NYU’s LGBT office never runs out of things to celebrate. After NYU’s Pride Month festivities in October, the LGBT Office is dubbing November 16th-21st Trans Week, dedicated to “Gender Benders, Breakers, Revolutionaries, Non-Conformists, and Awesome People.”
There are a mix of midday and evening events to enjoy. Note that many, if not all, of the programs are open to the public and include free food (sometimes even Twister!). Check out the full list on the Trans Week facebook page, but here are some highlights with the event descriptions:
Gender Fabulous! Trans Week Kick-Off Performance!
7pm – 10pm Monday 11/16, E&L Kimmel 4th Floor
“Come start the week off right with GENDER FABULOUS, a group featuring the World Famous *BOB*, Glenn Marla and Dave End! This performance promises to be a hysterical and heartbreaking journey through the minds of three of NYC’s most endearing performers.”
Unpacking Gender: Intersections of Gender & Mental Health
7pm Tuesday 11/17, Kimmel 905
“Co-sponsored by Campus Icarus Project: Thinking about gender a little too much? Come talk about how mental health and gender intersect in a workshop that is all about YOU! Attend this workshop to explore what gender is and how it affects everyone daily. FREE FOOD!”
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Are you a senior graduating in May 2010, with only a few more credits needed to meet the 128 credit requirement for graduation? Then listen up! I’m going to tell you how you can potentially save about $10,000.
A lot of NYU students (read: overachievers) came to NYU with a few credits already under their belts, either due to college courses taken in high school, or transferable AP credits. As graduation creeps closer, you probably have more credits than you realize (check your Degree Progress Report on Albert to see how many you have). If you have 117 credits or more, you’re eligible to enroll as a part-time student for the spring semester, which will make your tuition a lot less expensive. I’ll use the numbers my parents and I crunched to demonstrate just how much you can actually save.
Monday, November 16, 2009 12:07 - by Jessica Roy
In the second to last Intelligence Squared U.S. debate of the year, more high-profile panelists will be debating the motion “Obama’s economic policies are working effectively” at the Skirball Center from 6:45 – 8:30 p.m. tonight. Tickets are $12 for students ($45 for non-students).
Arguing for the motion is Moodys.com founder Mark Zandi with economists Steve Rattner and Lawrence Mishel. Their opposition will be professors James K. Galbraith and Allan H. Meltzer and, of course, former New York Governor cum blogger Eliot Spitzer (prostitutes will be denied entrance). As with all the other debates, ABC Correspondent John Donvan will be moderating.
The panelists will be debating various policies and proposals of the Obama administration, from health care reform to cap-and-trade, and their effect on the economy. Discussion will also ask if the recession is in fact over and how the President’s management guided the U.S. recovery.
Last month’s Intelligence Squared debate featured renowned journalists debating the necessity of “mainstream media,” with 68% of the audience ultimately voting against the motion. The next event (Dec. 1), the last of this season’s, will discuss the Mexican drug war and will include panelists such as Jorge Casteneda and Fareed Zakaria.
Monday, November 16, 2009 8:45 - by Kenneth Hsu
Tisch: it’s not all about choral harmonies and dress rehearsals, you know? There are photographers too, and they’re really good. Their work has been on display at 721 Broadway since October 23rd, were you aware? And they’re only gonna stay up until November 21st. Take a look before they’re gone! Also: the picture you see now is a recreation of that famous Ingres painting. It was taken by friend of the site Meredith Rom. See what you’ll be missing, people?
After the jump is a relevant music video, because it’s Friday and we’ve all kind of checked out anyway. (Kidding, Lily!)
Friday, November 13, 2009 13:54 - by Josh BeckerRemember Stephen Colbert’s Christmas special from a couple years back? Remember how funny that was? Well good news! If you think that was awesome, think about how fantastic it is that the real, non-ironic doppleganger of Colbert’s narcissistic stage person will be bringing his own lame Christmas special to NYU’s Skirball center.
Glenn Beck, he of the golden tears and incitements to revolution, will be reading from his modern-day holiday classic, A Christmas Sweater, which Publishers Weekly praises as “a weak attempt at a holiday classic in the vein of It’s a Wonderful Life.”
I haven’t been able to find any info on tickets yet, but believe me, figuring out some way into this event is my project for the next three weeks. It’s going to be glorious: readings from the Good Book (no, not The Bible), awkward, gratuitous crying, and live music! Presumably it will all wrap up with the greatest Christmas tradition of all: Glenn Beck peddling his merchandise and toxic right-wing ideology. God bless us, everyone!
Friday, November 13, 2009 10:00 - by Ned Resnikoff
Hey! I’m editing Fridays now, and it’s a great day to start because there is actually so much to do today, besides make lame references to Friday the 13th (like I did in the title.) Avoid bad luck, thanks to our fine university!
The finals of the 6th Annual Cyber Securities Challenge will be taking place at the NYU-Poly school in Brooklyn. Events start at 1:30. Bring your own Mountain Dew and Cheetos.
For 12 bucks, come witness Talk Like Singing, billed as the “first-ever original Japanese musical to premiere in the U.S.” It’s at Skirball, at 8pm. I don’t understand why this didn’t premiere in Japan, but good for us, I guess.
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In a predictably glowing write-up about our very own school president, Time ranked Sexton #2 on their list of the 10 Best College Presidents. Sexton falls just behind E. Gordon Lee, OSU’s president, whose picture makes him look charmingly hyper-professorial. Among Sexton’s accomplishments, Time cites his commitment to teaching despite his busy schedule, and the global (read: imperialist) vision that has lead to NYU’s much-debated expansion into the Middle East. Unfortunately, Time fails to actually question any of Sexton’s initiatives, and seems happy to grant him the #2 spot based on surface accomplishments alone. Perhaps we question too much, but it seems Time may question too little. They also didn’t mention Sexton’s penchant for hugs, which is actually one of his most endearing traits.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 14:52 - by Jessica Roy
When I applied to NYU in the fall of 2005, I distinctly remember that one of the essay questions on the application forced me to ponder, “Why, aside from its location, do you want to attend NYU?” I’m sure I’m not the only one who struggled with coming up with an answer to that one. NYU’s convenient Greenwich Village location is no doubt one of the main attractions of the university, but an intimate, traditional campus environment is automatically sacrificed when your school is located in the heart of an overpopulated city. President Sexton has described NYU as “a large community made up of smaller ones,” but sometimes it feels like even those smaller ones aren’t small enough. We at NYU Local want to change that… at least online.
If you’ve given in to the Twitter craze, hopefully you’re already following our account. Yesterday our City Editor, Kenny Hsu, introduced a new list that seeks to organize every NYU student, organization and professor with a Twitter account into one easy-to-follow list: in short, we want to create an NYU campus on Twitter, a one stop shop for all tweets NYU. We hope it’ll successfully render a sense of community–at least digitally–that students can join and follow, so that our school can stop feeling so fragmented and start feeling like a real university. Find it, follow it, love it–and if you want to be added to the list, just @ or DM us.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:30 - by Jessica Roy
In an infuriatingly parochial column for Forbes.com, NYU Stern professor Tunku Varadajaran coins the term “going Muslim” as the successor to the phrase “going postal,” in light of the recent shooting at the Fort Hood military base.
While “going postal” simply implies violence that results from “snapping psychologically,” Varadajaran describes “going Muslim” as a “calculated discarding of the camouflage of integration.” He recklessly speculates that Muslim-Americans, like “a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood,” could decide “to vindicate his religion” by committing mass murder. Varadajaran goes on to argue that the military should be a politically-correct-free zone with rampant racial profiling, because we “cannot stand civic piety in the face of the murderous kind.”
I know Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim. I know he reportedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” before opening fire on innocent Americans. I know there are stories circulating that he corresponded with some radical Muslim cleric in Yemen. But someone teaching at the NYU School of Business really should know that correlation does not establish causation.
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Few people embody the internet more than NYU Professors Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis Clay Shirky. Rosen, who is basically NYU Local’s professorial mascot, is an unabashed Twitter enthusiast, going so far as to coin the term “mindcasting” and functioning as a New Media King in his own right. Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody tackles grassroots organizing and social media. Together, the two are really an unstoppable force of new media, and–lucky for us–they’re teaming up for a discussion at the J school at 20 Cooper Square. According to the press release, “They will discuss the latest ideas in new media: what’s working, what’s dead, and where the medium is headed.” The event will take place Thursday December 3rd from 6-7pm and is free and open to the public. You can call 212.998.8044 for more info.
UPDATE: Original post accidentally interchanged Jarvis and Shirky because I was reading Buzzmachine while I was writing it. Apologies! Luckily, all three are awesome new media gurus.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:30 - by Jessica Roy
