes almost immediately (what was I thinking, screw the stairs!) as his fingertip makes contact with the button. While the inconvenience is small, the stigma associated with being Screw The Stairs! guy is a powerful force in NYU buildings thanks to signs in dorm room elevator lobbies. Read more…
