For a little bit of context: (1) NYU has recently announced plans to expand by 40%. Here's a NY Times article on the expansion: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/design/23nyu.html?pagewanted=all Historically, NYU started around Washingston Square Park circa 1830 but grew to other parts of New York City, including the creation of NYU School of Medicine in association with Bellevue Hospital, and a campus in the Bronx which contained a liberal arts program and an engineering school (in the early 1970s NYU had to sell the Bronx campus to avoid economic catastrophe and its campus has become CUNY's Bronx Community College; the liberal arts faculty were integrated into the Washingston Square college of arts and science while the school of engineering merged with Brooklyn Polytechnic Institure to become the Polytechnic University). They call this expansion "NYU 2031" and this time NYU is trying to be more sensitive to the community (unlike what it did in the 1950s when it took over large sections of land and made them into "superblocks" between Houston Street and West 3rd Street -- the Village Voice back in the 1950s chronicles the community struggle). For more on "NYU 2031" from NYU's perspective, see: http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2010/03/26/open_house_for_nyu_2.html
(2) Recently, NYU has agreed to merge with the Polytechnic University, making it the NYU Polytechnic University and part of the new expansion will be a new building on the Brooklyn Campus, thus reacquiring the engineering school it had lost (little is said about the NYU Med joint venture with Mt. Sinai which happened after the Columbia-Cornell Medical alliance because that hasn't turned out so well). (3) NYU has opened "branch" offices in other countries, mainly in Europe but most famously (notoriously?) as NYU Abu Dhabi (see: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/about/locations/timeline.html ). NYU is also to use space on Governor's Island (just off the southern tip of Manhattan) and is providing faculty housing on Roosevelt Island previous known as Welfare Island and Blackwell's Island. For more on the history of NYU see: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/175/facts.htm (4) Although NYU went through significant growth in the last quarter of the 20th century and is continuing it with its "NYU 2031" project, it realizes that it will never really be considered among the ivy league schools (comparable to how the "nouveav riche" are treated by the "old money" [think Michael Bloomberg vs The Rockefellers who were snubbed by the earlier Dutch] even though the nouveau may have more money). So, in order to attain that level of respectability, it was inevitable that NYU would have to buy Columbia and eat Harvard. Expect NYU to buy Princeton and Yale and make them into community colleges. On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:24:57 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: http://nyunews.com/news/2010/04/01/1columbia/ >So if NYU has eaten Harvard, I wonder what part Mike Palij got? Brains and eggs. See: http://www.slashfood.com/2008/12/29/brains-and-eggs/ Some of the Souther Tipsters can explain. ;-) >Was there gravy? :-) I used hot sauce. I know I should have eaten the meal cold in respect of an old Klingon saying but only damned zombies eat cold brains (though some say this is an urban legend since, if you're still alive when a zombie eats your brains, it's impossible for them to be cold). Happy Aprils Fools Day, y'all! ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1678 or send a blank email to leave-1678-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
