City, Featured - Wednesday, December 3, 2008 23:12 - 18 Comments
A Sad Day for Fake Designer Handbags: Chinatown’s Purse Vendors Close
“Prada? Gucci? Handbag, handbag, you want handbag?” These songs from the famed Chinatown Canal street purse hawkers are no more: the shopkeepers and their underground loot had a surprise visit from the NYPD early Tuesday morning.
A whole slew of the hole in the wall establishments jam-packed with Dolce & Gabbana knock-offs in the front, and secret walls that lead you to a world of near perfect replicas in the back were barricaded off by the police while they searched the premises.
On Campus - Friday, November 14, 2008 13:26 - 18 Comments
Is NYU Plagued by A Secretive, Sexist Administration or Students With Nothing Better To Do than Complain?
The free flow of ideas at our liberal NYU is encouraged, so long as the ideas don’t demonstrate dissent against the holier than thou administration. In the Equal Work for Equal Pay protest Wednesday afternoon, the 20 or so students with their mock glass ceilings and picket signs demanding budget disclosure and pay equity had more security than the president elect giving his victory speech last Tuesday.
According to Julie Kilger, a CAS junior and the National Organization for Women NYU chapter president, the goal of the hour long protest march around campus was two-fold. She said, “we want NYU to disclose the budget and in doing so we want to ensure there aren’t gender discrepancies in pay.” Continue…
On Campus - Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:00 - 0 Comments
Early AM Evacuation Leaves Students Cold, Pissed Off
“I can’t believe this! My roommates would have just let me die!” screeched a Lafayette Hall resident on Tuesday morning. She’d slept soundly through the 3.30am fire alarm that scattered the rest of the building’s occupants throughout the surrounding streets. Apparently no one gave her the memo.
As it blared through the dorm, my roommates and I discussed whether we should take the siren seriously. We eventually decided that 3.30 in the morning is an absurd time for a drill, even for alarm-happy NYU. So, like most of the other Lafayette residents, we begrudgingly made the trek from the comfort of our beds down to the frigid outside.
The faint aroma of smoke in the stair well was no stronger than that of a blown out candle as we descended from the 7th floor. Apparently my upstairs cohabitants were bombarded with actual smoke though, particularly from the 9th floor up where chaos ensued. Continue…
National - Thursday, October 23, 2008 17:02 - 0 Comments
Obama’s Avoidance, McCains Inconsistency
To no one’s surprise, the members of last Tuesday’s “Covering the Campaign of a Lifetime” panel all contended that they diligently work to provide factual and relevant campaign information in a balanced manner. But thanks to Obama’s reluctance to give the media the time of day and McCain’s incessant diarrhea of the mouth , covering the ’08 election is virtually impossible not to muck up at some point. Continue…
