Brooklyn College

Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education

More than half of all college instructors are now part-time adjuncts, with low pay and no job security. Is the two-tier faculty system harming students, too?

Alan Dershowitz to Brooklyn College: Academic Freedom For Me But Not For Thee

It has become a safe assumption that otherwise liberal and open-minded New York politicians will make an exception for Israel. Case in point: 10 members of the New York City Council have declared that they support academic freedom, just not the freedom of public universities to host events that do n ... More >>

Yo Yo, Where Did You Go Go?

This hoard of meat and fritters sets you back only $7. For 15 years, one of my favorite Brooklyn restaurants was Yo Yo Fritaille, a Haitian spot on Nostrand Avenue somewhere south of Church. "Restaurant" is a bit of an exaggeration: The place consisted of a single large drafty room that looked lik ... More >>

Ryan Leslie+Juelz Santana

Roslyn Kind Sang At Brooklyn College, and I Was There

Barbra's half sister Roslyn Kind has a strong, lovely voice, which she applied to a series of standards at Brooklyn College the other night--everything from "All That Jazz" to "Losing My Mind" to "Meadowlark" and beyond. And she's funny, too. Roslyn remarked, "Apple created the best phone ever, an ... More >>

Fabulous Interview With Roslyn Kind!

A sumptuous singer and a really fun person, Roslyn Kind is coming to Brooklyn College for a concert on Saturday April 28 at 8 PM, accompanied by piano. On imdb, it says she's Barbra Streisand's half sister, James Brolin's sister-in-law, Josh Brolin's stepaunt, and Elliot Gould's ex-sister in-law, ... More >>

Can the DREAM Act Help Undocumented Students Earn a Living?

Dream, deferred

Education Supplement: A CUNY Professor Proposes a Bailout for Starving Arts Students

Up-against-the-wall MFAS

Students Say "Fuck Ass-Kissing" and Other Highlights From The OWS Student Walkout

Gennady Kolker (The Nation Magazine)/Twitter​Hundreds, if not thousands of college students gathered at Union Square yesterday for a mass student walk in tandem with Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action and they had choice words for the establishment that keeps them drowning in debt and without ... More >>

Will Zuccotti Park Help the Real Estate Board of New York Change POP Access Hours?

​The Real Estate Board of New York, a powerful developers' trade association, is trying to get the city to change a 1975 law requiring privately-owned public spaces to be open 24/7. REBNY hasn't yet submitted a proposal to the city, but following reports of REBNY's plans, there's been somethin ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative: the TV Show

Last week, we had the opportunity discuss our Voice feature story "The White Mayor's Burden" on Brian Vines's BCAT show Intersect. Vines invited us to join Dr. Noel Anderson of Brooklyn College to talk about Mayor Bloomberg's Young Men's initiative.

TEACHER’S PET

Can Jame Franco write, too?

New York College Students Are Sad

​The Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" survey has just come out (are you paying attention, helicopter parents?!), and it turns out that New York City has some of the most depressed college kids in the nation. Whatta town!

Student Sues After Night in the Slammer for Bringing Dog on the Subway

via the PostIcelyn Garcia with Louie​​Most people probably don't even know it's a law to keep traveling pups in doggie bags on the subway, since dog owners carry them around as though they're cute to everyone (they're not). One Brooklyn College accounting student learned a tough lesson from a pu ... More >>

James Franco Exhibit at Clocktower Gallery Leaves Us Thinking, "What Can't This Guy Do?"

​We came to know him as an actor (Milk, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, and soon, Eat, Pray, Love), then, as a brainy student (New York University, Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale, and the Rhode Island School of Design). Now he's created his first solo art exhibit, The Dangerous Book Four Boys ... More >>

GIDDY UP!

The Golden Palominos reunite for Electric Literature

Robbers of 9 Livery Cabs in Brooklyn Sought

​Some people treat livery cabs like prey. The NYPD says these two guys have been hailing liveries, ordering them to locations near Brooklyn College like Clarendon Road and East 37th Street, and upon arrival robbing the drivers with a gun. They've hit at least nine livery drivers this way. If ... More >>

FEELING LUCKY?

Give me a quarter . . . I'll tell you your fortune

Fun Read of the Day: List of New York Reps, Senators Earmarks ($5 Mil for Jazzmobile?)

Some time ago we looked at some of the member items state senators requested in Albany. Impressive, but petty cash compared to what they spend in D.C. A group called Washington Watch -- yeah, they're libertarians (i.e. wingnuts with weed), but we'll take our thrills where we can get them -- has a ... More >>

Who Will Win? Voting Machines Battle in Brooklyn for City Contract

One of them resembles a municipal recycling container. The other looks like a commercial paper shredder. Both are campaigning to be New York City's new voting system, but only one can prevail. 
 Meet the candidates: the all-inclusive ImageCast... ...and the DS-200 scanner with AutoMark ballot ... More >>

Liveblogging the State of the City, If We Can Stand It

We'll give it a shot, anyway. The Mayor is going to give this annual speech today at Brooklyn College. Let's begin: 1:21 p.m. Brooklyn borough president/buffoon Marty Markowitz tells a few jokes. He has "declared Brooklyn a Republic," but collegially tells Queens beep Helen Marshall that "whatever ... More >>

Today's Fun Map: Top Brooklyn Polluters!

Coney Island of the Mind: Big Thinkers Consider Coney, Offer Depressing Ideas

Caged Citizen Will Test President Obama

Under 23-hour lockdown here, an innocent American is a Bush "dark side" legacy

Bringing Sexy Back: An Open Call for 2009's EMP Pop Conference

Clip Job: Miss Beatnik 1959

'Coffin It Up' Seeks to Transform Bad Things Into Music

Education Listings, Winter 2007/2008

Small Order

City leaders want kids out of large schools and into smaller ones. Now one Brooklyn high school is fighting the mandate to close its doors.

C Is for Censored

Talking with Marni Kotak, Brooklyn College student and censored artist

Fault Line

Deal or no deal, transit workers want more respect, less punishment

Walking While Black

The bill of rights for black men

Slice 'N' Dice

Noah Creshevsky's crazy, disorienting, hyper-real Alice in Wonderland sonic mayhem

Writers' Bloc

A fearless new generation of Off-Broadway playwrights establishes downtown beachheads

Close-Up on Marine Park

Edward W. Said (1935–2003)

A Testimonial to My Teacher

The Plays What They Wrote

The Best Scripts Not Yet Mounted on a New York Stage

Digital Bodies in Real Time

Choreographers Inspire Other Artists to Electronic Experiments

Close-Up on Midwood

Four-Story 1860s Corner Brick Townhouse

The Real Curriculum

Now and Later

Two Generations of Dance Keep It Cutting Edge

Funny Boy

Deciphering the City’s Hidden Code

Is That a Mountain or a Sidewalk?

Radio On

Collegiate Record Geeks Choose Their Frequency

Letters

Walking While Black

The Bill of Rights for Black Men

Loft Law Limbo

Artists Fret As Albany Fiddles

No-Collar Workers

Is There Room for Unions in the New Media World?

Bess Intentions