Behind the Plastic ID Casing: An Interview with Joan Torch

September 16th, 2011 by Madeline Paumen

You undoubtedly recognize her from NYU’s Campus Cash ads, and now Joan Torch has become an internet sensation with her hilarious and insightful Facebook account. Always singing the praises of “¢ampu$ ¢a$h” and her “NYU Kiddies”, Joan is a hero to many and friend to all. She graciously answered some questions about her enigmatic life for NYU Local.

Give us a little background info on how Joan became Joan. Where did you grow up? How did you become associated with NYU?

I was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn to the destitute Torch family, with my younger, and identical twin sister, Patricia Trattoria. Growing up so poor, I remember playing dress-up with my mother’s pantsuit closet when my father would come home with no cash in his pocket and no cards to swipe. It was a challenging time in my lyfe, but that lack of anything gave me a dream to be a part of a system that would be both convenient and effective in offering multiple wayz for people to put money in their wallet. Read more…


Dakota Fanning Is Definitely An NYU Freshman

August 23rd, 2011 by Zoë Schlanger
Suite Life twins are all well and good (we guess), but the Class of 2015′s starpower was just boosted significantly. Dakota Fanning was accepted Early Decision and was seen touring Gallatin last spring, and now we can confirm that the talented young actress is an enrolled freshman.

We were messing around in the new NYU Gmail system (because why not) and saw that her name and Net ID are in the autocomplete directory. Read more…


Dakota Fanning Spotted Touring Gallatin

May 3rd, 2010 by Kenneth Hsu

According to Nylon Mag, Dakota Fanning was seen touring Gallatin sometime last week. But before you start dreaming about taking the “Perversion” seminar with Ms. Fanning, keep in mind that she’s still only 16 years old. Nylon also mentions that she might just be doing some research for her next role in Betsy and the Emperor.

Either way, any guesses on what Dakota’s WTF Gallatin Major would be?

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James Franco Enrolling in Yale for PhD

March 26th, 2010 by Surekha Ratnatunga

Everyone’s favorite in-denial-about-it NYU student, James Franco, is enrolling in Yale for a PhD in English, according to The Yale Herald. The announcement makes it seem as if Franco is seamlessly moving from one Ivy League school to another, without mentioning his tryst with NYU (how typical). No one official at Yale University has confirmed the news yet, but it looks like Franco will be moving from New York to New Haven this September. Now who will we stalk at the Starbucks?


James Franco Forgets He Goes to NYU Again, This Time on SNL

December 21st, 2009 by Jessica Roy

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James Franco hosted SNL this weekend, and once again he decided to announce his enrollment at Columbia, while furtively omitting the fact that he also attends NYU. Sigh.


Under the Arch Wants to Make Your Reality TV Dreams Come True

November 4th, 2009 by Natan Edelsburg

In the valley of elah download.10-AM.png” alt=”Screen shot 2009-11-04 at 11.18.10 AM” width=”259″ height=”128″ />We know the primary reason you came to NYU was for a shot at getting on The City, MTV’s sad excuse for a Hills NYC remake. Well, burgeoning reality stars, your time as come! According to a New York Post article and a Wall Street Journal blog from last week, Under The Arch, a web series started in October 2006 by NYUer Sean Patrick Murray, is hosting an “open call” for the second season of the show they describe as “nine NYU students living their dream.”

If you think you have a special enough life at NYU to make us watch the second season, head on over to David Barton Gym (yes that’s the new gym on Astor Place that looks like a nightclub for yoga lovers) from November 16-20. The trailer they released is pretty good. Murray’s honesty with his project, which MTV has rarely been with its pop-realities, was best described in this quote from WSJ:

Although he strives for realism, Murray says that there is an unavoidable element of artifice that goes with the show, so that the cameras know where to be to record what’s going on. “We’ll get together once a week and talk about the stories we want to tell in the same way that anyone who creates a play or movie does,” he says.

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Seasoned Porn Star Enrolled in NYU Fine Arts Masters Program

October 12th, 2009 by Surekha Ratnatunga

Dead air download.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/loreleilee.jpg” alt=”loreleilee” title=”loreleilee” width=”300″ height=”222″ class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-16145″ />Let’s extend a warm welcome to one of NYU’s newest grad students, Lorelei Lee. She is 28, pursuing a masters in fine arts and wisely uses her time outside the classroom to earn the cash to pay for college. As a porn star.

In an interview with NY Daily News, Lee explains she is well accustomed to balancing life as an adult entertainer with her education. Lee has appeared in over 200 films since the age of 19. She graduated from San Francisco State University last year, but said earning her masters at NYU does not necessarily spell the end of her career in porn.

It may be a stretch, but I am assuming Lorelei Lee is not her real name. 1950s American film buffs will know Lorelei Lee is the name of Marilyn’s Monroe’s character in the Howard Hawks classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The film is most famous Monroe’s sultry rendition of the tune, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
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James Franco Reps Both NYU and Columbia– Finally

April 16th, 2009 by Dene Chen

113Bless New York Magazine for their optimistic covers week after week Casino download. This week’s feature issue compiles stories from characters that are New York fixtures (or new New Yorkers) who talk about their experiences moving into the city, while also highlighting the fact that the failing economy has actually motivated more people to move to the city because they no longer have jobs to tie them to their (less superior) city.

Some of these famous individuals’ stories are hilarious, like Lauren Hutton getting here in 1964 “to get to Africa and find LSD”; Andy Samberg’s eerily-prophetic account of post-graduation living situations ; Amy Sedaris’s first sight of a man shitting in public (I saw that two weeks ago– it was disconcerting.) Also notable is James Franco not snubbing NYU and acknowledging that he attends both Tisch and Columbia. Whew, about time.

Photograph by Andrew Eccles at New York Magazine. One hundred and sixty people who moved here in the past six months, April 3 at Pier 59 Studios.


Four Minutes to Class!

April 9th, 2009 by Jessica Roy

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John Votta, the kindly man who wears two watches and stands at the East side of WSP shouting how many more minutes you have to get to class on time, has seriously had more press than OctoMom and Ashley Dupre combined. Click the link for the vid, since it refuses to embed.(via the NYTimes) (Photo via WSN)


Haley Joel Osment Caught Drawing Snow Penis

January 27th, 2009 by Nicole He

0111_haley_joel_osmondOver the last couple weeks, East Village residents wrung their hands over the mysterious Penistrator, who has been furtively drawing inappropriate body parts on snowy cars Fall the download.  TMZ recently posted photographic evidence that it was none other than our beloved, dead-people-seeing NYU celebrity: Haley Joel Osment!

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