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“There are too many good bookstores in Brooklyn,” Bob Contant said. Contant is one of two co-owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, the embattled last independent bookstore standing in the East Village. He was explaining to me why he wouldn’t consider a move to what’s generally deemed New York’s most litera
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In an email to the Cooper Union community sent a little after 8pm EST, board of trustees chairman Richard S. Lincer conceded that "tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future."
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Free Cooper Union has released the first installment of what they allege will be a two-week long period marked by the daily publication of "anonymously leaked confidential documents" from the university's administration.
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In an announcement made through Cooper Union's Office of Student Affairs yesterday, the university's trustees canceled the upcoming elections for a student trusteeship previously ratified at their September board meeting.
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In a message sent at 4:07 pm to the Cooper Union community, Jamshed Bharucha announced today an agreement with the activist group Free Cooper Union, which had ended its occupation and vacated his office on Friday. The email, which was preceded a few minutes earlier by a campuswide message containing
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I was walking around the East Village this morning, as is my wont, and happened upon a familiar face. The kindly visage in question belonged to not-quite-mediagenic Jamshed Bharucha, president of Cooper Union, "the embattled New York college" (Art in America).
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New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz preceded me in Jamshed Bharucha's office by only a few minutes. He was there, as I was, for tonight's opening of Step Down, the Free Cooper Union-organized companion to the school's official year-end Show Up exhibition. Saltz's appearance at the year-end show
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An exhausted-sounding Peter Cafiero, outgoing President of Cooper Union's Alumni Association, took to the Rose Auditorium stage on Monday night to introduce the annual Alumni Council Forum, noting that “hopefully this will continue the process of better connecting everyone, and build a community whi
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Last night, at a little before 11 pm EST, Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha spontaneously ended a community forum he was holding in the basement of the Foundation Building and ascended to his seventh floor office to face his critics for the first time. The result was a rather long and uninspir
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At roughly 11 am today, a group of 30 students occupied the offices of embattled Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha. Bharucha himself is not present, however, and unlike the previous occupation, the students have not barricaded themselves in and are being allowed to freely enter and exit the bu
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In a memorable appearance at St. Mark's Bookshop in the fall of 2011, Slavoj Zizek held forth on the importance of saving the bookstore from its then-impending eviction from a Cooper Union-owned building, referring repeatedly to the predatory landlord as "the Union Cooper." The mangy Slovenian's mal
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Cooper Union is not reeling in the wake of today's historic board announcement, but it is hurting. The beleaguered institution's decision to scrap its founder's vision for free education was a long time coming, borne on the back of a boom-time cupidity that has crippled many university endowments. T