Occupy Chicago joins Destroy Israel march

(h/tVlad Tepes)

He should have designed a better ending for himself.

I wonder how many of this guy's male students in the next decade will take abuse from any of the women he violated. A real problem within the University is that when these things go down the victims of the abuse recycle the violence on the younger males. How many talented young men will now study in an atmosphere of panic and paranoia... all because this guy couldn't just keep his hands on one woman?

( Atlantic Yards Report) Finally, a media outlet has published an explanation for why Jim Stuckey, Forest City Ratner's former Atlantic Yards point man, and then head of the NYU Schack Real Estate Institute, departed both jobs in a similarly hasty fashion: allegations of sexual harassment.
While a source--I'd bet one connected to Forest City--called Stuckey "very competent" professionally, this might cause some reporters who trusted Stuckey to have some second thoughts about his overall character.
Maybe, for example, the New York Times's Nicholas Confessore and his editors recognize that it might not have been wise, in 2005, to unskeptically convey Stuckey's notorious assertion that "It's Orwellian, almost" to question the company's purported transparency regarding Atlantic Yards.
And it might remind them that Forest City Ratner was involved in some serious damage control, massaged by p.r. fixer Howard Rubenstein, when Stuckey resigned.
The Post's scoop
Today's article, an exclusive, took most of the second page in the New York Post, complete with the ambush photo of the subject looking grim while entering his house. The headline: Designs’ on women send city big packin’.
Well, Stuckey was an unpaid "big," but his position was the fulcrum for the story, and the Post deserves credit for tracking down sources it believed credible to flesh out the longstanding rumors about Stuckey:

The president of the city’s Public Design Commission abruptly quit late yesterday as The Post was preparing to reveal he had been ousted from his day job at NYU because of accusations he had sexually harassed women at the university.
James Stuckey, 57, an appointee of Mayor Bloomberg, held the unpaid post as president of the design commission since 2007, after three years as a member of the commission.

As of today, as the screenshot indicates, Stuckey's bio was still on the Design Commission's web site.
Stuckey's Twitter account, in which he jousted periodically against Atlantic Yards opponents, has since been erased.
Denial, and sources
Stuckey told the Post that he left the city position for health reasons, as stated when he left NYU, though, as commenters at the Real Deal (and a photo) suggested he was fine.
But the Post found sources--could they have been some at Forest City who notoriously clashed with Stuckey?--who piled on:

“This man should not be in a position of public trust and judgment,” said one former ranking city official with deep knowledge of Stuckey’s alleged history of harassing female subordinates. “He’s been doing this a very, very long time. There’s a pattern of this behavior. He’s a very competent guy, technically speaking. But his historical Achilles heel is this stuff.”
The NYU episode echoed Stuckey’s surprise exit four years [from FCR]...
Stuckey was ousted by the company’s CEO, Bruce Ratner, in early 2007 after a series of complaints had been made against him by female employees, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of what happened.
Ratner, sources told The Post, resisted the idea of getting rid of Stuckey until some of his top lieutenants threatened to quit after an ugly incident at a 2006 Christmas party.
According to company sources, Stuckey took all of his subordinates to a club and then called a number of women employees into a private room, where he had them sit on his lap as though he were Santa Claus.

Ratner connections got him a job
How did Stuckey get hired by NYU? Here's where it gets interesting. Bruce Ratner, a member of the Schack Institute’s advisory board, helped him get hired.
But, the Post reported that "company source said 'the reasons for his sudden departure were shared with potential employers, including NYU.'"
I'll bet someone at NYU is checking on whether those reasons were fully shared and if not, why not--and if so, how seriously was the episode assessed.

Two Black American women pick on the wrong McDonalds employee to try and beat up.

(h/t Eye On The World)(New York) Two Black women who abused and attacked a McDonalds employee in Greenwich Village (who offended them by checking a $50 note they handed over,) must have felt really empowered when their victim ran away, Which is why they made the huge mistake of jumping behind the counter in which to beat up on 31 year old Rayon McIntosh. The problem for these two wonderful ladies was that, Ryan wasn't running away in fear, rather he was running away in which to arm himself and when they next faced Ryan, he gave them what for with an Iron bar. Of course being thick as two short planks after he knocked them down and told them to remain down, they didn't listen and Ryan had to physically explain a number of times 'what stay down' means in English. A fractured skull and broken arm later 31 year Ryan has been charged on a felony assault charge and possession of a deadly weapon. The two ladies were also charged on menacing, trespass and disorderly conduct charges.

This apparently is not the first time this location was subject to violence. When I did a Google search for Greenwich Village McDonalds I found this image because there was a recent Gay bashing incident here in March. If I were head of the NYPD I would have more officers at this specific location. It isn't McDonald's fault. Any business in this location would have the same problem. I know it well.i'm lovin' it!

Ackerman Blasts NYU Israel-Divestment Push

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, today issued the following statement blasting the 72 New York University (NYU) faculty members who signed a letter urging the President/CEO of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) to “divest funds from companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.”

“I strongly condemn the ill-conceived and dangerous effort by some of the professors and staff at NYU to instigate divestment from American and Israeli companies by TIAA-CREF. While they have managed to assemble a pastiche of smears and falsehoods against Israel, they have not actually come up with anything resembling a sound rationale for divestment.
The faculty and staff who signed the open letter to TIAA-CREF claim the companies they list are profiting from the so-called ‘occupation of Palestinian territories.’ What they actually seem to be most upset about is that these companies and the goods they produce, enable Israel, the only true liberal democracy in the Middle East and a staunch American ally, to defend itself, protect its citizens and fight back against relentless terrorist assault targeting Israeli civilians.
Strangely, there is not a word of concern in their letter about the many thousands of Israelis who have been murdered or maimed by rockets falling on their homes, bombs going off on their buses or by suicide bombers slipping into restaurants and religious celebrations. Likewise, no word is mentioned about the declared, and often repeated, intent of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and their radical allies to destroy Israel altogether. Should we assume these erudite employees of NYU forgot, omitted or are actually ignorant of this essential fact? Surely these exceptional educators wouldn’t cherry-pick the facts to present only one side of a complex issue.
They also fail to mention the importance of diplomacy to achieve peace between Israel and her neighbors. Despite their claimed attachment to international law, they seem entirely oblivious to the clear mandate for peace to be achieved through direct negotiation between the parties as established by relevant UN Security Council resolutions. Unjustified economic warfare on Israel seems to be much more to their liking than the actual slow and hard work of peacemaking.
Perhaps they would like to see the U.S. government adopt their preferred approach when it comes to the funding of university research? Would they like federal dollars to be ‘divested’ from universities whose research or policy preferences don’t accord with the Administration’s view? Assuredly, they would cry out how unfair such a policy would be; how egregious the injustice of punishing an entire group for the unpopular choices of a few.
Moreover, blinded by their ill-informed and self-righteous rage, these want-to-be divesters also blithely overlook the obvious moral failure inherent in punishing American companies because of the way Israel allegedly used their products. Perhaps Ford, GM and Chrysler should be held accountable if their cars are used for drive-by shootings, or bank heists? Maybe Dell and Apple should be punished too for their products use in activities with which the professors disapprove?
It would take a great deal of education to rationalize such utter nonsense. But somehow, I feel sure this bunch at NYU will manage it.”
TIAA-CREF is a Fortune 100 financial services company that is a leading provider for retirement benefits to those from the academic, research, medicaland cultural fields. Click the following link to see the letter: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZfb1c2T2hoclNucWdsZ19LMUJ4... via docstalk.blogspot.com