On Campus - Thursday, April 23, 2009 17:09 - 7 Comments
NYU Students Stampede in Bare Energy Frolic
“Less gas, more ass!” was the chant heard around Washington Square Park today, as a dozen body-painted students frolicked in their underwear for Mother Earth. “To celebrate this fabulous broad,” the event page says (I assume they’re talking about Mother Earth), “we’re lettin’ loose, cutting those sullied winter coats off your fabulous bods, and exposing the fierce flesh that she gave us…”
Another example of caring for the environment when it’s convenient or a legit method of bringing awareness to the environment? Regardless, I’m pretty sure more people were paying attention to certain body parts than the signs being held up.
The best reactions were those I overheard. One NYU guard sarcastically described it as “nice publicity for NYU.” To which another replied, “Hey c’mon. This is afternoon delight, man.” A construction worker on his lunch break summed up the spectacle perfectly: “Where else?” Indeed. Only at NYU.
More pictures from NYU Local photographer David Alvarez after the jump.
On Campus - Tuesday, April 14, 2009 15:13 - 1 Comment
Top 4 Picks for Reynolds Winners
The winners of the Reynolds scholarship will be announced soon. We had a post a few weeks ago on most of the Reynolds finalists, listing their ideas briefly. While all their ideas were great (and I don’t doubt their dedication), only a few stood out to me. Here are four finalists whose projects I found interesting, and hopefully you do too. Details after the jump.
On Campus - Tuesday, March 31, 2009 15:05 - 1 Comment
Getting An Internship If You’re In CAS
*We’ll be doing a Summer Internship Hunt post for a handful of NYU schools over the next couple of weeks. Our first was Gallatin, and today’s is CAS.
After a quick perusal of the approximately thirty-four departments listed on the CAS website, I learned basically two things. First, a lot of these websites are not very pretty and/or user-friendly, and second, if you’re looking for internship resources from your respective departments, don’t expect to have much luck. After going through the list, I found only six departments with any sort of internship listings. Out of the six, only three (Journalism, Politics and Environmental Studies) are updated frequently.
On Campus - Monday, March 23, 2009 15:11 - 3 Comments
Who Should Get Catherine B. Reynold’s Scholarships This Year?
Every year, the Catherine B. Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship awards scholarships to as many as ten lucky sophomores, giving up to $50,000 in scholarships to each winner. To get the money, each student who applies must come up with a grand vision for change, an idea that can benefit society in some way and must demonstrate a certain relentlessness in pursuing his or her idea. An idea need not be in a particular stage of development to be considered. Indeed, an idea in its infancy can help a student win a scholarship. In fact, when NYU Local publisher Cody Brown won last year, Local was only an idea.
The program is open to sophomores from each undergraduate school. This year’s batch of finalists is an impressive one, with each finalist bringing a different idea to the table. From helping homeless teen mothers to aiding citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, their ideas span the entire spectrum of social entrepreneurship. A list of the finalists and their ideas after the jump. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:32 - 0 Comments
An Appealing Proposition You Don’t Know About
In his last email to the university community, J-Sex said that the recession had affected NYU and that tuition was being increased again. He encouraged students who were in need of financial help to contact the Financial Aid Office, while at the same time warning us that the school’s aid resources were limited. It was an email that said basically nothing, but had J-Sex talked about our student aid budgets, maybe the letter would have had something of value.
No, I’m not talking about the budget of TBNYU’s dreams, but rather, the personal budget for each student who receives aid. Don’t know what I’m talking about? You’re probably not the only one.
On Campus - Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:40 - 3 Comments
NYU’s All-University Games Promotes Highly Competitive Foosball
If you’re wondering how to start off the much needed three-day weekend (or four, for those lucky bastards who have no Friday classes), here’s an alternative to the clubs, bars, and parties: the NYU All-University Games. Consider it NYU’s version of the Olympics, our school’s annual misguided attempt at fostering a sense of community among the many different schools, and even alumni. As if there wasn’t a sense of community already.
This year’s All-U Games will be held at Coles Sports Center, and events run the gamut from normal boring stuff like basketball to the hair-raising adrenaline rush of foosball and rock-paper-scissors. The highlight of the event? Sumo wrestling. That’s right—fat suits.
Each school will bring a mascot to the event. Stern, which has had a strong showing in past games, will have a pink slip as its mascot. Alas, one can only hope. But seriously, lame jokes aside, Gallatin promises to bring the year’s most original mascot: the imaginary friend. It goes right along with their imaginary majors/concentrations/whatever-the-fuck-they-call-them. Continue…
On Campus - Monday, February 9, 2009 13:49 - 9 Comments
NYU’s Mascot MPD
Are we the Bobcats or the Violets? Are we a carnivorous feline or a pretty flower? I, like many of you, don’t really know. But, for the sake of this post, I did a little research.
NYU lore has it that we used to be the Violets, a name fashioned after our school color, which in turn was taken from the violets that grew in Washington Square Park. We even used to have someone dress up as a flower, with leaves for arms, a skintight green bodysuit, and a necklace of purple petals (sadly, no photo evidence can be found). But then, the powers that be at NYU decided to scrap our flower for a more awe-inspiring replacement: our library catalog. Continue…
On Campus - Friday, February 6, 2009 8:00 - 0 Comments
NYU Alums Bring African Fashion To US
If you ever wanted to dress like African royalty, you will soon have your chance. Hemma, founded by NYU alumni Cindy Gaston (CAS ’08) and Edna Bissoon (CAS ’08), will be releasing its first collection this March. The line, a veritable hodgepodge of colors, is made primarily out of kente cloth, a fabric native to the country of Ghana, where the ladies spent the spring semester of their junior year as roommates.
The two designers discovered the royal fabric during their visit to a village that made the cloth, and both fell in love with the material. For Gaston, the fact that kente is entirely handmade (it takes 3 months to make 6 yards) was convincing enough. “There’s kente out there that’s done by machine, but it’s not as detailed. You can tell the difference. It’s not as intricate,” she said. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 17:09 - 1 Comment
We Read J-Sex’s Email So You Don’t Have To
Yesterday, you should have received an email from J-Sex in your inbox. If you trashed it immediately, you didn’t miss much. J-Sex’s latest letter just reinforced what we already knew: the economy sucks. The only things worth noting, amidst his vague explanations of what the university is trying to do (like, what the fuck is ‘re-engineering’?), are that NYU’s endowment, in recent months, has incurred losses of 19.6 percent (out of a little over $2 billion) and that the tuition will go up. Again. But, fear not! It will only go up a little. How little still remains to be seen. In conclusion, nothing has changed.
On Campus - Monday, January 26, 2009 15:34 - 1 Comment
Fencing Team Is NYU’s Most Formidable Group
Even a non-fencer like myself knew of our school’s reputation on the fencing mat, a reputation that has lasted for most of NYU’s fencing history. One of the two sports at NYU that competes at all division levels, the NYU fencing team has consistently ranked in the top 10 of Divisions 1, 2 and 3. Our school has sent fencers to the Olympics and the national championships, and has produced fencing greats like Peter Westbrook and Michael Lofton. We have a pretty bad ass team.
So how do they do it? Continue…
