Why is Jude Law Beaning NYU Students With Citrus Fruits?

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|

Private Security Planned For Washington Square Park

Following the millions spent on Washington Square Park’s facelift, fence and centered fountain, a group of “wealthy, high-level” Greenwich Village residents plans to hire private security to keep the park from suddenly regressing to its “bad old days as an open-air drug market.” Suggesting the NYPD and their invasive network of monitored surveillance cameras are ineffective at controlling law breakers, “The Coalition for a Better Washington Square Park,” a group composed of nearby co-op boards and NYU, plans to use anonymous donations to hire off-duty cops to beat back any crime that crops up.
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NYU Reminds Poor Students How Poor They Are

While the NYU financial aid flyer, that encouraged poorer students to leave for a more affordable CUNY education, was a fake, it wasn’t too far off the mark. NYU financial counselors are calling up accepted applicants with large gaps between their financial aid packages and the tuition they need, to make sure they understand how financially screwed they are. Worse, they targeted the discouraging call to accepted students who are their family’s first to attend college. |NYP|

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The NYU Uprising In Photos

As you may have heard by now, administration officials at NYU quelled the student occupied action at the Kimmel Center this afternoon by suspending matriculated activists and offering up the CUNY kids to the cops as tresspassers. Although it may have been short lived, the Take Back NYU movement will never be forgotten! ANIMAL presents some of last night’s street protest activity after the jump to commemorate the freedom fighting operation.

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NYU Rebel Update

Hardcore freedom fighting NYU students holed up at the Kimmel building’s food court are happy to report that they’ve rejected the “shitty deal” that administration officials are offering if they agree to vacate the premises right away. They’re now also demanding that the security guards be fed, emphasizing this with this stern proclamation: “We’re DEFINITELY not leaving until they get their food.” The students must have broken some shit too, cause although they’ve agreed to nonviolence they are invoking the right to damage property. Otherwise the NYU-puppy cam is back online and the gathering has reached a critical protest phase: topless activists are showing their tits in support. UPDATE: In a daring act of solidarity, 30-40 more students bum rushed the doors, reinforcing the contingent of rebels. Will there be enough vegan cupcakes to go around?

NYU Students Occupy Building, Demand World Peace!

Last night, about 70 well to do NYU students occupied the third floor of the Kimmel Center—it’s where the cafeteria is—to issue a list of demands ranging from “public disclosure of the operating budget” to investigating Coca-Cola’s alleged involvement with paramilitary death squads and annual scholarships “for thirteen Palestinian students.” Additionally they want the university to dole out aid to Gaza and look into the “school’s investments in Israel and all war/genocide profiteers.” Click here to read the full list of demands or click below and watch as students leisurely lounge around and fight the power—they set up their very own puppy cam. Related: New School Students Surrender

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Pretentious NYU Students Claim Responsibility for Flyer Hoax

So yesterday we posted what we thought was a real NYU financial aid flyer encouraging the school’s poorer students to attend CUNY—proof positive that drugs do distort your judgment—but it turned out to be a fake. This morning we received an email from a “student activist group” claiming responsibility. The Students Creating Radical Change maintain that most of the information was factually correct, like the quotes from John Sexton. They’re unhappy with NYU’s lax financial aid program and were hoping this would spark a dialogue about the school’s handling of its less fortunate students. The desktop publishing radicals also declared that they’ve got nothing against CUNY specifically—as long as they’re not forced to go there.

NYU Unveils Financial Aid Plan for Poor Students: Go To CUNY

With the financial crisis showing no signs of letting up anytime soon, even schools like New York University are trying to formulate strategies to deal with the “troubled economic times,” but not everyone approves of their tactics. An incensed reader attending the expensive school sent in this flyer (legible version HERE) being distributed at the student center, encouraging a CUNY education as the cheaper alternative for those that can’t afford NYU. “I think it’s pretty fucked up that NYU can’t give its students decent financial aid even though John Sexton flies to Abu Dhabi every other week and we keep buying new buildings all over the city,” wrote the academic. The flyer detailing their “new In and Of the City financial aid plan” shows a map of the CUNY system, offers a handy chart detailing how much money students can save ($43,183 a year!), and provides this spirited quote from Sexton: (UPDATE: it’s a fake.)

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