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I ran into a colleague today while I was in town. She's set to move to New York City at the end of the month. She's just finished her Master's degree, and is interviewing for some positions there. She told me that another of our peers has just been accepted to NYU. Initially, he was refused, but they reconsidered his application.

In other news, I found one of the earliest gay-themed storylines in Marvel Comics--the infamous gay-rape scene in the Hulk. That's right. The first gay-themed storyline in Marvel Comics featured the attempted rape of Bruce Banner in a YMCA shower. And I'm surprised by the homophobia coming out of Marvel nowadays.