Professor Barnaby Ruhe wears a tattered fanny pack and a cashmere scarf. His bookshelf is littered with the usual professorial fanfare; Joyce, Proust, and Plato are all in attendance. As I enter his office, he encourages a student: “Write the book. It’s not hard. It’s like a journal.”
Ruhe believes that we 20-somethings need to create our world. We’re not starting at the bottom of the hill like we think we are, and we ought to act like it. To no one’s surprise, he also teaches “Art Now: Ancient Tradition, Radical Change,” which reveals how to vision quest-dream using values embedded by American Indian ideologies and cultures.
Dr. Ruhe is grown from an academic garden that boasts art theory, naval history, and advanced nuclear physics, a selection you might expect from a Gallatin professor. And like these credentials, the path that he took to reach NYU is also far from traditional. Read more…
Last Friday, Somaly Mam, a major figure in the anti-sex trafficking movement came to speak at the Rosenthal Pavilion thanks to the initiative of Against Child Trafficking Club (ACTC) of NYU. We had the opportunity to speak with Lauren Kalogridis, the President of ACTC, and Becca Park, the club’s vice-president, about human rights activism on campus and their impressions of Somaly Mam.
You’ve probably seen IRHC mascot Housie Maguire around campus, giving out hugs and high fives at university events. You may also keep up with him on his 
