#kingsborough

[sequestered-song-skirmish]

Round 4 Poll 6

Creative Living With A New And Improved Me：

Subtle Lies：　「There was a radio station out of a rivaling college and every day they would play the same songs. The same songs, in the same order, coming on at the same time every daily. This song was the only one I enjoyed.」

[russianballetny]

Join us at the 36th Annual Children's Festival, "The World of Dance," presented by Brighton Ballet Theater (BBT) on Thursday, June 22nd, 2023, at 6:30 PM at #Kingsborough #CUNY.

Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, BBT remains committed to nurturing responsible, well-rounded individuals through dance education. This festival is the highlight of the year for our students, who have dedicated themselves to combining their academic studies with weekly rehearsals.

Secure your tickets now! They can be purchased online at www.bbtballet.org, by calling 929-610-2117, or in person at the BBT office by appointment. For more details, reach out to BBT | The American School of Russian Ballet at Kingsborough.

The 36th Annual Children's Festival is a unique platform for our students to showcase their talents and develop essential life skills. We are honored to serve our community and look forward to celebrating this special moment with all of you.

Donations are vital in expanding our programming and providing scholarships to deserving students. Brighton Ballet Theater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and your contribution is tax-deductible. Help us make a difference by visiting www.bbtballet.org.

Dance education at Brighton Ballet Theater | The American School of Russian Ballet at Kingsborough offers a remarkable and enriching experience, fostering physical, creative, and emotional growth in children. Let them discover their unique style and become confident, well-rounded individuals.

[anatomy--of--melancholy]

shamelessly knee-deep in your fantasy / to stay up late collecting battle scars / it's hard on the body, hard on the heart / and I can't fight the rage, the pleasure and the pain / you feel the need to please in every way / it’s a game and it's an art / that’s hard on the body, hard on the heart

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Luke Tress

Ahead of the event, anti-Israel protest groups issued a call to rally next to the campus on Oriental Boulevard, circulating a graphic that said, “Students and workers say no to rehabilitating the image of war criminals.”

Kingsborough’s Hillel asked the administration for upgraded security due to the protest. Instead, the administration opted to cancel the event hours before it was supposed to start, the college’s Hillel told the New York Jewish Week.

A Kingsborough spokesperson confirmed the event had been canceled due to protests “out of an abundance of caution to ensure safety and appropriate access to campus for our students, faculty, and staff.”

A number of faculty asked the administration to reverse the decision to no avail, Hillel said. Jeff Lax, a Kingsborough business professor and outspoken advocate for Zionist students, said he requested a meeting and waited outside the office of University President Suri Duitch for 20 minutes while she was inside, but said she did not come out to speak with him.

The pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest still took place, drawing around 30 people who waved Palestinian flags and, according to a video by Lax, chanted, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.”

The protesters declared “victory” after the event.

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists take part in a protest to mark the 76th anniversary of al-Nakba in the Queens borough of New York on May 15, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz / Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

“The shameful event allowing a former high-ranking IOF soldier on campus, hosted by Kingsborough Community College and Hillel, has been SHUT DOWN!” a student pro-Palestinian group posted on social media, using a derisive abbreviation for Israel’s military that stands for Israel Occupation Force. “Power to CUNY students and workers! Free Palestine!”

The next day, on Tuesday, Kingsborough Hillel was scheduled to hold an Israeli Independence Day event on an outdoor terrace on campus, but the college ordered organizers to move the event indoors. A photo from the scene showed nine security guards stationed outside the door.

Meanwhile, at Baruch, the campus Hillel said on Instagram last week that the college had ordered the club’s Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Independence Day, event on May 2 “canceled” due to security concerns.

Baruch College told the New York Jewish Week that Hillel had been offered other locations for the event.

“The safety of our students remains our top priority,” the college said in a statement. “Regarding the Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration, Hillel was offered two alternative spaces on campus. They declined the opportunity to hold the event in these alternative locations, choosing to cancel instead.”

Baruch Hillel did not respond to a request for comment, but posted on Instagram that the school is “sending a strong message to Jewish students that they cannot adequately protect Jewish students, while the protestors spew hateful and intimidating language in our public spaces without any repercussions.”

The post added, “Baruch College is silencing the voice of the Jewish students and their ability to celebrate their Jewish identity proudly and openly.”

In the same Instagram post, the Hillel also uploaded video showing protesters chanting, “Baruch Hillel you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”

[bethanydelleman]

Hello Inspiration for Lady Bertram from Mansfield Park:

Much as Wollstonecraft disliked Caroline’s use of rouge and her affected ‘infantine lisp’, she was especially distressed to see her lavishing affection upon her six lapdogs while apparently neglecting her children’s moral and emotional welfare. Lisping and lapdogs would feature in Wollstonecraft’s disapproving anecdotes about an unnamed lady of her personal acquaintance in Chapter 11 of A vindication of the rights of woman. Source

(Mary worked for Lady (Caroline) Kingsborough as a governess)

To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the smallest attention. She had not time for such cares. She was a woman who spent her days in sitting, nicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some long piece of needlework, of little use and no beauty, thinking more of her pug than her children, but very indulgent to the latter when it did not put herself to inconvenience, guided in everything important by Sir Thomas, and in smaller concerns by her sister. Had she possessed greater leisure for the service of her girls, she would probably have supposed it unnecessary, for they were under the care of a governess, with proper masters, and could want nothing more.

Mansfield Park, Ch 2

[vintagepipemen]

Professor Milton Levy, Kingsborough Community College, 1969. 

[eretzyisrael]

Two Jewish professors under investigation for “race and gender discrimination” have not been given copies of an official complaint against them because the college claims that they doxxed private information, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Professors Jeffrey Lax and Michael Goldstein have been sounding the alarm about antisemitism at Kingsborough Community College (KCC), which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, for the last several years, most recently by voicing concern when the school appointed anti-Zionist CUNY official Lili Shi to hire an antisemitism diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer, according to the Washington Free Beacon. Lax and Goldstein told the DCNF that they were offhandedly informed by the college that they were under investigation for “bullying” and exploiting her “vulnerability as an immigrant,” but have never been given a copy of the charges against them because the college claims they doxxed Shi’s address. 

David Holley, a partner at the global advisory firm Stoneturn and KCC’s investigator into Shi’s complaint, refused to give Lax or Goldstein a copy of the complaint, accusing them of doxxing Shi’s address in an article by the Free Beacon and would only say that Shi had experienced “targeted cyber bullying,” “a case of race and gender discrimination” and that they had exploited her “vulnerability as an immigrant.”

[trixiesol-blog]

[goodeaton]

My comics are on view as part of the Kingsborough Art Museum Faculty Show. Come by and check out the work of my highly talented colleagues-- it's up through Oct. 30th.

[flanaganfilm]

this is pretty silly i guess but i just wanted to know, what song is vic playing in episode 5 when shes trying to drown out the noise of the heart squeezer? its probably my fav episode second only to the finale one!

"Hard on the Heart" by Kingsborough

(See what we did there?)

[sequestered-song-skirmish]

Round 3 Poll 12

Subtle Lies：　「There was a radio station out of a rivaling college and every day they would play the same songs. The same songs, in the same order, coming on at the same time every daily. This song was the only one I enjoyed.」

Untitled：「YES it is a gangpol song. so its not like some artist that just appeared. however this one is from a 2004 album that has a singular online download. and also its really good」

knifework reveals angelic reality：　「A stunningly serene and sparse solo piano piece to incite a tranquil contemplation of one's own life.」

[russianballetny]

🌟 Exciting news! Join our Summer Dance Program at Brighton Ballet Theater in South Brooklyn, New York. Prepare for an unforgettable Summer of Dance, Artistry, & Personal Growth. 🩰💫

[schraubd]

Did You Hear? CUNY Branches Cancel Hillel Yom Ha'atzmaut Events

Two branches of the City University of New York system -- Kingsborough and Baruch -- have apparently canceled Israeli Independence Day events sponsored by local Hillel chapters, citing security risks. In the case of Baruch, administrators reportedly offered alternative venues to the Hillel chapter (which were declined), at Kingsborough, by contrast, the administration reportedly refused to make any arrangements to enable the event to go forward. CUNY is a public university, so this raises the usual First Amendment problems. While every case is different, there are some clear overlaps between this case (in particular, the citation to "security" concerns) and the cancellation of pro-Palestinian speakers and events justified on similar logic (for example, at USC). This, of course, represents a golden opportunity for people to lob dueling hypocrisy charges at one another ("You were aghast when this happened at USC, but I don't hear you complaining now!" "Yeah, well you were apologizing for this when it happened at USC, but you're aghast now!"). I'm sure that will be a grand old time for everyone. I do want to make one note on the relative coverage and penetration of this story compared to other free speech debacles related to Israel and Palestine on campus. I haven't seen this story covered outside of the Jewish press. That doesn't mean it won't be later, and I'm not generally a fan of the "...but you'll never see this reported in the mainstream media!" genre of commentary. In part, that's because I think there's massive selection bias in what we claim is over- or under-covered; in part, it's because I think virtually everyone massively overestimates how many stories break through to mass public consciousness at all. In reality, I think different stories gain traction in different media domains, such that a story which might tear through one sort of social or ideological circle might make barely a ripple in another. That said, in many of the circles I reside in, there is essentially no knowledge that there are any cases of academic censorship of "pro-Israel" voices on campus at all. To be clear, I'm not saying that there are not numerous cases of academic freedom violations targeting pro-Palestinian speakers -- there are a slew of them. But the notion that this is a Palestine exception to academic freedom, rather than something which unfortunately happens in a host of other cases and contexts (including, in the right-slash-wrong environments, to pro-Israel speakers), speaks less to the reality of academic freedom and more to an epistemology of which cases get attention and which don't. There are many academics for whom the Steven Salaitas are known, while the Melissa Landas are not. In other domains and registers, there are different gaps. Ultimately, it's a variant on "they would say it about Jews, they'd say it about other groups too." The claims of injustice are not wrong, but the claims of uniqueness very often are. How many times have we heard variations on "can you imagine if there was a mob of people harassing and making racist remarks towards any other minority group -- how would universities respond to that?" (As we saw at UCLA, the answer apparently is "they'd sit back and let said mob kick the crap out of their targets"). And at the same time, we've also heard plenty of iterations of "if a university dared cancel a pro-Israel event, it'd be on the front-page of every newspaper for the next month" (so far, no headlines). So I'll all say is that, if you're of the bent that there's no meaningful suppression of pro-Israel speech in campus environments, and your informational ecosystem (other than me, I guess) didn't alert you to this cancellation at CUNY, you should consider how the former belief might be correlated with the latter lacuna. Other people might have different gaps, and they should contemplate what generates them as well. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/SaROhQI

[odcd-podcasts-official]

Hey, everyone! It’s Juno with a very, very important question. Everybody sit down.

As 101.7 OUROBOROS is on hiatus before season 3, I’m taking this opportunity to work on a couple other side projects I have. I love them both dearly, but I’m wondering which of them you would be most interested in hearing as a full-fledged show. So, tell me- which of these two shows would you be more likely to listen to?

After being in an accident at the age of 13, a man wakes up from a 7-year coma to find some very important things have changed. For one, his friend involved in the accident with him is now a ghost who only he can talk with. Oh, yeah- and the world is ending. A virus which grants people inhuman strength and the irresistible urge to steal everything you can get your hands on has spread like wildfire across the globe. (Apocalyptic mystery thriller)

A detective and her sidekick live in the town of Kingsborough, New Maryland (don’t ask what happened to the old one), where crime seems to lurk around every corner. When the pair is put on the trail of an elusive ring of art thieves, the leader of the group sends out his best hitwoman to eliminate the detective- but how’s she supposed to do that when her target is the most beautiful woman she’s ever met? She can only “fail” so many times before it starts to get suspicious. (Comedy drama)

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Jeffrey Lax

Many of those murdered by Hamas had their cell phones taken. Hamas videoed the murdered victims with their own phones, and uploaded the videos and images to the victims’ social media pages, for their families and friends to see.

I could go on, and I could share unwatchable videos and photos here, but I will not.

Instead, I will share the vapid message you shared after all of this with our campus community — many of whom have relatives in Israel– about these horrors.

You wrote: “we must only [sic] not continue to pray for peace, but  each of us must act for peace and understanding in ways that will continue to bridge that which threatens to divide us.”

When Jews were the victims of such unimaginable atrocities, that was your message?

I ask that decent people reading this email compare these hollow words to the lengthy other meaningful statements you have previously issued in brutal attacks against other groups.

People can draw their own conclusions.

We can also compare your words with what other presidents at CUNY have said about the recent monstrosities:

Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson stated, “we condemn the violent attack by Hamas on Israel and its diverse peoples.” Hunter President Ann Kirschner stated “we condemn the violent attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel.” BMCC President Anthony Munroe emphatically expressed, “the heinous attack by Hamas on Israel and its people is as horrific as it is heartbreaking.”

There is also some deeply hurtful history here. Some people will be shocked to learn that in May 2021, a Kingsborough student beat an Orthodox Jew with a baseball bat, blocks from our campus. Leaving no doubt about his motivations, the student yelled, “Kill All the Jews! Free Palestine!” while beating his victim.

He was charged with a hate crime. Soon after the attack, Brooklyn College issued a strong statement condemning it.

But President Schrader, you said absolutely nothing about the gruesome attack. For me, an openly observant Jew, that really hurt. One of our own students was responsible for something so horrific against an underrepresented group that has been victimized by all too much horror and violence, and you refused to speak.

[tr1vialove]

tagged by @chlotual to put my playlist on shuffle list the first 10 songs and tag 10 ppl tysm ~ 💗

Drifting - Night Tapes

Talk - Beedadoobee

Primaveral - Mon Laferte

Cardiac Arrest - Bad Suns

Subtle Lies - Kingsborough

Que Chimba De Vida - Karol G

Igual Que Un Angel - Kali Uchis

Bet U Wanna - Sabrina Carpenter

Deceptacon - Le Tigre

Time Flies - Rico Nasty

tagging: @miyayens @trivialoveclub @moonlattae @farasha @flwrkve @heartual @ti3r @fruitmagazine @te1epathy @heartfairy only if you want <3