the baruch free press

What’s the best website we’re not reading?

rob reale — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:52:54 +0000

The comments thread on this article about Whole Foods’ transporting some turkey breasts in a crowded, dirty, elevator next to some guy’s ass and trash cans is quite possibly the funniest and somehow simultaneously snarkey and happy stream of collective consciousness on a website. With 20,000 views of this article, the Gothamist has it going [...]

WordCamp this weekend

rob reale — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:33:57 +0000

I have acquired 2 free passes for Baruch students from StudioPress, please email baruchfreepress/gmail/com if you are interested; first come first serve. The schedule of the weekend’s workshops is available at 2010.nyc.wordcamp.org

USG did send an email. [Correction]

rob reale — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:02:24 +0000

The post below is wrong, a USG email about Oktoberfest being rescheduled contained a message about wearing purple on Thursday, October 14 (today): One More Thing: Wear Purple Tomorrow! In solidarity for Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers Freshmen who recently took his life as a result of homophobic bullying, Baruch has organized a series of memorials. [...]

Day of Tolerance October 14

rob reale — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:17:50 +0000

This email has a correction published with it here. I wish things were different. I wish USG sent out an email notifying students about the intent to support and observe the day. I wish the man sending the email out, Carl Aylman, didn’t make a crass and sexually harassing comment about a gay hookup “ring” [...]

Direct Deposits this week will be THURSDAY! [Financial Aid]

rob reale — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:45:15 +0000

If you were expecting a financial aid direct deposit this week, it will be coming on Thursday, August 12, instead of the usual Wednesday day. You heard it here first. Did you know that you can usually see the direct deposit in esims on the Monday before it deposits? This week it didn’t show until [...]

Textbook Affordability Provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act

rob reale — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:57:31 +0000

An article in today’s New York Times, How to Find Cheaper College Textbooks mentions new federal laws about the sale of textbooks that started July 1. The two important rules I noted were that publishers must sell items individually if they also sell items in bundles, and students have to be provided the ISBN numbers [...]

The Crises of Capitalism, by a Sociologist

rob reale — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:43:38 +0000

This is just the greatest animation put to a very well said short lecture by David Harvey of the CUNY Graduate Center:

The Problem with America

rob reale — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:42:11 +0000

We need to talk about the oil spill… (xpost)

rob reale — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:59:59 +0000

That was clear from class today. A friend of mine just brought up the oil spill to me again on the phone, and he was too young to remember the Iranian hostage crisis. We are living through a terrible moment in history right now, and this isn’t a moment where you “remember where you were [...]

Is this the end of Facebook? These Diaspora guys asked for $10,000, got $200,000

rob reale — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:41:09 +0000

Inspired by a talk given by Columbia law professor Eben Moglen gave on internet privacy in February, four guys from NYU decided to build a social networking system that would be, “the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.” It’s called Diaspora*. From what I can discern from their website, they started [...]