Events

5th Annual Alumni-Student Banquet

• Thursday, March 6, 2008
• Kimmel 10th Floor–Rosenthal Pavilion
• 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

Here’s your chance to network with the CAS alumni while enjoying a delicious three-course meal and amazing views! Find a mentor, score an internship, or just socialize with all of our incredible alumni.

Meet-a-Mentor Open House

• Sunday, March 3, 2008
• Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center (50 West Fourth St.)
• 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Meet alumni, who will share career advice, practical information, and the secrets to their success. Also, learn about alumni mentoring programs available through NYU, while building a warmer, stronger student-alumni community at NYU.

Town Hall: Episode Two — “How Are We Doing?”

• Wednesday, February 27, 2008
• Kimmel 914
• 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

The CAS Student Council is working hard to make NYU a better place for students and we want to know, how well are we doing? If you have questions, ideas, complaints or you just want to sing our praises, stop by and raise your voice. We are here for you and we want to hear from you.

Freedoms at Risk Conference and Teach-In

• Saturday, February 23, 2008
• Kimmel 4th Floor–Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
• 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.

The CAS Student Council is proud to announce our biggest event of the semester: the First National Teach-In on Freedoms at Risk in America! Freedoms at Risk is an all-day, educational and interactive event featuring some of our nation’s foremost academics and intellectuals, and students and faculty from both within and outside of the NYU campus. We’ve reserved an entire floor of the Kimmel Center for Student Life from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 23 for our Political and Academic Freedoms Teach-Ins and our evening Plenum, all of which will be completely open to the public throughout the day!

A number of accomplished and controversial figures in politics and academics will be sharing their experiences and thoughts, and engaging in discussion and debate with audience members, including (in alphabetical order):

• Ashanti Alston, former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party, currently co-chair of the National Jericho Amnesty Movement, a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Estacion Libre; he is also known as the Anarchist Panther
• Renate Bridenthal, a professor of history at CUNY – Brooklyn College and the Chair of the International Committee of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY who has written works such as Becoming Visible: Women in European History
• Mitchel Cohen, an expert on environmental issues a founder of the New York State Green Party and former editor of its newspaper, a coordinator of the “No Spray Coalition,” and a member of the Board of WBAI radio as well as a host of the "Steal this Radio" talk show on TribecaRadio.net
• Norman Finkelstein, noted academic who has held faculty positions at NYU, Rutgers University, and DePaul University where he was recently a victim of academic repression, and author of five books including the international best-seller The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, which has been translated into twenty-four foreign languages
• Barbara Foley, Professor of English at Rutgers University – Newark Campus, Chair of the “Combatting Racism Task Force of Now” – New Jersey Chapter, current member of the Steering Committee of the Radical Caucus of the MLA, and author of such works as Spectres of 1919: Class and Nationalism in the Making of the New Negro
• John Gerassi, a professor of the Queens Political Science Department who has written a number of books on politics and international affairs including an official biography on Jean-Paul Sartre
• Peter N. Kirstein, a professor of history at Chicago’s Saint Xavier University, author of such works as Anglo Over Bracero: The History of the Mexican Worker in the United States, and a nationally recognized advocate of academic freedom and free-speech rights who has been profiled in conservative writer David Horowitz’s book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
• Zachary Lockman, a professor of history and current chair of the Middle-Eastern and Islamic Studies Department at NYU who is author of such works as Contending Visions of the Middle East and has also served as the President of the Middle-Eastern Studies Association in the past
• Mark Crispin Miller, currently a media studies professor at NYU who is active in his support of democratic media reform; he is also an accomplished author and has written such books as Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections and Seeing Through Movies
• Bertell Ollman, a Professor of Politics at NYU and two-time victim of academic repression (University of Maryland and University of the West Indies, Jamaica), who has written Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx’s Method and many other works
• Andrew Ross, Chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, President of the NYU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and author of many books, including Fast Boat to China, No-Collar, and The Celebration Chronicles
• Abby Scher, a sociologist and writer who has conducted extensive research on the politics of the McCarthy period, and has most recently written about the abuses of freedoms by law enforcement agents on a local level; she is currently writing pieces on the concept of Islamofascism and the hysteria in the American public that it induces
• Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History at Yeshiva University, the former editor of “Academe” (the magazine of the American Association of University Professors), the first ever winner of the Academic Freedom Fellowship from NYU’s Tamiment Library, and author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, and other works
• Michael Steven Smith, a New York City attorney and author who recently edited The Emerging Police State by William Kunstler, sits on the Executive Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and co-hosts the WBAI radio program Law and Disorder with Michael Ratner and Heidi Boghosian
• Lynne Stewart, a widely recognized political activist and attorney who is noted for representing unpopular clients, and has experienced extensive recent political oppression; an advocate of the constitutional right to due process of law, she fights to see that right extended to anyone who is tried within the American legal system
• Lorie Van Auken, winner of the Glamour Magazine “Woman of the Year” award in 2004 for her work with the other “Jersey Girls” in successfully lobbying for an independent investigation into the events of September 11, 2001
• Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst Campus, co-founder of the political journal Re-thinking Marxism, and co-author of Knowledge and Class: a Marxian Critique of Political Economy among other works

We’re thrilled to have these speakers joining us for our Teach-In, and we eagerly await the date. There is no charge, and refreshments will be served! Join us for this momentous, precedent-setting event in academics and politics!

All University Games

• Thursday, February 21, 2008
• Coles Sports Center
• 5:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

We have a kick-ass theme this year that will help take us to the top, but we need you to make it all possible! Whether you’re an athlete or a mathlete, or just fabulously good-looking, if you’re a CAS student, sign up for one of the events and help us tackle the grad school giants, Tisch drama queens, and the nerdy Sternies!

So You Think You Know Me?

• Wednesday, February 13, 2008
• Kimmel 802
• 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

An easy, medium, and difficult round of questions will separate those who truly know each other from those who just think they do. Sign-up is for teams of two and everyone is welcome. Bring your roommate, boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend, sister, brother, or even grandmother?

FABULOUS PRIZES FOR WINNERS; food and drinks for all!

CAS Formal

• Saturday, February 9, 2008
• Tavern on the Green
• 7:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.

The College of Arts and Science Student Council invites all CAS students to the annual CAS Formal on Saturday, February 9 from 7:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m. at Tavern on the Green in Central Park.

Tickets are available at NYU’s Ticket Central. Prices are as follows: $40 for a single and $70 for a couple. Come join us for a cocktail reception, three-course dinner and dancing at one of New York City’s finest establishments!

Plug ‘n’ Play Games Night

• Friday, November 16, 2007
• Kimmel 10th Floor—Rosenthal Pavilion
• 7:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.

A games night for charity with a guitar hero tournament and non-perishable food drive.

Student–Faculty Banquet

• Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• Kimmel 10th Floor—Rosenthal Pavilion
• 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Internships! Research Opportunities! Recommendations! The faculty at NYU are more than just your educators and friends, they are the people that help you connect with the world and succeed in life; helping you obtain priceless opportunities and experience, as well as writing recommendations to help you attend the graduate, law, or medical school of your dreams.

Why not come and meet faculty at our CAS Faculty Banquet? For only five dollars you can spend time with NYU's prestigious faulty while enjoying a THREE COURSE MEAL, including a triple chocolate mousse cake with caramel sauces and berries. Come for a night of fun, laughs, amazing food, and connections that will last and benefit you for a lifetime.

SPOTS ARE LIMITED! GET YOUR TICKETS AT TICKET CENTRAL!

Alumni Meet ‘n’ Greet

• Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Kimmel 914
• 7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

Get a chance to meet and mingle with your CAS alumni in an informal atmosphere.

Halloween Party/Charity Event

• Tuesday, October 30, 2007
• Heights Alumni Lounge
• 8:00 p.m., after General Assembly meeting

The Halloween Party will have a costume contest with fun prizes, raffles, refreshments, and a book drive for charity.

Current Discussions in Academia

• Thursday, October 25, 2007
• Kimmel 802
• 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Join us this Thursday at 7 p.m. in Kimmel 802 for our the first lecture in our Current Discussions in Academia Lecture Series. Stephen Hamm, a senior writer for Business Week, and the author of Bangalore Tiger will be speaking. Coffee and desserts will be served.

Town Hall: Episode One

• Thursday, October 4, 2007
• Kimmel 914
• 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.

The easiest way to get to know the people who represent you in council. Learn about what we’re planning for the semester and future. Voice your opinion and get something changed at NYU.

Election Week Block Party

• Thursday, September 27, 2007
• Washington Pl. between Washington Square E. and Greene St.
• 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

There’ll be plenty of free stuff for you to enjoy: free food, a free performance by Mass Transit and the Vocaholics, a free raffle, vendor tables, and even debates between candidates in the upcoming student council election.