On Campus - Thursday, November 6, 2008 18:25 - 0 Comments
Fabric and Politics in African Art at the NYU Grey Gallery
If someone asked you to describe African art what would you say? Masks? Not anymore, the new Grey Art Gallery exibit, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles and Recent Art is a phenomenal exhibit discussing African identity and the controversies surrounding its past through installation and cloth pieces. The provocative works comment on the history of Ghana’s textiles (especially the Andrinka symbols and Kente cloth), the legacy of colonialism and African current events both cultural and political. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:47 - 0 Comments
NYU Students Define Good Eating
What does it mean to be a “good eater?” Is it choosing not to eat animal products? Is it a low calorie diet? Do good eaters only consume food that is un-processed and grown locally? Reynolds’s Fellows Joshua Levin and partner Kenji Alt created goodeater, a socially conscious food blog, to answer these question and highlight how food can be a tool for progressive change.
The blog delves into everything from food (or wine) that encourages global development to food trends and calorie-counting signs that have been popping up in the subway. Continue…
City - Monday, October 20, 2008 14:22 - 2 Comments
If You Want Change, Make Change
On NYU territory, Obama dominates. Take a walk up 3rd avenue and you’ll see posters decorating stone walls satirizing the McCain/Palin ticket. Last week, a painting displaying a broken American flag with the words: “Obama, make America whole again” went up on 3rd Ave. and 5th St.
Obama’s campaign is founded on and preaches change. With the economy in tumult, some of us are looking to change our lifestyles to fit the changes happening throughout America. An answer springs to mind: follow the slogan of our celebrated politician and make change. Continue…
National, Submitted Opinion - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:12 - 2 Comments
The Federal Reserve and You
The Following opinion piece was submitted to the NYU Local Submitted Opinion section. Anyone with an NYU email address and a full name can post to this section.
This is the second part of my opinion piece on the current economic crisis. If you haven’t already read the first introductory piece, you can find it here.
The lending practices of Wall Street have clearly been detrimental to our economy but in relation to those of our own government, some would argue that Wall Street was but a pin prick that popped the bubble; the U.S. Government was the one blowing hot air into the system. The same type of lending practices that led to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown are also typical of our government’s relationship with lenders around the world.
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Opinion, Submitted Opinion - Friday, September 19, 2008 13:26 - 6 Comments
Economic Crisis 101
It is hard not to know something, if anything, about the financial crisis hitting Wall Street, U.S. politics, and your parents wallets recently. Yet, as undergraduate students trying to juggle our academic, social, and budding professional lives, it is understandable that most of us, and the American public, remain relatively uninformed on the nature of the crisis. There are, of course, different perspectives as to what caused the crisis and what should be done about it, but most, if not all, will look towards the sub-prime lending and adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) “meltdown” when discussing the recent collapse of some the world’s largest financial giants.
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Opinion - Monday, September 8, 2008 17:00 - 1 Comment
Foreign Politics as a Pissing Contest
Well, we have another international pissing contest that has been going down between the United States and Russia this past week. The United States sent multiple warships to the Black Sea to ferry humanitarian aid to victims of the Russia’s conflict with Georgia. The Bush administration just couldn’t seem to find any non-military ships, so they decided to go with the USS Mount Whitney.
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Opinion - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:08 - 2 Comments
Just Another Perspective
As I sit here in my apartment near La Bastille in Paris, drinking wine and nibbling on some pain et fromage, I can’t help but let my elitist inclinations get the better of me. Gazing down upon the chaotic mess we call politics in “the States,” I consider the possibility of renouncing my attachment to American politics forever. But the media frenzy surrounding the DNC recently is just too irresistible which is why I must make some blogger love to my friend Sarah Haile-Mariam (rising Senior, CAS). Continue…
