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One Woman’s dorm is Another’s 

retirement Home 

By LizA minnO 

For 20 New School students last year, dorm life felt more like 

retirement home life. 

Because of a lack of dorm housing last Fall, the university rented 

rooms from the Ten-Eyck Troughton Memorial Residence, a Salvation 

Army building for women located in Murray Hill. The all-women 

building had stringent rules, and the majority of the tenants were 

over 65. Less than half of the 20 students assigned to the building 

stayed for the entire year. 

A week before coming to the New School from Nashville to study 

Cinema and Media, Amy Jo Damitz, 26, was notified by University 

Housing that she’d be living in The Ten-Eyck, and that they thought 

she’d prefer it because of her age. 

“I thought [The Ten-Eyck] was going to be more adult students, 

and when I got there it was surprising to see it was more retired age 

people than students,” Damitz said in an interview. 

Because the Salvation Army owns the building, the house rules 

often did not reflect New School policy. Overnight guests were 

charged a $20 fee, no alcohol was permitted in the building, and no 

male guests were allowed past the lobby. 

Julie Langer, an ex-Ten-Eyck resident and Lang student, recalls 

creative ways some got around the rules. “I got in the elevator with 

this really ugly girl wearing a purple dress with nasty platinum blonde 

hair. I pushed six and I hear a man’s voice say ‘Ten please.’ I looked 

at the girl behind me and said ‘You’re a dude.’ He looked back and 

said, ‘I haven’t seen my girlfriend in three months,’” Langer said. 

Nancy Smith, Assistant Director of New School University 

Housing, selected the Ten-Eyck as a student residence because the 

facility was in relatively good condition and it seemed like a safe 

and secure place. 

All of the rooms on the Ten-Eyck’s seventeen floors are singles, 

which also appealed to Smith. Availability was limited, so students 

often didn’t live on the same floors. Students were more likely to 

have older women as neighbors. 

lou reed’s chelsea debut 

Just a temporary thing: the new photography 

exhibit “Lou reed: new york.” 

By AdAm GerArd 

There’s little question about Lou 

Reed’s looming presence in the 

art world. As a teen he worked at 

the Pickwick songwriting factory, 

penning underground classics for 

recording artists like the Jades and 

the Beachnuts. He fronted one of 

the best rock groups of all time, 

almost single-handedly inventing 

what we know as New York City 

rock n’ roll, meanwhile perverting 

every bird and boy that ventured 

to cross his path. 

Reed turned himself into a 

human canvas, routinely dying 

onstage, an epic Greek tragedy of 

a man being written in real time. 

He dumped the Velvets, went solo, 

glammed up, bloated out, went to 

Berlin, thinned out, bleached his 

hair, and shaved his head, all the 

while gorging himself on pills, 

booze, transvestite hookers, and 

smack, leaving himself always just 

short of death. 

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It is this artistic willingness 

to become the art that allowed 

Reed to shape-shift on a whim, 

and because of it his integrity is 

rarely questioned. He has been 

quiet for a few years now, and, for 

him, the next logical step was to 

become a photographer. 

Reed’s recent exhibition at 

Chelsea’s Steven Kasher gallery, 

titled “Lou Reed: New York,” 

showcases his work, which recalls 

both Robert Frank Americana and 

a gothic cinema verite romanticism. 

The gallery is a blend of New 

York cityscapes and off angle self 

portraits. And there is a beauty in 

each photo’s relationship to the next, 

whether we are shown the rough 

waters of the New York Harbor 

or the weathered crags of his face. 

Each color fades into black, as if 

to say that even New York City 

is mortal, and that every beauty 

carries a vein of darkness. 

Alexander Porter 


everyOne WAnts A Piece Of tHe BrOAdBAnd Pie 

By Peter HOLsLin 

The Grassroots Media Conference, held last 

Saturday at the New School, emphasized how 

corporations and activists both strive to influence 

rapidly evolving internet technology. 

One of the many workshops highlighted the 

importance of understanding media policy. Speakers 

at another workshop showed how to build an 

independent broadband server to provide free 

internet for limited areas. And at a third, some of 

New York City’s bloggers met face to face for the 

first time to discuss blogging technology, blogger 

accountability and how blogs can become more 

involved in local issues. 

Corporate interests affect media policy in ways 

that disenfranchise minority, lower-class and rural 

communities in America, argued Timothy Karr, 

campaign manager for the leftist media organization 

Free Press, and New School student and activist 

Antwuan Wallace, in a workshop titled “Media 

Policy: Why It’s Important for Everyone!” 

The Internet “has this ‘everyone can publish’ 

sentiment… But there’s a caveat to that, because 

there are a lot of people who don’t have access to 

the internet,” Karr said after the workshop. Because 

of this, telecommunications infrastructure must 

work in the interests of the American population, 

Karr added. 

Wallace spoke about how in New York City, large 

corporations like Verizon provide the only broadband 

service to each borough, but often do not install 

Wi-Fi boxes, for wireless internet access, in some 

lower-class neighborhoods—such as Wallace’s 

neighborhood, East New York—because they 

are perceived as “economically unfeasible.” This 

disenfranchises lower-class populations, especially 

lower-class minority populations. 

Wallace and Karr alleged that rural populations 

are also disenfranchised this way. 

Many, the two argued, are alienated by the “political 

wonkiness” of government legal rhetoric, making 

it harder to understand, and influence, government 

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media policy. 

The two gave little solution other than saying 

the American population could stay informed by 

getting involved with community groups like Free 

Press or the Prometheus Radio Project, a group 

that specializes in community broadcasting. “It is 

a complicated conversation, and yet the democratic 

system we have requires that you understand the 

system,” Wallace said. 

Over 40 people packed in to a large “smart” 

classroom on the second floor to learn more about 

establishing municipal networks, in “The Spectrum 

Spectacular: Community Wireless and Smashing Your 

Way into the Thrill Ride of the Century,” a workshop 

hosted by the Prometheus Radio Project. 

It is “technically possible” and “economically 

feasible” to build independently controlled broadband 

networks that provide free internet to a limited 

area, argued Dharma Dailey and Hannah Sassaman, 

members of the Prometheus Radio Project. 

Today, “we can build technology to work just 

around the block,” Dailey said. 

Dailey and Sassaman explained how Internet 

users could create their own smaller networks, 

using a broadband router connected to an antenna 

positioned out a window or on a roof. 

Event-goers could manufacture “Cantennas”— 

antennas made out of coffee cans—in the exhibition 

room after the workshop. 

One attendant of the seminar raised a question 

about the security of such a network. Indeed, wireless 

networks are more vulnerable to computer hacking 

than networks that operate through telephone or 

cable lines. Making a personal wireless internet 

network publicly accessible would only make it 

more vulnerable. 

“Technically, you can make it 99.9% secure. It’ll 

take a little more configuration, which we’ll help 

you out with, but it’s feasible,” said Gail Hauser, 

another Prometheus Project member and speaker 

at the seminar. Hauser reminded the audience that 

internet servers have always never been completely 

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Defining Diversity 

at new school 

Inprint is committed to the promotion and celebration of diversity. 

We have revisited this issue in a number of articles devoted to the 

pursuit of achieving proper representation for all. And while we 

applaud the New School’s ambitious plans to measurably increase 

diversity by 2010, Inprint remains committed to exploring the diversity 

that we already have. 

But diversity is a moving target. How can we define it? Is it merely 

race, creed, and lifestyle? In fact, the meaning of diversity far 

exceeds the limited definition that many hold. When speaking of a 

diverse community, one must also explore factors such as class, age, 

background, and geography. 

In an effort to foster dialogue on this subject, the March 6 issue 

of Inprint will debut a regular column, addressing the meaning of 

diversity in a seemingly homogenous community. We want to encourage 

readers to utilize the newspaper as a venue of expression by submitting 

opinion pieces and letters. Each installment of this new feature will 

be written by a guest columnist from the university community. We 

challenge all readers to reevaluate their own definitions of diversity 

and to join the discussion in our pages. 

Rather than constantly bemoan the alleged lack of diversity at Lang, 

let us instead embrace the diversity that we do have, for it is great, 

and perhaps greater than any of us even realize. 

no Keycard? no id? 

no Problem. 

Security at an urban institution is essential, and the New School is 

no exception. Even in the seemingly tranquil bubble that is Greenwich 

Village, violent crimes are committed, and property is stolen. The 

most fundamental principle in university security is keeping the 

buildings safe from intruders. But our university lacks a consistent 

policy in securing its buildings, especially at Lang. 

Although connected by the courtyard, the adjacent buildings at 

66 West 12th Street and 65 West 11th Street have very different 

approaches to security. Like most New School buildings, the 12th 

Street building requires a valid university ID card to gain entrance. 

On the Lang side at 11th Street, there are rarely guards posted, as 

electronic keycards offer security instead. 

our university lacks a consistent policy 

regarding the security of its buildings. 

But since many students never received a keycard, they pound 

desperately on the glass doors and wait for a sympathetic soul to let 

them in. If that doesn’t work, it’s always easy to “piggy-back” on 

someone else’s entrance. 

A person denied entry at the 12th Street side might walk around the 

block, mosey through the 11th Street entrance, cruise through the 

courtyard, and be right back in the 12th Street building, no questions 

asked. The goodwill of Langers, holding the door open for perfect 

strangers, seems to negate the purpose of a keycard lock. 

There’s no doubt that New School security guards work hard, and 

that it is a difficult task to keep track of all the human traffic. We’re 

not calling for meaner, stricter guards, just a standardized set of 

rules. As the university population balloons and more people flood 

into the buildings each day, it would help to regularize the policy on 

authorized admittance to our facilities. 

Inprint accepts submissions from 

the new school community. 

The editors reserve the right to edit 

all content for length and clarity. 

Please e-mail all submissions to 

inprint@newschool.edu 

the carrier-Bird and the electromagnetic Beast 


The destruction of our civilization at the hands of 

machines is nothing so new. I recently discovered 

an article by the German cultural theorist—and 

my great-great grandfather—Petra Hans von 

Holzlynzenattki, published in the literary journal 

Vollautomat zu Händen von Menschen on November 

2nd, 1899 and translated by C. Wright Mills in 1967. 

Here is a selection of the writing: 

I was once given an anecdote by my great uncle 

Jans von Mulligannerschlencken, and the narrative 

was of the first click of the electromagnetic telegraph 

machine, and how it had dispatched itself to his ear. 

I quite literally do not mean the orifice attached to 

the side of one’s head, when I speak of this ear, for 

I do mean it in a symbolic sense. This ear might 

be even the eyes, then, or a nose, or even a blind 

man’s fingers! At any rate, spoke he of this strange 

machine as though it were most utterly repugnant, 

preferring instead the air-dance of the telegraphic 

pigeon bird 2 : 

“For news wires, a telegraph pigeon is far more 

romantic than a hornswoggling tapping-device, 

be it ever more efficient, or be it inefficient in 

all entirety. Let us be vulnerable as to admit our 

emotions in the presence of others: it is in man’s 

human nature to love the romance of a carrier-bird’s 

air dance 3 .” 

This ear might be even the 

eyes, then, or a nose, or 

even a blind man’s fingers! 

This, of course, brings me to a point which we 

shall discuss ever further in these following pages 4 . 

A certain fundamental revolution could be had in 

the ever-expanding world of communications as a 

result of the electromagnetic telegraph device 5 . Its 

purpose, centered on the seemingly random clicking 

of certain knobs placed upon a table, the table itself 

being connected to an input of some other electronic 

device which dispatches the signals that are the 

result of a telegraph operator’s incomprehensible 

clicking, is to widen and merge these ever-present 

layers of communication in our civilization. In that 

this particular type of communication is faster 

and more immediate 6 than a man’s singular use of 

age-old telegraphy (and of course by that I mean 

the telegraphy of a bird 7 ), the fact is that it is an 

obvious innovation 8 . 

I have taken liberty to study, to research and to 

comprehend in all my privileged man’s senses the 

age-old cultures and traditions of a small sect of 

man 9 found in the north western-most coast of 

Indo-China 10 . To do so, I decided to leave my Berlin 

home and take the utmost temporal and physical 

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risk of traveling through high mountains and 

crossing vast canals and rivers to gain knowledge 

of the tribe 11 by accessing a highly cherished book 

of history at the British Library in London 12 . 

In comparison to the electromagnetic telegraphic 

practices of a standard newspaper man 13 —whose 

newspaper office, through a maze of repetitive but 

inaccurate transcribings, may scarcely transmit six 

of this man’s articles in a day—the telegraphic 

communication of Indo-Chinese savages is far more 

primitive, indeed, but concurrently man times more 

productive 14 . To a neighboring tribe, a tribesman 

may communicate a bit of information—even of 

the most complex or confusing variety—with large 

smoke signals 15 . The village being highly educated in 

smoke-code 16 , any neighbor shall pick up the rather 

conspicuous signal in minutes and immediately 

understand 17 , requiring no fussy translation 18 or 

overlapping of translation 19 . Literally, we see then 

that an infinite number of complex messages may 

be transmitted by villagers in one day 20 , one after 

the other 21 , much to the understanding of the 

villager and without delay 22 . 

Many would say it is a mad ideology that would 

compel a man of expertmost intellect to choose 

the hand-made pea-coat of a certain guildsman’s 

variety, even though it costs more time to weave 

and spin this single coat than it would have taken 

to make two hundred pea-coats of the same kind 

in a great British manufactory. And in the eyes of 

Adam Smith 23 , that is even such a poisonous and 

ugly ideology, weakening the stone bricks that 

comprise a democratic, self-regulating market’s 

walls 24 . 

But one can clearly see that the romantic wings 

of a pigeon and the stank, smoldering wafts of 

plasma may often trump the finest machines 25 . Let 

us never forget the true nature of why our society so 

prefers handicrafts, and handi-telecommunications, 

to machine-craft and the Fliegenluftschiff von 

Nachrichtentechniken 26 —we prefer the beasts we 

may enslave over the beasts which enslave us. 

La vie de l’homme est mieux l’accès 

d’une femme avec le roman d’un porteuroiseau 

que souffler d’une machine. 

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Overhauling Sex Education 

Thomas Jockin 

N.y.C. public Schools Nix abstinence-only policy 

By AdAm GerArd And 

cAtHerine BOutWeLL 

In the coming months New York 

City’s public school system will be 

making drastic changes within its 

current sexual education system. 

And with HIV levels in New York’s 

poorest neighborhoods reaching 

epidemic levels, it’s about time. 

Two weeks ago New School 

hosted Overhauling Sex Education, 

a forum to discuss the terms 

of the pending changes. Panel 

member Betty Rothbart, the 

director of health and family 

living for the New York City 

Department of Education, 

was optimistic about the plan. 

the cartoons Heard ‘round the World 

By PePPer nevins 

After Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, 

printed a series of 12 cartoons depicting the 

prophet Mohammad, the reaction in parts of 

the Muslim world was fierce. Mobs scaled 

the walls surrounding Danish embassies and 

consulates in Syria and Lebanon, broke into the 

buildings and smashed and burned everything 

they found within. Sporadic violence as well 

as non-violent protest continued for weeks in 

Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan. 

What needs to be reconciled 

are the Western tradition 

of freedom of speech 

and Islamic reverence 

for religious traditions. 

Reports of American interrogators at Guantanamo 

Bay desecrating the Qu’ran sparked a similar 

response last May. For the second time in less 

than a year, Western media publications have 

caused deadly clashes in the Middle East as 

the tensions between liberal ideals of freedom 

of speech conflict with Muslim traditions of 

religious reverence. 

Conservative religious outrage has crashed 

into Western civil liberties, and the result of this 

showdown may well have significant ramifications 

for the future of Western relations with the 

Muslim world. 

Proponents of the so-called “Clash of Civilizations” 

theory developed by Harvard historian Samuel 

P. Huntington are having a field day with this 

controversy, with some prominent commentators 

suggesting that the culture of Islam is incompatible 

with Western democracy and civil liberties like 

the freedom of speech. 

In response to the defense of the cartoons on 

free speech grounds, a popular daily newspaper 

in Iran has announced a call for submissions of 

cartoons on the Holocaust as a test of the limits 

of the West’s commitment to free speech. 

These attitudes are not likely to contribute to 

understanding between the West and the Islamic 

world and will only further elevate tensions. 

What needs to be reconciled are the Western 

tradition of freedom of speech and Islamic reverence 

for religious traditions, along with recognition 

“This is a huge undertaking,” 

Rothbart said. “[Sexual education] 

needs a foundation to be built 

upon, and to be successful 

we need to start young.” 

The proposal, set forth by Ms. 

Rothbart, includes a comprehensive 

lesson plan meant to begin in 

kindergarten and run through 

twelfth grade. It will teach its 

youngest students about the 

immune system and carry all the 

way through to contraception 

and STDs. And it is a far cry 

from the current program, 

which leaves many public school 

students grossly uninformed. 

Currently, as many as 40 percent 

of all New York public school 

students get no sex education 

at all, mostly in impoverished 

neighborhoods, where HIV and teen 

pregnancy is, sadly, a way of life. 

The new plan will certainly 

face its share of challenges. Last 

year, the Bush administration, 

characteristically bent on shifting 

metropolitan areas as far right 

as possible, pledged 2.4 million 

dollars to New York City abstinence 

organizations over the next three 

years. Of course, New York has 

always been comparatively liberal 

when it comes to sexual education, 

preaching not abstinence but safe 

sex, HIV prevention, and risk 

of pregnancy. The difference is 

that Rothbart’s plan will mandate 

sex education, making sure it 

reaches every public school. 

The new plan is a far 

cry from the current 

program, which 

leaves many public 

school students 

grossly uniformed. 

But sexual education is a topic 

that the country as a whole has 

largely ignored until somewhat 

recently, and red states tend to 

subscribe to the Christian ideal 

of abstinence and chastity, both 

biological oxymorons. Fortunately, 

New York City is moving forward, 

bypassing the dangerous religious 

fundamentalism that has dominated 

U.S. public policy for nearly three 

decades. Here’s to wishing the new 

program all the success it deserves; 

implemented correctly, it will be 

a huge step in the right direction. 

of the inconsistencies of each. 

Many branches of Islam forbid the depiction of 

Mohammad, and yet several websites catalogue 

historic and contemporary examples of depictions 

of the prophet both from within and without 

the Islamic world that did not provoke similar 

outrage. The Danish cartoons were also published 

in many Muslim newspapers, presumably in 

violation of any scriptural doctrine forbidding 

such images. 

Western conceptions of freedom of speech 

meanwhile, are slippery. Americans might be 

surprised by some of the conditions imposed on 

speech in many European nations. In Germany, 

for instance, depictions of Nazi iconography are 

strictly banned and hate speech laws are very 

strong. 

Muslims should not expect Mohammad to 

be immune from depictions in the media, no 

matter whether they are flattering or insulting. 

But neither should Western media neglect to 

consider the impact of their publications and 

the political ramifications of touching on such 

a controversial topic 

In the past, particularly during the struggle 

for civil rights in the middle of the 20th century, 

Europe had often looked down its nose at 

America and its internal troubles with race. Now 

that the once largely homogenous nations of 

Europe find themselves grappling with sizable 

minority populations of their own, Europeans 

are discovering that racism and discrimination 

can be a problem in any country. 

Thomas Jockin 

choosing Between Quality 

and your meal card at Lang 

By nOrA cOsteLLO 

New York City is a city for food, 

a veritable mecca of flavor. The 

options are endless, and as New 

Yorkers we become accustomed 

to the privilege of choice. Still, 

there are always the eateries one 

should steer clear of, and among 

these, unfortunately, is our own 

university caterer, Chartwells. 

As a Lang junior and a cardholding 

Chartwells patron, I frequently 

find myself in a lunchtime tug 

of war between convenience and 

quality, especially when pressed 

for time between classes. More 

often than not I am more than 

happy to shell out $5.50 for a real 

meal at Six and Twelve or New 

Valentino, both right around the 

corner from Lang. But to have 

to spend the money mysteriously 

planted in my Chartwells account 

is simply nauseating. 

Too timid to speak 

up, I was forced 

to watch the food 

I was about to eat 

writhing up against 

the cafeteria worker’s 

sweaty torso. 

Just today I watched in pity as my 

fellow students at the Lang Cafe 

paid the same $5.50 for sandwiches 

that looked as though they had been 

sitting in the refrigerator case for 

the better part of a week. There 

is no way for me to prove this, of 

course, but the gentle taste of food 

super Bowl XL: meeting mickey 

By cOurtney sinGer 

Detroit, Michigan, February 

5, 2006: The Pittsburgh Steelers 

defeated the Seattle Seahawks in 

the Super Bowl XL 21-10, but do 

you know who’s going to Disney 

World? This year marked the 

20th anniversary of the “What’s 

next? I’m going to Disney World” 

campaign, which has showcased 

many sports heroes captured in the 

midst of achievement, exuberantly 

declaring that their next move is 

a trip to Mouseketeer Land. 

This year, MVP Hines Ward, 

the 29-year-old Steelers wide 

receiver, was seen filming his TV 

spot just minutes after winning 

the title. The advertisement is 

usually aired the day after the 

big game. However, this year 

Disney revealed the amusement 

park-bound player immediately 

after the game, projecting Ward’s 

picture on the side of a building 

just blocks away from Ford Field 

in Detroit. 

What started out as a small 

Disney promotional project in 

1987, with New York Giants 

player Phil Simms, has turned 

into a spectacle almost as big as 

the half-time show. The week 

before the Super Bowl aired on 

Disney parent company ABC, the 

network showed commercials of 

NFL players practicing the line, 

“I’m going to Disney World,” in 

an attempt to remind viewers that 

one lucky player would in fact 

be visiting the happiest place on 

earth. Book your tickets now. 

So what is so important about 

this campaign? It has been 

synonymous with the Super Bowl 

for the past two decades. It has 

become a highly anticipated part of 

the game, just as the $2.5 million 

poisoning in such items makes its 

point. Meanwhile, I enjoyed my 

Six and Twelve purchase, a 4-inch 

thick layer of spinach, avocado, 

Swiss cheese, tomatoes, and alfalfa 

sprouts, freshly prepared before 

my eyes between two slices of 

grain bread so thick it could mop 

the Chartwells floor. 

Pre-made sandwiches should be 

labeled with stickers indicating 

the time and date they were made, 

as well as when they should be 

tossed. Attempting to gauge the 

freshness of a sandwich is often 

impossible, as even the most 

discerning eye cannot possibly 

detect mold on the underside of 

a packaged Kaiser roll. 

Recently I noticed the man 

preparing the wraps at the GF, 

on a rare occasion when they 

were in fact being made fresh and 

by request—as the menu board 

promises—propping the sandwich 

against his grease-stained apron in 

order to negotiate it into its small 

plastic baggy. Too timid to stop 

him in his germy tracks and say, 

“Just a plate will be fine,” I was 

forced to watch the food I was 

about to eat writhing up against 

his sweaty torso. 

So hungry students, beware. 

While the convenience of New 

School meal plans may seem 

appetizing, the food is not. And 

while those that live off campus are 

not bound to Chartwells, incoming 

dorm freshmen are required to 

enter into a $1500 contract with 

the caterer, and forced to eat it 

unless they decide to spend the 

money on Red Bull and chocolate 

Silk. All the while, NYU students 

take their meal plan dollars to 

the likes of Whole Foods and 

eat, comparatively speaking, like 

gourmands. 

per 30-second advertisements 

are. 

The “disney World” 

campaign has 

become part of 

popular culture. 

Super Bowl XXXIX was the 

only year that Disney declined to 

film an advertisement after the 

Super Bowl. Disney’s official 

statement was that the timing 

conflicted with promoting their 

50th anniversary campaign, 

the “Happiest Celebration on 

Earth.” Yet many speculated 

the reason Disney pulled the 

“What’s Next” campaign from 

the Super Bowl was because of 

the Janet Jackson scandal from 

Super Bowl XXXVIII, and fear of 

associating their family-friendly 

image with other nipple-baring 

celebrities. 

The campaign has become of 

a part of popular culture. Fans 

around the world look forward 

to the familiar moment when 

sports superstars announce they 

will be going to the happiest 

place on earth. Like beer and 

pizza, the campaign has become 

a Super Bowl tradition. 

It is hard to imagine that 

Disney dreamed their “What’s 

Next” campaign would become 

so integrated into our society. Yet 

Hines Ward knew his moment 

would come: in high school he 

had Mickey Mouse holding a 

football tattooed on his arm. 

Smart guy.

‘neW JeW’ 

Lecture 

By emiLy scHumAcHer 

Rabbi and scholar Menachem 

Posner visited Lang to share a 

brief history of Judaism in Soviet 

Russia, in an event hosted by the 

New Jew, Lang’s Jewish student 

union. The intimate meeting 

served as a lesson not only in 

history, but also in perseverance 

and common good. 

Rabbi Posner shared his research 

and knowledge of the Judean 

situation in the early 20th Century, 

from both Europe and Asia, 

dotting the history with touching 

narratives passed down from 

his grandmother. The lecture 

detailed how the Jewish identity 

was threatened during the time, 

as the soviet government made 

it nearly impossible, and in many 

cases illegal, for Jewish culture 

to thrive. 

“Imagine if someone was to 

tell you, ‘From now on, you are 

not allowed to go to the school 

you go to, speak your language, 

or read the book that you’ve been 

reading for your entire life,’” 

Rabbi Posner began. From there 

he unfolded the reactions and 

struggles of the Jewish people 

as they were sent to schools 

indoctrinating Communism. 

Rabbi Posner spoke the most 

about the individuals who kept 

their Jewish faith alive in the face 

of imprisonment, destitution, 

or death. These individuals, 

Posner said, helped maintain 

a collective Jewish awareness, 

remaining true to their beliefs 

against all odds. 

JOyce cArOL 

OAtes 

By ALmie rOse vAzzAnO 

On February 6, Joyce Carol 

Oates, prolific author of novels, 

plays and poetry, came to visit 

the New School to read from her 

latest collection of short stories, 

“The Female of the Species: Tales 

of Mystery and Suspense,” and 

to answer questions from the 

audience. 

“It’s really a disgusting story,” 

Oates warned about her new book. 

“Where else could I read it but 

in New York at the New School, 

with this sophisticated audience?” 

True to her word, the story begins 

with a Mrs. G shopping down 

Madison Avenue and ends with 

her hanging from a hook in a 

store warehouse. Oates’ book is 

out now on Harcourt Press. 

citizensHiP & 

security 

By sAmAntHA scHLAifer 

The World Policy Institute’s 

Program on Citizenship and 

Security organizes strategy sessions 

where people who make, and are 

affected by the policies, all sit in 

the same room. 

From March 23-25, the program 

is holding a conference in Berlin 

entitled “Immigration and 

Security: European Challenges and 

International Perspectives.” 

The group formed because of a 

lack of communication between 

groups working on immigration 

issues and groups working on post 

9/11 national security. 

PeOPLe & 

WOrLd POLicy 

By sAmAntHA scHLAifer 

At the first panel discussion 

of the spring season, “The End 

of the Bush Era: Refinding Our 

Way on Foreign Policy,” World 

Policy Institute Senior Fellow Eric 

Alterman spoke about the timidity 

of the media in reporting foreign 

policy issues. 

Alterman discussed how The 

New York Times waited to publish 

their story on domestic spying until 

after the election. 

“People are dependent on the 

media, yet they haven’t done a 

very good job,” Alterman said. 

“Our problem is not a lack 

information, but a lack of seeking 

the information.” 

tim Gunn 

By stePHAnie nOLAscO 

Timothy Gunn, chairman of the 

Department of Fashion in Parsons 

and host of “Project Runway,” was 

awarded PETA’s “Humanitarian 

Award” for introducing cruelty 

free options. PETA’s curriculum 

shows how animals are mutilated 

and electrocuted for fur, leather 

and wool. The program, taught 

by animal friendly designers, 

teaches students how to create 

a fabulous wardrobe without 

animal skin. Dan Mathews, vice 

president of PETA, states, “Tim 

is a hero as he is unwavering in 

his commitment for students to 

learn about these issues. It’s the 

industry they have chosen so 

they need to know all aspects 

of it, even the unpleasant ones, 

for them to make true informed 

decisions about how they pursue 

their fashion careers.” 

HArry 

BeLAfOnte 

By LizA minnO 

Activist, singer and actor 

Harry Belafonte and author 

Walter Mosley spoke at Cooper 

Union’s Great Hall on February 

17th in an event sponsored by 

The Nation. The conversation’s 

topics ranged from voter apathy, 

to the need for a separate black 

political party, to the war in Iraq 

to the de facto segregation in 

the United States. Belafonte 

repeatedly urged the audience to 

change America for the better by 

“thinking and speaking outside 

the box.” 

Liza Minno 


Grassroots Continued 

A student breakdances at a conference workshop. 

secure. 

Earlier that morning, bloggers talked with each 

other at the, “NYC Blogging Caucus.” 

Different blogging technology influences the 

way a community interacts with bloggers, said Liza 

Sabate, publisher and owner of the Daily Gotham, 

a grassroots news and political activism website 

for New Yorkers, and other online publications. 

Sabate emphasized the importance of connecting 

a blog to the community. “Do you want to make 

a network or a personal soap-box?” she asked 

the group. 

Many in the room said programs like RSS Feeds, 

which operate like search engines exclusive to 

blogs, and Frappr, making it possible to locate 

other bloggers geographically, help create more 

of a blogging community. But the consensus was 

that the “Blogosphere” needs to move further 

A Photographic Look at new 

Orleans, Post-Katrina 

away from internet communities and closer to local 

communities. 

Dan Jacoby, a blogger planning to run for New 

York State Senate for Queens, had some reservations 

about blogging. “The problem is that most [bloggers] 

don’t have anything to say, or don’t say it very well,” 

Jacoby said after the workshop. Many blog websites 

are also difficult to navigate, he added. 

“The blogosphere is the 

ultimate anarchy, and it’s 

great,” one blogger said. 

But Jacoby, like others in attendance, were still 

confident in the blogging movement. “The blogosphere 

is the ultimate anarchy, and it’s great,” Jacoby said 

during the workshop. With patience, Jacoby felt 

that talented bloggers will always be successful. 

“The cream will rise to the top,” he said. 

The conference finished smoothly, but some were 

left disappointed. 

Hans Steiner and Laura Garcia, a software engineer 

and a recent graduate from NYU respectively, 

attended the event to meet others and to see how 

groups are inspired to create change. 

But Steiner and Garcia felt that the workshops could 

have been better. Some workshops seemed elitist, 

Garcia said. Their organizers were more interested 

in advancing their agendas than discussing ways to 

get involved with the greater activist community. 

Regardless, in one way or another, the event 

identified the internet as the battleground between 

corporate and non-corporate interests for democracy 

in the 21st century. 

The view of New Orleans today: This flooded and destroyed region was once a residential street in St. Bernard’s Parish. 

student Housing, Continued from page one 

Damitz’s least favorite aspect of the Ten-Eyck was the fact that elderly residents commonly died of 

old age. 

“The woman next door to me died right after I met her,” Damitz recalled. “We only talked once. I 

hated seeing them pack up her room after she died, box up her stuff—that was hard.” 

Other New School residents also had complaints about the building. 

“It was a depressing transition—deciding to go to school 3,000 miles away from home only to find I 

would be living in an elderly woman’s home where I saw pictures of the women who’d died that month 

on the bulletin board,” said Taylor King Hedequist, a former Lang student from Seattle. “I laugh about 

it now, but it was really depressing to be there. And the old women made you feel like a suspect.” 

Hedequist and Langer both left before the first semester ended. 

But Damitz enjoyed her time there—especially because of the other tenants. “I got to know this 

one woman, Marion, because she couldn’t operate the microwave. I’d help her and we’d talk. Once 

she saw a picture of Gertie from ET on my laptop and asked if she was my kid. And one time I was 

in the common room at two in the morning and there was a woman there, probably in her seventies, 

who told me how she had been living at The Ten-Eyck since she was my age. That got me. Things like 

that just made it a unique experience,” she says. 

Even though University Housing attempted to relocate the New School residents from the Ten-Eyck 

after the first semester, Damitz ended up staying for the entire school year. “A lot of things there 

were surreal,” Damitz says. “The strangest thing was that I ended up liking it, that I actually fought 

to stay.” 

The New School no longer rents Ten-Eyck rooms for students. This year, the Ten-Eyck and the St. 

George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights were cut from New School’s “mixed dorms” list. Now there are 

only three: Marlton House on 8th Street, the Union Square Residence Hall and Polytechnic University’s 

Othmer Residence in Brooklyn Heights. 

“Living in student housing is a unique experience,” Smith says. “You’re never in a building with 15 

floors of people the same age as you except in college.” Evidently, the Ten-Eyck was the exception.

Faculty Profile: charlie Harbutt 

By LizA minnO 

A fire alarm screams in the 66 West 12th Street 

building. Photography professor Charles Harbutt 

is showing students a Power Point presentation on 

documentary photography, seemingly unaware of 

the noise. 

“Uh, Charlie, I think the fire alarm is going off,” 

ventures a student. 

Harbutt cocks his head to the side and smiles. 

“Do you want to leave?” 

Charles Harbutt knows something about alarm. 

During his career as a photojournalist, Harbutt 

and his camera have been present for the kind of 

historical events that most photographers fantasize 

about. But there is a remarkable ease about him that 

seems to have always been a part of his demeanor. 

In 1959, at age 23, Harbutt photographed the 

Cuban Revolution in Havana, a breath away from 

a young Castro. These photographs are included in 

his most recent book, Cuba Libre, 1959. 

Harbutt captured much of the American Civil 

Rights Movement, Woodstock, historic Vietnam 

War protests as well as his native New York. His 

photos of the Village feel as if they were shot with a 

particular affection. 

In 1967, he was the only photographer in the world 

with color images of the Six-Day War in the Middle 

East. 

Harbutt says that a lot of journalists there to cover 

the war were content to “interview each other at 

the hotel bar.” But Harbutt was restless so far away 

from the action, and his restlessness paid off. 

He got a world scoop, his pictures making the 

covers of Newsweek, Paris Match, Epoca, London 

Sunday Times, Der Stern, National Georgraphic 

and others. 

Harbutt was shot while photographing the Six- 

Day War. He had embedded himself with a part 

of the Israeli army in a pre-Geraldo era, when the 

term “embedding” didn’t officially exist. 

Critics and colleagues herald him both for his 

journalistic instinct and his artistic eye. But 

almost everyone who comments on Harbutt’s work 

mentions one outstanding quality: its honesty. 

Harbutt was drawn to photography for what he 

saw as its ability to illuminate truth. Pictures, “get 

at a world that words can’t touch,” Harbutt said in a 

recent interview. 

Harbutt was twice president of the prestigious 

photo agency, Magnum, and has captured worldrocking 

events, but the “everyday” still fascinates 

him. 

“Everyday life is what we have to deal with,” 

Harbutt said. “I’ve been inspired by everything that 

I’ve seen, read, eaten or heard in my life.” 

Harbutt strives to crystallize personal experiences 

in whatever he photographs. The best advice he 

could give a student is: “Tell the truth. People burn 

out if they don’t tell the truth.” 

Having a professor with such an awe-inspiring 

résumé can be intimidating. But Charles (Charlie 

H, as he signs his emails) is a rare type of humble. 

He is mellow, easy to talk with and an effortless 

listener—making it clear that he actually values 

what you are saying. 

“There is so much to learn from the kind of 

honest questioning that can occur in a classroom... 

Teaching is like watching puppies through a pet 

store window: they find the most amazing ways to 

mess up,” Harbutt said. 

Harbutt’s work and the man himself seem to move 

people to a sort of reverent affection—his students 

are no exception. 

Perhaps it’s the honesty. 

Student Jobs: making money under the microscope 

Magali Pijpers 

By emiLy scHumAcHer 

Taking placebos or taking pills, smelling semen or 

smelling rat urine, sophomore Monica Stepniowski 

will do just about anything to for a buck. 

Stepinowski’s parents cover her major expenses, 

like tuition and room and board. But she turns to 

psychological studies when it comes to groceries 

or weekend cash. 

Mostly, Stepinowski focuses on the smaller 

experiments. “I don’t have the time or the patience 

to spend months or years in study programs that 

offer serious money,” said Stepniowski, “so I 

started searching Craiglist for short -term research 

studies- and found them.” 

One of the first studies Stepniowski participated 

in was an experiment for what she thought was 

a new Post Traumatic Stress Disorder drug at 

Columbia University. 

In the experiment, she watched a series of images 

while an instructor randomly gauged her tolerance 

for electric shock. On the second day, she was 

instructed to take unlabeled pills. She was not sure 

Liza Minno 

whether they were a placebo or an actual 

treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but 

she felt no effect either way. On the third day, each 

time she thought she would be shocked based on 

her experiences the day before, she wasn’t. 

“It was very odd,” she recalled. “I don’t know 

how I was supposed to feel and I don’t care about 

anything except the $150 I made in the end,” she 

said. 

Stepniowski also participated in a smell test for 

the Rockefeller University Psychology program, 

smelling somewhere between 600 to 700 variants 

of different scents. In the experiment, she took in 

wafts of lavender, dirty laundry, semen and even 

rat urine. 

“Test tube, after test tube,” she said, exasperated. 

“But it was an easy 80 dollars for a few hours of 

work.” 

Stepniowski has been supporting herself with 

cash from psychological studies for a year and a 

half, but the work is not consistent. “Some weeks 

I could find so many opportunities to make money 

doing studies, but other weeks there would be 

nothing, she said. 

Recently, she got a job as an administrative 

assistant for a real estate company. 

“It’s not easy having to commit myself to set 

hours, but I needed to be more sure of where, 

when and how I’d make money, she said. After only 

working there for two weeks, she acknowledged 

that she has already thought of quitting. 

Stepniowski plans to continue donating her 

mind and body for both the good of research and 

her wallet, but is trying, begrudgingly, to take a 

salaried job to steady her cash flow. 

“It sucks having to go to a job day after day. The 

routine and commute are killing me,” Stepniowski 

said with an air of disgust and annoyance. “It is 

much easier to participate in a study, make some 

fast cash and be done with it.” 

Photos by Monica Uszerowicz Interviews by Justin Lane Briggs 

“WHAt’s tHe crAziest 

tHinG yOu’ve dOne 

fOr mOney?” 

Gala delmont Benatar 

mike Pope 

“i pretended 

to be on a 

basketball 

team for a 

Converse 

youth group 

so i could 

get $100.” 

chelsea Greenwood 

Lilly Atlihan 

“i wrote essays 

for Parsons 

students... 

Well, actually, i 

‘proofread’ 

them...for 

money.” 

trina cutugno 

“i don’t do 

things for 

money. i might 

do things 

for free.” 

“i packaged 

cookies.” 

“i worked at a 

party where 

i danced on 

the bar with 

two other little 

people...and i 

got paid well.”

almie’s Safari: sienna miller 


Who is Sienna Miller? Three 

years ago, your guess was as good 

as mine. 

Her first appearance in America 

was in the short-lived Fox drama, 

“Keen Eddie.” For those of us who let 

that program slip by, “Layer Cake” in 

2003 was our introduction to Sienna 

Miller, potential movie star. 

But it was the Alfie remake that 

took Sienna Miller to new levels; at 

least two: Jude Law’s paramour, both on and off screen. Each week 

raised the question: are they together, or not together? To which 

at least seven people awaited the answer with baited breath. 

I cannot think of another actress who has shot to fame based 

solely on who she dated and what she wore – two topics that US 

Weekly savored like a fine vintage wine. Ms. Miller is practically 

on every other page of the glossy magazine, praised for her 

daring use of vests or selection of boot. We can blame her for the 

paradoxical “boho chic” that swept our coasts, a look that Ms. 

Miller now loathes. 

Now the twenty-four year old stars as 60s casualty Edie Sedgwick 

in the upcoming film Factory Girl. But just as exciting as this new 

role is the opportunity to create a sensational new look: Thoroughly 

Modern Miller. Painting the town red in bold patterns and an even 

bolder bob, Sienna seems to say, “I look smashing and I know how 

to turn black tights into an entire outfit.” 

But who are you, Sienna Miller, sudden star of the screen and 

America’s heart? And how are you a British celebrity considering 

you were born in New York City? (Let us notice that her last name 

is about as American as it gets). 

Sienna Miller is as British as Madonna, yet I love and embrace 

her just the same. And not because she is thin, beautiful, successful, 

thin, beautiful, and successful, but because for an actress of her 

stature and thin, beautiful success, she has a rollicking good 

sense of humor; on her body she commented: “I’ve lost weight 

and my boobs have gone, they’re just clinging on for dear life.” 

Ms. Miller, I salute you. 

Theater review: “Lenny 

Bruce...in His Own Words” 

By nOrA cOsteLLO 

In the new one-man show produced 

and directed by Joan Worth and 

Alan Sacks, Jason Fisher stars as 

the tortured revolutionary-cumcomedian, 

Lenny Bruce. Via 

Bruce’s routines, the 70-minute 

performance follows a loosely 

woven chronology of his career. 

Within the first five minutes of the 

play, Fisher as Bruce peers into the 

audience and asks, “Are there any 

niggers here tonight?” Then, after 

a beat, “Oh, there are two niggers. 

And between those niggers I see 

a kike.” Bruce, a self-proclaimed 

“Semitic,” continues in this vein 

using every racial slur there is, 

eventually incorporating them all 

Jason fisher stars as Lenny Bruce. into a singsong riff of gibberish. 

The next 40 minutes of the performance touch on the Pope, 

church, Hitler, and race to give the audience a sense of Bruce’s acts. 

Soon thereafter, though still in the form of stand-up comedy, the 

performance arcs and Fisher morphs into a criminalized Bruce, 

becoming more unglued after each bust, his routine turning more 

political with a deeper critique of the country. As he is arrested 

repeatedly for obscenity, Bruce poses to us the question of “the 

meaning of obscenity”. 

The last fifteen minutes are touching without being sappy as Bruce 

explores the “obscenity” of humanity, and much of what Bruce touches 

on is shockingly relevant today. Lenny Bruce envisioned himself as 

a jazz musician and used his voice as an instrument. Fisher captures 

this brilliantly, his nasal tone riffing to a rhythm set by his pacing 

back and forth, rubbing his thumb against his index finger. His voice 

staccatos and stutters, conveying the immediacy embedded in jazz 

music. Fisher’s shifts between characters are smooth and seamless, 

and within each persona we still see and hear Bruce underneath. 

Though the dated material is still resonant today, Bruce pushed the 

envelope of social critique more than any other comedian to date. By 

implementing obscenities, he made a heart-wrenching commentary 

on the obscenity of the nation. In a tiny theatre covered with kitsch 

and knickknacks (the audience sat in car seats, complete with seatbelt 

buckles) on a small black stage, (empty aside from a table, a stool, an 

ashtray and pack of Marlboro reds), Fisher owns his audience. 

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Lenny Bruce: in His Own Words 

opened January 30 and is playing at the Zipper 

Theatre (336 W. 37 Street) through February 25. 

edie sedgwick Honored at Gallery exhibit 

By stePHAnie nOLAscO 

Gallagher’s Art and Fashion Gallery honored the 

late 1960s pop art muse Edie Sedgwick by not only 

celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ciao! Manhattan, 

an underground film encircling Sedgwick’s chaotic 

lifestyle and the “silver sixties,” but also through 

a photo display depicting the many stages of 

Sedgwick’s life. While the bookstore/fashion show 

room proved to be a hot spot for Sienna Miller and 

ex fiancé Jude Law, the Gallagher despondently 

illustrated Sedgwick’s impact on American fashion 

and poorly accentuated an exhibit of honor to 

Warhol’s superstar. Ciao! Manhattan was playing 

on a diminutive television screen that could have 

been entertaining if one of the associates didn’t 

blast the film’s soundtrack just inches from my 

ears. The sudden explosion of sound infuriated me, 

but both associates failed to notice and continued 

their aimless dance to Fantasyland. 

Photos of Sedgwick, the highlight of the exhibit, 

were randomly slapped together throughout the 

gallery with no given time frame or description. 

Only handwritten note naming the photographer 

was placed above each photo. 

However, the photos superbly conveyed Sedgwick’s 

tragic splendor, particularly those displaying her 

natural mousy brown hair and blushing cheeks. In 

those photos, she wasn’t seen masking her frail face 

the return of XBXrX 


The return of XBXRX, with the release of “Sixth 

in Sixes” last September, was probably a micro-blip 

on most peoples’ radars, but it made some of us 

remember the good old days—five years ago or 

less—when spazz was king. 

And XBXRX, at the time, sure as hell was 

something to remember. Since their inception in 

1998 in the unlikely place of Mobile, Alabama, the 

group tore through single after single of spasmodic 

ditties, leaving ringing ears and broken bones in 

their wake. Some shows ended shortly after 

they began, only with half the audience onstage 

and one of the band members severely injured. In 

San Diego in 2003, the singer, whose identity has 

always been shrouded in mystery, screamed into a 

microphone covered by a bright-red foam ball, hung 

from the venue’s rafters and instigated group-hugs 

throughout the set. The audience could hardly 

control themselves, and the band could hardly play 

past fifteen minutes before the guitarist broke his 

nose. 

The singer’s identity has always 

been shrouded in mystery. 

That was all part of the fun. And today, the group’s 

energy level is no different. But that’s not to say 

that XBXRX are trying to copy the Bad Luck 13 

Extravaganza—the band infamous for attacking 

their audiences with saw blades and baseball bats 

wrapped in barbed wire. In an e-mail interview last 

September, answering collectively, XBXRX said they 

always prefer positive chaos over violent chaos. 

“We are crossing our fingers for more positive 

mayhem and less injuries,” they said. “We’re open 

to group hugs, always.” 

The band has never entirely been “on the radar.” 

“Gop Ist Minee,” was released in 2000, and is 

now out of print, and the group released a few 7”s 

throughout the 2000s—one a collaboration with 

organist Mr. Quintron and his female counterpart 

Miss Pussycat. The band also only played a handful 

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with cosmetics, batting plastic eyelashes, or twisting 

her boyish, bleach-blonde tresses: instead, she was 

simply Edie. In addition, the exhibit presented 

Sedgwick during her drug-infused stage, showing 

her transformation from an American girl to a 

tragic figure. 

only handwritten note 

naming the photographer was 

placed above each photo. 

Although Edie Sedgwick is making a comeback 

in today’s media with the sudden interest of “Edie: 

American Girl” and the motion picture Factory Girl, 

Gallagher’s disorganization was an eyesore. The space 

seemed more like a hangout for art students than 

a gallery. A fashion shoot was held in one corner 

while associates swayed in another. The photographs 

offered little information and the blasting tunes 

only provided a headache. While the gallery did 

supply eye candy for Sedgwick fans, the Gallagher 

was chaotic and tragic, just like Edie herself. 

Gallagher’s Art and Fashion Gallery is at 

111 4th Avenue (at East 12th Street). 

of shows throughout 2003-2004. 

But one might suppose they had been waiting 

the whole time to strike with their newest release, 

“Sixth in Sixes.” 

“Sixth in Sixes” is quite the return to sporadic 

form, but the album took more work than 

“We’re open to group hugs always”: 

the rock band XBXrX. 

their previous releases. The band worked five 

days a week to write the material, then rehearsed 

to the point where they could play the songs live 

in a studio with as few takes as possible. 

“It was a really good progression for us to buckle 

down and apply this much real discipline to the band. 

I think we’re a better band for it,” they said. 

The lyrical subject matter is a bit different than 

the past and a far cry from the positive mood they 

convey onstage, though you wouldn’t notice it in the 

singer’s incomprehensible yelps. “The music deals 

with the spiraling decline of human civilization, 

whether it’s hypocrisy, abuse of power, destruction 

of the environment, you name it,” the group said. 

The band is ready for the future—even though 

they’re still not ready to say their names. 

“We are more interested in our collective identity 

than the recognition of individuals,” they said. 

found Photography 

By mAGALi PiJPers 

April ’84. Bernard would go to great lengths to 

push this particular holiday out of his memory for 

years to come. Estelle and the boat boy had skipped 

off of the boat laughing. Bernard felt slighted. She 

hadn’t paid him any attention for the entire boat ride. 

And now, giggling with the boat boy, it was all the 

more patronizing when she turned around, raised the 

camera, and said, “smile, honey.” 

The found photography feature is a new Inprint installation, 

showcasing photographs discovered randomly, of people we’ve 

never met. Our writers create fictional situations surrounding 

each photograph, as form of artistic interpretation. All rights 

are reserved. (As if the guy on the boat will try to sue us.)

dance review: todd Williams’ 

“supra conscious” 

By Justin LAne BriGGs 

Eugene Lang College dance instructor Todd 

Williams’ new show, “Supra Conscious,” was 

a surprisingly entertaining and charmingly 

self-conscious work, despite the unfortunate 

title. Attempting to address psychological 

abstractions ranging from word association 

to numerology, the piece was at its best when 

reveling in Williams’ twisted sense of humor 

and muscular improvisational dance. 

The first piece, Williams’ 2004 creation, “108,” 

featured two geometric patterns among six dancers, 

divided into two groups of three. The external 

group followed a circular, improvised path around 

the edge of the stage, while the internal group 

moved in tight unison, forming an equilateral 

triangle across the floor. Towards the finale, the 

roles reversed as patterns subtly traded places. The 

duality of movement styles suggested the chaos of 

human experience contrasted against the discipline 

of spirituality. Williams and dancer Mei-Hua Wang 

were the performers to watch: they swept across 

the stage with a confidence that left the others 

drifting in their wake. 

The music, an original composition by John 

Toenjes, was disappointingly typical of modern 

dance. Using digital bells, chimes and gongs, 

Toenjes imitated the sound of a gamelan, gently 

incorporating an ambient synthesizer atop the 

percussion. Toenjes was reinstating ground 

pioneered in 1992 by David Holmes, The Orb, 

Aphex Twin and Brian Eno; fourteen years later, 

this approach to electronic music can only sound 

experimental to John Tesh. 

“Exquisite Corpse,” the second act, was a 

film review: the 

Pink Panther 

imdb.com 

By KeitH neWeLL 

The Pink Panther is a rotten movie. 

No, not the original 1963 film, starring Peter Sellers 

as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau, but 

rather the 2006 version, featuring comedy legend 

Steve Martin and pop singer Beyonce Knowles. A 

failed attempt at a screwball comedy and a shameless 

desecration of a classic film series, the film flops 

around like a fish out of water before dying 93 

minutes later. 

The movie follows Clouseau (Steve Martin) as 

Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns 

him to investigate the murder of a soccer coach, 

hoping that Clouseau will botch the job, allowing 

Dreyfus to take over and catch the killer. Clouseau 

solves the crime after a series of silly stunts and 

wacky blunders. 

The director, Shawn Levy (Cheaper by the Dozen), 

completely rejects the subdued comic insanity of 

the orignal films, instead aiming for a 21st century 

Hollywood blockbuster. The result is a sloppy, 

incongruous mess of cheap gags, unfunny dialogue, 

and inappropriately flashy cinematography. 

Martin, who co-wrote the script, is an awful 

Clouseau. As if to reinvent the character entirely, 

Martin gestures wildly as if he were onstage in the 

70s again, with his arrow-through-the-head prop 

and “happy feet.” It’s embarrassing to watch. 

But the most outrageously awful performance 

belongs to Kline. He might have bored me to 

sleep with his mediocre acting, except that I was 

perversely fixated on his accent during the entire 

film. Vacillating unpredictably between French and 

British dialects, Kline seems unsure what movie 

he is acting in. 

The decision to cast Beyonce is befuddling. 

She looks as plastic as Pam Anderson, and her 

performance is vacuous. Beyonce summed up her 

role pretty well in an interview with the London 

Free Press: “I basically had to just show up, wear 

fabulous clothes, and not laugh.” She wasn’t the 

only one not laughing. 

hilarious duet featuring Williams with ballet and 

drag star Glen Rumsey. Employing campy humor 

(including gaudy ruffles and gauzy leotards) and 

narrative responses to the lyrics of the Dresden 

Dolls’ “Gravity,” the dancers bounced playfully 

from preening and posing in improvisation to 

careful meditation on the role of unconscious 

accidents in the creation of artwork. 

The first piece, Williams’ 

2004 creation, “108,” featured 

two geometric patterns 

among six dancers, divided 

into two groups of three. 

The full-company finale, “Value Intensity,” 

Williams’ exploration of word association and 

the subconscious mind, contained Williams’ most 

astute choreography yet, and his most arresting 

solo movement. However, many of the dancers 

in the company seemed uncertain onstage (a poor 

companion to Mr. Williams’ joy at moving before 

a crowd). Several crucial sequences were marred by 

awkward dancers, uncomfortable in their own bodies, 

who refused to commit to the movement. 

WilliamsWorks, of which Mr. Williams is founder 

and choreographer, performed “Supra Conscious” 

at the Alvin Ailey Studios, as part of the 92 St. 

Y’s Harkness Dance Festival. WilliamsWorks has 

been performing around New York City since 2004. 

Williams has been a renowned ballet and modern 

dancer since 1990. 

film review: London 

imdb.com 


First time writer-director Hunter Richards’ London 

is perhaps the worst piece of masturbatory ignorance 

ever committed to celluloid. Don’t be fooled by the 

title; the film has absolutely nothing to do with the 

elegant British city. Our story apparently takes place 

in New York, but Richards doesn’t seem to notice. 

London, in this case, is a girl ( Jessica Biel). The 

film centers around her rich, whiny ex-boyfriend Syd 

(Chris Evans), and his inability to cope with losing 

her to a man with a 10.5-inch penis. Seriously. 

The story opens with Syd on his way to crash London’s 

going-away party, dragging along his drug-dealer, a 

40-year-old British banker named Bateman ( Jason 

Statham). Once they arrive, the two men hide in 

the massive bathroom upstairs and ingest suicidal 

amounts of liquor and cocaine. The imbeciles rant 

and wallow in their own depravity. Intended as a 

meditation on the tortures of masculinity, this is 

instead a two-hour long excuse for the worst kind 

of misogynist ignorance. 

We’re actually expected to sympathize with this 

overgrown man-child. Richards offers us a steaming 

pile of flashbacks, featuring Syd and London “in 

love,” trying to illicit emotions we never come close 

to feeling. These clips play like a highlights reel 

of the worst middle school relationship in history 

– complete with out-of-control jealousy and insane 

screaming fits. Add lots of impossibly moronic 

“intellectual” conversations (“Wait, I forgot, did 

you say you believe in God, or you don’t?”), and 

apparently Richards believes he has shown us the 

nature of true love. 

Judging by his first film, it is hard to believe 

Richards is any more intelligent than the cretins he 

scripted, or has had a single meaningful relationship 

in his life. At one point, London tells Syd, “I’m 

tired of your pseudo-intellectual bullshit….you keep 

going and going and going until someone just wants 

to smash your face in.” It was the only line in the 

film the audience could relate to. 

amazon.com 

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destrOyer 

destroyer’s 

rubies 

rcA records 

4.32 out of 5 stars 


Though he likes to credit each 

band member, songwriter/guitarist 

Dan Bejar is the brain behind 

Destroyer’s music. Ultimately, 

it’s the pianos, surfy guitars and 

scrappy-but-languid lyricizing 

that give a me-ness to it all. But 

Destroyer would not destroy so 

effectively if they didn’t make you 

think of a different 1990s indie-pop 

band for every track. 

Destroyer’s first song makes you 

wonder whether they’re trying to 

be the Fuzztones or Galaxie 500. 

Then, they transform their sound 

into a jaunty Belle and Sebastian 

imitation for the track “Your Blood.” 

And from then on, it’s as though 

Ben Folds and Enya co-produced 

the album—heavy on the reverb 

and vocal harmonies, but rife 

with more hard-edged elements, 

like piano, distorted guitar and 

saxophone. It all works towards 

a rocked-out feeling… but with 

emphasis on the “out.” 

cAt POWer 

The greatest 

matador records 

4 out of 5 stars 

By sOPHie OKuLicK 

As it stands, The Greatest of Cat 

Power is, all around, a well-put 

together album. Chan Marshall 

starts the record with one of her 

best-written songs, the title track, 

“The Greatest, ” which sets the 

bar high for the entire album. 

Throughout the record, Marshall 

continually delivers and exceeds 

expectations: while most of her 

songs are beautiful, they are also 

cold and melancholy. 

Marshall effectively receives her 

Southern inheritance, embracing 

the soul and folk blues sounds. The 

song “After it All” is a collaboration 

of piano, guitar and Marshall’s soft 

voice. Together, they make a free 

flowing melody.. Although this style 

of music suits Marshall well, it’s 

not so much a reinvention as it is a 

realization of a destiny. Marshall’s 

got the brutally honest voice and 

the vibe to make it work. 

The broken-hearted and 

melancholy of the world will 

find a faithful new shoulder to 

cry on after discovering an album 

like this. 

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myLO 

destroy rock 

& roll 

Breastfed 

4.5 out of 5 stars 


Every once in a while, an 

electronic album comes along 

that transcends the limited range 

of the genre and refuses to leave 

the nation’s Discman for years. 

Mylo has done this with Destroy 

Rock & Roll, out now on his own 

label, Breastfed. 

Mylo (a.k.a. Myles MacInnes), 

hailing from the tiny Scottish Isle of 

Skye, brings us on a journey through 

the catchiest sounds electronic 

music has offered in recent years. 

After opening with a trio of down 

tempo, West Coast-inspired tracks, 

Mylo wastes no time in getting to 

his deliciously disco club smash, 

“Drop the Pressure.” 

Despite the popularity of the 

album’s singles (“Drop the Pressure,” 

“Musclecars,” and the title track), 

the album is surprisingly short on 

fillers. Each track stands on its 

own, especially the Prefuse-inspired 

house beat, “Rikki.” Expect to 

see this album on many “Best of 

2006” lists. 

J diLLA 

donuts 

stones throw 

records 

3 out of 5 stars 

By ALeX Winter 

In the words of rapper Jadakiss, 

“You know dead rappers get better 

promotion.” Almost ironically, 

that same rapper’s voice makes 

an appearance in the form of a 

vocal sample on J Dilla’s (aka Jay 

Dee) latest effort, Donuts. The 

instrumental album, released by 

indie hip-hop imprint, Stones Throw 

Records on Dilla’s thirty-second 

birthday, fell just three days prior 

to his death. 

J Dilla had suffered from an 

incurable blood disease as well as 

lupus. Due to his failing health, 

much of Donuts was recorded in 

a makeshift studio set up in the 

hospital. 

Donuts provides a much-needed 

change from the current, club-based 

hip-hop that dominates radio. 

The album has a relaxed vibe, 

provided by the sampled pianos, 

guitars, and horns. 

The lack of lyrics accentuates 

Dilla’s smooth style of production 

and allows the listener to better 

appreciate the album’s nuances.

neW scHOOL & neW yOrK city events 

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february 20 

new school 

closed for 

Presidents’ day 

february 2 

Women of color 

Workshop series 

6 West 11th 

street 

Ground floor 

6:00 - 9:00 pm 

february 21 

Author William 

Gass speaks 

at eugene 

Lang college 

Wollman Hall 

6 West 11th 

street, th floor 

6:00 pm 

february 2 

Bob Kerrey 

town Hall 

meeting for 

eugene Lang 

college 

Wollman Hall 

6 West 11th 

street, th floor 

4:00 pm 

february 22 

Poetry forum: 

stefanie Brown 

moderated by 

David Lehman 

66 West 12th 

street 

room 10 

Admission $ 

6:30 pm 

march 1 

Evening with 

emily Barton 

Wollman Hall 

6 West 11th 

street 

th floor 

6:00 pm 

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Orientation 

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12 West 

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6:00 - 7:30 pm 

march 

Bike the Big 

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Bike, helmet, 

guide included 

- 6 -00 

69th street & 

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$6 

10 am - 4 pm 

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the Orchid show 

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& Kazimiroff 

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Through aprIL 2 

march 

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Win an iPod! 

Participate in the National Survey of Student 

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The New School will administer the National Survey of Student Engagement 

(NSSE) in Spring 2006 as a web-based survey. The information on and link 

to NSSE is sent to freshmen and seniors via e-mail. This on-line survey was 

launched on February 16th. Please check your GroupWise account (@newschool. 

edu) periodically and look for an e-mail with the subject, “The New School 

Wants Your Feedback.” 

Participation in the survey entails entry in the iPod raffle: 1) First prize - The 

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in the nation to improve college experiences of undergraduate students. NSSE 

is designed to obtain information from colleges and universities about student 

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and personal development. Questions on the survey will ask students about 

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and their interaction with faculty and other students. The findings from this 

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