http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/ Engadget Comments for NYU warning students not to use iPod headphones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/My two cents]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/
I still say the people that come up with this stuff must not have ever even been to New York. You can't throw a rock in this city without hitting someone wearing white headphones.

I don't go to NYU now, but when I did 10 or so years ago they did not even allow flyers throughout the dorms. Each dorm had a bulletin board near the front desk but there were no flyers allowed throughout the building. So maybe some scared kid stuck up a flyer on a bulletin board in one of the dorms and now it's getting all blown out of proportion; people stick up all sorts of things on those bulletin boards.

Things may have changed since then but you've already got what sounds like a pretty definitive statement from a current student, and as a New York resident and former NYU student myself, it's another story that just sounds too ridiculous to believe.
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this seems a silly statement to me...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/
That's the real problem -- people are tuning in the music and tuning out the rest of the world. It would be better for NYU to provide more general advice on how to avoid being mugged than to tell students to swap out their white Apple earphones for nondescript ones.
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NYU does provide such advice. They give you a handout when you first arrive at school (as part of an orientation package) explaining basic common sense things about city life, including how not to get mugged. They do also provide more specific info, and honestly some of it *is* kind of ridiculous - I remember they had a map in my dorm about "areas to avoid", with the bad areas shaded in red. Well, the red areas were so totally arbitrary and haphazard as to be basically meaningless - for example, they'd shade in 100 feet of one street on the map, then not shade the next 70 feet, then they'd shade in the 80 feet after that, etc. And the shaded streets would often just be normal streets that regular people live on anyway (some of them even housed NYU buildings!). I mean, it *almost* makes me believe this iPod thing could be true... but not quite.

Honestly, I could see if, as part of their standard handout of general tips, one of the bullet points was "swap out your white headphones for black ones". That doesn't seem unreasonable. But to plaster big warning flyers specifically about iPods all over the dorms? No way.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/
As for #13, that's kind of a sucker's bet, isn't it? I mean, NYC is the single larges city in America, nearly triple that of, say, Los Angeles. Sure, it's much safer per capita than folks think...but with upwards of 8.5 million residents, you get a lot of total incidents. I suppose it's all on how you define a 'large city'. It's not a misrepresentation that NYC has a lot of crime...just a misinterpetation that the average citizen seems as much as TV might make you think.

hell, I work in Philadelphia (across the river from America's most dangerous city, Camden) and the average person polled figured the crime rate was 32% of the citizens had experienced some form of violent crime...when the actual rate was 3.2%. :)

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Can't something be made for iPod and not be white? Sheesh, apple is facinated with white, they even made the inside of the ibooks all white when they used to have the aluminum palm rests. I'm glad my G5 is aluminum. I'd have to sandblast the stupid thing if it was white.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/07/nyu-warning-students-not-to-use-ipod-headphones/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AM