When Brooklyn goes to college

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No Sleep 'til Brooklyn!

No Sleep 'til Brooklyn! 04/12/2004 12:45 PM
Annotated Beastie Boys.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS 08/02/2004 01:58 PM
An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: In Conversation With Peter Lamborn Wilson

brooklynrail.org/spotlight/july04/wilson.html
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Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules

Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules 04/21/2004 01:04 PM
Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene, and one of Brooklyn's most diverse ‘hoods. I love it....

target opens in brooklyn

target opens in brooklyn 07/21/2004 04:36 PM
what a beautiful fucking mess

neurotic brooklyn ice cream

neurotic brooklyn ice cream 05/12/2004 02:28 PM
there's nothing more charming than a little store covered in bitter, resentful signs

Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators!

Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators! 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Max Clarke says,

Recently on my blog, I put up an image of a mysterious flyer being posted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where, in recent years, community activists have fought real estate developers' plans to build luxury high-rises, and the city's plans to site trash facilities and power plants on the waterfront). The flyer is a masterful parody of all this. It reads:

"WILLIAMSBURG DOESN'T NEED A SPACE ELEVATOR! The Space Elevator Will Mean: Less Parking, Weird Ribbon Thing, Constant Loud Whirring Noise, Increased Space Elevator Truck Traffic. Developers have submitted plans to build a massive space elevator in Williamsburg! This monstrosity, completely out of context with existing development in the neighborhood, will be accessible only to the wealthy, forcing thousands of average Williamsburgers from their homes and live-work spaces! Jobs the elevator will generate (operators, repairmen, astronauts) are certain to go to non-residents! Don't sit idly by and let this elevator cast its impossibly long, cold, and very narrow shadow over our homes! CALL 311 AND TELL THEM 'I JUST DON'T NEED THIS SPACE ELEVATOR!'"

The flyer is credited to F.E.T.S.E.o.t.N (Fight Extremely Tall Space Elevators on the Northside), and includes the URL of an anti-space-elevator-in-Williamsburg Yahoo group.

Link. See also this proposed NYC rezoning plan, which includes a number of proposed 8-35 story luxury complexes in a currently working-class neighborhood with an average building height of 3 stories. Link. While this flyer is most certainly a joke, space elevators are not -- at least for some. Link (thanks for the reminder, Dr. Setebos)

Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP)

Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP) 08/28/2004 01:39 PM
AP - Thousands of abortion-rights activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the latest in a growing procession of protests leading up to the Republican National Convention.

Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP)

Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP) 06/03/2004 06:35 PM
AP - An artist best known for decorative cheese has broadened his palette, or palate, to ham. Cosimo Cavallaro, who once repainted a New York hotel room in melted mozzarella, has covered a bed in processed ham. "I feel like I am back in my mother's deli," the artist said Thursday.

RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective

RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective 08/29/2004 02:07 PM
Xeni Jardin: Color me jaded, but this call for a citywide "quivering saturnalia" to protest the RNC sounds more like an excuse to perv out in public, and less like actual political protest. But, hey, what do I know about Reichian energetics? Fleshbot says,

If the skies are dark over New York City next week during the Republican National Convention, it may be due to the cloudbusting efforts of the Brooklyn Orgastic Politics Collective, who plan to combat the "Deadly Orgone Energy (DOR)" of Dubya and company with ... uh, something based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich ("Metaphorically speaking, our September 2nd project will be an attempt to give the sky a blowjob...")

Link . Don't forget to wear your tinfoil beanie thong.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne 09/20/2004 06:25 AM
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA443919
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Archive/skins/BE/about.htm

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, had the distinction of being the most widely read afternoon newspaper in the U.S. during the Civil War. After it ceased publication in 1955, the paper's morgue and related files were donated to the Brooklyn Public Library, but access to this vibrant collection of stories, photos and illustrations was limited to a few microfilm editions and fewer still print holdings. In 2001 the Brooklyn Library launched an extensive digitization project encompassing the years 1841-1902, funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and beta testing of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online [www.brooklynpublicli brary.org/eagle] began in March 2003. The site was an immediate hit, accommodating an average of 60,000 visits a month. As expected, many visitors have used the site to track down genealogical information, but the library has also used the collection to provide access to primary documents on Civil War-era Brooklyn and African-American women's history to K-12 students. The library is now considering a second project to digitize the 1902-1955 issues, but must first grapple with the copyright implications for newspapers printed after 1923, as well as the significant increase in per-issue page volume in later years. More information on the project can be found at

Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn

Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn 04/19/2005 11:05 AM
David Pescovitz: My old friend Barnaby Whitfield is a pastel artist in New York City and member of the prestigious White Columns Curated Artist Registry. Barnaby's solo exhibition "Whore With Red Cheeks" opens this Friday, April 22, at the 31GRAND gallery in Brooklyn's Williamsburg:

An unabashed and unapologetic pastel artist with an obsessive nature toned in kitsch and pith; Whitfield creates a personal mythology within an art historical context.

Growing up the child of a politician and an educator in south Florida, Whitfield found himself at the age of 6 living in the master suite of a haunted Antebellum Mansion on an abandoned horse farm. The former owner, and now ghost, Norma, had succumbed to madness for the last ten years of her life. It was said she often walked to the end of the circular drive waving with undergarments fastened to the outside of her clothes. But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards. Whitfield’s family found the former master suite’s, pink and maroon tiled, bathroom, stuffed with lipsticks even filling the toilet bowl; permanently streaking it in the waxy reds his Mother and Father kept in memoriam...

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Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP)

Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP) 06/15/2004 09:31 PM
AP - As the spiritual adviser to Brooklyn drug dealers, Mercedes Osario allegedly was paid to warn if police were in their future. Prosecutors claim her mystical powers failed. Miserably.

Brooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time

Brooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time 01/22/2004 10:20 AM
The borough has a sports identity for the first time since the Dodgers departed for Los Angeles after the 1957 baseball season.

Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21

Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Brian Loube, an artist who makes political and aesthetic lenticular and 3D images, is having a show in Brooklyn that opens on April 21, including "a set of candid street photographs shot in NYC subways (thanks to Homeland Security, now an illegal activity) and a newer, larger series of extreme close-ups of faces locked in an endless loops of sexual pleasure." Link

Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience

Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience 04/12/2004 11:19 AM
The museum, led by its director, is changing course, concentrating almost exclusively on its own backyard the 2.5 million residents of Brooklyn.

Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn

Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn 01/22/2004 04:57 AM
A developer who wants to move the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn agreed to buy the team for $300 million.

"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts"

"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts" 05/29/2004 08:52 PM

A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan

A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan 04/16/2005 10:15 AM
Passenger and cruise ships will abandon Manhattan and make Brooklyn their home port next year when the city finishes rebuilding a pier in Red Hook.

A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex

A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex 12/12/2003 06:52 AM
new sports arena

nytimes.com/2003/12/11/nyregion/11AREN.html
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Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All

Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
Greater Paths, Inc. founded in March 2004 by Crystal Solange Elie, provides online, email, phone and in-person tutoring. Company launches its online summer course catalog. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Rabbis' Rules and Indian Wigs Stir
Crisis in Orthodox Brooklyn

Rabbis' Rules and Indian Wigs Stir
Crisis in Orthodox Brooklyn 05/14/2004 07:30 PM
A ban on wigs made in India from human hair the hair may have been used in religious ceremonies has thrown thousands of Orthodox Jewish women into confusion.

You Can Pay for College

You Can Pay for College 09/22/2004 08:42 AM
Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.

What Will College Really Cost?

What Will College Really Cost? 04/19/2004 03:14 PM
You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad.

Hacker college

Hacker college 07/07/2004 07:52 AM

Saving for College

Saving for College 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
College costs can be managed with proper planning.

College backs off Wi-Fi ban

College backs off Wi-Fi ban 09/16/2004 04:51 PM
Tensions ease at the University of Texas at Dallas when administrators reverse restrictions on Wi-Fi use.

How to Save for College

How to Save for College 04/22/2004 02:54 PM
College is expensive, no doubt about it -- but you can afford it.

College To Do Away With Fair Use

College To Do Away With Fair Use 12/17/2003 09:34 PM
The latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs (the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan, where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an "annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials because it's just too damn expensive.

College Prep Help That Goes With You

College Prep Help That Goes With You 12/30/2004 04:26 AM
New York Times Dec 30 2004 7:59AM GMT

How to Invest for College

How to Invest for College 05/07/2004 08:57 AM
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to college savings.

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism 11/13/2003 05:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about college kids cheating by buying or just cutting and pasting complete assignments for their classes, but this BBC piece includes a quote from someone claiming that she basically did that on every paper she's turned in throughout college, and is now using the same cut-and-paste method to finish up her dissertation. Clearly, that's an outlier example, but it does show how far people will go. The article includes lots of quotes from people who complain about the dumbing down of our education system that has allowed this to happen, but I'm not sure that's the case. Kids have always cheated in school. This just makes the process easier. Of course, what they don't mention is that the real punishment is already being handed out to these kids. They're attending (and in many cases paying quite a bit) four years of college and not learning a damn thing, because all they're doing is cutting and pasting.

Take College Tours Online

Take College Tours Online 03/27/2005 08:21 AM
Thedenverchannel.com - Sun Mar 27, 07:06 am GMT

Convergence calls at college

Convergence calls at college 04/13/2005 08:07 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 13 2005 12:05PM GMT

The liberal college conspiracy

The liberal college conspiracy 09/20/2004 08:24 AM
Conservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.

Best undergrad college regardless of
price?

Best undergrad college regardless of
price? 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

I know a high school senior with 1600 on his SATs.  His parents were not sufficiently loving to change their last name to "Rodriguez" so he is not a shoo-in affirmative action candidate at America's most elite colleges.  Nonetheless with his perfect SAT scores he ought to get into some pretty good schools.  The question is where should he apply and attend?

After observing the behavior of MIT and Harvard faculty compared to professors at small town liberal arts schools I'm beginning to wonder if the biggest name schools represent a good choice even for a kid with infinite money.  In the old days you had to worry about whether faculty at research universities would pay attention to undergrads amidst the distractions of applying for grants and supervising graduate students and postdocs to perform on those grants.  Nothing has changed there except that competition for grants has become ever more fierce, forcing the professors to spend a bit more time applying and writing up results.  For an undergrad who actually wants to see and do research it might make sense to choose a school like MIT where there are substantial opportunities for undergrads to get into labs.  The professors might ignore the undergrads in the classes that they teach but they won't ignore the motivated undergrads helping with their funded research.

The big change compared to the 1960s and 1970s is the affordability of housing close to the campuses of some of the top research schools.  A Harvard or MIT professor who wants to live in a family-sized house will either need to spend two hours per day commuting from the exurbs or two days per week consulting to pay for the $1.5 million house in Cambridge.  In the old days a junior professor hurried from the classroom to the lab.  Today she hurries from the classroom to the lab and then tries to depart the campus by 4 pm to beat the traffic out to the exurbs.  She won't spend the evening taking her students out for dinner; if she is socializing it will be with folks unrelated to the university who live near her house.

For personal attention from the faculty it would seem that one should restrict one's college search to schools in areas where real estate is still cheap enough that professors live close to campus.  Brown would be good.  Harvard would be bad.  Some schools are near cheap housing but are still bad due to the fact that they are in crime-ridden ghettos (Yale and Penn?).  Amherst and Williams should be good.

What else should matter to the young male applicant?  How about girls?  The 17-year-old boy with 1600s on his SATs probably hasn't had time to become captain of the football team and do the other things that appeal to high school babes.  Why then subject oneself to four more years of rejection and frustration by attending a college where girls are in short supply?  Fifty-seven percent of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women in the U.S.  Why not choose a school where women are at least 57 percent of the students?  Remember that if 40 girls pair up with 40 boys that leaves 17 single girls for every 3 single guys!

Finally I guess we should tell the kid that if he and his parents don't have infinite money he should go wherever is cheap.  A motivated student can learn at most of the better colleges in the U.S.  A friend of mine was a brilliant high school student.  She went to Tulane in New Orleans as an undergrad where they gave scholarships for smart kids and where she could have a good time.  She went to MIT and got a PhD in physical science.  People sometimes do ask where she did her PhD work.  No potential employer would care where she was an undergrad.  For any field in which a graduate degree will be required it doesn't make sense to spend family $$ on a fancy undergrad degree that nobody will care about (not even the grad school; they always ask "was this your best student in the last 10 years?" and no honest teacher at a top school is going to be able to say "yes" because being smart is so cheap at a place such as Harvard or MIT).

So... where do we tell young John Q. Nerdly to apply?  He has the good test scores and public high school grades.  He is considering majoring in Biology (smart kid!).  He likes to climb rocks.  He hasn't been doing that great with the ladies as far as I can tell (the best vehicle that he can generally muster is a dented 10-year-old Ford Taurus station wagon, which might explain some of this lack of success).  His parents could suck it up to pay for an Ivy League no-merit-scholarship cartel university but they'd rather not.

College heads protest to MPs

College heads protest to MPs 05/19/2004 09:06 AM
Heads of colleges of further education protest at Westminster over funding cuts.

Sell College to Your Kids

Sell College to Your Kids 04/29/2004 03:00 PM
It's good for them to buy into the idea and to want to attend.

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi 09/09/2004 08:26 PM
University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network.

Will take college credit for food.

Will take college credit for food. 04/21/2004 03:46 PM
A huge number of internships are illegal. So claims a labor lawyer in this USA Today story. Are unpaid internships a form of white collar exploitation we should crack down on? Just how much of the workforce is unpaid, or working on tiny stipends? And is it like this in other Western countries?
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