After being stalled by some drizzle, NYU move in day is finally here. Traffic around the dorms is basically a shitshow like usual as Coeds from all over the world are now descending on New York and soon the Village’s streets will be covered in freshmen puke. EV Grieve has some pictures of the surprisingly controlled chaos at Third Avenue North on 3rd Avenue. Read more »
Although this clip was originally confined to Facebook, I decided it would serve the community much better by freeing it up beyond the social network. A dedication to Gawker scribe, Hamilton Nolan, NYU student and On Campus editor of NYULocal.com, Nicole He, whipped up this tribute as part of a 20 part project. Read more »
Because only the well funded can afford to live there nowadays, NYU in collaboration with the New York Times just launched an East Village-centric blog: The Local. I’ve always secretly yearned for a more pretentious take of that particular area and now my wish has come true. Where else will you find out that payphones are dirty and don’t work?
Here’s one way to keep NYU’s Irish students from melting and is also a good fix for others who live in spaces where an air conditioners are not possible or permitted.
NYU wants to display the archives of artist Larry Rivers, documenting the city’s artistic and literary scenes of the ’40s through the ’80s. There’s also footage of his two nude adolescent daughters as he interviews them about their bodies, starting at as young as 11. Read more »
The Irish never had it easy in NYC and are once again being subjected to widespread discrimination as a heat wave appears to be melting many of Ireland’s fair-skinned transplants. According to the Irish Voice, it’s not just nature’s fault, but NYU’s too. The school doesn’t permit A/C’s in the dorms, creating hellish conditions for one student: “All we have is a fan and now they want us to get rid of that. I’ve lost seven kilograms in body weight in the past three days, I’ve never seen sweat like it and they want us to get rid of the one bit of relief we have.”
Proving that some good can come out of NYU, graduate student Adam Harvey is working on a very cheap counter surveillance technique that could render very expensive facial recognition technology utterly useless and it doesn’t even have moving parts: abstract makeup. It’s dazzle camo for humans. |PSFK|
Aw, poor Jude Law! The dandy little Brit thespian with the Herculean sperm came to New York to get his Shakespeare on, and now he’s pissed that students living in a NYU dorm in the village can peer down upon his fancy balcony, so he’s taken to hurling oranges at them whenever he catches someone looking out their window at him. Note to Jude Law: It’s New York, asshole! If you don’t want neighbors spying on you, move the hell someplace else. Idiot! Someone please whip this guy’s ass, and soon. |New York Post|
Another NYU student apparently committed suicide this morning, the twelfth such tragic incident in the past five years at the school. |NYU|
While working “as an equipment room clerk in the athletic department” at NYU, Ariel Fleurimond was asked to whip up a logo, she did, but was surprised when the school actually used it and is now suing. |NYDN|
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