Tag: COOPER UNION
On Saturday, the prototype of the Cooper Lumen, a solar-powered wi-fi hotspot and mobile device charging station, will be set up for public demonstration on the corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place as part of the the Cooper Square Committee’s Second Ave. Festival, the Villager reports. The Cooper Lumen was devised by Paul […]
The tradition of vandalizing Banksy’s art quickly after it goes up continues and the street piece he revealed on Saturday, depicting a forlorn-looking priest, has already been modified. The work, dubbed “ […]
“Soon enough I won’t have to deal with any of you fuckers,” quoth President of the Cooper Union Jamshed Bharucha on the fake CooperUnion.Biz website. The rest is an Onion-esque spectacle echoing the students’ dismay that for the first time in 154 years, Cooper Union plans to charge tuition. It just really needs updates. At this point in the conflict, […]
Echoing their occupation of Cooper Union’s Foundation Building late last year, a group of students is currently staging a sit-in inside the office of school president Jamshed Bharucha. Last month, the college announced it would begin charging tuition for undergraduate students in 2014, ending a century-long tradition of free education. Watch a live-stream of the […]
