Back to School: The Voice’s Fall 2013 Education Supplement

by Village Voice

August 7, 2013

Study Now, Pay Later by Michael Rymer

A new city startup promises to eliminate student loans for those who’ll share their future income with investors

Debt Eaters by Kate Pastor

Student activists says rising loan rates ARE a distraction from the real problem of unaffordable college degrees

Watching the Wheels by Jackson Connor

Columbia planning prof and his students imagine a New York of bike shares and self-driving cars

Back to School Listings by Alexis Soloski

Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Birth of SAMO

When a mysterious graffiti tag started appearing around New York, the Voice went looking for the artist behind ‘SAMO’

by Philip Faflick
From The Archives

Toward a Definition of the Female Sensibility

by Vivian Gornick
From The Archives

An Irishman Bemoans St. Patrick’s Day

‘I have lived as Irish-American for 35 years. I have endured it, and it is too late in the march for me to believe we are going to become champions of humanity.’

by Joe Flaherty
From The Archives

The World Trade Center: A Mini-History of a Major Monstrosity

‘The World Trade Center was conceived by vested interests, promoted by pressure groups, brought into being by a handful of powerful men for reasons of monetary gain or personal pressure, and indirectly subsidized by the taxpayer’

by Sally Helgesen
From The Archives

Did King of Club Kids Michael Alig Really Kill Angel Melendez? Or Is It All a Hoax?

‘Several confidential sources claim that the former Limelight promoter has told them that he did indeed kill his sometime roommate Angel earlier this year’

by Frank Owen
From The Archives

The Women’s Movement Is Still Moving

Congresswoman ‘Battling’ Bella Abzug rebuts the assertions of an earlier Voice article on the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in New York State

by Bella S. Abzug