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NYU funds lavish vacation homes for top faculty, staff

| Robby Soave
710 The Hamptons

‘That’s getting to be a little too sexy even for me’

Conservatives more racist than liberals, says government-funded study

| Robby Soave
A tea party demonstration. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty.

‘Universities love spending their time and our taxpayer dollars trying to prove the white man is racist’

Red scare: Blind Chinese dissident claims Chinese communist conquest of U.S. academia

| Eric Owens
Mao etc. Photo: Hulton Archive Getty Images

Academic independence ‘greatly threatened by a totalitarian regime’

NYU allegedly tells blind Chinese activist to take a hike for sake of Shanghai campus deal

| Eric Owens
Chen Guangcheng. Photo: AFP Getty Images/Don Emmert

Chinese functionaries in charge of permits may have pressured move

Fat scholars unwanted at NYU, says prof - TheDCNF

| Robby Soave
Geoffrey Miller author photo. Random House

‘He claims it’s part of a research study’

NYU researchers sold study results to Chinese competitor

| Sarah Hofmann
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Professor, lab engineer and fellow have been charged with commercial bribery

NYU professor argues against nuclear family, monogamy, anti-polygamy laws

| Christopher Bedford

Lots of smart things going on in Manhattan these days

Weather Underground killer Kathy Boudin now works for two Manhattan universities

| Eric Owens
Boudin mugshot

‘Nine children grew up without their dads because of her actions’

The definitive list of the 12 most expensive colleges in the United States [SLIDESHOW]

| Eric Owens

You could buy a lot of expensive stuff instead of tuition at these overpriced schools

Former NYU professor sues James Franco for defamation - TheDC

| Taylor Bigler
James Franco

Instructor says he was fired because the actor called him an ‘awful’ teacher

Occulist: NYU journalism prof wanted to assault filmmaker James O'Keefe - TheDC

| Matthew Boyle
James O'Keefe

‘Probably best just to shadow him at all times with a video recorder … pull his pants down’

Americans Sargent, Sims win Nobel economics prize - AP

| admin
Last year's prize in economics

The winners have developed methods for answering questions such as how economic growth and inflation are affected by a temporary increase in the interest rate or a tax cut

FoodPolitik: Want dietary guidelines? Don't listen to the so-called 'experts' - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

America’s most noxious food nags are already spinning a new government report to support their own propaganda efforts

FoodPolitik: Free Speech, digested - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle doesn’t think the First Amendment applies to food companies

'Yes we can, but...' - TheDC

| Jon Ward

Obama’s attempt to reach out to loyal supporters yields portrait of unhappy base

NY schools touted high test scores, ignored flaws - NYT

| interns

New York has been a national model for how to carry out education reform, so its sudden decline in passing rates may be seen as a cautionary tale

Evil college dean made students into her slaves - CNN

| Pat McMahon

St. Johns University’s Cecilia Chang threatened to revoke the scholarships of kids who wouldn’t clean the house, make her food, and take out her trash

Republicans set for gains in governors' races as funding sets record - Bloomberg

| Chad Brady (admin)

Democrats now hold 26 of the 50 governorships, and 37 are on the ballot this year

Congress will show economic leadership by extending tax cuts

| Robert P. Murphy

Economic theory, however, teaches that raising tax rates, especially on the top earners, lowers the incentives for growth. And economic history teaches that massive tax hikes and deficit spending go hand in hand with stagnation

Fighting drug addiction with a psychedelic drug - Popular Science

| interns

Some scientists believe that the obscure hallucinogen Ibogaine can help cure addictions to drugs like heroine and cocaine