“Students go to NYU because it’s in New York City,” Eisenhood says. “When I applied, they had a question on their application: ‘Other than living in New York, why do you want to attend NYU?’ And I was like, wow, that’s actually really hard. I forget what I said—’Great research opportunities,’ or something, but I didn’t really believe it.”
The Village Voice tries to answer a question undoubtedly asked by current and former NYU students all the time: Is NYU really worth all the money? The student quoted above said what many people believe — it’s not the top-ranked programs that attracts students, it’s the location. And students end up paying a lot of money for that big-city feel. The average student owes $35,000 when they graduate, which is $11,000 higher than the national average. Any alums out there want to chime in?
-KH
(via the20newyork)
Dear Super Committee: Defense Contractors are “Second to None” In Wasteful Spending
In what some are calling an “unprecedented” campaign, defense contractors as an industry bloc are fighting reductions in national security spending to preserve their place on the government gravy train. Spearheaded by the Aerospace Industries Association, the so-called “Second to None” campaign has reportedly enlisted the help of LMG Inc., a Washington public affairs firm, the conservative Heritage Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments to push its agenda. This is on top of at least $700,000 they have donated to Members of the Super Committee in the past five years.
The campaign’s website sets up a straw man by asserting that “extreme voices” are asking for massive cuts to national security… >continue<
Photo from Flickr user melanieburger.
(via zeitvox)
The more you know…
Here’s the NY Times article referred to above
(Can’t reblog these so I did the next best thing)
Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake
The U.S. Treasury’s response to the S&P downgrade.
Key line: “In a document provided to Treasury on Friday afternoon, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) presented a judgment about the credit rating of the U.S. that was based on a $2 trillion mistake. After Treasury pointed out this error – a basic math error of significant consequence – S&P still chose to proceed with their flawed judgment by simply changing their principal rationale for their credit rating decision from an economic one to a political one.”
(via shortformblog)
What would you do with $2.4 trillion?
Thousands thronged the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other major cities and chanted, “The people demand social justice.” Protesters waved Israeli flags and placards that read: “work 3 jobs but don’t make ends meet,” “killing ourselves to live” and “social gaps are killing us.”
John Boehner’s and Barack Obama’s phone numbers
In case you felt like you needed them.
Speaker: 202-225-6205
White House: 202-456-1111
Did you miss President Obama’s press conference? Here is the full video.
Plus video and analysis here.
