May 24th, 2013

BREAKING: Free Printing In Bobst LL1

Today, from 5pm until 1AM, the Student Senators Council will be offering free printing for any and all NYU students. Stationed in LL1 of Bobst, the newly elected SSC members are rolling in with pounds of paper and ink cartridges. This is totally free; those who spent their total printing credit are doubly invited.

The printing is brought to students ITAB a committee under the Student Senators Council. The committee is chaired by Griffin Dooling, an alternate senior at large 2012-13, and full at large senior for 2013-14. “We see this as a way to help students during a stressful time of year by offering a service in addition to the energy drink handouts we’ve done in the last few years,” says Dooling. ITAB brought their own laptop, so students send their papers to themselves and print away. Along with the printer, they’ve set up a study lounge area with other academic helpers. Red Bell may also make a rumored appearance.

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LOCAL STOPS: Angelina Jolie, Phone Tapping, & James Franco

 

-Angelina Jolie publishes an op-ed in the Times regarding her choice to receive a double mastectomy.

-UH-OH… YIKES.

-In case Gatsby didn’t get your literary fist a-shaking, here’s the trailer for James Franco’s As I Lay Dying.

-NYU’s Fales Library is awesome; it has digitized David Wojnarowicz’s journals.

Photo of the Day by Caleb Savage.


Council Speaker Christine Quinn Rallies In Support of NYU Grad Student Union

Members of NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee flexed their political muscle last Thursday when their rally for unionization was headlined by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and supported by over 250 other state elected officials.

The GSOC—NYU’s currently unrecognized labor union for Teaching and Research Assistants—has campaigned for collective bargaining rights since 2004, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate students employed by universities qualified as students, and were therefore ineligible for union rights. In 2002, two years before the NLRB’s decision, the GSOC voted to become a part of the United Auto Workers Local 2110 union, and achieved a contract with NYU. The contract recognized NYU’s TAs and RAs as employees, raised their stipends by 40 percent, offered health benefits, and granted overtime pay if their hours exceeded 20 per week.

But after the NLRB ruling, NYU allowed the contract to expire, leaving RAs and TAs without collective bargaining rights in 2005. Now the GSOC hopes to reinstate its contract with support from city and state officials. Read more…


NYU Film Student Rages Against The Machine And Interrupts Class

What began as a usual screenplay seminar quickly escalated into a tense confrontation when a student began blasting Rage Against the Machine music during class, and eventually lashed out at fellow classmates when they joined their professor in asking him to turn it off and leave the classroom.

Vincent, a film major, was eventually escorted out of the building and later claimed on Twitter that he was taken to a mental hospital “for playing Rage Against the Machine in a Classroom.” Read more…


Pick Up Your Cap And Gown And Send Us Photos!

Seniors, we know you have a lot to do before you walk across that Yankee Stadium stage (or do you run around the bases?). You’re moving, you’re reminicisng, you’re studying working hard trying to outlast and not cry during that last final, and you may or may not be drinking. But there may be one very important thing that you really can’t forget to do:

PICK UP YOUR CAP AND GOWN.

Although we’ve been reminded 30 times in the last week to do our course evaluations, no one is pestering us to pick up our graduation attire. We spend 49 (more of) (our parent’s) hard-earned dollars on renting something we’ll wear for only two days, and Big Graduation doesn’t even want us to pick it up. The cap and gown pop up shop will be stationed outside of Coles until the day before the big convocation. So you can plan your naps/crying/sitcom-worthy moments around this errand, here are their hours: Read more…


Here Are The Concerts NYC Has In Store For Us This Summer And Beyond

The warm weather and constant drinking isn’t all there is to look forward to this summer. In case you haven’t had a chance to scope out which musicians are coming to NYC this year, or are still depressed you couldn’t afford that Governor’s Ball ticket, we’ve got you covered. We’ve got dates for Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Crystal Fighters, The Roots, Disclosure, and TNGHT between now, summer, and New Year’s – and we also threw in a date for a Daft Punk tribute band since everyone’s on their Daft Punk kick right now.

While everyone else’s faces are buried in their books, why not take a minute to book some tickets? The Killers, Beyoncé, and Belle & Sebastian are playing shows here too, but they’re sold out, but when’s that ever stopped anyone? Also, stay tuned for our Entertainment section’s best picks later this week for a more in-depth summer itinerary.

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200 Ceramic Pigs Found At Stern; Origins And Current Whereabouts Unknown

In what might be considered the most significant archeological finding of our time, The New York Times reported this Sunday that a collection of over 200 ceramic pigs has been (re)discovered in a supply closet at Stern.

“Among the castoff cleaning products and outdated office supplies in the all-but-forgotten storage area were crates full of pig-shaped tchotchkes: salt and pepper shakers, gravy boats, ashtrays, and all manner of figurines. There was a wax candle piglet, a terra-cotta souvenir from Mexico, a beer stein molded in a pig’s likeness, even a few marzipan pigs.”

The miniature hogs were not all found in one place—they were located in boxes scattered across the building. “It went on like an archaeological dig,”  Joe Diaz, a facilities manager who originally found the pigs eight years ago, told the Times.  “The boxes containing the pigs were not all together and they kept appearing.” Read more…


NYU Local Believes In YOU

The fateful week is upon us. Finals are here.

At the beginning of the semester, hopes and dreams inspired you. You were going to do everything different this time around. Go to class. Take notes. Be sober. But once the professor stopped explaining the syllabus, those bullshit aspirations fell to the wayside.

So here you are without notes, energy or a clue what to do next. Professors may lack confidence in Sexton, but NYU Local has confidence in you.

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Highlights From The Upfronts: Networks Announce Fall TV

Last week we gave you some of the new and returning summer television we are most looking forward to (or otherwise willing to admit that we’ll probably end up watching if there’s air conditioning near the TV).

There’s more where that came from, though, because after summer comes fall (knowledge!) and this week in Hollywood all the major networks are giving their upfront presentations, which means they’re ordering new series from the roster of pilots announced earlier this year, announcing what shows are getting renewed, and canceling other ones. What they decide during the upfronts influences what’s going to be on your television in a few months! As of Tuesday night, NBC and Fox are the only networks that have announced full schedules and put out trailers, but all of the major networks have shared at least some news of what will be on the fall schedule. Here are some of the highlights.

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Brooklyn’s Here! The End Of The Nets’ First Season Has Us Looking At Dodger Pasts And An Islanders Future

Brooklyn was in love with the Dodgers. Just ask J-Sex. For over 70 years, the team had been entrenched in the borough and was something the residents of Brooklyn could call their own. When the Dodgers left Brooklyn, a gaping hole was torn in the hearts of the Brooklyn die-hards.

To say the Brooklyn Dodgers were legendary is an understatement- they played their first season in the International League in 1883, and after winning the American Association Championship in 1889, joined the National League in 1890, and the rest is history.

But the Dodgers were not always known as the Dodgers. They were originally known as the Atlantics, Grays, Bridegrooms, Trolley Dodgers, Superbas and Robins before the Dodgers moniker stuck. The name was taken from Trolley Dodgers, which the Brooklyn fans were called because they used to dodge the trolleys on the streets of Brooklyn. Read more…