OCTOBER 2, 2017 VOLUME 97, ISSUE #2 pioneer.cooper.edu [email protected] ASTOR PLACE SHAKE SHACK “INSTINCT” TV SHOOT BLOCK PARTY PHOTOS AFTER TUITION FACES OF COOPER VOL. 97 // #2 // PAGE 2 THE PIONEER OCTOBER 2, 2017 SHAKE SHACK AT ASTOR PLACE “INSTINCT” FILMS AT COOPER AFSHIN KHAN (CE ‘19) Shake Shack, in a 15-year lease realm of giving students more agreement with 51 Astor Place, choices. Student employment is will finally be coming to the East a serious possibility as The Bean Editors-in-Chief: Village in “the next few months” has recently shown this year with Matthew Grattan (ChE ‘19) says Sarah Southerland, who is its grand opening. Although de- in charge of guest experience tails are unclear, the possibility of Kavya Udupa (BSE ‘19) and an insights specialist for working at such an establishment Shake Shack. Despite not having part-time may be of particular an official release date, the news importance to current students at of Shake Shack’s arrival will un- The Cooper Union. doubtedly change eating options for students at Cooper Union, However, the news is surprising Director of Photography: NYU, and St. John’s University. considering the fact that sales Last Thursday, the CBS show “In- and commercials that request to Other burger joints near Cooper for Shake Shack’s second-quarter stinct” filmed scenes outside of 41 use the campus as a filming loca- Wentao Zhang (ChE ‘19) Union include Paul’s Da Burger show a decline of 1.8 percent, ac- Cooper Square, it was the second tion. Ostensibly, the rent brings a Joint, Bareburger, and Five Guys. cording to Shake Shack’s financial time the show has filmed there sizable source of revenue to the But Shake Shack is promising to site. This decline begs the ques- since July. The building, designed school. offer an eating experience unri- tion of whether Shake Shack’s ex- by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, valed by the current choices stu- pansion has hurt its sales. In other was as a police precinct; actors in The TV show “Limitless” also dents have, given Shake Shack’s words, has Shake Shack opened police uniforms congregated out- filmed an episode in 41 Cooper Photographers: high-end interior finishes. too many stores that undercut side along with mock police cars. Square; the building served as a other Shake Shack stores’ poten- science laboratory. Over the sum- Scarlett Chen (Arch ‘22) Previously occupied by Ian tial sales? At least in the case of Because of its unique architec- mer, IBM Watson filmed a com- Lydia Li (ME ‘21) Schrager Co.’s sales office, the 51 Astor Place, the answer to this ture, 41 Cooper Square seems to mercial in room 705. The com- space boasts 3,000 square feet of question is no. The nearest Shake be an attractive filming location. mercial featured a robotic arm Zheng Alex Liu (ChE ‘20) Manhattan real estate. As part of Shack currently is in Madison “We usually try to accommodate controlled by Cooper lab techni- Yifei Simon Shao (ME ‘19) Shake Shack’s lease agreement, Square Park, 15 streets, 1 mile, or them,” said Christine Sarkissian, cian, Doug Thornhill. ◊ potential competitors are ex- 20 minutes from Cooper Union; a manager of rental programs at cluded from leasing the building distance which, for Manhattan, is Cooper, referring to the TV shows so long as Shake Shack occupies insurmountable. it—something not uncommon in the competitive world of food es- As for student discounts, de- tablishments and eateries. South- tails are sparse, but if other Front Cover: erland stated how “Opening new Shake Shacks are any indicator, Alfred Dudley III (Art ‘18) Shacks are complex projects.” there may not be any. However, Given the recent closure of Mc- at roughly $6 a burger, and $6 a Donald’s after a 20 year run, it is shake, the prices rival those of hard to say that Shake Shack’s ar- Chipotle, and Starbucks. In con- rival has not already changed the junction with The Bean at Cooper, food dynamic for Astor Place. it seems as if 2017 will be a good Writers: year for diversifying food portfoli- Shake Shack’s arrival brings with os and deciding where to eat after Miles Barber (CE ‘18) it another implication outside the classes. ◊ Joseph Bentivegna (EE ‘19) Evan Bubniak (ME ‘21) Amal Bukhari (ME ‘21) ARCHITECTURE STUDIO RENOVATION Brian Frost (EE ‘19) KAVYA UDUPA (BSE ‘19) This past summer the School of the computer studio, on the the students. Now, there are Gabriela Godlewski (CE ‘19) Architecture renovated the com- fourth floor of the Foundation rooms dedicated solely to Isabel Jerome (Art ‘21) puter lab, formally known as the Building. Said lab would be a plotters, laser cutters, 3D Paul Laux Digital Architecture fabrication laboratory, popularly printers, and a CNC machine. Pranav Joneja (ME ‘18) Studio, on the seventh floor of known as a “fab lab,” and would A new 3D printer was bought the Foundation Building. The ren- be adjacent to the already existing to aid the masters’ students Afshin Khan (CE ‘19) ovations were spurred by a $2 mil- wood shops. Rather than making in producing models of their Olivia Heuiyoung Park (ME ‘20) lion donation given to the school massive structural changes there, work. C2 Studio, a startup in about ten years ago. The donor the seventh-floor studio would be Brooklyn, donated a 4-foot Isabella Pestovski (ME ‘19) gave the money with the hopes expanded instead. by 8-foot CNC machine. The Brandon Quinere (CE ‘19) that it would “have a significant founders are Cooper alumni transformation for the School of Few structural changes were who bought the CNC ma- Yuqiao Wang (ChE ‘19) Architecture.” made—only two walls were put chine when they were in their Morgan Wolfe (ME ‘19) up and two openings were cre- thesis year to help spearhead Originally, there was talk of cre- ated. The lab was expanded to the launch of their company. ation of a new lab, separate from include additional machines for The two head monitors of the lab are students Kevin Savil- lon (Arch ’19) and Katherine 715 Sullivan (Arch ’18,) and both were 714 heavily involved in these renova- The Pioneer is printed on tions. They oversaw everything 713 packing paper with soy-based from creating excel files of po- ink by Victoria Sobel (Art ‘13), 712 tential machinery and planning Jacob Jackmauh (Art ‘18) and the electric wiring of the labs to others on their risograph in the demolition and addition of Brooklyn. walls. Kevin mentioned that when the walls were being removed, he could see the original bricks of the Foundation Building, seen to the right. Questions? Concerns? Email The Pioneer at The lab is open to all three schools [email protected] and the hours match building Top photos by Scarlett Chen (Arch or visit LL217. hours, the only difference being ‘21). Bottom photo by Kevin Savil- that the lab opens at 9 a.m. rath- lon (Arch ‘19). Before these renovations, room 714 was the architecture library and room er than 7:30 a.m. Over forty stu- 715 was an unused classroom. The computer studios were rooms 712 and dents have been hired from all The Pioneer reached out to As- 713. The library was moved to room 712 and the unused classroom was three schools so that any student sistant Dean O’Donnell in regards moved to room 312 which used to be a thesis room. The new studio is now can get anything machined at any to the renovations to which no re- from rooms 713 to 715, a detailed floor plan can be seen above. hour. ◊ sponse was received. VOL. 97 // #2 // PAGE 3 THE PIONEER OCTOBER 2, 2017 FACES OF COOPER: DOUG THORNHILL PRANAV JONEJA (ME ‘18) Doug is the lab manager for the mechanical out. So, I made my own glasses using the engineering labs on the seventh floor of the laser cutter here at Cooper. I got some solar NAB. His role involves helping students with film, which I had from my days as an as- the more practical side of their courses, like tronomer, and mounted it between a cou- fabricating things for ME-211 Design & Pro- ple of layers of birch plywood I lasercut. I totyping and assisting lab work for ME-352 attached this to a pair of binoculars and it Process Control. worked very well. Our friends got togeth- er in Central Park and we made playlists When did you move to New York City? with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and had How did you join Cooper Union? space-themed food like my wife’s home- made moon pie. My friends and I like to do I first came to New York to join my fiancée themed stuff for our get-togethers. (and now wife), who moved here to get her Master’s degree in theology and the arts. How did you start working on astrono- my and satellites? My first job when I moved here was for a NASA project. I built a robot that tests glass Well, it was a long road. It actually took me to be used in a scientific satellite that’s still 15 years to finish my undergraduate de- operational in orbit today. Thornhill stands in front of a robotic arm in room 705. Over the summer, he controlled the arm gree, but I finally got my Bachelor’s degree for an IBM Watson commercial filmed in the lab. in Astrophysics from Columbia University While I’ve lived here, I’ve also worked vari- in 2013.