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NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, 8th Street & Broadway, NYC
by navema
Take Back NYU! is a student-run coalition united by the dream for transparency, accountability, and democracy at NYU.
In 2007, the group Students Creating Radical Change decided they wanted to take up a campaign for budget disclosure at NYU. They kicked the baby Take Back NYU! campaign off with an event called What is NYU Hiding? in October. That was followed by What is NYU Hiding in Abu Dhabi?, an event about NYU’s proposed campus in the U.A.E. After building energy and support throughout the 2007-8 school year, SCRC collaborated with a number of student groups to write Take Back NYU!’s three demands: budget disclosure, endowment disclosure, and placing a student on NYU’s Board of Trustees.
Over the summer, SCRC reached out to dozens of student groups asking for endorsements of the Take Back NYU! demands. The groups that endorsed the three demands formed the core of the TBNYU! Coalition that now leads the campaign. At the same time, members of the coalition wrote the NYU Disorientation Guide. On September 2, 2008, Take Back NYU! presented its three demands to the NYU administration and asked for a reply within one month. A couple weeks later, Take Back NYU! hosted Have Your School and Eat it Too, an edible exploration to imagine an ideal university. October 2nd came and went with no reply from NYU, leading to the planning of a town hall meeting, Steal This School!. Dozens of students came together that afternoon to speak about the future of the campaign.
On Halloween, a political theater event occurred where members staged vampire attacks around campus. Victims would plead to onlookers for student democracy to keep the vampires from sucking them dry with no accountability. At the same time, members of TBNYU! were pursuing shareholder activism, reviewing NYU’s tax forms, and helped elect a SCRC and TBNYU! member to the University Senate Finance Committee.
The next few months were a flurry of actions: there was a march for pay equity, a sham financial aid plan, a Know Your Rights workshop led by David Rankin, a panel on Creative Activism, and finally, a free form dance party in the Bobst Library, the Study Breakdown.
In 2009, after the offensive lift on the Coke ban along with the winter siege on Gaza, Take Back NYU! occupied the Kimmel Center for two nights. Press coverage from all over the world ensued. Since, they have hosted Talk Back NYU!. They have began to work on various forms of propaganda, a shadow SRI committee, and the establishment of deeper ties across campuses.
For more info, visit: takebacknyu.com/
One of my group members made pumpkin pie for us to taste test. The left side as cool whip, the right has topping she whipped herself...which was obviously much better.
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The main entrance on First Avenue. (I eventually discovered the side entrance on 34th street was more convenient.)
As a bit of a graphic design geek, I like the simple but effective banners that serve as signage for NYU's buildings.