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Burnin set by the Randy Brecker Quintet on campus tonight, to close out the CUNY Jazz Festival, just 🔥 #ccny #cuny #Jazz

Next week at the club having lunch:  Gil (scraggly, flip flops): you can’t afford me Mel: well, what do you need? Gil: my guys get $25 each a night Mel: (does quick math, $300) what about you? Gil: I get twice that, $50
Mel: what if I guarantee $350 a night, plus you get 80% of the door?
Gil plays the next Monday, 3 sets in those days (10p, 11:30p, 1a), makes $1500 with lines down the block, becomes the Monday night from then on. Love it! (3/3) #ccny #cuny #jazz

Mel ran into Gil on the checkout line at the neighborhood grocery store
Mel: Gil Evans?
Gil (scraggly, flip flops): who are you?
Mel: I own a local jazz club, you ever think about playing?
Gil: you can’t afford me.
Mel: why don’t you come for lunch and we’ll talk, figure out what you want.
Gil: (reluctantly agrees)
(2/3) #ccny #cuny #jazz

Great afternoon in the music department, hosting Mel Litoff, former owner of the Sweet Basil Jazz Club, and sponsor of our Sweet Basil Jazz scholarships. Fun personal anecdotes about legends from Art Blakey to Sun Ra, but the best was about securing Gil Evans as the Monday houseband at the club. (1/?) #ccny #cuny #jazz

My student, Carlos Ordaz (whom I co-advise with Jimmy Booth at #CCNY) has had his FIRST paper published. Its about #AtmosphericRiver and #ClimateChange

🎉

Specifically, we looked at what will happen in the future to these storms (and what happened in the past)... and not just the easy answer either (easy= warmer air holds more moisture and thus bigger storms)... dynamics, too.

"Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Atmospheric Rivers: A Modeling Perspective”

https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040074

@jchyip

“The City University of New York bypassed its spending approval process to okay a contract worth up to $4 million with an ex-#NYPD sergeant's private security company that boasts of receiving training in Israel, tagged its announcement of the university deal with "#StopTheSteal" and described the student-led protests as engaged in guerrilla warfare.”

#nyc #StudentProtests

#CCNY / #CUNY voluntarily cut its education budget by an extra 10% to fund ex-cops.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/cuts-to-cuny/

#nypd abused students and other protestors at #columbia and #ccny and around #nyc #StudentProtests

Helpfully Gothamist gives the context that only 20 complaints wrt these #protests compared to 750 during the 2020 George Floyd protests. Not clear the start end dates for this context.

And Hard to know if that’s an improvement without having a guess for the relative number of protestors. (Were 2020 #blm protests 40x larger? Seems possible.)

https://gothamist.com/news/almost-40-nypd-officers-face-misconduct-claims-after-recent-protests-watchdog-group-says

A firsthand account of the encampment in April at the City College of New York.

https://socialistcall.com/2024/05/14/the-gaza-solidarity-encampment-at-ccny/ #gaza #palestine #CCNY #NYC

from #TheIntercept
I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw

#CCNY #DefendStudentProtesters #DivestFromIsraelNow #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #USPolitics #EndUSAidToIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #DontStopSharing
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

Ah yes, cops trampling those pesky first-amendment rights in order to raise a symbol of our freedom.

https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-storms-city-college

#HellgateNYC #CCNY #ACAB #FTP

Then the gates swung open, and NYPD officers stormed into the campus, as other officers pushed the remaining media far away from campus and the arrests. A few minutes later, dozens of arrested students and other protesters began being led out of campus in flex cuffs, to waiting MTA and Corrections buses. The encampment, whose demands included the divestment of CUNY's endowment from companies profiting off of Israel's war on Gaza, was no more.

A few minutes after that, in the center of campus now devoid of students and filled instead with hundreds of police officers, the NYPD's Daughtry raised the American flag, to the cheers of police in riot gear.

tweet from NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry @NYPDDaughtry:

"#HAPPENINGNOW: An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY
in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole. 🇺🇸"

There's also a video showing 3 cops attaching an american flag to the flagpole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeDZktRiIg

#DemocracyNow

#CampusCrackdown: 300+ arrested in raids #ColumbiaUniversity and #CCNY . Taken to 1 police Plaza.

#CameronJones of #JVP (#JewishVoicesForPeace) said it was clear the university and pigs did not want witnesses to #policebrutality. Pigs also pushed medics and legal observers into nearby buildings to prevent them from witnessing #policeviolence and from providing mediacl aid. Onlookers gave Cameron and JVP footage of protesters being pushed , shoved, smoke bomb use, tasers, etc.

#GillianGoodman #journalist said pigs removed all #legalobservers and #journalists They wanted no eyewitnesses.

#NewYorkCity #NYC #HindHall
#SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

#ACABNYC #ACABNYPD #ACAB

ONE FLAW @majorlinux @are0h in their observation is their interpretation of protest and streets.

WHY IS IT EASY FOR #NYPD TO BATTLE RAM A PROTEST AT #COLUMBIA #NYU #CCNY? because they are in situs. they are static and localized.

if there is one thing we need to learn from Puerto Rico’s 2019 Summer of protests; it's that they were happening EVERYWHERE.

police cannot be everywhere.

decentralized, movable, disruption is key. like banging pots, in the middle of the night, across the country.

from #NewYorkTimes [gift article below]
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
Live Updates of #USCampusProtests for #Gaza - April 30

#DefendStudentProtesters #DivestFromIsraelNow #Columbia #CCNY #Brown #PortlandStateU #UCLA #SolidarityWithPalestine #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #EndUSAidToIsrael #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael #Gaza #Israel
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/30/nyregion/columbia-protests-college?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.5Y7y.qgeKhI_2CSEF&smid=url-share

"NYC's Public University Gets a Gaza Solidarity Encampment - Hell Gate"
https://hellgatenyc.com/city-college-gaza-encampment

#NYC #StudentSpring #CUNY #CCNY

Really excellent moment out of CCNY when protesters repelled cops attempting to force their way into their encampment.

📸 TW: @mfsgottenshook

#CCNY #NYC #FreePalestine #StudentSpring

started a #wikipedia article on @uidaho classics professor, translator, writer, Cecelia Anne Eaton Luschnig (1942-2022): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecelia_Eaton_Luschnig @wikiwomeninred #Euripides #UCincinnati #CCNY

Cecelia Anne Eaton Luschnig, from a 2022 obituary; a white woman with short grey hair, photographed outdoors, wearing glasses and a purple shirt

Cover of CAE Luschnig's "An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach" (2nd ed., 2007, with Deborah Mitchell)

Worst part of the new gig: moving offices from the building on the left, beautiful 19th-c Shepard Hall, to the building on the right, the #brutalist North Academic Center. #CCNY #CUNY

19th-century Shepard Hall at City College, CUNY. Winter scene focused on the music library.

Brutalist North Academic Center at City College, CUNY.

It's official. I was talked into deferring my sabbatical, which was supposed to start Friday -- nicely timed with the #MSG #Phish run -- to take on another role at #CCNY. It's a good opportunity, so I agreed a few weeks ago, but right now, on the cusp, it's this familiar bit.

If you dig piano trios, a #CCNY colleague Ray Gallon just released a single, "Acting Up," with CCNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus #RonCarter and Lewis Nash. Full album, Grand Company, coming soon. Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/0RKyVEfr3t8AW6kXWLApiJ?si=frxqu9G-Rw2b-d1azoDELA

#ccny

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