[UPDATE BELOW] At roughly 3 p.m. yesterday, a crowd of NYPD officers in full riot gear mobilized on the front steps of Pace University in Lower Manhattan, ostensibly to protect the school from the Occupy Wall Street protesters. It's become a familiar site at Pace. Given its location, right between Zuccotti Park and Foley Square, students and faculty have seen a lot of the NYPD lately—and some say they're fed up with the police using their school as a staging ground. One student says she's even considering taking legal action against the school after a cop shoved her. more ›

A student who works in the Henry Birnbaum Library at Pace University tells us the library has been shut down so that it can be treated for bedbugs. Our tipster tells us, "I got kicked out of work early because of an 'emergency closing' of the library. I told the librarian i needed a specific reason to give my boss as to why they were closing, and she said 'Don't tell anyone this,' and then whispered 'bed bugs.' " College kids: they just can't keep their traps shut! more ›

Four Pace University football players who were teammates of slain teammate Danroy Henry had their criminal charges dismissed yesterday...and they now plan on suing police and prosecutors for "false arrest [and] malicious prosecution." more ›

A Westchester grand jury declined to bring charges against two police officers who shot and killed a Pace University student last October. Danroy "D.J." Henry was killed when the car he was driving hit two police officers who had been responding to a rowdy scene at a Thornton, NY restaurant; when Henry did not stop the car, the police officers fired at him. The Journal News reports that the White Plains jury heard from "dozens of witnesses in the past month — including the officers and other occupants of the car Henry was driving." more ›

The parents of Danroy Henry, the 20-year-old Pace University student who was shot and killed by police after hitting a cop with his car amidst a chaotic Westchester night, are planning to sue the suburban towns whose officers were involved in the death. The parents filed a notice of claim, required before suing, against both the town of Mount Pleasant and the village of Pleasantville yesterday for the wrongful death of their son. And they're suing for $120 million. more ›

Yesterday, Jeromie Cancel was sentenced to 25 years for killing a 19-year-old Pace University student in 2008. Cancel was found guilty of strangling Kevin Pravia in Pravia's Chelsea apartment—Cancel also admitted to staying in the apartment to watch a horror movie— and his murder victim's family were aghast at his boisterous behavior during the sentencing. Pravia's brother yelled at Cancel, who had been giggling, "I'll f---ing kill you, mother-f---er!" Cancel replied, "Come see me on Riker's Island!" which led to Pravia's father to say, "I'll see you in hell!" more ›

A Pace University administrator was arrested on child pornography charges after an online sting this past weekend. David G. Watson, 62, of Rye Brook, had been posting ads for a “nubile girl next door” on Craigslist since February. Watson, the Pace University director of cultural events in Manhattan, thought that he had found his “nubile girl”, and arranged to meet her in the Elmsford Motel in Westchester and share photos of children in "sexually suggestive poses." Instead, the woman who showed up was an investigator from the Westchester District Attorney’s Office. Police said they found child pornography after searching Watson, his car, his home, and a storage locker. Maybe there's a very reasonable explanation for this and he was just researching for his latest rock opera? more ›

Two years ago, a Pace University student was found strangled in a West 15th Street apartment, and police soon arrested drifter Jeromie Cancel, who told police he smothered Kevin Pravia because he was "bored" and then watched the horror movie Saw in his victim's apartment. Yesterday, the police officer testified at a hearing that he didn't believe the 22-year-old when he started bragging about killing. Officer Sean Hynes said, "I just sort of brushed it off. Anyone can read the newspaper." more ›

Last week, a police source leaked the results of the autopsy of 20-year-old Pace University student Danroy Henry, who was shot and killed by police after hitting a cop with his car amidst a chaotic Westchester night. The report allegedly revealed that the underage Henry was legally drunk at the time of the shooting, with a .13 blood alcohol level. But his family and friends do not believe he was drunk, and have criticized that police source: "D.J. was not drunk, not drinking and refusing drinks because he was the designated driver. How our son could have been found to be anything other than sober is perplexing to us and, without any autopsy or the cooperation of the investigators, we must treat this allegation as an intentional fabrication, bad forensic science or an attempt to assault his character," the family said in a statement yesterday. more ›

Local police have been receiving a lot of criticism for the fatal shooting of Pace University student Danroy Henry in Westchester last weekend. Eye witnesses claim that Henry was handcuffed and left on the road for up to 15 minutes without medical attention while medical teams treated a less seriously injured officer at the scene, and students who tried to help him were either Tasered or handcuffed, which police have denied. Now, police sources have revealed another complication in the story: according to the results of the autopsy of 20-year-old Henry, he was legally drunk at the time of the shooting, with a .13 blood alcohol level. more ›

The lawyer for six of the students arrested during last weekends fatal shooting of Pace University student Danroy Henry is calling on federal prosecutors to investigate the case. Attorney Bonita Zelman believes that local and state police agencies currently probing the chaotic events surrounding the shooting “are responsible for the failure to train these officers” who shot Henry. “They can’t run around with guns and Tasers threatening innocent college students...You don’t shoot at a moving car when there are innocent passengers and innocent kids all around the area,” Zelman told the Post. But those local authorities countered many of Zelman and her clients' claims during a press conference today. more ›

More information is coming out about the chaotic night last weekend when Pace University student Danroy Henry was shot and killed by police after hitting a cop with his car. Yesterday, the lawyer for the Henry family said that eye witnesses told him that Henry was handcuffed and left on the road for up to 15 minutes without medical attention while medical teams treated a less seriously injured officer at the scene. Today, the lawyer for six other Pace students is accusing police of brutality, excessive force and wrongful arrest after several of her clients were Tased for trying to aid Henry as he lay dying. more ›

Manhattan prosecutors say that one of the men suspected of killing a Pace University student also beat a witness. Max Moreno, an apparent drug dealer, was fatally shot after refusing to hand over money; at Raymond Rizzo's arraignment, prosecutor Cynthia Sittnick said Rizzo (pictured) beat a witness trying to escape, saying, "he was going to die." She also said suspect Randy Colon, who was arrested in Pennsylvania, was the one who pulled the trigger. Rizzo faces charges including murder, assault and burglary; his lawyer said, "If he was there, for argument’s sake, to buy weed, and he had no knowledge of what was about to go down, he’s not on the hook." more ›

The family of Danroy Henry, the 20-year-old Pace University student who was shot and killed by police after allegedly almost running an officer down Sunday morning, has hired a prominent civil rights attorney to probe into their son's death. "I can tell you that, in New York, it is not normal practice to be drawing a weapon and shooting a vehicle that's moving," lawyer Michael Sussman told LoHud. And witnesses have told him that Henry allegedly was handcuffed and left on the road for up to 15 minutes without medical attention while medical teams treated a less seriously injured officer at the scene. more ›

Yesterday, the police arrested two men in connection with the shooting of Pace University student Max Moreno, who was killed in his apartment at 2 Gold Street last month. Brooklyn resident Raymond Rizzo, 30, was charged with murder, while East Village resident Randy Colon, 30, was arrested in Pennsylvania and is being extradited to NYC. more ›

The NY State Police joined in the investigation of the Westchester police shooting of Pace University student Danroy "D.J." Henry. The 20-year-old football player was killed after a confrontation with police: Mount Pleasant police claimed that a Pleasantville cop knocked on Henry's window, but Henry accelerated, with the cop on his hood, so the cop fired; another police officer fired when Henry drove towards him. But one of Henry's passengers said, "We did nothing to provoke what happened. It was just an unjust situation that we happened to be in." more ›

A Pace University football player was shot and killed by police early Sunday morning in Westchester after running into a cop. Danroy Henry, a varsity defensive football player and junior at the university’s Westchester County campus, was allegedly trying to get away from the "rowdy" scene at Finnegan's Grill in Thornwood, NY. Henry was in his car with two passengers when a cop from Mount Pleasant knocked on the driver’s side window, and Henry gunned his accelerator—plowing into a different cop from Pleasantville. more ›

The suicidal Pace Student who was found in a subway tunnel with a can of cyanide and five flares was charged with trespassing and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The student, 20-year-old Aaron Fetto, claimed he wanted to find a hidden area in which to commit suicide, and dressed up like a subway worker. However, he was taken to anti-terror police after NYC Transit found him with no work identification. The ease with which he could enter the subway system is troubling. Security expert Robert Strang told WCBS, "We can go right now into any train station, walk down the platform, walk onto tracks and we're in the tunnel and it's gonna take a long time before anybody sees." more ›

The Post has detalis of the chilling confession made by Jeromie Cancel, the 22-year-old who killed a Pace student in late August. According to Cancel, he was smoking with one hand while "pulling tight on the electrical cord around his victim's neck with the other"--all while watching Saw on DVD. more ›

Yesterday, Jeromie Cancel, suspected of killing 19-year-old Kevin Pravia, was arraigned in court. Prosecutors offered some new details about the crime, saying Cancel originally simply stole Pravia's electronics and almost left the West 15th Street apartment but went back to smother the Pace University student in his sleep. more ›

Disturbing details have emerged about the 22-year-old man who confessed to killing Pace University student Kevin Pravia. Among his disclosures, Jeromie Cancel said he watched the horror movie "Saw" after smothering a sleeping Pravia. more ›

The police are looking into a number of calls that Kevin Pravia made Saturday morning before his death. The Pace University student's body was found, with an electrical cord around his neck and plastic stuffed in his mouth, in his West 15th Street apartment by his roommate on Sunday. more ›

The Pace University community is reeling after news that a student was found strangled in his Chelsea apartment. According to the Daily News, 19-year-old Kevin Pravia was found by his roommate yesterday afternoon. Police arrived at 239 West 15th Street around 6 p.m., and Pravia was "strangled with an electrical cord that was still wrapped around his neck" and his "mouth was stuffed with plastic." more ›

The serial flusher responsible for two Koran toilet dunkings at Pace University has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Stanislav Shmulevich, a Russian immigrant, was a business major at the time of the incidents, in which a copy of the Koran was twice discovered in the toilet – the first time "covered in feces" – in October and November 2006. more ›

As outrageous as this may seem, this sort of makes sense: James Lipton, he of Inside the Actors' Studio, used to be a pimp in Paris! ABC reports:

The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood's biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers.

Last October, authorities were trying to figure out who had left copies of the Koran in toilets on Pace University's Manhattan campus. With other hate incidents occurring at Pace's Manhattan and Westchester campuses (a swastika on a bathroom wall, the n-word written on a car), students were rattled and questioned whether the school had reacted quickly and forcefully enough. Now, months later, the police have made an arrest. more ›

The theme to this summer's outdoor concert season seem to be coming up with new ways to deal with rain. While Manu Chao embraced it and Cheeseburger/Oxford Collapse had to cancel because of it, the New Pornographers just kind of went on despite it. First, indie one-hit wonder Midlake opened with a perfectly serviceable set. After came out the newly bearded A.C. Newman and the gang to play a high spirited show featuring songs off all their albums, including the soon to be released, Challengers. Sure, it's a little strange celebrating America's independence with a Canadian band, but they seemed to embrace the irony and kick out the jams to the waterlogged faithful. Nobody can pass up a free show (no matter how many hoops one has to jump through to get a ticket...) and the concert was well covered. Read more about it at Pop Tarts, Stereogum and Music Snobbery. (pic via Muzicspy's flickr.) more ›

MUSIC: Didn't get enough partying done yesterday? Come out and see Shearwater (which includes Will Sheff of Okkervil River) play a free show. Hard tickets will be distributed two per person, outside the venue on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 5:00pm on the day of the show. more ›

Harris Levinson, 34, a video production supervisor for Conde Nast, is paying his brother and two friends $150 each to stand in line at Apple stores in three different states to make sure he gets at least one. more ›

The Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, was recently featured on WNBC.com following an address at Pace University, where he discussed the potential for the Internet and sites like Google, in particular––and its recent acquisition YouTube.com––to affect political campaigns. He mentioned the long tail-end effect of viral marketing, which emphasizes the persistence of certain political memes and their effects on voters, saying, "I expect technology will have a significant effect on the '08 election. The Internet is the best way of delivering sound bites ever invented. Schmidt's address at Pace was a keynote speech at the Google sponsored Personal Democracy Forum. more ›