Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Screening of The Disappeared


Breakfast for Dinner

Breakfast for Dinner

Join us for the traditional Breakfast for Dinner!

Take a break from studying for finals and enjoy a FREE breakfast at dinner time and great giveaways!

This event is sponsored by NYU Office of Graduate Life and Commuter and Off Campus Student Services at the Student Resource Center, and the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Student Resource Center at 212-998-4411, or email student.resource.center@nyu.edu


Tuesday, December 15, 2009
08:30 PM - 10:00 PM

3rd floor | Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South

Kim Yu
212.998.4962



Sixty Years of Journalism: Celebrating Jimmy Breslin

Sixty Years of Journalism:

Celebrating Jimmy Breslin

Monday, December 7th at 7pm
Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South, 4th floor

A host of eminent journalists and writers, convened by Pete Hamill, celebrate the career of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin. An inimitable New York voice, the city’s “steadiest and most accurate chronicler” (Tom Robbins, The Village Voice, March 19 2002), Breslin was born in Queens, New York in October 1929. He started as a copy-boy at the age of fifteen at the Long Island Press and then worked as a reporter covering fires, crime and sports for that paper. In the late 1950s he became a sports columnist at the New York Journal-American and in 1963 he published his first book, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets’ First Year. Breslin wrote his city-side column for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1963 to 1966. He was at The Daily News from 1976 to 1988 where he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. He then joined Newsday from 1988 until his retirement as a columnist in 2004. Pioneering in style and in focus, his columns were peopled with the prominent, the shady and those struggling with poverty and crime. He also reported from Northern Ireland, Vietnam and other places beyond New York. His first novel, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, was published in 1970 and was made into a successful film. His most recent book The Good Rat: A True Story was published in 2008. In all, he has published seven novels and ten works of non-fiction.

FREE to NYU community: to reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7785945. Please bring your NYU ID card and confirmation e-mail with you to the event: actual tickets will not be issued, rather your name will be on a list generated by NYU Ticket Central.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NYU NEW MUSIC AND DANCE ENSEMBLE

FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Ticket Information: 212 998 5424

NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble
Electronic works with dance and video
Esther Lamneck, Artistic Director
Douglas Dunn, Choreography
LOCATION: Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th Street
ADMISSION: Free

Annual Junior Class Thanksgiving Dinner!

Tuesday, November 24th
7 PM - 9 PM
Kimmel E&L (4th Floor)

The annual Junior Class and Commuter Circle Thanksgiving dinner (is on its way!

Nov 24th 7-9pm

RSVP's NOT NECESSARY BUT APPRECIATED
Please e-mail nyuclass2011@yahoo.com

** Vegan options available. Kosher and Halal options available upon e-mail request. (nyuclass2011@yahoo.com)

Simultaneous canned food drive!

Bring a canned food, be entered to win a prize at the end of the night!
All donations will go to The Bailey House helping the homeless suffering from AIDS.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

ANAD Candlelight Vigil



Friday, November 20, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 PM
900 Series, Kimmel

Join the sisters of Delta Phi Epsilon for our ANAD (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders) Candlelight Vigil. Prominent guest speakers include noted therapists and nutritionists, and FREE FOOD will be provided!!!

Friday, November 20
900 Series of Kimmel
7:00

It is a really beautiful ceremony that helps fight eating disorders - everyone is invited so feel free to bring your friends! See you there :)

4th Annual CAS Student Faculty Banquet!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kimmel E&L (4th Floor)

Not only will you get a FREE 3 COURSE MEAL, but you get to mingle with distinguished CAS FACULTY, talk about classes, career aspirations, individual interests, and possibly build mentorship bonds. This much anticipated night can be whatever you make of it!


Wondering what professors will be there? Glad you asked...

Paramjit Arora - Chemistry
Andre Adler-Physics
Mosette Broderick-Art History
Deena Engel-Computer Science
Dean Farrington
Ahmed Ferhadi - Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Linda Gordon-Gender and Sexuality Studies/ History
John Halpin- Chemistry
Martha Hodes-History
Ruth Horowitz-Sociology
Richard Hull-History
Neville Kallenbach - Chemistry
Mehdi Khorrami-Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Marc Lieberman-Economics
Carlos Martinez-Spanish and Portuguese
Mick Moloney-Music
Dr. Alan Ravitz-Child Study Center
Elihu Rose-History
Dean Santirocco 
Dean Ruth Shoemaker-Wood
Tycho Sleator-Physics
Dean Sonntag
Rita Wright-Anthropology
Jindrich Zezula-French


What's for dinner? Here's the menu...
Hors d'oeuvres (7-7:30pm)

Appetizer:
Butternut Squash Soup, garnished with chestnuts

Entree:
Roasted Prime Rib, Cabernet Jus, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Hericot Verts and Carrot. Vegetarian option available upon request.

Dessert:
Apple Tart with Vanilla Bean Gelato, garnished with Berries
Chocolates, Coffee and Tea


** FREE TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT TICKET CENTRAL, so don't forget to pick yours up!

Business Casual Recommended

Fighting to the Death: Moral Paradoxes in Modern Warfare




Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 6:45 - 8:30 PM
Place: Silver, Room 414



As part of the 2009 SHARP Lecture Series, in conjunction with the Selma Rubin Distinguished Lecture Series, Gunnar Heinsohn, frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Economist, will be speaking on modern warfare and terrorism in relation to his now famous Youth Bulge Theory. 

Gunnar Heinsohn is a German sociologist and economist. Since 1984, he has been a tenured professor at the University of Bremen, where he heads the Raphael-Lemkin Institute for Comparative Genocide Research named for Raphael Lemkin. His list of publications includes almost 700 scholarly articles, conference presentations, and books. His research has been focused on developing new theories regarding the history and theory of civilization.

He is known most widely for his theory of the Youth Bulge. He argues that an excess in especially young adult male population predictably leads to social unrest, war and terrorism, as the "third and fourth sons" that find no prestigious positions in their existing societies rationalize their impetus to compete by religion or political ideology. Heinsohn claims that most historical periods of social unrest lacking external triggers (such as rapid climatic changes or other catastrophic changes of the environment) and most genocides can be readily explained as a result of a built up youth bulge, including European colonialism, 20th century Fascism, and ongoing conflicts such as that in Darfur, The Palestinian uprisings in 1987-1993 and 2000 to present, and terrorism.

Heinsohn's contributions to genocide research include an encyclopedia of genocides, a generalized version of youth bulge theory and a new theory of Hitler´s motivation for the Holocaust.