College Students Demand Their Tuition Back From NYU, The Dean Replies With: A) Yes B) No C) A Video Of Herself Dancing To Losing My Religion By The Alternative Rock Band R.E.M.
The answer was C, a video of herself dancing to Losing My Religion by the alternative rock band R.E.M.
Students at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts want some of their tuition money back because they say virtual classes aren't what they paid for — but instead of addressing the situation, the school's dean sent them a video of herself dancing to REM's "Losing My Religion." (NBC)
Gal Gadot: I have the most tone deaf Coronavirus video the internet will ever see.
The Dean of NYU Tisch: Hold my watercolors and easel.
I know what you're wondering, maybe you're afraid to ask, maybe you're just plain shy:
...Why?
Why is that her in the corner? Why is that her in the spot
light
losing her religion?
Let me break the situation down for you real quick:
NYU Tisch (that's the art school, or, excuse me, "the school of the arts") students demanded their tuition back — I know, I know: I had that knee jerk reaction too. We've seen college kids become The Whiniest Generation for a while now, from blocking traffic to constant sit-ins over cafeteria food or who the vending machine operators source their snacks from — I've been blogging it since I was just a little boy, so nobody knows better than me, along with you guys who have been here. But just so you have all the facts:
1. Tuition at Tisch is just shy of 60,000 DOLLARS. $58,552. And you know damn well there are a hell of a lot more fees on top of that.
2. Tisch is an art school. Might work for calc, but not that helpful to have an online class in art. So yeah...I mean, they are basically just paying the insane college fees without even getting the "college" part.
3. ($60K for art school lol.)
After a few emails back and forth, Dean Allyson Green replied with an email "in which she explained that she doesn't have the authority to refund tuition and that it's "challenging" for the school to give students their money back right now."
Attached to that email?
Oh yeah. Yeahhhh buddy. You know what it is.
Oh, and one thing the MAINSTREAM MEDIA won't show you while they try to villainize this poor old lady — she invited them!! All the students were invited to join!!
Credit to this brave young man who really hates another website for shining a light on this important fact. And it did not go unnoticed that nobody danced along with her. But there is even more:
The Dean didn't just send the dope dance video, she has a VERY solid explanation for it. For all you haters who thought this was some amateur hitting the dance floor at a wedding after 4 glasses of white wine?
Think again fuckers.
"The focus of my career as a performer, choreographer, and dance educator, and my most authentic mode of expression, has always been dance. In the video, I shared the song with which I have welcomed first-year students to the Tisch School of the Arts for the past eight years. It is a piece that -- as I explained in the accompanying email -- speaks to frustration and disappointment, and that helped see me through the loss of 30 friends to AIDS -- another difficult period for artists.
What I meant to demonstrate is my certainty that even with the unprecedented hardships of social distancing and remotely-held classes, it is still possible for the Tisch community to make art together, and that all the artists in our school will find ways to remain closely connected even as circumstances challenge us. I regret it if my email left the reasons for my dancing misunderstood -- although I will note that I have also received many positive acknowledgments -- but its intent was surely neither frivolous or disrespectful."
Oh my god. Killshot. Fucking headshot straight to the dome of the haters. Hey you little college turds: do you feel good now? Are you proud of yourselves? Dean Green lost 30 friends to AIDS. Thirty. 3-0. You probably didn't even CONSIDER how many friends Dean Green lost to AIDS while writing your mean little Twitter tweets. While you were turning your face into a dog on Snapchat Dean Green has been out here making art, persevering even as she was pulled away to 30 funerals for friends who had died from AIDS.
And also, just as important: hate to break it to you guys but ummmm…you're students. I know you're all anti "the rules" and "the status quo" and "order" but there's still a power structure whether you like it or not. Dean Green is at the top of the food chain. You learn from Dean Green, she doesn't learn from you. If Dean Green —yes THE Dean Green with a long illustrious career as a professional performer, choreographer, dance educator…and THIRTY FRIENDS WHO DIED FROM AIDS — if she says this dance is good then guess what? You clap your hands and sing along.
Welcome to the real world. Better learn it now. Out here we can't WAIT til you cocky little anarchist shitheads get here and see just how many times your boss at the hedge fund or corporate office will come into your office and dance all over your fucking desk while you sit there and watch like the little newly hired bitch that you are.
Dean Green:
KILL EM!!!
PS,
I read an article earlier this morning about this: about that weird feeling you have (I won't speak for anyone but myself but I bet a lot of you will relate), where you're not exactly scared of the virus — I mean, you don't WANT it, but you're not living in constant fear of it — but you still have this uneasiness you can't really explain. The author said this is most likely "anticipatory grief": you are literally grieving the loss of normalcy like you would grieve a death. You have no idea what the future holds and there is so much uncertainty. "With a virus, this kind of grief is so confusing for people. Our primitive mind knows something bad is happening, but you can’t see it. This breaks our sense of safety." Spot on, for me at least.
Point is that was all I could think about reading this story. This kind of thing is what I'm so anxious about. A story like this that's never really existed before and is about to start existing a LOT. Stuff that we've never even had to consider — kids are paying a shit ton, schools can't financially just hand everything back, and it's nobody's fault. It's a pandemic. So, yeah, obviously I side with the students because colleges are pieces of shit for what they charge you. But which one of these wins out in like a legal sense, in a court?
Maybe I'll get the virus, be writhing in pain in my own sweat for a week feeling like Glenny is sitting on an anvil on my chest, and then I'll start to recover. That might happen, but this is definitely happening — the world we go back to when we're let out of our cages isn't going to be the same thing anymore. Not even close, and probably for a very long time. Almost everything in our daily lives is going to be different, either in a huge way or a really small way, but in some way. And I don't like change. It's not for me. Change = anxiety. Change caused by a virus nobody can seem to give any straight answers on, we could get at any time, that is killing people (yes, even young people are dying down - healthy young people) and is leaving 3+ million unemployed already while annihilating the stock market? It's like I need to ask my psychiatrist to invent a new word that's stronger than anxiety.
Why'd I write a PS longer than a blog and why did I write so much in general about this bitch? I hate myself.