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...Instead of primary protectors of the art, the officers say they see themselves as guardians of visitors’ safety and sources of edifying information. “We’re sort of glorified ushers,” the first guard says...
...Thus the guards themselves—six for the entire Sackler—act as little more than a deterrent to art heist. Their training includes a little self-defense, but the guards interviewed say they could not stop an armed robbery. “Primarily it’s just being here as a presence to discourage theft,” the first guard says. “If they came in with arms, we would let them take it [the targeted piece] and call the authorities...
While not an official medical term, drunkorexia refers to the combination of alcohol abuse and anorexia or bulimia—a medical condition that researchers and therapists say is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially among female college students. (It joins an already absurd eating disorder lexicon that includes words such as “manorexia” and “bigorexia.”) Those afflicted typically starve themselves all day before drinking in order to offset those liquid calories, or dangerously binge and purge food and alcohol...
...despite its familiar premises and rather laughable label, experts say drunkorexia’s growing prevalence—likely caused by emotional stress and societal pressure—needs to be taken seriously. Learn more after the jump...
...foster communal interaction. “How do we share this community with one another in ways that bring us out of ourselves to connect? Physically, we haven’t done enough, but when you see those chairs and the way that people have started using them that says a lot, but we just have to provide the opportunity.”To work on this issue, Faust—the “coolest, baddest, hippest president in town,” according to the performers in “The Donkey Show?...