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NYU Faculty Demand Martin Lipton’s Resignation As Board Of Trustees Chairman

July 17, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A group of New York University faculty are demanding in an open letter released Tuesday that Martin Lipton, chairman of the institution’s board of trustees, resign from the position he’s held for 14 years.

NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, a group of more than 400 faculty members, has vocally opposed the university’s expansion effort, and on Tuesday issued a lengthy letter laying out their grievances with Lipton and NYU president John Sexton, touching on a slew of controversies from the past few years.

“This is not a step that we take lightly,” the group wrote. “We are well aware of your long dedication to NYU’s betterment, and your many services on its behalf. It is because, as faculty, we share your dedication to the university that we feel obliged to take this step — and to explain, precisely, why we are now taking it.”

The Darwinist 'Mob' That Wasn't

March 21, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By John Farrell, Contributor

Last Fall, Thomas Nagel, the respected philosopher who teaches at NYU, published Mind and Cosmos, with the provocative subtitle, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

News, Politics, Government

Peter Blair Henry: How America Can Bounce Back From The Economic Crisis

March 12, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Dan Schawbel, Contributor

I spoke to Peter Blair Henry, who is the Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU, about his new book “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”. Before taking this position in January 2010, he was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford, where he was a faculty scholar, the Associate Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy at Stanford’s business school, and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He served as a member of the Obama transition team and is a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. He is also a board member at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Board of Directors of Kraft Foods, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Entertainment

Franco: Prof insult is free speech

March 2, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

NEW YORK, March 2 (UPI) — U.S. actor James Franco said a lawsuit an ex-NYU professor filed against him for defamation should be dismissed on grounds of free speech, court documents said.

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James Franco: NYU Professor Can’t Sue Me For Saying He Sucks

March 2, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By The Huffington Post News Editors

James Franco refuses to back down from the ex-NYU professor who sued the actor for calling him a “bad teacher” — insisting the guy not only sucks at teaching, but he also screwed up his own lawsuit.

Franco has just filed a response to Jose Angel Santana‘s request for a default judgement in his favor in his defamation lawsuit against Franco. Santana feels he’s entitled to the judgement because Franco never responded to the initial 2011 lawsuit.

A Very Fast Future

February 13, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Andy Ellwood, Contributor

I first met David Burstein in Argentina giving out shoes to children in need with TOMS Shoes. Our next meeting was in Abu Dhabi where he was producing a documentary on behalf of NYU. And then last night, I saw David again at a packed reception in a skyscraper overlooking Central Park celebrating the launch of his book “Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World.” …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

News, Politics, Government

5 Seeds to Sprout Success

January 26, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Julia Pimsleur, Contributor Liz Neumark, who gave the Keynote at the recent WEF 3 I attended, a festival for Women Entrepreneurs held at NYU in New York, grew her successful catering business on five key ideas – Seeds – which she shared with us. Liz started the business in 1979 to supplement her income as a photographer and then grew it exponentially, ultimately making Great Performances one of New York‘s top catering companies. She did this while raising three kids and buying and cultivating a 60-acre organic farm in upstate New York where kids come to learn about healthy eating and 5% of its harvest to anti-hunger organizations like City Harvest.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Movies & TV

Homer's Odyssey Goes to Space

January 15, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Sing to me of the adaptation, Muse, the Warner Bros. plan to make a film version of The Odyssey set in outer space.

How sparkling-eyed Athena drove the studio to hire James DiLapo to put pen to parchment; to re-imagine Homer’s epic poem about hard-suffering Odysseus and his long journey home from the Trojan War, only with a sci-fi twist.

Oh Zeus! Golden-haired Brad Pitt was once attached to star, for the gods know he played Achilles in Warners’ Troy, though he has since left the project. But still, the studio does see franchise potential for The Odyssey. Maybe they can call it A Space Odyssey.

True, the people might well wonder who James DiLapo is; graduated from NYU just last summer, the great DiLapo’s first script, Devils at Play, made the divine 2012 Black List. The daughter of Zeus, whose shield is storm and thunder, indeed watches over him.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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