A rally against the N.Y.U. expansion plan, but this time it's students and faculty holding the signs

"This is a moment of historical importance," said N.Y.U. professor of media, culture, and communications Mark Crispin Miller at yesterday's rally. He described a 50-year history of neighborhood protests against N.Y.U. expansion plans.

"Never before has the faculty stood with the community," he said. "We're standing with the community now."

Miller is helping to lead a new group that calls itself the NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, or NYUFASP, which was one group involved in organizing the rally. (The "Sexton Plan" is a nickname for NYU 2031, which comes from the name of its foremost proponent, university president John Sexton.) More

By Nancy Scola

February 22, 2012 3:18 pm