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Celeb Stalking One of the Tragic ‘Born into Brothels’ Documentary Subjects Now Tisch Student
Raise your hand if you’ve seen Born Into Brothels. Yeah, I didn’t think so. Well, it was a critically-acclaimed and award-winning documentary released in 2004 documenting the lives of eight children of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red light district. Now one of those children featured in the documentary has grown up and escaped the life he once knew. Avijit Halder is entering his freshman year here at NYU this fall, and he was recently interviewed by the New York Sun about his experiences growing up and his initial reactions to the hustle and bustle of New York life. Continue…
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 0:00
Campus life Washington Square Snark
Washington Square Snark
The first days of school are always hectic. New classes, senile professors, crowded classrooms, early papers, and waiting forty fucking minutes for a tissue-thin pizza at Kimmel are just some of then fun things that await us this fall! But apparently we can add to that list trudging through CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE AROUND THE PARK.
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Academia Most Departments are Medieval Studies Departments
Most Departments are Medieval Studies Departments
Editorialiste touches on something else that I was meaning to talk to in regards to Alana’s post yesterday. Namely, from reading those two links, you would get the impression that our Journalism department just isn’t very good.
But I’m not here to rag on the Journalism department. If someone who’s actually taken a Journalism class wants to do it in this section, they’re more than welcome to, but I’m not really qualified. Instead, I want to talk about how this is indicative of a major bug in our departments as a whole.
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Internet Google: A Decade of Dominance
Google: A Decade of Dominance
Ten years ago today, two Stanford grad students incorporated their fledgling online search engine, Google. They probably didn’t foresee it becoming the most used on the Internet, serving up more searches than every other provider combined.
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Politics Foreign Politics as a Pissing Contest
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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On Campus It’s OK to Change your Schedule
It’s OK to Change your Schedule
Last year, as a freshmen, I was too loaded with excitement and booze to even consider changing my classes. After coming from a public high school with few options, when it came to scheduling, I was excited to have hundreds of classes with sexy names and alluring time-slots at my fingertips. During the add/drop period, I never scrutinized a class enough to know whether I really loved it or not. Luckily, I only had one complete turd of a class (I bet you can guess which one) and a calculus session I only attended thrice. Neither class really crippled my GPA, so the damage was minimal. Even still, these blemishes on an otherwise exceptional academic experience were avoidable.
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Navel Gazing Time for Another Blogger Ethics Panel
Time for Another Blogger Ethics Panel
We here at NYU Local tend to get really excited about New Media, and rightfully so - New Media is what this whole enterprise is all about. It’s about a total commitment to exploring the new world of possibilities for journalism that a web-based platform opens up. That leads us in a dramatically different direction than, say, NYTimes.com, which mostly exists to aggregate content that goes into the print version. Sure, they have some pretty good blogs (I’m a big fan of the Freakonomics blog) and some video, comments, and other things, but if you look at the articles that make up the bulk of the site, they’re written in the same style that’s served the Gray Lady since time immemorial.
That’s not New Media, at least not as we see it here - it’s Old Media that you can look at on your iPhone. What we do here is centered around the basic assumption that it’s not just the medium that’s evolved, but the rules underlying what journalists do. And we’re at an interesting point in history where everyone is trying to figure out what the hell that means.
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2008 Presidential Election Gustav Politics
Gustav Politics
Let us take a moment to be thankful that Hurricane Gustav narrowly missed causing serious damage to the Gulf Coast. Now, let us take a moment to talk about the disgusting politics that preceded the storm.
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2008 Presidential Election “That’s not change we can believe in!”: Liveblogging the McCain Speech
“That’s not change we can believe in!”: Liveblogging the McCain Speech
Since last night’s liveblog got a lot of comments, we’re going to try the same thing again for McCain’s speech tonight, starting at 9:30. Joining me this time will be NYU Local opinion bloggers Pat McGovern and Charlie Eisenhood. Due to technical limitations, we’re not going to actually be in the same room and will be attempting to coordinate the whole thing online, so this should be an exciting experiment in chaos.
Remember: Watch this space at 9:30 PM!
9:23: It begins.
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LGBT McCain didn’t know what ‘LGBT’ meant
McCain didn’t know what ‘LGBT’ meant
This won’t be long. I just want to plant a little seed of thought into the minds of you politically-aware NYU kiddies in anticipation of John McCain’s acceptance speech tonight. It’s no secret to anyone who sets foot near Washington Square Park that NYU prides itself on being an LGBT-friendly university. Because of that, you can expect regular updates on the progress (hopefully) being made by the LGBT community from me throughout the year. One of my favorite John McCain moments happened exactly a year ago today when he was touring the country on the campaign trail and a high school student asked him what he planned to do on LGBT issues and workers’ rights. The septuagenarian did not know what “LGBT” stood for. It wasn’t some spin by a Washington talking head, he actually said, “I had not heard that phrase before.” Awesome! This just goes to show everyone the severe gaps in relevance between the two candidates. Enjoy the speech tonight!
Thursday, September 4, 2008 10:14