City, Featured - Monday, April 20, 2009 23:41 - 12 Comments
The Hipster Grifter Actually Embodies the Opposite of the Asian “Submissive” Myth
The Internet has recently been ablaze with tale of the “Hipster Grifter,” an adopted Korean girl with a huge chest tattoo from Utah that has been conning her way through Salt Lake City and the hipsterland of Brooklyn. Kari Farrell is petite, cute-ish, charming, and on Salt Lake City’s most wanted list for stealing something like $60,000 from a lot of people by being incredibly sexually aggressive (”I want you to throw your hot dog down my hall”) and telling unsuspecting, bearded men that she has cancer. Now there are nekkid pictures of her floating around, as well as tons of first-hand accounts of her incredibly intricate (and kind of hilarious) web of lies.
Jezebel has an interesting piece called “Did ‘Hipster Grifter’ Play On Loathsome Asian Fetish?“, citing the fact that everyone – but particularly Williamsburg hipsters – loves Asian girls. There’s a quote from somebody that says it’s “obviously rooted in some racist stereotype of the ‘exotic’ or ’submissive,’” which is indeed a common stereotype for Asian women, and a factor in what makes them “attractive” to men of other races.
On Campus - Tuesday, April 14, 2009 14:59 - 16 Comments
Forwarding Your NYU Mail to Gmail Will Improve Your Life By 74% Guaranteed
Nobody in this day and age should have to deal with NYU’s email interface. It’s clunky, unintuitive, easily broken down, and just generally vomit-worthy. If you don’t already have one, you should get a Gmail account instead.
Why?
1) Gmail gives you about 30x the storage space as NYU Mail (7315 MB to 250 MB), and it’s ever-increasing. You will no longer have to delete every message that’s over two weeks old. In fact, you’ll probably never have to delete a message ever again.
2) Gmail has a much better user interface. You have many options for how you want it to look, and it’s fast and intuitive.
3) Gmail allows you to organize and search for mail in a way that NYU Mail can’t even comprehend. Looking for an old email in NYU Mail is a terrible, arduous task, but Gmail has a search function that’s just as good as Google. And Gmail has various labeling options that make things easier to deal with, if you so wish.
But what if I want to look at my NYU Mail, you say? Not a problem – you can easily set it up so that all the mail that goes to your NYU account automatically forwards to Gmail. You can even set it up so that you can send from your NYU address within Gmail.
Because I am kind, instructions are after the jump. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, April 14, 2009 14:09 - 4 Comments
The Secret Room Inside the Washington Square Arch
Now that Narnia is but a mere legend, NYU students are undoubtedly looking for the next best secret place to hold similarly important festivities. What about…inside the Washington Square Arch?
Curbed posted pictures of the secret chamber to which few have access, actually inside the Arch itself. You can get in through a door on the west side. There are lights, and even a fancy-looking staircase that allows you to go to the top. It’s probably a pot den already – it’s time for ambitious NYU students to finally claim it as our own.
More pictures after the jump. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:37 - 2 Comments
Free Oren’s Coffee Today and Fizzy Lizzy Tomorrow
The line for Oren’s Daily Roast across from Silver is normally horrifically long before the class rush, but it’s worth it to miss a bit of your 4:55 lecture today because they are giving away free small cups of coffee from 4 to 7 pm. And tomorrow, you’re invited to “Stop by and refresh yourself” with Fizzy Lizzy from 6 – 8 pm in the U-Hall Cafe (110 University). Their blog doesn’t explicitly say that they’ll be giving out free drinks, but it wouldn’t really make sense if they didn’t.
On Campus - Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:41 - 1 Comment
Some Things Change, Like Bloomberg’s Affiliation; Some Things Don’t, Like NYU’s Sports Skills
Bloomberg flips a coin and it landed on “Republican.”
NYU will never actually be good at sports.
We will probably also never be as accomplished in making money through writing as this kid.
On Campus, Uncategorized - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 18:56 - 6 Comments
Say Hello to NYU Abu Dhabi?
PHOTOS REMOVED
After years of contentious discussion on how NYU should expand to Abu Dhabi, we now have photos. NYU student senate member Steven Jean, who traveled to Abu Dhabi as part of a special trip, sent us images of the proposed expansion. The model is not yet finalized, but shows general ideas on the scale and style of the new NYU Abu Dhabi campus. The idea is to combine the look and feel of an Islamic Village with that of Greenwich Village.
“The aim of the architect was to create a place that had identity from the beginning with an emphasis on ‘flexible boundaries.’ As you might notice in the photo there is a main street running across the whole campus. The purpose of this is to facilitate the network between the pedestrian campus. There will be a center plaza (a Washington Square Park of sorts) and two smaller plazas at each end on this main street.”
More photos after the jump. Continue…
City - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 17:34 - 5 Comments
NYU Local Writers Take Over Your Thursday Night
Not getting enough of NYU Local during the day? (Is it even possible?) Well this Thursday night, City Writer Josh Becker is hosting a party in the basement of Webster Hall, while National Editor Charlie Eisenhood is DJing at Le Poisson Rouge. The difficult part will be deciding which one to go to, or how to drunkenly stumble from one to the other.
City - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 17:21 - 0 Comments
Writers From Portfolio, Vanity Fair, and Gawker Speaking Tonight in Brooklyn
Gelf Magazine is hosting a monthly speaker series about the media, called Media Circus, which is kicking off for the first time tonight at JLA Studios in DUMBO. According to the website, “The inaugural event is devoted to media critics and how the press covers and consumes itself, especially in tough times. As the media is headed off a cliff, these are the people narrating the free fall.” Tonight’s speakers are Jeff Bercovici, media critic for Portfolio.com; noted author and media writer Seth Mnookin; and Hamilton Nolan, Gawker’s media critic, whom I can personally vouch for as a cool person.
Info here:
JLA Studios
63 Pearl St (between Water St. and Front St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Next to the F train. Close to the A,C. Accessible by the 2,3.
Doors open at 7:00.
Event starts at 7:30.
FREE!
Image from Gelf Magazine
Featured, On Campus - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 14:16 - 3 Comments
Another NYU Alum, Rafael Goldberg, Nominated As One Of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs”
Yesterday, we wrote about NYU alum and cutie pie Rachel Sterne, who is named one of Business Week’s America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. But she’s not the only entrepreneur that went to NYU on the list – Rafael Goldberg, CEO of interrupcion* Fair Trade, attended our school as well.
Goldberg, who was studying politics and philosophy at NYU in 2002, was disturbed by the economic collapse of Argentina. He went there that summer, and found himself astounded by the corruption and inefficiency of the government. There, he was first introduced to interrupcion*.
On Campus - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 0:44 - 3 Comments
Reconfirming That We Are Just “Insouciant Spews of Information,” Cigs, Teeth
NYU kids are willing to pay more for cancer.
NYU study finds that white wine and sports drinks are bad for your teeth. “This is scary,” said someone.
