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esiding elsewhere<br />
One Woman’s dorm is Another’s<br />
retirement Home<br />
By LizA minnO<br />
For 20 <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> students last year, dorm life felt more like<br />
retirement home life.<br />
Because of a lack of dorm housing last Fall, the university rented<br />
rooms from the Ten-Eyck Troughton Memorial Residence, a Salvation<br />
Army building for women located in Murray Hill. <strong>The</strong> all-women<br />
building had stringent rules, and the majority of the tenants were<br />
over 65. Less than half of the 20 students assigned to the building<br />
stayed for the entire year.<br />
A week before coming to the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> from Nashville to study<br />
Cinema and Media, Amy Jo Damitz, 26, was notified by University<br />
Housing that she’d be living in <strong>The</strong> Ten-Eyck, and that they thought<br />
she’d prefer it because of her age.<br />
“I thought [<strong>The</strong> Ten-Eyck] was going to be more adult students,<br />
and when I got there it was surprising to see it was more retired age<br />
people than students,” Damitz said in an interview.<br />
Because the Salvation Army owns the building, the house rules<br />
often did not reflect <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> policy. Overnight guests were<br />
charged a $20 fee, no alcohol was permitted in the building, and no<br />
male guests were allowed past the lobby.<br />
Julie Langer, an ex-Ten-Eyck resident and Lang student, recalls<br />
creative ways some got around the rules. “I got in the elevator with<br />
this really ugly girl wearing a purple dress with nasty platinum blonde<br />
hair. I pushed six and I hear a man’s voice say ‘Ten please.’ I looked<br />
at the girl behind me and said ‘You’re a dude.’ He looked back and<br />
said, ‘I haven’t seen my girlfriend in three months,’” Langer said.<br />
Nancy Smith, Assistant Director of <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> University<br />
Housing, selected the Ten-Eyck as a student residence because the<br />
facility was in relatively good condition and it seemed like a safe<br />
and secure place.<br />
All of the rooms on the Ten-Eyck’s seventeen floors are singles,<br />
which also appealed to Smith. Availability was limited, so students<br />
often didn’t live on the same floors. Students were more likely to<br />
have older women as neighbors.<br />
lou reed’s chelsea debut<br />
Just a temporary thing: the new photography<br />
exhibit “Lou reed: new york.”<br />
By AdAm GerArd<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s little question about Lou<br />
Reed’s looming presence in the<br />
art world. As a teen he worked at<br />
the Pickwick songwriting factory,<br />
penning underground classics for<br />
recording artists like the Jades and<br />
the Beachnuts. He fronted one of<br />
the best rock groups of all time,<br />
almost single-handedly inventing<br />
what we know as <strong>New</strong> York City<br />
rock n’ roll, meanwhile perverting<br />
every bird and boy that ventured<br />
to cross his path.<br />
Reed turned himself into a<br />
human canvas, routinely dying<br />
onstage, an epic Greek tragedy of<br />
a man being written in real time.<br />
He dumped the Velvets, went solo,<br />
glammed up, bloated out, went to<br />
Berlin, thinned out, bleached his<br />
hair, and shaved his head, all the<br />
while gorging himself on pills,<br />
booze, transvestite hookers, and<br />
smack, leaving himself always just<br />
short of death.<br />
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It is this artistic willingness<br />
to become the art that allowed<br />
Reed to shape-shift on a whim,<br />
and because of it his integrity is<br />
rarely questioned. He has been<br />
quiet for a few years now, and, for<br />
him, the next logical step was to<br />
become a photographer.<br />
Reed’s recent exhibition at<br />
Chelsea’s Steven Kasher gallery,<br />
titled “Lou Reed: <strong>New</strong> York,”<br />
showcases his work, which recalls<br />
both Robert Frank Americana and<br />
a gothic cinema verite romanticism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gallery is a blend of <strong>New</strong><br />
York cityscapes and off angle self<br />
portraits. And there is a beauty in<br />
each photo’s relationship to the next,<br />
whether we are shown the rough<br />
waters of the <strong>New</strong> York Harbor<br />
or the weathered crags of his face.<br />
Each color fades into black, as if<br />
to say that even <strong>New</strong> York City<br />
is mortal, and that every beauty<br />
carries a vein of darkness.<br />
Alexander Porter<br />
Alexander Porter<br />
everyOne WAnts A Piece Of tHe BrOAdBAnd Pie<br />
By Peter HOLsLin<br />
<strong>The</strong> Grassroots Media Conference, held last<br />
Saturday at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>, emphasized how<br />
corporations and activists both strive to influence<br />
rapidly evolving internet technology.<br />
One of the many workshops highlighted the<br />
importance of understanding media policy. Speakers<br />
at another workshop showed how to build an<br />
independent broadband server to provide free<br />
internet for limited areas. And at a third, some of<br />
<strong>New</strong> York City’s bloggers met face to face for the<br />
first time to discuss blogging technology, blogger<br />
accountability and how blogs can become more<br />
involved in local issues.<br />
Corporate interests affect media policy in ways<br />
that disenfranchise minority, lower-class and rural<br />
communities in America, argued Timothy Karr,<br />
campaign manager for the leftist media organization<br />
Free Press, and <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> student and activist<br />
Antwuan Wallace, in a workshop titled “Media<br />
Policy: Why It’s Important for Everyone!”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Internet “has this ‘everyone can publish’<br />
sentiment… But there’s a caveat to that, because<br />
there are a lot of people who don’t have access to<br />
the internet,” Karr said after the workshop. Because<br />
of this, telecommunications infrastructure must<br />
work in the interests of the American population,<br />
Karr added.<br />
Wallace spoke about how in <strong>New</strong> York City, large<br />
corporations like Verizon provide the only broadband<br />
service to each borough, but often do not install<br />
Wi-Fi boxes, for wireless internet access, in some<br />
lower-class neighborhoods—such as Wallace’s<br />
neighborhood, East <strong>New</strong> York—because they<br />
are perceived as “economically unfeasible.” This<br />
disenfranchises lower-class populations, especially<br />
lower-class minority populations.<br />
Wallace and Karr alleged that rural populations<br />
are also disenfranchised this way.<br />
Many, the two argued, are alienated by the “political<br />
wonkiness” of government legal rhetoric, making<br />
it harder to understand, and influence, government<br />
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21, 2006<br />
online at www.lang.edu<br />
A snapshot of <strong>New</strong> Orleans: Blistered and stained, many of the Mardi Gras parade floats were unusable<br />
after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. <strong>The</strong>se floats are now repaired and painted, and will be used<br />
in a Mardi Gras celebration drawing local residents and thrill-seekers alike. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4<br />
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media policy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two gave little solution other than saying<br />
the American population could stay informed by<br />
getting involved with community groups like Free<br />
Press or the Prometheus Radio Project, a group<br />
that specializes in community broadcasting. “It is<br />
a complicated conversation, and yet the democratic<br />
system we have requires that you understand the<br />
system,” Wallace said.<br />
Over 40 people packed in to a large “smart”<br />
classroom on the second floor to learn more about<br />
establishing municipal networks, in “<strong>The</strong> Spectrum<br />
Spectacular: Community Wireless and Smashing Your<br />
Way into the Thrill Ride of the Century,” a workshop<br />
hosted by the Prometheus Radio Project.<br />
It is “technically possible” and “economically<br />
feasible” to build independently controlled broadband<br />
networks that provide free internet to a limited<br />
area, argued Dharma Dailey and Hannah Sassaman,<br />
members of the Prometheus Radio Project.<br />
Today, “we can build technology to work just<br />
around the block,” Dailey said.<br />
Dailey and Sassaman explained how Internet<br />
users could create their own smaller networks,<br />
using a broadband router connected to an antenna<br />
positioned out a window or on a roof.<br />
Event-goers could manufacture “Cantennas”—<br />
antennas made out of coffee cans—in the exhibition<br />
room after the workshop.<br />
One attendant of the seminar raised a question<br />
about the security of such a network. Indeed, wireless<br />
networks are more vulnerable to computer hacking<br />
than networks that operate through telephone or<br />
cable lines. Making a personal wireless internet<br />
network publicly accessible would only make it<br />
more vulnerable.<br />
“Technically, you can make it 99.9% secure. It’ll<br />
take a little more configuration, which we’ll help<br />
you out with, but it’s feasible,” said Gail Hauser,<br />
another Prometheus Project member and speaker<br />
at the seminar. Hauser reminded the audience that<br />
internet servers have always never been completely<br />
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Defining Diversity<br />
at new school<br />
Inprint is committed to the promotion and celebration of diversity.<br />
We have revisited this issue in a number of articles devoted to the<br />
pursuit of achieving proper representation for all. And while we<br />
applaud the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s ambitious plans to measurably increase<br />
diversity by 2010, Inprint remains committed to exploring the diversity<br />
that we already have.<br />
But diversity is a moving target. How can we define it? Is it merely<br />
race, creed, and lifestyle? In fact, the meaning of diversity far<br />
exceeds the limited definition that many hold. When speaking of a<br />
diverse community, one must also explore factors such as class, age,<br />
background, and geography.<br />
In an effort to foster dialogue on this subject, the March 6 issue<br />
of Inprint will debut a regular column, addressing the meaning of<br />
diversity in a seemingly homogenous community. We want to encourage<br />
readers to utilize the newspaper as a venue of expression by submitting<br />
opinion pieces and letters. Each installment of this new feature will<br />
be written by a guest columnist from the university community. We<br />
challenge all readers to reevaluate their own definitions of diversity<br />
and to join the discussion in our pages.<br />
Rather than constantly bemoan the alleged lack of diversity at Lang,<br />
let us instead embrace the diversity that we do have, for it is great,<br />
and perhaps greater than any of us even realize.<br />
no Keycard? no id?<br />
no Problem.<br />
Security at an urban institution is essential, and the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> is<br />
no exception. Even in the seemingly tranquil bubble that is Greenwich<br />
Village, violent crimes are committed, and property is stolen. <strong>The</strong><br />
most fundamental principle in university security is keeping the<br />
buildings safe from intruders. But our university lacks a consistent<br />
policy in securing its buildings, especially at Lang.<br />
Although connected by the courtyard, the adjacent buildings at<br />
66 West 12th Street and 65 West 11th Street have very different<br />
approaches to security. Like most <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> buildings, the 12th<br />
Street building requires a valid university ID card to gain entrance.<br />
On the Lang side at 11th Street, there are rarely guards posted, as<br />
electronic keycards offer security instead.<br />
our university lacks a consistent policy<br />
regarding the security of its buildings.<br />
But since many students never received a keycard, they pound<br />
desperately on the glass doors and wait for a sympathetic soul to let<br />
them in. If that doesn’t work, it’s always easy to “piggy-back” on<br />
someone else’s entrance.<br />
A person denied entry at the 12th Street side might walk around the<br />
block, mosey through the 11th Street entrance, cruise through the<br />
courtyard, and be right back in the 12th Street building, no questions<br />
asked. <strong>The</strong> goodwill of Langers, holding the door open for perfect<br />
strangers, seems to negate the purpose of a keycard lock.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s no doubt that <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> security guards work hard, and<br />
that it is a difficult task to keep track of all the human traffic. We’re<br />
not calling for meaner, stricter guards, just a standardized set of<br />
rules. As the university population balloons and more people flood<br />
into the buildings each day, it would help to regularize the policy on<br />
authorized admittance to our facilities.<br />
Inprint accepts submissions from<br />
the new school community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editors reserve the right to edit<br />
all content for length and clarity.<br />
Please e-mail all submissions to<br />
inprint@newschool.edu<br />
the carrier-Bird and the electromagnetic Beast<br />
By Peter HOLsLin<br />
<strong>The</strong> destruction of our civilization at the hands of<br />
machines is nothing so new. I recently discovered<br />
an article by the German cultural theorist—and<br />
my great-great grandfather—Petra Hans von<br />
Holzlynzenattki, published in the literary journal<br />
Vollautomat zu Händen von Menschen on November<br />
2nd, 1899 and translated by C. Wright Mills in 1967.<br />
Here is a selection of the writing:<br />
I was once given an anecdote by my great uncle<br />
Jans von Mulligannerschlencken, and the narrative<br />
was of the first click of the electromagnetic telegraph<br />
machine, and how it had dispatched itself to his ear.<br />
I quite literally do not mean the orifice attached to<br />
the side of one’s head, when I speak of this ear, for<br />
I do mean it in a symbolic sense. This ear might<br />
be even the eyes, then, or a nose, or even a blind<br />
man’s fingers! At any rate, spoke he of this strange<br />
machine as though it were most utterly repugnant,<br />
preferring instead the air-dance of the telegraphic<br />
pigeon bird 2 :<br />
“For news wires, a telegraph pigeon is far more<br />
romantic than a hornswoggling tapping-device,<br />
be it ever more efficient, or be it inefficient in<br />
all entirety. Let us be vulnerable as to admit our<br />
emotions in the presence of others: it is in man’s<br />
human nature to love the romance of a carrier-bird’s<br />
air dance 3 .”<br />
This ear might be even the<br />
eyes, then, or a nose, or<br />
even a blind man’s fingers!<br />
This, of course, brings me to a point which we<br />
shall discuss ever further in these following pages 4 .<br />
A certain fundamental revolution could be had in<br />
the ever-expanding world of communications as a<br />
result of the electromagnetic telegraph device 5 . Its<br />
purpose, centered on the seemingly random clicking<br />
of certain knobs placed upon a table, the table itself<br />
being connected to an input of some other electronic<br />
device which dispatches the signals that are the<br />
result of a telegraph operator’s incomprehensible<br />
clicking, is to widen and merge these ever-present<br />
layers of communication in our civilization. In that<br />
this particular type of communication is faster<br />
and more immediate 6 than a man’s singular use of<br />
age-old telegraphy (and of course by that I mean<br />
the telegraphy of a bird 7 ), the fact is that it is an<br />
obvious innovation 8 .<br />
I have taken liberty to study, to research and to<br />
comprehend in all my privileged man’s senses the<br />
age-old cultures and traditions of a small sect of<br />
man 9 found in the north western-most coast of<br />
Indo-China 10 . To do so, I decided to leave my Berlin<br />
home and take the utmost temporal and physical<br />
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risk of traveling through high mountains and<br />
crossing vast canals and rivers to gain knowledge<br />
of the tribe 11 by accessing a highly cherished book<br />
of history at the British Library in London 12 .<br />
In comparison to the electromagnetic telegraphic<br />
practices of a standard newspaper man 13 —whose<br />
newspaper office, through a maze of repetitive but<br />
inaccurate transcribings, may scarcely transmit six<br />
of this man’s articles in a day—the telegraphic<br />
communication of Indo-Chinese savages is far more<br />
primitive, indeed, but concurrently man times more<br />
productive 14 . To a neighboring tribe, a tribesman<br />
may communicate a bit of information—even of<br />
the most complex or confusing variety—with large<br />
smoke signals 15 . <strong>The</strong> village being highly educated in<br />
smoke-code 16 , any neighbor shall pick up the rather<br />
conspicuous signal in minutes and immediately<br />
understand 17 , requiring no fussy translation 18 or<br />
overlapping of translation 19 . Literally, we see then<br />
that an infinite number of complex messages may<br />
be transmitted by villagers in one day 20 , one after<br />
the other 21 , much to the understanding of the<br />
villager and without delay 22 .<br />
Many would say it is a mad ideology that would<br />
compel a man of expertmost intellect to choose<br />
the hand-made pea-coat of a certain guildsman’s<br />
variety, even though it costs more time to weave<br />
and spin this single coat than it would have taken<br />
to make two hundred pea-coats of the same kind<br />
in a great British manufactory. And in the eyes of<br />
Adam Smith 23 , that is even such a poisonous and<br />
ugly ideology, weakening the stone bricks that<br />
comprise a democratic, self-regulating market’s<br />
walls 24 .<br />
But one can clearly see that the romantic wings<br />
of a pigeon and the stank, smoldering wafts of<br />
plasma may often trump the finest machines 25 . Let<br />
us never forget the true nature of why our society so<br />
prefers handicrafts, and handi-telecommunications,<br />
to machine-craft and the Fliegenluftschiff von<br />
Nachrichtentechniken 26 —we prefer the beasts we<br />
may enslave over the beasts which enslave us.<br />
La vie de l’homme est mieux l’accès<br />
d’une femme avec le roman d’un porteuroiseau<br />
que souffler d’une machine.<br />
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Male population in dark grey<br />
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312 (31.7%) 640 (20.8%) 108 (92.3%) 229 (79.8%)<br />
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Overhauling Sex Education<br />
Thomas Jockin<br />
N.y.C. public <strong>School</strong>s Nix abstinence-only policy<br />
By AdAm GerArd And<br />
cAtHerine BOutWeLL<br />
In the coming months <strong>New</strong> York<br />
City’s public school system will be<br />
making drastic changes within its<br />
current sexual education system.<br />
And with HIV levels in <strong>New</strong> York’s<br />
poorest neighborhoods reaching<br />
epidemic levels, it’s about time.<br />
Two weeks ago <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
hosted Overhauling Sex Education,<br />
a forum to discuss the terms<br />
of the pending changes. Panel<br />
member Betty Rothbart, the<br />
director of health and family<br />
living for the <strong>New</strong> York City<br />
Department of Education,<br />
was optimistic about the plan.<br />
the cartoons Heard ‘round the World<br />
By PePPer nevins<br />
After Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper,<br />
printed a series of 12 cartoons depicting the<br />
prophet Mohammad, the reaction in parts of<br />
the Muslim world was fierce. Mobs scaled<br />
the walls surrounding Danish embassies and<br />
consulates in Syria and Lebanon, broke into the<br />
buildings and smashed and burned everything<br />
they found within. Sporadic violence as well<br />
as non-violent protest continued for weeks in<br />
Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan.<br />
What needs to be reconciled<br />
are the Western tradition<br />
of freedom of speech<br />
and Islamic reverence<br />
for religious traditions.<br />
Reports of American interrogators at Guantanamo<br />
Bay desecrating the Qu’ran sparked a similar<br />
response last May. For the second time in less<br />
than a year, Western media publications have<br />
caused deadly clashes in the Middle East as<br />
the tensions between liberal ideals of freedom<br />
of speech conflict with Muslim traditions of<br />
religious reverence.<br />
Conservative religious outrage has crashed<br />
into Western civil liberties, and the result of this<br />
showdown may well have significant ramifications<br />
for the future of Western relations with the<br />
Muslim world.<br />
Proponents of the so-called “Clash of Civilizations”<br />
theory developed by Harvard historian Samuel<br />
P. Huntington are having a field day with this<br />
controversy, with some prominent commentators<br />
suggesting that the culture of Islam is incompatible<br />
with Western democracy and civil liberties like<br />
the freedom of speech.<br />
In response to the defense of the cartoons on<br />
free speech grounds, a popular daily newspaper<br />
in Iran has announced a call for submissions of<br />
cartoons on the Holocaust as a test of the limits<br />
of the West’s commitment to free speech.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se attitudes are not likely to contribute to<br />
understanding between the West and the Islamic<br />
world and will only further elevate tensions.<br />
What needs to be reconciled are the Western<br />
tradition of freedom of speech and Islamic reverence<br />
for religious traditions, along with recognition<br />
“This is a huge undertaking,”<br />
Rothbart said. “[Sexual education]<br />
needs a foundation to be built<br />
upon, and to be successful<br />
we need to start young.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> proposal, set forth by Ms.<br />
Rothbart, includes a comprehensive<br />
lesson plan meant to begin in<br />
kindergarten and run through<br />
twelfth grade. It will teach its<br />
youngest students about the<br />
immune system and carry all the<br />
way through to contraception<br />
and STDs. And it is a far cry<br />
from the current program,<br />
which leaves many public school<br />
students grossly uninformed.<br />
Currently, as many as 40 percent<br />
of all <strong>New</strong> York public school<br />
students get no sex education<br />
at all, mostly in impoverished<br />
neighborhoods, where HIV and teen<br />
pregnancy is, sadly, a way of life.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new plan will certainly<br />
face its share of challenges. Last<br />
year, the Bush administration,<br />
characteristically bent on shifting<br />
metropolitan areas as far right<br />
as possible, pledged 2.4 million<br />
dollars to <strong>New</strong> York City abstinence<br />
organizations over the next three<br />
years. Of course, <strong>New</strong> York has<br />
always been comparatively liberal<br />
when it comes to sexual education,<br />
preaching not abstinence but safe<br />
sex, HIV prevention, and risk<br />
of pregnancy. <strong>The</strong> difference is<br />
that Rothbart’s plan will mandate<br />
sex education, making sure it<br />
reaches every public school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new plan is a far<br />
cry from the current<br />
program, which<br />
leaves many public<br />
school students<br />
grossly uniformed.<br />
But sexual education is a topic<br />
that the country as a whole has<br />
largely ignored until somewhat<br />
recently, and red states tend to<br />
subscribe to the Christian ideal<br />
of abstinence and chastity, both<br />
biological oxymorons. Fortunately,<br />
<strong>New</strong> York City is moving forward,<br />
bypassing the dangerous religious<br />
fundamentalism that has dominated<br />
U.S. public policy for nearly three<br />
decades. Here’s to wishing the new<br />
program all the success it deserves;<br />
implemented correctly, it will be<br />
a huge step in the right direction.<br />
of the inconsistencies of each.<br />
Many branches of Islam forbid the depiction of<br />
Mohammad, and yet several websites catalogue<br />
historic and contemporary examples of depictions<br />
of the prophet both from within and without<br />
the Islamic world that did not provoke similar<br />
outrage. <strong>The</strong> Danish cartoons were also published<br />
in many Muslim newspapers, presumably in<br />
violation of any scriptural doctrine forbidding<br />
such images.<br />
Western conceptions of freedom of speech<br />
meanwhile, are slippery. Americans might be<br />
surprised by some of the conditions imposed on<br />
speech in many European nations. In Germany,<br />
for instance, depictions of Nazi iconography are<br />
strictly banned and hate speech laws are very<br />
strong.<br />
Muslims should not expect Mohammad to<br />
be immune from depictions in the media, no<br />
matter whether they are flattering or insulting.<br />
But neither should Western media neglect to<br />
consider the impact of their publications and<br />
the political ramifications of touching on such<br />
a controversial topic<br />
In the past, particularly during the struggle<br />
for civil rights in the middle of the 20th century,<br />
Europe had often looked down its nose at<br />
America and its internal troubles with race. Now<br />
that the once largely homogenous nations of<br />
Europe find themselves grappling with sizable<br />
minority populations of their own, Europeans<br />
are discovering that racism and discrimination<br />
can be a problem in any country.<br />
Thomas Jockin<br />
choosing Between Quality<br />
and your meal card at Lang<br />
By nOrA cOsteLLO<br />
<strong>New</strong> York City is a city for food,<br />
a veritable mecca of flavor. <strong>The</strong><br />
options are endless, and as <strong>New</strong><br />
Yorkers we become accustomed<br />
to the privilege of choice. Still,<br />
there are always the eateries one<br />
should steer clear of, and among<br />
these, unfortunately, is our own<br />
university caterer, Chartwells.<br />
As a Lang junior and a cardholding<br />
Chartwells patron, I frequently<br />
find myself in a lunchtime tug<br />
of war between convenience and<br />
quality, especially when pressed<br />
for time between classes. More<br />
often than not I am more than<br />
happy to shell out $5.50 for a real<br />
meal at Six and Twelve or <strong>New</strong><br />
Valentino, both right around the<br />
corner from Lang. But to have<br />
to spend the money mysteriously<br />
planted in my Chartwells account<br />
is simply nauseating.<br />
Too timid to speak<br />
up, I was forced<br />
to watch the food<br />
I was about to eat<br />
writhing up against<br />
the cafeteria worker’s<br />
sweaty torso.<br />
Just today I watched in pity as my<br />
fellow students at the Lang Cafe<br />
paid the same $5.50 for sandwiches<br />
that looked as though they had been<br />
sitting in the refrigerator case for<br />
the better part of a week. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
is no way for me to prove this, of<br />
course, but the gentle taste of food<br />
super Bowl XL: meeting mickey<br />
By cOurtney sinGer<br />
Detroit, Michigan, February<br />
5, 2006: <strong>The</strong> Pittsburgh Steelers<br />
defeated the Seattle Seahawks in<br />
the Super Bowl XL 21-10, but do<br />
you know who’s going to Disney<br />
World? This year marked the<br />
20th anniversary of the “What’s<br />
next? I’m going to Disney World”<br />
campaign, which has showcased<br />
many sports heroes captured in the<br />
midst of achievement, exuberantly<br />
declaring that their next move is<br />
a trip to Mouseketeer Land.<br />
This year, MVP Hines Ward,<br />
the 29-year-old Steelers wide<br />
receiver, was seen filming his TV<br />
spot just minutes after winning<br />
the title. <strong>The</strong> advertisement is<br />
usually aired the day after the<br />
big game. However, this year<br />
Disney revealed the amusement<br />
park-bound player immediately<br />
after the game, projecting Ward’s<br />
picture on the side of a building<br />
just blocks away from Ford Field<br />
in Detroit.<br />
What started out as a small<br />
Disney promotional project in<br />
1987, with <strong>New</strong> York Giants<br />
player Phil Simms, has turned<br />
into a spectacle almost as big as<br />
the half-time show. <strong>The</strong> week<br />
before the Super Bowl aired on<br />
Disney parent company ABC, the<br />
network showed commercials of<br />
NFL players practicing the line,<br />
“I’m going to Disney World,” in<br />
an attempt to remind viewers that<br />
one lucky player would in fact<br />
be visiting the happiest place on<br />
earth. Book your tickets now.<br />
So what is so important about<br />
this campaign? It has been<br />
synonymous with the Super Bowl<br />
for the past two decades. It has<br />
become a highly anticipated part of<br />
the game, just as the $2.5 million<br />
poisoning in such items makes its<br />
point. Meanwhile, I enjoyed my<br />
Six and Twelve purchase, a 4-inch<br />
thick layer of spinach, avocado,<br />
Swiss cheese, tomatoes, and alfalfa<br />
sprouts, freshly prepared before<br />
my eyes between two slices of<br />
grain bread so thick it could mop<br />
the Chartwells floor.<br />
Pre-made sandwiches should be<br />
labeled with stickers indicating<br />
the time and date they were made,<br />
as well as when they should be<br />
tossed. Attempting to gauge the<br />
freshness of a sandwich is often<br />
impossible, as even the most<br />
discerning eye cannot possibly<br />
detect mold on the underside of<br />
a packaged Kaiser roll.<br />
Recently I noticed the man<br />
preparing the wraps at the GF,<br />
on a rare occasion when they<br />
were in fact being made fresh and<br />
by request—as the menu board<br />
promises—propping the sandwich<br />
against his grease-stained apron in<br />
order to negotiate it into its small<br />
plastic baggy. Too timid to stop<br />
him in his germy tracks and say,<br />
“Just a plate will be fine,” I was<br />
forced to watch the food I was<br />
about to eat writhing up against<br />
his sweaty torso.<br />
So hungry students, beware.<br />
While the convenience of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> meal plans may seem<br />
appetizing, the food is not. And<br />
while those that live off campus are<br />
not bound to Chartwells, incoming<br />
dorm freshmen are required to<br />
enter into a $1500 contract with<br />
the caterer, and forced to eat it<br />
unless they decide to spend the<br />
money on Red Bull and chocolate<br />
Silk. All the while, NYU students<br />
take their meal plan dollars to<br />
the likes of Whole Foods and<br />
eat, comparatively speaking, like<br />
gourmands.<br />
per 30-second advertisements<br />
are.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “disney World”<br />
campaign has<br />
become part of<br />
popular culture.<br />
Super Bowl XXXIX was the<br />
only year that Disney declined to<br />
film an advertisement after the<br />
Super Bowl. Disney’s official<br />
statement was that the timing<br />
conflicted with promoting their<br />
50th anniversary campaign,<br />
the “Happiest Celebration on<br />
Earth.” Yet many speculated<br />
the reason Disney pulled the<br />
“What’s Next” campaign from<br />
the Super Bowl was because of<br />
the Janet Jackson scandal from<br />
Super Bowl XXXVIII, and fear of<br />
associating their family-friendly<br />
image with other nipple-baring<br />
celebrities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> campaign has become of<br />
a part of popular culture. Fans<br />
around the world look forward<br />
to the familiar moment when<br />
sports superstars announce they<br />
will be going to the happiest<br />
place on earth. Like beer and<br />
pizza, the campaign has become<br />
a Super Bowl tradition.<br />
It is hard to imagine that<br />
Disney dreamed their “What’s<br />
Next” campaign would become<br />
so integrated into our society. Yet<br />
Hines Ward knew his moment<br />
would come: in high school he<br />
had Mickey Mouse holding a<br />
football tattooed on his arm.<br />
Smart guy.
‘neW JeW’<br />
Lecture<br />
By emiLy scHumAcHer<br />
Rabbi and scholar Menachem<br />
Posner visited Lang to share a<br />
brief history of Judaism in Soviet<br />
Russia, in an event hosted by the<br />
<strong>New</strong> Jew, Lang’s Jewish student<br />
union. <strong>The</strong> intimate meeting<br />
served as a lesson not only in<br />
history, but also in perseverance<br />
and common good.<br />
Rabbi Posner shared his research<br />
and knowledge of the Judean<br />
situation in the early 20th Century,<br />
from both Europe and Asia,<br />
dotting the history with touching<br />
narratives passed down from<br />
his grandmother. <strong>The</strong> lecture<br />
detailed how the Jewish identity<br />
was threatened during the time,<br />
as the soviet government made<br />
it nearly impossible, and in many<br />
cases illegal, for Jewish culture<br />
to thrive.<br />
“Imagine if someone was to<br />
tell you, ‘From now on, you are<br />
not allowed to go to the school<br />
you go to, speak your language,<br />
or read the book that you’ve been<br />
reading for your entire life,’”<br />
Rabbi Posner began. From there<br />
he unfolded the reactions and<br />
struggles of the Jewish people<br />
as they were sent to schools<br />
indoctrinating Communism.<br />
Rabbi Posner spoke the most<br />
about the individuals who kept<br />
their Jewish faith alive in the face<br />
of imprisonment, destitution,<br />
or death. <strong>The</strong>se individuals,<br />
Posner said, helped maintain<br />
a collective Jewish awareness,<br />
remaining true to their beliefs<br />
against all odds.<br />
JOyce cArOL<br />
OAtes<br />
By ALmie rOse vAzzAnO<br />
On February 6, Joyce Carol<br />
Oates, prolific author of novels,<br />
plays and poetry, came to visit<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> to read from her<br />
latest collection of short stories,<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Female of the Species: Tales<br />
of Mystery and Suspense,” and<br />
to answer questions from the<br />
audience.<br />
“It’s really a disgusting story,”<br />
Oates warned about her new book.<br />
“Where else could I read it but<br />
in <strong>New</strong> York at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>,<br />
with this sophisticated audience?”<br />
True to her word, the story begins<br />
with a Mrs. G shopping down<br />
Madison Avenue and ends with<br />
her hanging from a hook in a<br />
store warehouse. Oates’ book is<br />
out now on Harcourt Press.<br />
citizensHiP &<br />
security<br />
By sAmAntHA scHLAifer<br />
<strong>The</strong> World Policy Institute’s<br />
Program on Citizenship and<br />
Security organizes strategy sessions<br />
where people who make, and are<br />
affected by the policies, all sit in<br />
the same room.<br />
From March 23-25, the program<br />
is holding a conference in Berlin<br />
entitled “Immigration and<br />
Security: European Challenges and<br />
International Perspectives.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> group formed because of a<br />
lack of communication between<br />
groups working on immigration<br />
issues and groups working on post<br />
9/11 national security.<br />
PeOPLe &<br />
WOrLd POLicy<br />
By sAmAntHA scHLAifer<br />
At the first panel discussion<br />
of the spring season, “<strong>The</strong> End<br />
of the Bush Era: Refinding Our<br />
Way on Foreign Policy,” World<br />
Policy Institute Senior Fellow Eric<br />
Alterman spoke about the timidity<br />
of the media in reporting foreign<br />
policy issues.<br />
Alterman discussed how <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>New</strong> York Times waited to publish<br />
their story on domestic spying until<br />
after the election.<br />
“People are dependent on the<br />
media, yet they haven’t done a<br />
very good job,” Alterman said.<br />
“Our problem is not a lack<br />
information, but a lack of seeking<br />
the information.”<br />
tim Gunn<br />
By stePHAnie nOLAscO<br />
Timothy Gunn, chairman of the<br />
Department of Fashion in Parsons<br />
and host of “Project Runway,” was<br />
awarded PETA’s “Humanitarian<br />
Award” for introducing cruelty<br />
free options. PETA’s curriculum<br />
shows how animals are mutilated<br />
and electrocuted for fur, leather<br />
and wool. <strong>The</strong> program, taught<br />
by animal friendly designers,<br />
teaches students how to create<br />
a fabulous wardrobe without<br />
animal skin. Dan Mathews, vice<br />
president of PETA, states, “Tim<br />
is a hero as he is unwavering in<br />
his commitment for students to<br />
learn about these issues. It’s the<br />
industry they have chosen so<br />
they need to know all aspects<br />
of it, even the unpleasant ones,<br />
for them to make true informed<br />
decisions about how they pursue<br />
their fashion careers.”<br />
HArry<br />
BeLAfOnte<br />
By LizA minnO<br />
Activist, singer and actor<br />
Harry Belafonte and author<br />
Walter Mosley spoke at Cooper<br />
Union’s Great Hall on February<br />
17th in an event sponsored by<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nation. <strong>The</strong> conversation’s<br />
topics ranged from voter apathy,<br />
to the need for a separate black<br />
political party, to the war in Iraq<br />
to the de facto segregation in<br />
the United States. Belafonte<br />
repeatedly urged the audience to<br />
change America for the better by<br />
“thinking and speaking outside<br />
the box.”<br />
Liza Minno<br />
Alexander Porter<br />
Grassroots Continued<br />
A student breakdances at a conference workshop.<br />
secure.<br />
Earlier that morning, bloggers talked with each<br />
other at the, “NYC Blogging Caucus.”<br />
Different blogging technology influences the<br />
way a community interacts with bloggers, said Liza<br />
Sabate, publisher and owner of the Daily Gotham,<br />
a grassroots news and political activism website<br />
for <strong>New</strong> Yorkers, and other online publications.<br />
Sabate emphasized the importance of connecting<br />
a blog to the community. “Do you want to make<br />
a network or a personal soap-box?” she asked<br />
the group.<br />
Many in the room said programs like RSS Feeds,<br />
which operate like search engines exclusive to<br />
blogs, and Frappr, making it possible to locate<br />
other bloggers geographically, help create more<br />
of a blogging community. But the consensus was<br />
that the “Blogosphere” needs to move further<br />
A Photographic Look at new<br />
Orleans, Post-Katrina<br />
away from internet communities and closer to local<br />
communities.<br />
Dan Jacoby, a blogger planning to run for <strong>New</strong><br />
York State Senate for Queens, had some reservations<br />
about blogging. “<strong>The</strong> problem is that most [bloggers]<br />
don’t have anything to say, or don’t say it very well,”<br />
Jacoby said after the workshop. Many blog websites<br />
are also difficult to navigate, he added.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> blogosphere is the<br />
ultimate anarchy, and it’s<br />
great,” one blogger said.<br />
But Jacoby, like others in attendance, were still<br />
confident in the blogging movement. “<strong>The</strong> blogosphere<br />
is the ultimate anarchy, and it’s great,” Jacoby said<br />
during the workshop. With patience, Jacoby felt<br />
that talented bloggers will always be successful.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> cream will rise to the top,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> conference finished smoothly, but some were<br />
left disappointed.<br />
Hans Steiner and Laura Garcia, a software engineer<br />
and a recent graduate from NYU respectively,<br />
attended the event to meet others and to see how<br />
groups are inspired to create change.<br />
But Steiner and Garcia felt that the workshops could<br />
have been better. Some workshops seemed elitist,<br />
Garcia said. <strong>The</strong>ir organizers were more interested<br />
in advancing their agendas than discussing ways to<br />
get involved with the greater activist community.<br />
Regardless, in one way or another, the event<br />
identified the internet as the battleground between<br />
corporate and non-corporate interests for democracy<br />
in the 21st century.<br />
<strong>The</strong> view of <strong>New</strong> Orleans today: This flooded and destroyed region was once a residential street in St. Bernard’s Parish.<br />
student Housing, Continued from page one<br />
Damitz’s least favorite aspect of the Ten-Eyck was the fact that elderly residents commonly died of<br />
old age.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> woman next door to me died right after I met her,” Damitz recalled. “We only talked once. I<br />
hated seeing them pack up her room after she died, box up her stuff—that was hard.”<br />
Other <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> residents also had complaints about the building.<br />
“It was a depressing transition—deciding to go to school 3,000 miles away from home only to find I<br />
would be living in an elderly woman’s home where I saw pictures of the women who’d died that month<br />
on the bulletin board,” said Taylor King Hedequist, a former Lang student from Seattle. “I laugh about<br />
it now, but it was really depressing to be there. And the old women made you feel like a suspect.”<br />
Hedequist and Langer both left before the first semester ended.<br />
But Damitz enjoyed her time there—especially because of the other tenants. “I got to know this<br />
one woman, Marion, because she couldn’t operate the microwave. I’d help her and we’d talk. Once<br />
she saw a picture of Gertie from ET on my laptop and asked if she was my kid. And one time I was<br />
in the common room at two in the morning and there was a woman there, probably in her seventies,<br />
who told me how she had been living at <strong>The</strong> Ten-Eyck since she was my age. That got me. Things like<br />
that just made it a unique experience,” she says.<br />
Even though University Housing attempted to relocate the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> residents from the Ten-Eyck<br />
after the first semester, Damitz ended up staying for the entire school year. “A lot of things there<br />
were surreal,” Damitz says. “<strong>The</strong> strangest thing was that I ended up liking it, that I actually fought<br />
to stay.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> no longer rents Ten-Eyck rooms for students. This year, the Ten-Eyck and the St.<br />
George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights were cut from <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s “mixed dorms” list. Now there are<br />
only three: Marlton House on 8th Street, the Union Square Residence Hall and Polytechnic University’s<br />
Othmer Residence in Brooklyn Heights.<br />
“Living in student housing is a unique experience,” Smith says. “You’re never in a building with 15<br />
floors of people the same age as you except in college.” Evidently, the Ten-Eyck was the exception.
Faculty Profile: charlie Harbutt<br />
By LizA minnO<br />
A fire alarm screams in the 66 West 12th Street<br />
building. Photography professor Charles Harbutt<br />
is showing students a Power Point presentation on<br />
documentary photography, seemingly unaware of<br />
the noise.<br />
“Uh, Charlie, I think the fire alarm is going off,”<br />
ventures a student.<br />
Harbutt cocks his head to the side and smiles.<br />
“Do you want to leave?”<br />
Charles Harbutt knows something about alarm.<br />
During his career as a photojournalist, Harbutt<br />
and his camera have been present for the kind of<br />
historical events that most photographers fantasize<br />
about. But there is a remarkable ease about him that<br />
seems to have always been a part of his demeanor.<br />
In 1959, at age 23, Harbutt photographed the<br />
Cuban Revolution in Havana, a breath away from<br />
a young Castro. <strong>The</strong>se photographs are included in<br />
his most recent book, Cuba Libre, 1959.<br />
Harbutt captured much of the American Civil<br />
Rights Movement, Woodstock, historic Vietnam<br />
War protests as well as his native <strong>New</strong> York. His<br />
photos of the Village feel as if they were shot with a<br />
particular affection.<br />
In 1967, he was the only photographer in the world<br />
with color images of the Six-Day War in the Middle<br />
East.<br />
Harbutt says that a lot of journalists there to cover<br />
the war were content to “interview each other at<br />
the hotel bar.” But Harbutt was restless so far away<br />
from the action, and his restlessness paid off.<br />
He got a world scoop, his pictures making the<br />
covers of <strong>New</strong>sweek, Paris Match, Epoca, London<br />
Sunday Times, Der Stern, National Georgraphic<br />
and others.<br />
Harbutt was shot while photographing the Six-<br />
Day War. He had embedded himself with a part<br />
of the Israeli army in a pre-Geraldo era, when the<br />
term “embedding” didn’t officially exist.<br />
Critics and colleagues herald him both for his<br />
journalistic instinct and his artistic eye. But<br />
almost everyone who comments on Harbutt’s work<br />
mentions one outstanding quality: its honesty.<br />
Harbutt was drawn to photography for what he<br />
saw as its ability to illuminate truth. Pictures, “get<br />
at a world that words can’t touch,” Harbutt said in a<br />
recent interview.<br />
Harbutt was twice president of the prestigious<br />
photo agency, Magnum, and has captured worldrocking<br />
events, but the “everyday” still fascinates<br />
him.<br />
“Everyday life is what we have to deal with,”<br />
Harbutt said. “I’ve been inspired by everything that<br />
I’ve seen, read, eaten or heard in my life.”<br />
Harbutt strives to crystallize personal experiences<br />
in whatever he photographs. <strong>The</strong> best advice he<br />
could give a student is: “Tell the truth. People burn<br />
out if they don’t tell the truth.”<br />
Having a professor with such an awe-inspiring<br />
résumé can be intimidating. But Charles (Charlie<br />
H, as he signs his emails) is a rare type of humble.<br />
He is mellow, easy to talk with and an effortless<br />
listener—making it clear that he actually values<br />
what you are saying.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is so much to learn from the kind of<br />
honest questioning that can occur in a classroom...<br />
Teaching is like watching puppies through a pet<br />
store window: they find the most amazing ways to<br />
mess up,” Harbutt said.<br />
Harbutt’s work and the man himself seem to move<br />
people to a sort of reverent affection—his students<br />
are no exception.<br />
Perhaps it’s the honesty.<br />
Student Jobs: making money under the microscope<br />
Magali Pijpers<br />
By emiLy scHumAcHer<br />
Taking placebos or taking pills, smelling semen or<br />
smelling rat urine, sophomore Monica Stepniowski<br />
will do just about anything to for a buck.<br />
Stepinowski’s parents cover her major expenses,<br />
like tuition and room and board. But she turns to<br />
psychological studies when it comes to groceries<br />
or weekend cash.<br />
Mostly, Stepinowski focuses on the smaller<br />
experiments. “I don’t have the time or the patience<br />
to spend months or years in study programs that<br />
offer serious money,” said Stepniowski, “so I<br />
started searching Craiglist for short -term research<br />
studies- and found them.”<br />
One of the first studies Stepniowski participated<br />
in was an experiment for what she thought was<br />
a new Post Traumatic Stress Disorder drug at<br />
Columbia University.<br />
In the experiment, she watched a series of images<br />
while an instructor randomly gauged her tolerance<br />
for electric shock. On the second day, she was<br />
instructed to take unlabeled pills. She was not sure<br />
Liza Minno<br />
whether they were a placebo or an actual<br />
treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but<br />
she felt no effect either way. On the third day, each<br />
time she thought she would be shocked based on<br />
her experiences the day before, she wasn’t.<br />
“It was very odd,” she recalled. “I don’t know<br />
how I was supposed to feel and I don’t care about<br />
anything except the $150 I made in the end,” she<br />
said.<br />
Stepniowski also participated in a smell test for<br />
the Rockefeller University Psychology program,<br />
smelling somewhere between 600 to 700 variants<br />
of different scents. In the experiment, she took in<br />
wafts of lavender, dirty laundry, semen and even<br />
rat urine.<br />
“Test tube, after test tube,” she said, exasperated.<br />
“But it was an easy 80 dollars for a few hours of<br />
work.”<br />
Stepniowski has been supporting herself with<br />
cash from psychological studies for a year and a<br />
half, but the work is not consistent. “Some weeks<br />
I could find so many opportunities to make money<br />
doing studies, but other weeks there would be<br />
nothing, she said.<br />
Recently, she got a job as an administrative<br />
assistant for a real estate company.<br />
“It’s not easy having to commit myself to set<br />
hours, but I needed to be more sure of where,<br />
when and how I’d make money, she said. After only<br />
working there for two weeks, she acknowledged<br />
that she has already thought of quitting.<br />
Stepniowski plans to continue donating her<br />
mind and body for both the good of research and<br />
her wallet, but is trying, begrudgingly, to take a<br />
salaried job to steady her cash flow.<br />
“It sucks having to go to a job day after day. <strong>The</strong><br />
routine and commute are killing me,” Stepniowski<br />
said with an air of disgust and annoyance. “It is<br />
much easier to participate in a study, make some<br />
fast cash and be done with it.”<br />
Photos by Monica Uszerowicz Interviews by Justin Lane Briggs<br />
“WHAt’s tHe crAziest<br />
tHinG yOu’ve dOne<br />
fOr mOney?”<br />
Gala delmont Benatar<br />
mike Pope<br />
“i pretended<br />
to be on a<br />
basketball<br />
team for a<br />
Converse<br />
youth group<br />
so i could<br />
get $100.”<br />
chelsea Greenwood<br />
Lilly Atlihan<br />
“i wrote essays<br />
for Parsons<br />
students...<br />
Well, actually, i<br />
‘proofread’<br />
them...for<br />
money.”<br />
trina cutugno<br />
“i don’t do<br />
things for<br />
money. i might<br />
do things<br />
for free.”<br />
“i packaged<br />
cookies.”<br />
“i worked at a<br />
party where<br />
i danced on<br />
the bar with<br />
two other little<br />
people...and i<br />
got paid well.”
almie’s Safari: sienna miller<br />
By ALmie rOse vAzzAnO<br />
Who is Sienna Miller? Three<br />
years ago, your guess was as good<br />
as mine.<br />
Her first appearance in America<br />
was in the short-lived Fox drama,<br />
“Keen Eddie.” For those of us who let<br />
that program slip by, “Layer Cake” in<br />
2003 was our introduction to Sienna<br />
Miller, potential movie star.<br />
But it was the Alfie remake that<br />
took Sienna Miller to new levels; at<br />
least two: Jude Law’s paramour, both on and off screen. Each week<br />
raised the question: are they together, or not together? To which<br />
at least seven people awaited the answer with baited breath.<br />
I cannot think of another actress who has shot to fame based<br />
solely on who she dated and what she wore – two topics that US<br />
Weekly savored like a fine vintage wine. Ms. Miller is practically<br />
on every other page of the glossy magazine, praised for her<br />
daring use of vests or selection of boot. We can blame her for the<br />
paradoxical “boho chic” that swept our coasts, a look that Ms.<br />
Miller now loathes.<br />
Now the twenty-four year old stars as 60s casualty Edie Sedgwick<br />
in the upcoming film Factory Girl. But just as exciting as this new<br />
role is the opportunity to create a sensational new look: Thoroughly<br />
Modern Miller. Painting the town red in bold patterns and an even<br />
bolder bob, Sienna seems to say, “I look smashing and I know how<br />
to turn black tights into an entire outfit.”<br />
But who are you, Sienna Miller, sudden star of the screen and<br />
America’s heart? And how are you a British celebrity considering<br />
you were born in <strong>New</strong> York City? (Let us notice that her last name<br />
is about as American as it gets).<br />
Sienna Miller is as British as Madonna, yet I love and embrace<br />
her just the same. And not because she is thin, beautiful, successful,<br />
thin, beautiful, and successful, but because for an actress of her<br />
stature and thin, beautiful success, she has a rollicking good<br />
sense of humor; on her body she commented: “I’ve lost weight<br />
and my boobs have gone, they’re just clinging on for dear life.”<br />
Ms. Miller, I salute you.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ater review: “Lenny<br />
Bruce...in His Own Words”<br />
By nOrA cOsteLLO<br />
In the new one-man show produced<br />
and directed by Joan Worth and<br />
Alan Sacks, Jason Fisher stars as<br />
the tortured revolutionary-cumcomedian,<br />
Lenny Bruce. Via<br />
Bruce’s routines, the 70-minute<br />
performance follows a loosely<br />
woven chronology of his career.<br />
Within the first five minutes of the<br />
play, Fisher as Bruce peers into the<br />
audience and asks, “Are there any<br />
niggers here tonight?” <strong>The</strong>n, after<br />
a beat, “Oh, there are two niggers.<br />
And between those niggers I see<br />
a kike.” Bruce, a self-proclaimed<br />
“Semitic,” continues in this vein<br />
using every racial slur there is,<br />
eventually incorporating them all<br />
Jason fisher stars as Lenny Bruce. into a singsong riff of gibberish.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next 40 minutes of the performance touch on the Pope,<br />
church, Hitler, and race to give the audience a sense of Bruce’s acts.<br />
Soon thereafter, though still in the form of stand-up comedy, the<br />
performance arcs and Fisher morphs into a criminalized Bruce,<br />
becoming more unglued after each bust, his routine turning more<br />
political with a deeper critique of the country. As he is arrested<br />
repeatedly for obscenity, Bruce poses to us the question of “the<br />
meaning of obscenity”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last fifteen minutes are touching without being sappy as Bruce<br />
explores the “obscenity” of humanity, and much of what Bruce touches<br />
on is shockingly relevant today. Lenny Bruce envisioned himself as<br />
a jazz musician and used his voice as an instrument. Fisher captures<br />
this brilliantly, his nasal tone riffing to a rhythm set by his pacing<br />
back and forth, rubbing his thumb against his index finger. His voice<br />
staccatos and stutters, conveying the immediacy embedded in jazz<br />
music. Fisher’s shifts between characters are smooth and seamless,<br />
and within each persona we still see and hear Bruce underneath.<br />
Though the dated material is still resonant today, Bruce pushed the<br />
envelope of social critique more than any other comedian to date. By<br />
implementing obscenities, he made a heart-wrenching commentary<br />
on the obscenity of the nation. In a tiny theatre covered with kitsch<br />
and knickknacks (the audience sat in car seats, complete with seatbelt<br />
buckles) on a small black stage, (empty aside from a table, a stool, an<br />
ashtray and pack of Marlboro reds), Fisher owns his audience.<br />
playbill.com<br />
Lenny Bruce: in His Own Words<br />
opened January 30 and is playing at the Zipper<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre (336 W. 37 Street) through February 25.<br />
edie sedgwick Honored at Gallery exhibit<br />
By stePHAnie nOLAscO<br />
Gallagher’s Art and Fashion Gallery honored the<br />
late 1960s pop art muse Edie Sedgwick by not only<br />
celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ciao! Manhattan,<br />
an underground film encircling Sedgwick’s chaotic<br />
lifestyle and the “silver sixties,” but also through<br />
a photo display depicting the many stages of<br />
Sedgwick’s life. While the bookstore/fashion show<br />
room proved to be a hot spot for Sienna Miller and<br />
ex fiancé Jude Law, the Gallagher despondently<br />
illustrated Sedgwick’s impact on American fashion<br />
and poorly accentuated an exhibit of honor to<br />
Warhol’s superstar. Ciao! Manhattan was playing<br />
on a diminutive television screen that could have<br />
been entertaining if one of the associates didn’t<br />
blast the film’s soundtrack just inches from my<br />
ears. <strong>The</strong> sudden explosion of sound infuriated me,<br />
but both associates failed to notice and continued<br />
their aimless dance to Fantasyland.<br />
Photos of Sedgwick, the highlight of the exhibit,<br />
were randomly slapped together throughout the<br />
gallery with no given time frame or description.<br />
Only handwritten note naming the photographer<br />
was placed above each photo.<br />
However, the photos superbly conveyed Sedgwick’s<br />
tragic splendor, particularly those displaying her<br />
natural mousy brown hair and blushing cheeks. In<br />
those photos, she wasn’t seen masking her frail face<br />
the return of XBXrX<br />
By Peter HOLsLin<br />
<strong>The</strong> return of XBXRX, with the release of “Sixth<br />
in Sixes” last September, was probably a micro-blip<br />
on most peoples’ radars, but it made some of us<br />
remember the good old days—five years ago or<br />
less—when spazz was king.<br />
And XBXRX, at the time, sure as hell was<br />
something to remember. Since their inception in<br />
1998 in the unlikely place of Mobile, Alabama, the<br />
group tore through single after single of spasmodic<br />
ditties, leaving ringing ears and broken bones in<br />
their wake. Some shows ended shortly after<br />
they began, only with half the audience onstage<br />
and one of the band members severely injured. In<br />
San Diego in 2003, the singer, whose identity has<br />
always been shrouded in mystery, screamed into a<br />
microphone covered by a bright-red foam ball, hung<br />
from the venue’s rafters and instigated group-hugs<br />
throughout the set. <strong>The</strong> audience could hardly<br />
control themselves, and the band could hardly play<br />
past fifteen minutes before the guitarist broke his<br />
nose.<br />
<strong>The</strong> singer’s identity has always<br />
been shrouded in mystery.<br />
That was all part of the fun. And today, the group’s<br />
energy level is no different. But that’s not to say<br />
that XBXRX are trying to copy the Bad Luck 13<br />
Extravaganza—the band infamous for attacking<br />
their audiences with saw blades and baseball bats<br />
wrapped in barbed wire. In an e-mail interview last<br />
September, answering collectively, XBXRX said they<br />
always prefer positive chaos over violent chaos.<br />
“We are crossing our fingers for more positive<br />
mayhem and less injuries,” they said. “We’re open<br />
to group hugs, always.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> band has never entirely been “on the radar.”<br />
“Gop Ist Minee,” was released in 2000, and is<br />
now out of print, and the group released a few 7”s<br />
throughout the 2000s—one a collaboration with<br />
organist Mr. Quintron and his female counterpart<br />
Miss Pussycat. <strong>The</strong> band also only played a handful<br />
fourpawsmedia.com<br />
6<br />
with cosmetics, batting plastic eyelashes, or twisting<br />
her boyish, bleach-blonde tresses: instead, she was<br />
simply Edie. In addition, the exhibit presented<br />
Sedgwick during her drug-infused stage, showing<br />
her transformation from an American girl to a<br />
tragic figure.<br />
only handwritten note<br />
naming the photographer was<br />
placed above each photo.<br />
Although Edie Sedgwick is making a comeback<br />
in today’s media with the sudden interest of “Edie:<br />
American Girl” and the motion picture Factory Girl,<br />
Gallagher’s disorganization was an eyesore. <strong>The</strong> space<br />
seemed more like a hangout for art students than<br />
a gallery. A fashion shoot was held in one corner<br />
while associates swayed in another. <strong>The</strong> photographs<br />
offered little information and the blasting tunes<br />
only provided a headache. While the gallery did<br />
supply eye candy for Sedgwick fans, the Gallagher<br />
was chaotic and tragic, just like Edie herself.<br />
Gallagher’s Art and Fashion Gallery is at<br />
111 4th Avenue (at East 12th Street).<br />
of shows throughout 2003-2004.<br />
But one might suppose they had been waiting<br />
the whole time to strike with their newest release,<br />
“Sixth in Sixes.”<br />
“Sixth in Sixes” is quite the return to sporadic<br />
form, but the album took more work than<br />
“We’re open to group hugs always”:<br />
the rock band XBXrX.<br />
their previous releases. <strong>The</strong> band worked five<br />
days a week to write the material, then rehearsed<br />
to the point where they could play the songs live<br />
in a studio with as few takes as possible.<br />
“It was a really good progression for us to buckle<br />
down and apply this much real discipline to the band.<br />
I think we’re a better band for it,” they said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lyrical subject matter is a bit different than<br />
the past and a far cry from the positive mood they<br />
convey onstage, though you wouldn’t notice it in the<br />
singer’s incomprehensible yelps. “<strong>The</strong> music deals<br />
with the spiraling decline of human civilization,<br />
whether it’s hypocrisy, abuse of power, destruction<br />
of the environment, you name it,” the group said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> band is ready for the future—even though<br />
they’re still not ready to say their names.<br />
“We are more interested in our collective identity<br />
than the recognition of individuals,” they said.<br />
found Photography<br />
By mAGALi PiJPers<br />
April ’84. Bernard would go to great lengths to<br />
push this particular holiday out of his memory for<br />
years to come. Estelle and the boat boy had skipped<br />
off of the boat laughing. Bernard felt slighted. She<br />
hadn’t paid him any attention for the entire boat ride.<br />
And now, giggling with the boat boy, it was all the<br />
more patronizing when she turned around, raised the<br />
camera, and said, “smile, honey.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> found photography feature is a new Inprint installation,<br />
showcasing photographs discovered randomly, of people we’ve<br />
never met. Our writers create fictional situations surrounding<br />
each photograph, as form of artistic interpretation. All rights<br />
are reserved. (As if the guy on the boat will try to sue us.)
dance review: todd Williams’<br />
“supra conscious”<br />
By Justin LAne BriGGs<br />
Eugene Lang College dance instructor Todd<br />
Williams’ new show, “Supra Conscious,” was<br />
a surprisingly entertaining and charmingly<br />
self-conscious work, despite the unfortunate<br />
title. Attempting to address psychological<br />
abstractions ranging from word association<br />
to numerology, the piece was at its best when<br />
reveling in Williams’ twisted sense of humor<br />
and muscular improvisational dance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first piece, Williams’ 2004 creation, “108,”<br />
featured two geometric patterns among six dancers,<br />
divided into two groups of three. <strong>The</strong> external<br />
group followed a circular, improvised path around<br />
the edge of the stage, while the internal group<br />
moved in tight unison, forming an equilateral<br />
triangle across the floor. Towards the finale, the<br />
roles reversed as patterns subtly traded places. <strong>The</strong><br />
duality of movement styles suggested the chaos of<br />
human experience contrasted against the discipline<br />
of spirituality. Williams and dancer Mei-Hua Wang<br />
were the performers to watch: they swept across<br />
the stage with a confidence that left the others<br />
drifting in their wake.<br />
<strong>The</strong> music, an original composition by John<br />
Toenjes, was disappointingly typical of modern<br />
dance. Using digital bells, chimes and gongs,<br />
Toenjes imitated the sound of a gamelan, gently<br />
incorporating an ambient synthesizer atop the<br />
percussion. Toenjes was reinstating ground<br />
pioneered in 1992 by David Holmes, <strong>The</strong> Orb,<br />
Aphex Twin and Brian Eno; fourteen years later,<br />
this approach to electronic music can only sound<br />
experimental to John Tesh.<br />
“Exquisite Corpse,” the second act, was a<br />
film review: the<br />
Pink Panther<br />
imdb.com<br />
By KeitH neWeLL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pink Panther is a rotten movie.<br />
No, not the original 1963 film, starring Peter Sellers<br />
as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau, but<br />
rather the 2006 version, featuring comedy legend<br />
Steve Martin and pop singer Beyonce Knowles. A<br />
failed attempt at a screwball comedy and a shameless<br />
desecration of a classic film series, the film flops<br />
around like a fish out of water before dying 93<br />
minutes later.<br />
<strong>The</strong> movie follows Clouseau (Steve Martin) as<br />
Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns<br />
him to investigate the murder of a soccer coach,<br />
hoping that Clouseau will botch the job, allowing<br />
Dreyfus to take over and catch the killer. Clouseau<br />
solves the crime after a series of silly stunts and<br />
wacky blunders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> director, Shawn Levy (Cheaper by the Dozen),<br />
completely rejects the subdued comic insanity of<br />
the orignal films, instead aiming for a 21st century<br />
Hollywood blockbuster. <strong>The</strong> result is a sloppy,<br />
incongruous mess of cheap gags, unfunny dialogue,<br />
and inappropriately flashy cinematography.<br />
Martin, who co-wrote the script, is an awful<br />
Clouseau. As if to reinvent the character entirely,<br />
Martin gestures wildly as if he were onstage in the<br />
70s again, with his arrow-through-the-head prop<br />
and “happy feet.” It’s embarrassing to watch.<br />
But the most outrageously awful performance<br />
belongs to Kline. He might have bored me to<br />
sleep with his mediocre acting, except that I was<br />
perversely fixated on his accent during the entire<br />
film. Vacillating unpredictably between French and<br />
British dialects, Kline seems unsure what movie<br />
he is acting in.<br />
<strong>The</strong> decision to cast Beyonce is befuddling.<br />
She looks as plastic as Pam Anderson, and her<br />
performance is vacuous. Beyonce summed up her<br />
role pretty well in an interview with the London<br />
Free Press: “I basically had to just show up, wear<br />
fabulous clothes, and not laugh.” She wasn’t the<br />
only one not laughing.<br />
hilarious duet featuring Williams with ballet and<br />
drag star Glen Rumsey. Employing campy humor<br />
(including gaudy ruffles and gauzy leotards) and<br />
narrative responses to the lyrics of the Dresden<br />
Dolls’ “Gravity,” the dancers bounced playfully<br />
from preening and posing in improvisation to<br />
careful meditation on the role of unconscious<br />
accidents in the creation of artwork.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first piece, Williams’<br />
2004 creation, “108,” featured<br />
two geometric patterns<br />
among six dancers, divided<br />
into two groups of three.<br />
<strong>The</strong> full-company finale, “Value Intensity,”<br />
Williams’ exploration of word association and<br />
the subconscious mind, contained Williams’ most<br />
astute choreography yet, and his most arresting<br />
solo movement. However, many of the dancers<br />
in the company seemed uncertain onstage (a poor<br />
companion to Mr. Williams’ joy at moving before<br />
a crowd). Several crucial sequences were marred by<br />
awkward dancers, uncomfortable in their own bodies,<br />
who refused to commit to the movement.<br />
WilliamsWorks, of which Mr. Williams is founder<br />
and choreographer, performed “Supra Conscious”<br />
at the Alvin Ailey Studios, as part of the 92 St.<br />
Y’s Harkness Dance Festival. WilliamsWorks has<br />
been performing around <strong>New</strong> York City since 2004.<br />
Williams has been a renowned ballet and modern<br />
dancer since 1990.<br />
film review: London<br />
imdb.com<br />
By Justin LAne BriGGs<br />
First time writer-director Hunter Richards’ London<br />
is perhaps the worst piece of masturbatory ignorance<br />
ever committed to celluloid. Don’t be fooled by the<br />
title; the film has absolutely nothing to do with the<br />
elegant British city. Our story apparently takes place<br />
in <strong>New</strong> York, but Richards doesn’t seem to notice.<br />
London, in this case, is a girl ( Jessica Biel). <strong>The</strong><br />
film centers around her rich, whiny ex-boyfriend Syd<br />
(Chris Evans), and his inability to cope with losing<br />
her to a man with a 10.5-inch penis. Seriously.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story opens with Syd on his way to crash London’s<br />
going-away party, dragging along his drug-dealer, a<br />
40-year-old British banker named Bateman ( Jason<br />
Statham). Once they arrive, the two men hide in<br />
the massive bathroom upstairs and ingest suicidal<br />
amounts of liquor and cocaine. <strong>The</strong> imbeciles rant<br />
and wallow in their own depravity. Intended as a<br />
meditation on the tortures of masculinity, this is<br />
instead a two-hour long excuse for the worst kind<br />
of misogynist ignorance.<br />
We’re actually expected to sympathize with this<br />
overgrown man-child. Richards offers us a steaming<br />
pile of flashbacks, featuring Syd and London “in<br />
love,” trying to illicit emotions we never come close<br />
to feeling. <strong>The</strong>se clips play like a highlights reel<br />
of the worst middle school relationship in history<br />
– complete with out-of-control jealousy and insane<br />
screaming fits. Add lots of impossibly moronic<br />
“intellectual” conversations (“Wait, I forgot, did<br />
you say you believe in God, or you don’t?”), and<br />
apparently Richards believes he has shown us the<br />
nature of true love.<br />
Judging by his first film, it is hard to believe<br />
Richards is any more intelligent than the cretins he<br />
scripted, or has had a single meaningful relationship<br />
in his life. At one point, London tells Syd, “I’m<br />
tired of your pseudo-intellectual bullshit….you keep<br />
going and going and going until someone just wants<br />
to smash your face in.” It was the only line in the<br />
film the audience could relate to.<br />
amazon.com<br />
amazon.com<br />
destrOyer<br />
destroyer’s<br />
rubies<br />
rcA records<br />
4.32 out of 5 stars<br />
By Peter HOLsLin<br />
Though he likes to credit each<br />
band member, songwriter/guitarist<br />
Dan Bejar is the brain behind<br />
Destroyer’s music. Ultimately,<br />
it’s the pianos, surfy guitars and<br />
scrappy-but-languid lyricizing<br />
that give a me-ness to it all. But<br />
Destroyer would not destroy so<br />
effectively if they didn’t make you<br />
think of a different 1990s indie-pop<br />
band for every track.<br />
Destroyer’s first song makes you<br />
wonder whether they’re trying to<br />
be the Fuzztones or Galaxie 500.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, they transform their sound<br />
into a jaunty Belle and Sebastian<br />
imitation for the track “Your Blood.”<br />
And from then on, it’s as though<br />
Ben Folds and Enya co-produced<br />
the album—heavy on the reverb<br />
and vocal harmonies, but rife<br />
with more hard-edged elements,<br />
like piano, distorted guitar and<br />
saxophone. It all works towards<br />
a rocked-out feeling… but with<br />
emphasis on the “out.”<br />
cAt POWer<br />
<strong>The</strong> greatest<br />
matador records<br />
4 out of 5 stars<br />
By sOPHie OKuLicK<br />
As it stands, <strong>The</strong> Greatest of Cat<br />
Power is, all around, a well-put<br />
together album. Chan Marshall<br />
starts the record with one of her<br />
best-written songs, the title track,<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Greatest, ” which sets the<br />
bar high for the entire album.<br />
Throughout the record, Marshall<br />
continually delivers and exceeds<br />
expectations: while most of her<br />
songs are beautiful, they are also<br />
cold and melancholy.<br />
Marshall effectively receives her<br />
Southern inheritance, embracing<br />
the soul and folk blues sounds. <strong>The</strong><br />
song “After it All” is a collaboration<br />
of piano, guitar and Marshall’s soft<br />
voice. Together, they make a free<br />
flowing melody.. Although this style<br />
of music suits Marshall well, it’s<br />
not so much a reinvention as it is a<br />
realization of a destiny. Marshall’s<br />
got the brutally honest voice and<br />
the vibe to make it work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> broken-hearted and<br />
melancholy of the world will<br />
find a faithful new shoulder to<br />
cry on after discovering an album<br />
like this.<br />
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amazon.com<br />
myLO<br />
destroy rock<br />
& roll<br />
Breastfed<br />
4.5 out of 5 stars<br />
By Justin LAne BriGGs<br />
Every once in a while, an<br />
electronic album comes along<br />
that transcends the limited range<br />
of the genre and refuses to leave<br />
the nation’s Discman for years.<br />
Mylo has done this with Destroy<br />
Rock & Roll, out now on his own<br />
label, Breastfed.<br />
Mylo (a.k.a. Myles MacInnes),<br />
hailing from the tiny Scottish Isle of<br />
Skye, brings us on a journey through<br />
the catchiest sounds electronic<br />
music has offered in recent years.<br />
After opening with a trio of down<br />
tempo, West Coast-inspired tracks,<br />
Mylo wastes no time in getting to<br />
his deliciously disco club smash,<br />
“Drop the Pressure.”<br />
Despite the popularity of the<br />
album’s singles (“Drop the Pressure,”<br />
“Musclecars,” and the title track),<br />
the album is surprisingly short on<br />
fillers. Each track stands on its<br />
own, especially the Prefuse-inspired<br />
house beat, “Rikki.” Expect to<br />
see this album on many “Best of<br />
2006” lists.<br />
J diLLA<br />
donuts<br />
stones throw<br />
records<br />
3 out of 5 stars<br />
By ALeX Winter<br />
In the words of rapper Jadakiss,<br />
“You know dead rappers get better<br />
promotion.” Almost ironically,<br />
that same rapper’s voice makes<br />
an appearance in the form of a<br />
vocal sample on J Dilla’s (aka Jay<br />
Dee) latest effort, Donuts. <strong>The</strong><br />
instrumental album, released by<br />
indie hip-hop imprint, Stones Throw<br />
Records on Dilla’s thirty-second<br />
birthday, fell just three days prior<br />
to his death.<br />
J Dilla had suffered from an<br />
incurable blood disease as well as<br />
lupus. Due to his failing health,<br />
much of Donuts was recorded in<br />
a makeshift studio set up in the<br />
hospital.<br />
Donuts provides a much-needed<br />
change from the current, club-based<br />
hip-hop that dominates radio.<br />
<strong>The</strong> album has a relaxed vibe,<br />
provided by the sampled pianos,<br />
guitars, and horns.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lack of lyrics accentuates<br />
Dilla’s smooth style of production<br />
and allows the listener to better<br />
appreciate the album’s nuances.
neW scHOOL & neW yOrK city events<br />
mOndAy tuesdAy WednesdAy tHursdAy fridAy sAturdAy sundAy<br />
february 20<br />
new school<br />
closed for<br />
Presidents’ day<br />
february 2<br />
Women of color<br />
Workshop series<br />
6 West 11th<br />
street<br />
Ground floor<br />
6:00 - 9:00 pm<br />
february 21<br />
Author William<br />
Gass speaks<br />
at eugene<br />
Lang college<br />
Wollman Hall<br />
6 West 11th<br />
street, th floor<br />
6:00 pm<br />
february 2<br />
Bob Kerrey<br />
town Hall<br />
meeting for<br />
eugene Lang<br />
college<br />
Wollman Hall<br />
6 West 11th<br />
street, th floor<br />
4:00 pm<br />
february 22<br />
Poetry forum:<br />
stefanie Brown<br />
moderated by<br />
David Lehman<br />
66 West 12th<br />
street<br />
room 10<br />
Admission $<br />
6:30 pm<br />
march 1<br />
Evening with<br />
emily Barton<br />
Wollman Hall<br />
6 West 11th<br />
street<br />
th floor<br />
6:00 pm<br />
Have an event?<br />
Band playing a show?<br />
Student organization hosting a<br />
lecture series?<br />
Send calendar events to us.<br />
(First come, first serve.)<br />
inprint@newschool.edu<br />
adVErTISINg<br />
Inprint accepts advertisements from<br />
the new school community.<br />
space is limited, so act fast.<br />
Submit jpeg files by e-mail to us at:<br />
inprint@newschool.edu<br />
february 2<br />
film screening:<br />
“Oil On ice”<br />
info: chamanyK@<br />
newschool.edu<br />
66 West 12th<br />
street room 0<br />
4:00 pm<br />
march 2<br />
new school for<br />
drama Plays<br />
“Naomi in the Living<br />
room,” “sisters,”<br />
“circling Back,” “Hello<br />
Out there,” “Heart<br />
in the Ground”<br />
1 1 Bank st rd floor<br />
through march<br />
SaTurday<br />
maTINEE 3 pm<br />
8:00 pm<br />
ComICS<br />
By ALmie rOse vAzzAnO<br />
february 2<br />
intramural<br />
volleyball<br />
Orientation<br />
mcBurney ymcA<br />
12 West<br />
1 th street<br />
6:00 - 7:30 pm<br />
march<br />
Bike the Big<br />
Apple: 16 miles<br />
Bike, helmet,<br />
guide included<br />
- 6 -00<br />
69th street &<br />
2nd Avenue<br />
$6<br />
10 am - 4 pm<br />
february 2<br />
the Orchid show<br />
@ new york<br />
Botanical Garden<br />
200th street<br />
& Kazimiroff<br />
Boulevard, Bronx<br />
1 - 1 - 00<br />
Through aprIL 2<br />
march<br />
Hiring part-time,<br />
short term telephone fundraisers<br />
Flexible hours, shifts available:<br />
Mon, Tues, Wed – 5:30pm to 9:30pm<br />
Sat − 9:30am to 1:30pm<br />
Sun − 4:00pm to 8:00pm<br />
Earn...$11 – 20+ per hour talking with alumni...<br />
For more information contact:<br />
Brian Hoeft (Director of Individual Giving, <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>)<br />
(212) 229-5662x3565<br />
HoeftB@newschool.edu<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> is an equal opportunity employer<br />
Win an iPod!<br />
Participate in the National Survey of Student<br />
Engagement<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> will administer the National Survey of Student Engagement<br />
(NSSE) in Spring 2006 as a web-based survey. <strong>The</strong> information on and link<br />
to NSSE is sent to freshmen and seniors via e-mail. This on-line survey was<br />
launched on February 16th. Please check your GroupWise account (@newschool.<br />
edu) periodically and look for an e-mail with the subject, “<strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Wants Your Feedback.”<br />
Participation in the survey entails entry in the iPod raffle: 1) First prize - <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>New</strong> iPod; 2) Second prize - iPod Nano; and 3) Third prize - iPod Shuffle. Have<br />
a chance to win an iPod by submitting the survey ASAP.<br />
NSSE will be used at <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> and many other universities and colleges<br />
in the nation to improve college experiences of undergraduate students. NSSE<br />
is designed to obtain information from colleges and universities about student<br />
participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning<br />
and personal development. Questions on the survey will ask students about<br />
how they spend their free time, what they feel they have gained from classes,<br />
and their interaction with faculty and other students. <strong>The</strong> findings from this<br />
survey will be very helpful to faculty and administrators here, as we seek to<br />
improve the educational experience of <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> students.<br />
If you have any questions about the survey or the raffle, please contact<br />
Dr. Heather Kim, Director of Institutional Research at studentsurveys@<br />
newschool.edu.<br />
Anna may Wong<br />
museum of<br />
the Moving<br />
image exhibit<br />
35th Avenue<br />
@ 6th street<br />
Astoria, ny<br />
718-784-4520<br />
february 26<br />
Johnny cash th<br />
Birthday Bash<br />
$10<br />
southpaw<br />
125 Fifth Avenue<br />
Park slope,<br />
Brooklyn<br />
7:30 pm<br />
march<br />
Walk this Way:<br />
Harlem Hip Hop<br />
Walking tour<br />
Hush tours, inc.<br />
10 east<br />
106th street<br />
212-714-3527<br />
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