Yesterday, on this very blog, Mr. Eric Moskowitz wrote “I wasn’t able to attend the House Edit meeting the night before the 4.11 piece was written, but had I been there, this piece would have been different.”
I personally don’t think this is the case. I was at the editorial board meeting that discussed this staff editorial, and I felt that the board’s opinion was coherent. The resulting piece, in my opinion, accurately reflects our discussion, and I don’t think any one additional board member would have changed the opinion of the board itself.
To transition to my personal response to Eric’s blog post (I do not reflect the views of the editorial board):
How is hosting a panel composed of an NYU academic (Gillermina Jasso), a Temple Law professor (Jan Ting), and leaders from two civil society groups (Chris Simcox and Enrique Morones) crass or provocative?
The Minutemen (and Simcox’s current group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps) may technically be “civil society groups,” but they are hardly civil. It’s hard to get to the bottom of what the various Minuteman groups actually represent. Let’s try.
Weapon of Class Instruction, whose author wrote a song claiming that NYU President John Sexton’s hugs were a “gesture of patriarchy” (here’s a column I wrote about it), did not like the post I made last night.
And the Washington Square News loses any claim to objectivity when its opinion editors blog like this on its official website. What a joke. I hope that the WSN and their “good friend” John Beckman will be very happy together. The rest of us are going to keep fighting for a just university.
God forbid! An opinion editor with an opinion.
Deputy opinion editor Anthony Marek beat me to it, but I’m still going to add my two cents.
The New York Sun reports that American labor unions recently complained about university labor practices to the United Nations.
“NYU has gotten away with hiding behind the Bush labor board decision,” said Susan Valentine, a member of the graduate teaching assistants union at NYU. ” NYU wants to position itself as an international university. They should comport themselves with international labor standards.”
Where have you been these past months, Susan Valentine? I miss you.
Gallatin drop out Mary Kate Olsen recently published an insightful article about Chanel bags for The New York Times:
I think WSN just became the best newspaper in New York City.
In the last column I wrote for WSN, I said:
But I can think of everyone as human, with emotions like my own. It’s all right to look at the big picture, but never lose focus of the small ones: the illegal immigrant who would rather die than face deportation because his family depends on the American dollars he sends home; the biology student who experiments on mice to avenge the disease that killed his mother; the homosexual who wants society to recognize his equality, whether it offends a Republican’s broken marriage or not. Doing that gets you pretty damn close to truth, I think. And you can never go wrong criticizing those who refuse to think on a human scale, people who think in manifestos, philosophies and religions rather than blood, sweat and tears.
I think the NYU College Republicans should start thinking about people before policy.
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