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Leave it to the New York Times. On the eve of Pentecost, the birthday of the church, this Catholic-baiting newspaper opened its op-ed page to a venomous anti-Catholic rant by Arthur Hertzberg, "a visiting professor of the humanities" at New York University. Hertzberg slandered no fewer than three popes. Not only did the church of Pius XII remain "silent while Europe's Jews were murdered," he alleges, the church of John Paul II taught Catholics that the "sin of letting the Holocaust happen at its doorstep need not haunt the church ..." As for Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he...

Close to 50 NYU law students and members of the New York community lined the sidewalk outside of Vanderbilt Hall yesterday afternoon to protest Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was being honored by a student-run law journal. Scalia visited NYU to receive an honor from the members of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law , which is dedicating their 2005 issue to Scalia. Scalia is the subject of controversy for his dissenting opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, in which he criticized the decision to overturn a law that criminalized sodomy. While on the court he voted for the...

The CIA may be accustomed to working under "deep cover" in hostile areas, but one college campus is proving too dangerous for the company's men and women. The campus that makes America's spies tremble is New York University (NYU). As reported by the University of Wisconsin's newspaper, the Badger Herald, out of fear of causing a potential disturbance at New York University, representatives from the United States Central Intelligence Agency declined to visit the campus March 31 because of the likelyhood of ... student protests! Scheduled to appear as part of a project for a marketing class, the CIA declined...

April 14, 2005 -- WHEN U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke Tuesday night at NYU's Vanderbilt Hall, "The room was packed with some 300 students and there were many protesters outside because of Scalia's vitriolic dissent last year in the case that overturned the Texas law against gay sex," our source reports. "One gay student asked whether government had any business enacting and enforcing laws against consensual sodomy. Following Scalia's answer, the student asked a follow-up: 'Do you sodomize your wife?' The audience was shocked, especially since Mrs. Scalia [Maureen] was in attendance. The justice replied that the question...

WHEN U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (above) spoke Tuesday night at NYU's Vanderbilt Hall, "The room was packed with some 300 students and there were many protesters outside because of Scalia's vitriolic dissent last year in the case that overturned the Texas law against gay sex," our source reports. "One gay student asked whether government had any business enacting and enforcing laws against consensual sodomy. Following Scalia's answer, the student asked a follow-up: 'Do you sodomize your wife?' The audience was shocked, especially since Mrs. Scalia [Maureen] was in attendance. The justice replied that the question was unworthy of...

Close to 50 NYU law students and members of the New York community lined the sidewalk outside of Vanderbilt Hall yesterday afternoon to protest Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was being honored by a student-run law journal. Scalia visited NYU to receive an honor from the members of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law , which is dedicating their 2005 issue to Scalia. Scalia is the subject of controversy for his dissenting opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, in which he criticized the decision to overturn a law that criminalized sodomy. While on the court he voted for the...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded its Abel Prize in mathematics to an American professor at New York University on Thursday. The prize honors the memory of Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Peter D Lax, age 78, won the prize "for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions," according to the academy. The Hungarian-born professor has been called the most versatile mathematician of his generation. The academy said he has had "a profound influence" through his research, writings, a lifelong commitment to education and generosity to...

The Bush administration's policy of withholding aid from overseas groups that perform abortions is hurting women and forcing clinics to close, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday. Clinton, speaking at a New York University forum to mark the 10th anniversary of the United Nations' fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, said 20 million women worldwide risk unsafe abortions every year, 68,000 die and many more are injured. "Many of these deaths and these injuries can be prevented by providing women with the information and means to choose the size and spacing of their own families, and yet I regret...

Plucky "Baby Jordan" — his tiny new heart beating beautifully just two weeks after a lifesaving transplant — is going home to Brooklyn today, hospital officials said. Jordan Trimarchi was born at NYU's Downtown Hospital on Jan. 18 with a heart tumor, which was removed by surgeons at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian three days later. After a desperate search for a donor turned up a new heart, surgeons performed the delicate transplant on Jan. 26. Jordan was moved to the cardiac floor of Children's Hospital after spending five days on a ventilator in intensive care.

Even Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen can't escape the scrutiny of student activists at NYU. A student group will march today in Washington Square Park to ask that the Gallatin freshmen guarantee paid maternity leave to workers in Bangladesh who work in the factories that make their clothing line. The NYU chapter of Students Against Sweatshops and the National Labor Committee charged that 95 percent of the women who work in Bangladeshi sweatshops for major companies - including Wal-Mart and the Olsens' Dualstar Entertainment Group - don't receive three months of maternity leave mandated by Bangladeshi law. "I don't want my...

The earnings of many top university presidents are spiraling up toward $1 million a year, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, rising far more quickly than faculty salaries. Forty-two presidents of private universities were paid $500,000 or more in the 2003 fiscal year, the most recent for which figures are available, compared with 27 presidents the previous year. Just two earned half a million in 1994. The highest-paid private university president, William R. Brody of Johns Hopkins University, earned $897,786 in university compensation, not counting at least $100,000 in annual pay for membership on several...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following are remarks of Senator John Kerry, as prepared for delivery, at New York University: Monday, September 20, 2004 I am honored to be here at New York University -- one of the great urban universities, not just in New York, but in the world. You have set a high standard for global dialogue and I hope to live up to that tradition today. This election is about choices. The most important choices a President makes are about protecting America... at home and around the world. A president's first obligation is to make...

This month, we passed a cruel milestone: more than 1,000 Americans lost in Iraq. Their sacrifice reminds us that Iraq remains, overwhelmingly, an American burden. Nearly 90 percent of the troops – and nearly 90 percent of the casualties – are American. Despite the President’s claims, this is not a grand coalition.

NEW YORK -- A graduate student at New York University jumped to her death Monday from the rooftop of its prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, police said.

New York University students plan to stage a "live" Pac-Man game on Saturday in the streets of Greenwich Village, as part of a project exploring how computer games work when transplanted into real-world settings. "Pac-Man" was a hugely popular 1980s game that became a cultural icon. Pac-Man itself was a yellow circle with a wedge removed for its mouth. The character gobbled up dots while evading ghostly rivals Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, which also try to gobble up Pac-Man. This weekend a man in a yellow costume will weave through the streets collecting dots while being pursued by people...

<p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- As Republicans, Democrats and anti-Bush activists gear up for New York City's first Republican National Convention, New York University students are getting into the mix.</p> <p>"As Republicans in the city of New York, your voice is somewhat more muted than others," Michael Allegretti, the host committee's volunteer services director, told NYU College Republicans while trying to recruit volunteers for the August 29 to September 2 event.</p>

Some extremists, leftists, and Islamists and NYU have begun a petition asking the board of NYU to divest all funds invested in Israel. This is a bigoted piece of anti-Semitism, IMHO. Friends and faculty have established a website where people can sign a counter-petition. I believe Freepers who read the petition will find it completely unobjectionable. The website for the petition may be found at the link above. The wording of the petition follows, FYI. Signers of the petition already include members of the "community," Yeshiva students from New York, NYU students and faculty (not many of those yet, but...

Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film Students By DANIEL J. WAKIN In October, a film student at New York University pitched an idea for her video-making class: a four-minute portrayal of the contrast between unbridled human lust and banal everyday behavior. Her professor approved. The student, Paula Carmicino, found two actor friends willing to have sex on camera in front of the class. The other students expressed their support. But then the professor thought he should double-check with the administration, which immediately pulled the plug on the project. What's more, university officials said they would issue a written policy...

A 19-year-old New York University student who plunged to her death from a sixth-floor window Saturday night appeared to have committed suicide, the police said yesterday. The student was identified yesterday by the police as Michelle Gluckman of Brooklyn.

The ombudsman is here because the doctrine against it collapsed. But pride says the Times cannot copy the Post. What's Bill Keller to do?The argument for why an ombudsman would never be needed at the New York Times went like this. Every editor should represent the interests of the reader. That’s what good editors do. No ombudsman. Before you start poking at the logic, appreciate how long it stood and how well it served the authority of the Times. First ombudsman is 1967, Louisville Courier Journal. Thirty six years later, the New York Times agrees: maybe it’s a good...