In November, Marc Jacobs was featured in a South Park episode as shirtless action figure "Muscle Man Marc," so it's only fair that Jacobs repay the tribute and feature a nude Eric Cartman on a t-shirt created to benefit The Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group at New York University. more ›

And NYU inches a step closer in its plans for world domination more space in the city. While the school is pushing its new First Avenue health corridor and is reportedly the top contender for Cornell's sloppy seconds in the city's High Tech Campus sweepstakes it happily announced yesterday that the Department of City Planning has certified its push to rebuild its Washington Square South superblocks. But don't think they are trying to pull a fast one on you! more ›

Yesterday news got out that a former NYU professor, José Angel Santana, had filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming he was fired after giving super famous student James Franco a "D" in his class. Does James Franco get special treatment in life because he appears in movies with adorable little primates and because he can probably hypnotize people with that smile? Yes, that's all true. But NYU is insinuating that Santana's time up at the school had nothing to do with him not treating the actor to the grades he's entitled to. more ›

Former NYU professor José Angel Santana (also pictured) claims he was fired from the university after giving super famous actor, professional student, and fellow NYU professor James Franco a "D" in his “Directing the Actor II” class. The low grade came after Franco missed 12 of the 14 classes while filming 127 Hours. Santana wants his job back, and has now filed a lawsuit against NYU in Manhattan Supreme Court. more ›

Some of our fondest moments at University occurred while we were reading College Magazine. What? You've never heard of it? Dude, they taught us that girls totally don't like unshaven faces (except when they do?) and that guys should just put themselves "out there," and that wouldn't it be cool if girls emitted a pheromone that told us they wanted to do it? Now, their exhaustive list of the most Hipster Campuses is out, and congratulations NYU, FIT, and Parsons! Better luck next year, West Point. more ›

The city's one and only Chick-Fil-A, housed in a student cafeteria in an NYU dorm, isn't going anywhere, despite the chain's anti-gay and anti-artist sentiments. So...hooray for anyone craving a "soggy, stale, bland" sandwich with a side of conservative morality! more ›

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly paid a visit today to the SIPA class that David Dinkins currently teaches at Columbia University, and Bwog reports that Kelly was thoroughly heckled (by an NYU saboteur!). But don't worry, the Commish thinks those protesters are just adorable. more ›

Zuccotti Park has already seen a proposal, but today a couple who met six weeks ago at the Occupy Wall Street protests got married in a traditional Muslim ceremony officiated by a NYU chaplain. 24-year-old Emery Abdel-Latif and 19-year old Micha Balon were wed at around 11 a.m. "Neither of us believed in love before we came here, and now that we found each other, we believe it exists," Abdel-Latif tells the Daily News. more ›

The former dean of NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate, and Forest City Ratner's ex-point man on the Atlantic Yards project, has abruptly resigned his unpaid post as the head of the city's Public Design Commission. Sources tell the Post that 57-year-old James Stuckey, who claims he left NYU a few weeks ago for "health reasons," allegedly quit because of repeated sexual harassment claims. "All I can say is I left for health reasons and there's really nothing to say," Stuckey told the Post. Is "hot blooded" a health condition? more ›

Dakota Fanning has enrolled at New York University, but the Class of 2015 co-ed has no interest in on-campus housing. The 17-year-old starlet has moved into a two-bedroom apartment in Nolita on the corner of Lafayette and Spring Streets. more ›

Are you a rapidly-balding, wealthy male looking for a somewhat-legal aged young lady to dote on in exchange for "mutually beneficial" sexual favors? Then why are you reading this?! You should already be on Seeking Arrangement, the site that proudly strips down relationships into the monetary transactions they truly are at their core. Ah, how sweet it is that people keep finding new and wonderful ways to dress up the world's oldest profession in better-sounding clothing. more ›

A pediatric nurse at NYU Langone Medical Center is suing the school because she says her medical records were not kept private. But it seems that things were even more awkward than that for pediatric nurse Kristen Haight—who was allegedly better known to the doctors and secretaries of the medical center as the "41-year-old virgin." more ›

What does "The War on Terror" mean? Is it the legal authority granted to the president by Congress to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against the people, countries or organizations that "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11 attacks? Is it taking your shoes off at airport security, or seeing something and saying something? Is it what 7,497 coalition members and hundreds of thousands of civilians died for in the Middle East? This, rather than "It's time to end the War on Terror," was the main topic of debate Wednesday night at NYU's Skirball center, much to the audience's befuddlement. more ›

College kids these days get all the cool surprise lecturers! Like...South Park and The Book of Mormon's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who apparently crashed a recent freshman "Storytelling Strategies" class on Tuesday at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. You gotta feel bad for the inevitable kid who slept through that class. more ›

While President Obama draws down troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, make no mistake: the War on Terror is still being waged, from heightened airport security measures to the fact that the CIA has turned into a killing machine. But with the death of Osama bin Laden, the (arguably) diminishing influence of Al Qaeda, and the risk of turning the War on Terror into the War on Drugs, should we call it quits? more ›

Big news, you guys! Doe-eyed Dakota Fanning, fresh off of the Twilight flicks, is totally about to be the latest celebrity to take a stab at graduating from NYU. Will she make it through four years of being blamed for destroying Manhattan, or Professor Franco's stringent grading policy? Only time will tell! more ›

NYU: it's the home of cyborg teachers, scantily-clad snow shovelers, and Professor James Franco. Oh, and racists—the university settled with an ex-library worker for over $200,000 after his former mailroom supervisor allegedly called him various racial terms and taunts, including a "monkey" and a "gorilla." more ›

The James Franco clone that has taken on professor duties has officially been powered up. While other Francos will continue studying at colleges and acting and being an artist and attending to a fairly frequent Francodefiling habit, the professor will be molding young minds at both NYU and PS 1. So how do you get in on the action? You most likely don't. more ›

Earlier this year, former governor David Paterson announced he was joining the faculty of NYU. Now it turns out he'll be a visiting professor teaching a seminar called, "The Art of Governing," which might possibly be code for "Being Dysfunctional in Albany" or "Admitting Coke Usage, Affairs Days After Becoming Governor." more ›

Today Fork in the Road caught wind of a new restaurant opening in NYU territory, called, charmingly, "Sigma Burger Pi." Get it? Like a fraternity! Because those are so popular at NYU! They're promising "a fraternal order of food," whatever that means. more ›

A woman with cerebral-palsy alleges she was drugged by her physician and taken to a motel, where he had sex with her. Jamie Hooker, 25, called police after the incident occurred last month, but former NYU physician Dr. David Magill was not charged with a crime. A civil complaint against Magill claims that he "overmedicated [Hooker] intentionally so as to make her compliant to defendant's demand that she have sexual relations with him." Magill, who was a cerebral-palsy specialist, "surrendered his license last week and admitted to professional misconduct." more ›

NYU's got a new scheme for luring the best and brightest from around the world, and for once it doesn't involve erecting more massive, unconventional-looking buildings on scarce Greenwich Village land. NYU is partnering with the University of the People, a free nonprofit online school that, according to university officials, has "attracted 1,000 English-speaking students from 115 countries, including Haitians who have been living in tent cities since the earthquake in January 2010, Sudanese refugees, and a considerable number of students from China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam." more ›

The former limo driver who was accused of raping an NYU law student, and then of trying to hire a hit man to kill her, plead guilty yesterday after decade-old DNA evidence proved a match with him. Queens resident Rajeev Kumar was sentenced to 15 to 21 years in prison for rape, sodomy and conspiracy. more ›

39-year-old John Tluczek was so relieved to avoid jail time today he gave a rambling speech in court that the presiding judge quipped "was beginning to sound like an Academy Awards speech." Tluczek, his wife and two buddies from NYU were busted in 2009 for running a so-called "beaut of a scam" in which over five years they would make large ATM withdrawals from lazy banks, then claim that their cards had been stolen and keep the cash. more ›

We briefly noted yesterday that a 23-year-old business student at NYU made over $100,000 in two days selling t-shirts that trumpeted the death of Osama Bin Laden. But now CBS is reporting that the budding entrepreneur, Maurice Harary, had a change of heart, and is refunding all of the proceeds: "Celebrating over the death of someone, whoever it is, is evil in my eyes." No word on whether the newly-enlightened Harary plans to confiscate every Che Guevara shirt at NYU. more ›