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NYU Student Busted For Selling Airsoft Rifles Out Of Dorm

Ah, college. A time spent to prepare oneself for the modern job market, learning all the tricks of the trade that will place you higher up on that steep ladder of social mobility in 2013. Nowadays, that all translates into making the newest app or website, not really running a full-scale operation o ... More >>

China Fast-tracks a New Satellite Campus of New York University—But the Price May be Intellectual Freedom

NYU Faculty Calls Out President Sexton's 2031 Expansion Plan In Open Letter

The saga over NYU's 2031 expansion plan continues.We recently took a trip to City Hall to hear about the university's expansion plan and while most of the dissenting voices in attendance were from residents of the Greenwich Village, it was mentioned that nearly 35 of NYU's departments had also op ... More >>

New York Times Supports NYU Expansion In Editorial

In an editorial published in today's paper, the New York Times throws its weight behind NYU's controversial expansion plan, saying that the project's opponents have "mostly overreacted." Although the paper does honor some criticisms of the plan, their ultimate point is broad. "N.Y.U., along with ot ... More >>

NYU2031, the Expansion Plan of the Century, is a Mayoral Game

It was a given that NYU's expansion plan would create a commotion -- any proposal cramming 2.4 million square feet, which is about equal to the size the Empire State Building, into a six-block radius will have that effect. The Manhattan Community Board, a collection of citizens from t ... More >>

For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game

Brand Practice

NYC Students Stage Walkouts in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, students from around New York will walk out of their classes and march down to City Hall this afternoon. Once at City Hall, the students will join the larger Community/Labor March to Wall Street, which already has almost 3,000 people attending on Facebook. A few mont ... More >>

More High Schoolers Applying to Be Hated By Native New Yorkers

via collegelifestyles​Applications for Columbia and NYU reached new highs this year. NYU Local reports that NYU received "exactly 42,242 freshman applications this year, topping last year's record by 11 percent." The New York Post says that changes in the application process brought "the Mor ... More >>

Are Campuses Doing Double Duty as Drug Havens? Plus: Which NYC School Is the Druggiest?

​The New York Post is billing an "exclusive" this week about how Columbia University has systematically failed to report its drug-using student populace to police or prosecutors. The not-so-earth-shattering expose comes on the heels of last week's big frat house drug bust, which led to the ar ... More >>

NYU Won't Build "Fourth" I.M. Pei Tower After All

​NYU-hating village preservationists will probably be celebrating today. The real-estate-hungry university has announced it will withdraw its application to build a planned 400-foot-tall tower in the Silver Towers complex at Bleecker and West Houston streets that was planned to include a dorm ... More >>

NYU Responds to NYT Tracking Down Their First 2010 Applicant

​Picture in your mind who you would expect as the first applicant of the year to NYU. What comes to mind? Give up? Well, it was....

NYU's Snuff Film

A campus-wide clampdown on last year's student film death won't keep us from giving you the whole picture

N.Y.U.'s Neighbors Complain of Boiler Smoke; School Blows Them Off

Toby Buggiani remembers he was working at his computer one June morning when his West Village apartment filled with nasty smelling smoke that got him dizzy. The smoke was coming though his windows, he noticed, from a mobile boiler which local bastion of knowledge NYU had positioned right across the ... More >>

NYU Protest Update: Clash

twitpic via nullsleep NYU Local's late night thread: "1:04 - We've been offered a chance to leave now. I can't leave. I've been following this story for over 28 hours straight. I know you all are waiting to hear what happens. I got you. I'm in it for the long haul." The feed is black but someone ... More >>

NYU Protest Update: Negotiators Reported Suspended

twitpic via nullsleep Our Man on the Outside tells us, "Student occupiers claim they sent a five-person delegation to negotate with the administration this morning, and the students were immediately suspended and not permitted to return to the occupation." Oops! We thought suspensions were out. ( ... More >>

NYU Protest Update: The Final Four

Photos, legwork by Robert Sietsema. There are only a few students left inside the Kimmel Center, which has been occupied since Thursday in the Take Back NYU protest. Those are the final four in the picture, reported by NYU Local's twitter feed to be Ryan Olander -- an intern at the Washington Peac ... More >>

NYU Caf Occupation Covered Live by Floor-Cam

Just weeks after the student occupation drama at the New School, NYU has an occupation of its own, in the Kimmel Center cafeteria. The occupiers' demands start with amnesty, but generally have to do with financial transparency for the university -- not a bad idea, considering how badly it was burne ... More >>

NYU Occupation Floor-Cam Uprises!

The Kimmel Center Occupation Force has lifted its camera! Representatives confirm that they are "staying in the building until all their demands are met," and lead from the balcony (from which they have dropped a banner) onlookers in shouts of "Whose school? Our school!" and "Take back NYU!" and c ... More >>

NYU Floor-Cam Back On, Slightly Raised

The NYU protestcam is back on. We were made privy to a discussion about a bucket. Some protesters were worried that a bucket on a rope they were using, presumably for ingress of supplies, would be seized by police. "Yeah, the bucket didn't work out," says one. In the chat window, someone keeps aski ... More >>

NYU Protest Update: No to Concessions, Yes to Nudity

Protesters say they met with NYU representatives and told them they refused to leave the caf until their first two demands (protester amnesty, workman's comp) were met. Negotiations broke down there. Press conference just ended, chatters at webcam are upset that they're not showing it. Update: fee ... More >>

Clip Job: Dorm Discrimination

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 8, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 16Bias in NYU HousingThe Congress of Racial Equality is currently investigating claims of discrimination against Negroes in housing owned by Columbia University and New York University. According to James Farmer, n ... More >>

Puss-Coital Dirty Pop-Rappers Menya Play CMJ, Still Work That Christgau Professor Connection

NYU Graduation Sale on the Bowery

Second Avenue Met Foods Threatened by NYU Rent Increases

Students Protest Washington Square Park Redesign

A Better Way of Contacting Congress by Phone

Fashion Victim

Mike Gallagher claims NYU is threatening his famous vintage magazine empire. And he wants some payback.

Attack of the 26-story NYU dorm

Spire Education

Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break

Education Listings

Labor Bigs Hit NYU

The Nerds Are Pissed

New York University opts for war with its best and brightest

A Brief Guide to Blogodemia

Walking the Edge

NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire

The Main Course

Food studies is fast becoming a serious pursuit

Wanted: Really Smart Suckers

Grad school provides exciting new road to poverty

Field Tripping

NYU Students Protest Exit of Popular Prof

Losing Their Faculties

At NYU, Angry Professors Talk of Unionizing

Violet Behavior

NYU Women's Basketball Heads Uptown Under Coach Janice Quinn

Decision Time at NYU

A University Debates Its Future

UAW Inc.

NYU Grad Students Lose by Winning

The Future of Our Discontent

Graduate Assistants Await Decision on NYU Appeal

The Production Line

It's Boom Time at the Columbia, Juilliard, and NYU Playwriting Programs

Hire Education

Grad Students Battle NYU Over Right to Organize a Union

The Most Dangerous Writer In America

Coming to Terms With the Art of Dennis Cooper

Edifice Wrecked

Villagers file lawsuits against NYU over new student center

Letters

Shadow of the Ivory Tower

NYU'S building frenzy blocks the sun and burns the community

Violet Flashbacks

Who needs The Lady Vols

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