On Campus, On-Campus Developing - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 15:58 - 6 Comments
Will Mayor Bloomberg be a ‘Special Surprise Guest’ at Gallatin’s Open House? Nope.
Gallatin is having an offical open house for it’s renovated building tonight and we’ve received tips from students that their professors have been buzzing about a ’Special Surprise Guest.’ Could this be Bloomberg coming to announce his rumored donation? Martin Lipton, Chairman of the NYU Board of Trustees, and J-Sex will both be attending.
Update: Whoever the guest is requires quite a bit of security. 5 NYPD officers are near the building and NYU Guards are standing outside the door.
6:12: Mayor Bloomberg is a no show. Three ’special guests’ were on the list to come, none of them made the event .
On Campus - Monday, April 20, 2009 18:31 - 10 Comments
NYU Local Switches to Creative Commons 3.0
After months of taking advice from the AP, buying paper clips, and constructing a cadre of NYU Law students to sue Gawker, Gothamist, and every trust fund blogger for copyright violations during the Kimmel Occupation, we’ve decided to change course. Aditi Rajaram, Wesley Chen, and the Free Culture Club at NYU showed us the light; all rights reserved © is archaic and is not built for a modern news source. All original content on NYU Local is now distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 license. Woot?
On Campus, On-Campus Developing - Monday, April 20, 2009 16:44 - 13 Comments
Developing: Car *Falls* into The Back of NYU Building On 12th Street
A car fell from the fifth floor of a neighboring garage into the Fairchild Building at 7 East 12th Street. (The place where you get your NYU ID) has been hit by a car. Charlie Eisenhood is at the scene and is reporting that the building has been evacuated. No word yet on what happened or whether anyone is hurt.
UPDATE: The car’s driver, who worked at the garage, was taken to St. Vincent’s in stable condition and no one else is reported injured.
Photos sent by Callie Hirsch.
Send pictures and more information to tips@nyulocal.com
On Campus, Uncategorized - Monday, April 13, 2009 2:42 - 6 Comments
Did CAS Council President Megan Cruz Lie to WSN to Get Sympathetic Press?
After three articles and over thirty comments, last week CAS Student Council President Megan Cruz approached WSN about the CAS constitution controversy. WSN Editor, Rachel Holiday Smith, who spoke to Local about a policy clarification, explains:
[She] came to us because she was extremely upset with the way things were reported by NYULocal. She said that she was misquoted, the council issues were misrepresented, and that Lucas did not identify himself as a reporter until she asked about it specifically.
If this is true, and Cruz reached out in this way, it raises a lot of questions. In the 8 days Lucas’s article was up, Megan Cruz never contacted NYU Local about any misquotes. Lucas, who sat next to me at Think Coffee while he made the call, was transparent. He asked the CAS Council President if she would speak on the record, she agreed, and only quotes after that point were used. Why would Megan claim to be misquoted but never ask for a correction? Why would she make it seem as though Lucas was misleading about his status as a reporter when she agreed to an on-the-record interview? Continue…
City - Friday, April 10, 2009 14:08 - 32 Comments
Raw Footage: New School Students Chased, Beaten, and Arrested In-Front of Union Square Pizza Hut
Raw Footage from City Room.
On Campus - Monday, April 6, 2009 15:22 - 15 Comments
CAS Student Council President Megan Cruz Responds to Amendment Criticism
The following was submitted as a response to CAS Student Council Votes to Block Nearly All of CAS From Running For Office.
From Megan Cruz:
First off, ANYONE can run for President, Treasurer, or any other position on Council for next year. It was only assumed that our intention was to implement changes that would impact the upcoming election (because it was also incorrectly assumed that Council is looking to underhandedly exclude potential candidates). Not the case.
As stated in our 2000 constitution, the last official constitution voted on by the CAS Student Body, the amendment process is as follows:
On Campus - Friday, March 20, 2009 13:48 - 2 Comments
Jerry Bruckheimer Takes Back NYU To Shoot ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’
On Campus, On-Campus Developing - Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:11 - 0 Comments
Tisch Film Administration Responds to Petition With Equally Long and Sentimental Letter
In case you are too busy re-scheduling your senior thesis to read the thousand word letter, we have consolidated and bulleted the main points:
- This has been a problem for the past five years that we have failed to fix in a sustainable way.
- We warned you in the fall of 2007 that while you were covered individually for over a million dollars in insurance, a student actually needing a tenth of this could destroy our program’s policy.
- The kid who lost $100,000 in lenses was warned a number of times, like all Tisch students, and probably is to blame.
- We changed this policy to prevent our insurance from being taken away in 2009 but even that may not work.
- We are sad but everyone is sad now too because of the economy.
- You should be happy with the equipment we provide because our faculty reviews it – those who have ‘grander’ ideas hurt the ones that don’t.
- You can get more Sandbags from us if you want. Those are cheap.
- We have four people that will be visiting your classes, there you can vent your frustrations.
- We are doing everything we can to ensure you don’t transfer to USC.
Full letter after the jump. Continue…
On Campus - Wednesday, March 11, 2009 21:38 - 15 Comments
TBNYU! Gets Rookie Competition, NYU Activist ‘Collective’ Launches With Bobst Flyer Drop and Creepy Video
This afternoon, just when you thought NYU was bored talking about TBNYU!’s failed protest, more than a hundred fliers dropped from the top floor of Bobst and landed on the heads of unsuspecting students studying in the lobby.
“We can’t afford to sit idly by while NYU profits off our intelligence.”
Dear lord.
Later in the evening we received this email: Continue…
Polls - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:43 - 0 Comments
Should Tisch Film Re-Fund Students After Failing to Provide Insurance?
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