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Mike Rice Rutgers Scandal: Is There a Rush to Judgment?

As someone who has covered just about every sports scandal over the last 25 years, I have to say that I think the sports world is overreacting a bit to the Rutgers/Mike Rice episode. First, if you haven't seen it, I have to warn you that Rice's abuse of his basketball players--pushing them, throwin ... More >>

State, Not UFT, Screwed Kids Out $250 Million With Teacher Eval Demands

For a sample of the over-wrought backlash that the United Federation of Teachers will face after failing to come to an agreement with the city on a new teacher evaluation system this afternoon, go check out today's opinion section in the NY Daily News. In an impressive show of mutual-strokage, the ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

The Maggie Dixon Classic returns

PSA: Free Nutella This Week All Over New York

Nutella has launched a coast-to-coast "Breakfast Tour" and will be stopping in New York City this weekend. According to their Facebook page, the truck will be filled with "tasty free samples," or up to 5,000 13 ounce jars while supplies last. Full schedule after the jump.

Rutgers Spy-Cam Creep Dharun Ravi Won't Be Deported -- Which Is Bullshit

Despite having bullied a gay college freshman into committing suicide, Rutgers spy-cam creep Dharun Ravi won't be deported, immigration officials say.That, of course, is bullshit -- especially when you consider some of the other people (who didn't directly cause someone to kill himself) whom the fed ... More >>

Cuomo and Legislature Sign Off on Cyber-Bullying Bill

Bullying, both on- and offline, has been hitting headlines lately. The trial conviction of Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student who webcam-ed his homosexual roommate Tyler Clementi, has developed into a major story about the horrors of pressured teasing. The documentary Bully dug deep into the ... More >>

Dharun Ravi Accused Of Being Gay By Post Columnist Andrea Peyser (In Column About Not Humiliating People Based On Sexual Orientation)

In a column about a Rutgers University student who committed suicide because he was publicly humiliated by his freshman roommate for being gay, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser publicly humiliates the roommate -- who by all accounts is not gay -- by claiming that he's a "possible closet case."S ... More >>

"What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" Probably Was A Bad Headline Choice By Rutgers Student Newspaper

There's a sure-fire way to draw the ire of, well...just about everyone: write a newspaper article with the headline "What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" and then attribute it to a Jewish college kid who didn't even write it -- which is exactly what a satirical newspaper at Rutgers University did ... More >>

Woman Testifies Against Officer Accused Of Raping Her While Off-Duty; Dharun Ravi Found Guilty; St. Patty's Day Hits New York

The woman who was allegedly raped by Michael Pena, who was an NYPD officer off-duty, in August testified against him yesterday. The 25-year-old teacher explained that Pena asked how to get to the 1 train. After she did so, he still showed her he gun, brought her to an alleyway, forced her to perfor ... More >>

Why I Hate Movies And Will Never See One Again!

38 cinematic reasons why I dread the lights going down

The Bunker's Bryan Kasenic On The Berliniamsburg Era, Throwing Parties For Electronic-Music Nerds, And "Amateur Night"

This week, the Voice profiled Bryan Kasenic, who throws the monthly Bunker party—the city's premiere techno event—which celebrates its ninth year tonight at Public Assembly with a bash featuring Chicago house legend Derrick Carter and Dutch techno great Legowelt. Below are some outtakes ... More >>

Aquavit's Keri Levens on Swedish Fish

Keri Levens has worked as Aquavit's wine director since May. Though she studied art history and art at Rutgers University, she ultimately decided to pursue a culinary career. She chatted with Fork in the Road this week about her work at the restaurant (65 East 55th Street) and how she plays with dri ... More >>

New Jersey State Senator Mulling 'Snooki's Law'

​Okay, we're going to present a couple facts that will probably anger you, but they need to be introduced in order to report this story. 1) Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was asked to speak at Rutgers University. 2) Over 2,000 students attended the lecture. 3) She was paid $32,000 by the state-funded ... More >>

Snooki Appearance Controversial Among Everyone Except Toni Morrison

​Boy, are parents mad about Snooki's recent appearance at Rutgers. Both about the concept of it, and the cost (almost $10,000 more than they pay in yearly tuition). And everyone else is freaked out by the fact that Shnickers was paid $2,000 more than what Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is being ... More >>

New Jersey Man High On Bath Salts Accused of Killing Girlfriend

Pamela Schmidt. (via)​A 22-year-old New Jersey man charged with killing his girlfriend was allegedly high on bath salts at the time. Rutgers student Pamela Schmidt was found beaten to death in the basement of her boyfriend William Parisio's home. Her death has led New Jersey legislators to push fo ... More >>

Morning Links: Chilean Miners Out Soon; Strikes in France; Signs that Dick Cheney Is Human

​• The rescue of the Chilean miners is imminent, and may even happen today. Fingers crossed! [CNN] • Strikes over the pension system in France are mucking up air and rail travel. Energy workers, teachers, and civil servants are also striking across the country. [NYT]

Make Desserts NYC's Apple Tart in Cheddar Rosemary Biscuit Crust

Apple Tart in Cheddar Rosemary Biscuit Crust​For the past five years, Mary Fitzgerald was a custom baker, making birthday and wedding cakes from a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, until earlier this year when she found herself a storefront on East Broadway and Rutgers Street. No ... More >>

David Paterson's Finest Moment: At A Gay Suicide Vigil

​We have gone to many, many, many LGBT rallies in the past year. Sometimes, it can be disheartening. Last night's "You Are Loved" vigil in Washington Square Park was certainly the most sad, but also, the most touching.

"You-Are-Loved" Glowlight Vigil Tonight in Washington Square Park

​This Sunday, October 3rd, NYU LGBTQA student leaders and Delta Lambda Phi are hosting a glowstick vigil (no candles allowed!) beginning at 9:00 p.m. in lower Manhattan's Washington Square Park. The event is scheduled as a reaction to six recent suicides related to homophobic bullying, includi ... More >>

"Ho-Ho-Homosexual!" The First Gay Pride March, One Year After Stonewall

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 2, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 27 A Happy Birthday For Gay Liberation By Jonathan Black They stretched in a line, from Gimbels to Times Square, thousands and thousands and thousands, chanting, waving, screaming -- the outrageous and the ou ... More >>

Think Before You "Defriend," Warns Self-Serious Newspaper For Adults

​Did you know that "defriending" is in the dictionary? It's also in Saturday's New York Times, in a brief Style section piece on the Facebook phenomenon of ending a friendship. They have doctors to explain it! The experts say it is comparable to getting dumped. And yet, it is not the same as r ... More >>

Rutgers Won't Grow Weed for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie

​In a conversation that we can only imagine happening (fondly), Rutgers University has said no to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's inspired idea that they would be the lone grower of medical marijuana for the state. Apparently, since pot is technically illegal, that would kinda present a p ... More >>

Cycling Advocates Say Not So Fast with the Cycling Stats

​Recent reports stating that bike ridership has reached 200,000-plus daily cyclists in New York City (more than any other U.S. city) have now come under fire. Cycling advocates are protesting that biking is not nearly as popular as all that -- yet.

UNDER PRESSURE

Lady Scarlet Knights host St. John's Red Storm

New Tricks Against Bedbugs: Dry Ice Pet Dish, "Bedbug Saunas"

​Despite the founding this year of the city council's Bed Bug Advisory Board, bedbugs are still a problem in New York. WABC proposed yesterday a "less than $20" solution developed by a Rutgers entomology professor Changlu Wang: a fabric-lined, upside-down pet dish with a cooler of dry ice on ... More >>

'James P. Johnson's Last Rent Party!'

LADY KILLERS

Don't mess with the New York Liberty

Allegedly Good Rental Market Drives Us to Section 8 Housing

We continue to lament that, despite all the news about falling rents, there seem to be few affordable apartments available. That's why we were so excited to learn about We Take Section 8. True, we are not eligible for the New York emergency housing program -- not yet, anyway -- but we figured land ... More >>

Fast Food Makes Kids Fat & Happy; KFC Launches Lower-fat Grilled Chicken

We all know that kids who regularly eat fast food are more likely to be overweight. But a new study suggests that these kids are also more likely to be happier. Apparently, "There's a reason they're called Happy Meals." [LA Times] A Rutgers study has found that many Americans ignore food recalls. ... More >>

Imus Announces He Has Prostate Cancer

Radio host Don Imus has announced on his show that he has stage II prostate cancer. The National Cancer Institute describes this as the stage at which "cancer is more advanced than in stage I, but has not spread outside the prostate." Imus last made national news with unfortunate remarks about the R ... More >>

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Letters

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Jazz Goes to College

Dismantling canons, describing contexts, the new jazz studies come of age.

Sister Act

Close-Up on Newark

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Case Clothed

Sue Wicks's Forward Behavior

The New York Liberty Vet Talks Dollars, Planes, and Lesbians

Sophisticated Ink

Cabaret Keeps the Wit Fire Lit

Wedded to Orthodoxy

The Future of Queer

The Overachiever

Ray Lucas Surmounts All Obstacles as He Guides the Jets Back to Respectability

Links to the Future

Hip-Hop Graffiti as High-Tech Dialect

School Daze