In the last year NYU began a series of "ambitious and controversial projects," says the Politics As Puppetry blog, including the merger with Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.
So today a group of NYU student activists will kick off the 2008-2009 school year by launching a campaign called Take Back NYU!, demanding that the NYU Administration increase campus democracy by disclosing the school’s annual budget, endowment investments and by placing a student on the Board of Trustees.
A press conference with NYU student activists will take place on the southeast corner of Washington Square Park Tuesday at 11 a.m.
This will be a great opportunity for Brooklyn's Polytech students to, you know, get the feel of their new school. No word on whether or not a shuttle bus from the Brooklyn campus will be available . . .
Go to McBrooklyn's HOME PAGE.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Come On, Brooklyn Polytechnic Students: NYU Student Protest Today
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It should be pointed out that seedy academic corruption seems to run quite deep at NYU. Take, for example, the allegations of plagiarism that have surfaced against the Judaica department chairman; they were initially made in an Israeli newspaper years ago, but the matter appears to have been hushed up and never investigated, in violation of the university's own regulations. For details, see
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/plagiarism-and-dead-sea-scrolls-did-nyu-department-chairman-pilfer-chicago-historian-s-work
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