Mike Phillips, a friend and the former President of the NYU College Democrats has a fabulous piece on the recent frenzy of bias accusations in media and academia.

In other news: tonight the fabulous NYU Drama Department (where I am a student) hosted the inaugural event of its series "DramaTalk." It will bring in successful theater artists to discuss their careers--- but without the harsh glare of Bravo cameras and the perpetual drool of James Lipton's mouth.

Tonight belonged to Michael Mayer, a graduate of NYU and a director whose recent Broadway credits include 'night, Mother, After the Fall, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A View From the Bridge. He also just saw the release of his first movie, A Home at the End of the Word.

Though a little too caught up in the glaring light of Corporate Broadway (the venues where his work has been staged are telling: the AOL Time Warner Center, the American Airlines Theater) and a bit stale in his political analysis ("I've never felt as 'Jew in Austria' as I do this week"), he had some good points about working with actors and always finding new aspects of life to convey.

Most important thing he said: when you create, really show up.