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December 20, 2005
NYU Strike Costs Cinematographer Ties, Decades of P.C. Street Cred
This week's New York Magazine features a short item about the latest adversity to befall New York University in its continuing graduate assistant strike. According to NYM's Shana Liebman, the International Cinematographer's Guild has effectively broken off its relationship with NYU's film school:
The Guild’s protest ... means the country’s most prestigious and progressive film school (Spike Lee is the artistic director) will lose out on the lectures, seminars, and networking opportunities with professionals to which it has become accustomed. John Amman, a business representative of the ICG, says it’s a matter of solidarity. “We’re not doing this to punish the students. But not doing it would be the equivalent of crossing the graduate students’ picket lines,” which his group—many of whose members graduated from Tisch—feels obligated to support.
But if ICG is not punishing the students, then its action seems intended to punish the university, which in the end represents pretty much the same thing, does it not? In other words: Please do not piss on their shoes and tell them it is raining.
Seriously, what those disgruntled students need to do is jump ship for NYU journalism; when I was there, anyway, we could get just about any of those sanctimonious Hollywood types to cross a picket line for us.
Posted by stvanairsdale at December 20, 2005 09:06 AM
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As an NYU grad, this disgusts me. These grad students are getting free tuition and a yearly stipend. I'd love to have my education paid for in exchange for grading some papers and teaching a few classes!
Posted by: ManWithNoName at December 22, 2005 01:58 AM