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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
April 23, 2015 • $1.00 Volume 84 • Number 47
Trustees offer Bharucha, hoping to stop A.G. probe BY ZACH WILLIAMS
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state investigation into the finances of The Cooper Union may cost college President Jamshed Bharucha his job. The school’s board of trustees voted three weeks ago in favor of declining to renew Bharucha’s contract once it expires next year, conditional on Attorney General Eric Schneidermen ending his
probe into the East Village institution, the Wall Street Journal reported on April 9. Whether such a deal will be reached remains to be seen. But board members told the W.S.J. that the offer could smooth negotiations, as well as possibly assist in resolving the ongoing lawsuit challenging the school’s implementation of tuition last fall. BHARUCHA, continued on p. 3
BY JUDITH MAHONEY PASTERNAK
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he legendary Judith Malina, co-founder of the Living Theatre, died April 10 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was 88. Diminutive in stature, immense in her influence,
a passionately committed pacifist and anarchist who respected no rules, but cherished everything and everyone human, Malina spent a lifetime smashing convention and breaking new ground on the world’s stage and in her personal — but never private — life. The theater company she MALINA, continued on p. 10
PHOTO BY MILO HESS
Living Theatre’s renowned Judith Malina is dead at 88 One Earth Day under a groove: Dancers of different generations were sinuously in sync amid the Earth Day events at Union Square on Sunday.
The view from my window BY YVONNE COLLERY
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hen I look out my window, I see what isn’t there. I see an absence of life, a sobering, empty brown dirt plot that screams with recent memories of lives changed and others that were stamped out in an instant. I heard the sound of the explosion when it happened. It was like the soundtrack from a Hieronymus Bosch painting. I heard screams that came after a bang that
you can’t describe. They came bubbling up from the depths of hell amid the sound of thick plate glass shattering at a decibel level that was impossible to comprehend. I also see the streetscape that was ripped from us seemingly in an instant, or as if time seemed to have stood still like an eternity, take your pick. These moments seemed to loop around; an infinity squeezed inside of a mere instant. I see the people that I al-
ways saw standing in front of the buildings who are not there anymore. There’s the lovely smiling face of Moises Locon, who always exchanged a pleasant word with me, “When will it stop snowing?” “Will winter ever end?” When I see the view out my window, which was the last place Moises Locon ever saw, I think of him and all the others. When I look out my winWINDOW, continued on p. 12
Fire benefit births ‘E.V. Show’.........................page 4 Jane St. man, 46, is missing.............................page 8 Rand Paul wants your Bitcoin.........................page 14 Exit Stage Left Studio...................page 19
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