Gothamist: NYU: "Las Vegas and Sodom Rolled Into One"

zenegra

Wed, 24 May 2006 11:26:22 -0500

Its the second time visited this blog. Looks interesting.

thankful

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:16:54 -0500

http://www.airbekas.ee/forum/messages/38540.html complimentwhosewondered

smitty

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:45:58 -0500

Since when is University Hall, on 14th Street, uptown? Sheesh.

c

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:12:46 -0500

Hayden was great when I was there, and the dining hall food is only one of the reasons. I lived there for 2 years after living in Rubin for 2 years. Weinstein certainly felt like a prison, what with the cinderblock walls and all.

Dave H.

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:21:15 -0500

Seriously? No, seriously? The NY Post is a rag, but they felt the need to bleed ink on this? OMG! Freshmen like to drink vodka and Captain Morgans! Someone needs a fake ID? This dorm is more boring than that dorm? Some Post editor just had his kid go off to college and felt they needed a few inches to expound on the obvious. Expected follow-up columns: NYU is the best school ever. Guys you have sex with when you're wasted don't always call you the next day and tell you they love you. I would've applied to Columbia, but God, what a bunch of nerds! My dorm roommate is a completely unreasonable bitch. Once, I told my professor that my grandma died because I didn't have my term paper done. Since I grew up in Rockland county, I'd never met a black person before, but it turns out Bob Marley's album "Legend" is, like, the best CD ever! I think I might be gay. Wait, no I'm not. NYU is the worst school ever, staffed with fascist administrators and populated with spoiled punks. I definitely will never come back here until I need to apply to Stern or the law school!

name

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:29:45 -0500

Seiko still works the grill? I thought he left in '97.

anonymous

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:29:01 -0500

Seiko still works the grill? I thought he left in '97.

davey

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:39:09 -0500

how boring. cards, drugs, porn, and television. then again, what do you expect from a business major. the article is pathetic.

Nyles

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:06:20 -0500

I went to NYU an innocent and by the end had rubbed a tranny's nipples for money. A kid in my spanish class used to make me watch his bag because he'd have a couple grand in there from dealing. Way too many dorm rooms had evidence of coke use. be it a powdery mirror, or way too many cut straws.

keith

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:54:10 -0500

These kids call this wild Sodom partying? Sad things. They don't even have real frat houses so frat boys and nerds can war with each other and have comedic movies made about it. They should have been down at the University of Florida when it was voted America's top party school.

cc

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:50:59 -0500

I had those exact same observations when I moved here at age 28. -I need a fake I.D. (so i can tell men that I'm still in my early twenties.) -I have friends who live uptown. It's really boring. -Everyone keeps their door closed and no one socializes at my office. It's more like a prison block than a job. -Drugs are not hard to get at work. They're readily available, and although I don't know anyone personally who deals, I've heard plenty of stories. -At first I was afraid of the White Horse because so many people killed themselves there, but then I realized it was a good place to get away from the insanity of midtown. - I don't tell these stories to my parents. I'm supposed to be too mature for this. I'm pretty confident that I'm going to get sucked into a 24-hour party lifestyle.

10&Bway_ghost

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:33:06 -0500

Johnie

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:12:08 -0500

I miss college...

p/o

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:53:51 -0500

what an asinine piece of "journalism."

d

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:51:46 -0500

You out of towners all suck balls.

Josh

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:50:31 -0500

Fake IDs? Hmmph! In my day (i.e., late Dinkins and early Giuliani era), any fifteen-year-old could get served at bars all over the village, to say nothing of the outer boroughs (immune as they were to Rudy's formula of gentrification + law & order). These NYU students today, they don't know the meaning of Sodom and Las Vegas! Kids today, I tell ya. They don't know nothin'.

mickster

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:17:24 -0500

Before I began college, aka I was in High School, I remember training it in from LI to see bands at the cool clubs of downtown, all around NYU (Irving Plaza before it was hip, cool or redone), the Bottom Line, and drinking at Phebe's and others, all with my fake ID and chance to hang out with the cool NYUers. I thought they were all so old and mature and cool. Well then I came to study for college at Columbia and realized that they were "just like me." And now, when I visit my friends at their apartment on Sullivan & 3rd, and see all those teenyboppers looking clueless around the NYU campus, and even having guest lectured at NYU to undergrads, I realize how young they are and how old I've become... Age and perspective are not mutually exclusive...but--I can afford to party better than those students and have full health insurance if I go overboard... ;-) Oh how times change and yet, remain the same...

Grunt

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:08:37 -0500

Hayden has also had its share of sucides. Two of them in 1993. The only good thing about Hayden is that it is on campus. (If you call that a campus, personally I think it is a couple of buildings near a park) How do you know about Hayden Jen?

John Beckman

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:57:06 -0500

NYU: come for city, stay for the drugs. Go Violets! Err, I mean Bobcats!

responsibility

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:08:31 -0500

Our youth was pushed aside by our need to buy food and rent an apartment after graduation. Those needs will be pushed aside for youth in the future when we have earned enough to retire. Unfortunately, by that time we will be sick of youth because we have put up with it in our children. And then we'll learn bridge.