Mark Pine

Tag: The City University of New York

  • Email to the stellar Baruch College Dean on April 15, 2023.

    Greetings Dean, 

    Thank you for the response. 

    I prefer to contact you about positive things happening at Baruch College. 

    I was minding my own business when the maintenance person approached me:

    Once at the end of the hallway. 

    Once at the ledge. 

    If I see the maintenance team cleaning, I move out of the way or go to another floor. 

    Anytime a Baruch College maintenance person or security person approaches me in the hallway, I click the audio record button on my phone so there is never any confusion about how polite and respectful I am to all your staff. 

    Treating everyone at Baruch College CUNY politely and respectfully is rule number 1,2, and 3—in my opinion. 

    I always avoid confrontation and drama. 

    That’s why I’m 46, living in the street homeless for my entire 40’s, and don’t have a criminal record.

    My goal is to make you and everyone else here proud of me one day and have a positive impact on CUNY and NYC. 

    I’m here to treat your staff, students, and professors with the utmost respect at all times regardless of how they treat me. 

    This week I just interviewed a few people for a journalism project that work at BIDs, Community Boards, Baruch College, etc. 

    I’m very happy for the opportunity, experience, and information I’m learning. 

    I feel like I’m working diligently, doing the right thing, and doors are about to open. 

    The first person I ever worked with in the city always told me to cover myself and that’s what I’m doing. 

    I was working on schoolwork all Spring Break. 

    I’m about 90% done with all my schoolwork for the semester. 

    There are students at all colleges that come back from Spring Break, get slammed with schoolwork, and are playing catch up until the end of the semester. 

    I don’t take a break. 

    I turn in homework that isn’t due for weeks. 

    This way when school starts it’s like I never left. 

    I completed approximately 30 hours of homework and studying or more without any pressure of due dates that a percentage of students won’t even touch until after Spring Break. 

    It’s not a competition. 

    I credit my experience providing web marketing services for companies to my success strategies at Baruch College. 

    The information I’m learning at Baruch College is excellent. 

    It’s clear why so many people thrive after graduation. 

    Please let me know if you require any additional information from me. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: Update about my experience at The City University of New York 4/3/2023.

    Greetings,

    The semester, Spring 2023, has one month left after Spring Break. 

    I’m done with the majority of my work for all my classes. 

    I’m going to get as much work as possible done during Spring Break too. 

    I was providing web marketing services for people, minding my own business. 

    People I know paid law enforcement and still pay them to chase away my clients and try to take everything from me. 

    That’s why I went to college at 46 years old. 

    I have been living in the street homeless for 7 years with law enforcement harassing me. 

    I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. I don’t have a criminal record. I don’t date. 

    NYC law enforcement runs one scam after the next on me at Baruch College. 

    It’s daily abuse. 

    I just keep my mouth closed. 

    I take the abuse at Baruch College and just play along. 

    It’s what I’ve been doing for the past 3 years. 

    I don’t care if someone from Baruch College, student, staff, professor, etc. pours a can of paint on my head, throws all my belongings out the window, etc., I can care less. 

    I’m less than 10 classes away from graduation. 

    My GPA this semester is going to be between 2.1 and up. 

    I don’t care what my GPA is. 

    It’s a miracle that I’m able to go to school without any money. 

    Law enforcement has Baruch College staff, professors, and students running one scam after the next on me at Baruch College. 

    I just play along.

    I’m polite and respectful to everyone. 

    When Baruch College students harass me I just ignore them. 

    When Baruch College staff and professors run scams on me I just respond respectfully and politely. 

    I don’t blame anyone for running scams on me on behalf of law enforcement. 

    It can’t be denied that I’m 1 degree of separation away from many powerful members of law enforcement in New York and other states. 

    I’m making the best of it. 

    I don’t care what happens or how disrespectfully I’m treated at Baruch College, I’m just going to continue to take the abuse and graduate. 

    Law enforcement sends one person after the next to try and pick fights with me at Baruch College and everywhere else I go. 

    Law enforcement also sends me ridiculous emails from people at Baruch College trying to pick fights with me. 

    I just play along and respond politely and respectfully. 

    Law enforcement had a few Baruch College female students try and seduce me or hook up with me at Baruch College and outside Baruch College. 

    I just ignored them.

    The only option I have is to ignore all the scams NYC law enforcement keeps sending at me. 

    That’s what I’ve been doing and that’s what I will continue to do. 

    I never mention a word about law enforcement or anything of this nature to anyone at Baruch College. 

    If it wasn’t for the New York Courts — law enforcement would have had me tossed out of Baruch College. 

    The only reason I’m still able to get an education at The City University of New York is thanks to the New York Courts. 

    CUNY is great just not when law enforcement is running around behind the scenes running their usual tricks and scams. 

    Law enforcement also runs the same scams on me at HRA and other government agencies too. 

    I still treat everyone at HRA with the utmost respect at all times. They saved my life. 

    I would have starved to death if it wasn’t for HRA. 

    Thank you and have a great day.

    Mark Pine

  • Opinion: Email to Baruch College about the police harassing me. June 11, 2022.

    Greetings Baruch College,

    I have the best schedule for Summer 1, Summer 2, and Fall 2022. I love all my classes. 

    I just wanted to reiterate that I’m not mentioning a word about the police harassing me every day including today to anyone at Baruch College besides occasionally you here via email. You told me that is the protocol and I’m following it as always. 

    I just wanted to thank you again if you helped me with X class. I’m not sure who helped me. It could have been either you or the Department Chair or both. All I know is that after I contacted you both things in that class became very normal. 

    I just had two court cases that involved the NYPD. I’m about to have one more. 

    The police are harassing me every day as they have been since before I started at LaGuardia Community College. 

    I dealt with it then and I’m dealing with it now. 

    I don’t have any desire to discuss the police harassing me every day in any of my classes. 

    I don’t have any desire to discuss the police harassing me or anything negative at all with any of my professors. 

    In my humble opinion, I just exposed the police twice in two court cases worse than they could ever imagine. The third case is already moving forward and this is going to be the best one. 

    The police know that a lot of people are starting to find out that they are harassing me every day and it’s only a matter of time before I get some help. 

    Me “winning” includes succeeding at Baruch College. 

    I have never had any desire to discuss the police harassing me with anyone at Baruch College. 

    I don’t care if the police attack me again on my way to Baruch College, I have never and will never mention a word about the police harassing me to anyone at Baruch College. 

    I’m reaching thousands of people on social media and the web trying to get help. 

    I’m focused on trying to expose the police harassing me in court and on social media where I can ultimately reach millions of people. 

    I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party. I don’t date. I don’t hang around bars or clubs. I live squeaky clean. 

    The police arrested me once and I won the case. In my opinion, they aren’t going to keep arresting me and having me win cases against them. I’m not a lawyer so who knows.

    The NYPD’s strategy with me now is to get me kicked out of places I go in the city. For example, HRA, supermarkets, gym, Baruch College, etc. 

    That is why I’m walking on eggshells, tip-toeing around making sure I follow all rules everywhere I go. 

    I know if I continue to take the daily abuse from the police and stay on the course I’m on, eventually, I’ll get my life back. 

    All I need from Baruch College is an education. There is nothing anyone at Baruch College can do to help me with the police harassing me. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: Email to Baruch College about my email signature. June 3, 2022.

    Greetings Baruch College,

    I’m going to revert back to my old email signature after this email until I hear back from you.

    In a perfect world I would like for the below email signature to be my email signature. More importantly I don’t want to end up on probation or in trouble again so if the below email signature isn’t allowed, of course I’ll follow your instructions as always.

    I’m coming very close to having an official lawsuit filed against the NYPD and they aren’t very happy about it. The police have been harassing me every day as usual. That is why I’m trying to cover myself every way possible because they are trying to take everything from me including Baruch College.

    The NYPD made me homeless and now they want the rest. For example, me out of Baruch College, my laptops gone, my phone gone, etc. Exactly how I had absolutely nothing when I started at LaGuarida Community College.

    Please advise.

    Thank you and have a great day.

    Mark Pine

    450 Lexington Ave #1375

    New York, NY 10163

    CUNY Student Number #

    The following is for the courts and law enforcement. I never mention any of this in school.

    I always treat everyone at Baruch College with the utmost respect at all times. That includes staff, professors, security guards, and students. Treating people respectfully is more important than anything.

    I never participate in controversial conversations at Baruch College out of respect for people’s feelings.

    I have been living in the street homeless for five years so it’s a miracle I’m able to attend college. Not a homeless shelter, the street.

    People I know sabotaged my web marketing business, made me homeless, and have been harassing me every day since before I started at LaGuardia Community College. They have me living on the defense so I’m literally scared to open my mouth at Baruch College. Their favorite scams are to say Mark Pine is rude, Mark Pine is cursing everyone out, and Mark Pine is stalking all the women.

    I don’t have a criminal record at 45. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party.

    In my spare time I’m trying to promote myself on the Internet. I’m also trying to raise money from accredited investors to launch several startups.

    Due to the situation with people I know harassing me every day, I keep to myself at Baruch College in regard to students. If there is a class project I treat the students with the utmost respect. Besides that I don’t socialize with students at all.

    I always treat the Baruch College staff and professors with the utmost respect at all times. I don’t care if someone at Baruch College pours a can of paint on my head, I will never say a disrespectful word to anyone at Baruch College.

    I have had several students at Baruch College harass me and try to pick fights with me. I just take the abuse, ignore them and walk away.

    My goals in life are to have a positive impact on the world and be successful.

    Being street homeless isn’t the best situation but thanks to Baruch College and HRA I have laptops, phones, etc., and that makes it a lot more fun to be homeless.

    I can be homeless, on welfare, sleeping in a chair on the subway and I’m still cold calling hedge funds in my spare time trying to raise money for my startups. That is the CUNY spirit in my humble opinion. Take what you have and make something of it. No excuses, no complaints, just make it happen.

  • Opinion: email to Baruch College about the security guards. May 28, 2022.

    Greetings Baruch College, 

    First and foremost, I always treat everyone at Baruch College with the utmost respect regardless of how they treat me. Believe me, it’s been a rough ride at times, and I always ignore people or just act polite when people treat me poorly. 

    Anytime someone treats me negatively I just assume that NYC law enforcement is telling the person to act that way. 

    NYC law enforcement runs scams and harasses me all day long. It’s 10 AM and so far today I’ve called the FBI and NYPD 911 dozens of times because NYC law enforcement has been harassing me since early this morning. 

    This morning I was just telling the FBI that I don’t believe they are going to help me, I’m just calling to cover myself. 

    For example, one of the best scams that NYC law enforcement runs is paying young women to crash into me and shove their phones in my face. There is no way a normal New Yorker or juror is going to believe their tax dollars are being spent that way. 

    That is why if any claim is ever made against me by a woman or man I can show my phone records with thousands of calls to the FBI, NYPD 911, US Attorney Southern District, Manhattan DA, etc. 

    Why would I make those calls if I was doing anything illegal? 

    I paid my phone bill a year in advance just in case thanks to Baruch College. 

    If a person makes those types of calls they can be subject to arrest. For example, I was arrested for calling the police in Nassau County to report I was being harassed and I had the charges lowered to a violation. The Nassau County Police and District Attorney still put me through hell. 

    In my opinion, I could have easily ended up in jail if I would have left it up to the public defender. 

    I was just having a polite and respectful conversation with the Baruch College security person at the front desk of the building on East 24 Street (vertical building). 

    May 28, 2022, at 9:45 AM. 

    The security guard was acting a little strange. 

    We were having a conversation and the person was staring in another direction, not at me. 

    I asked if the turnstiles were still malfunctioning, and the security guard said yes. Then I was told the vertical building is closed today. 

    I asked when it would be reopening. 

    The person said would you like to speak to someone else? 

    I said why would I want to speak with someone else? 

    It’s no big deal, it was just a little strange. 

    I’m used to people acting this way around me because as I said people I grew up with pay NYC law enforcement to harass me every day. NYC law enforcement run around to several places I go and tell people to run scams on me and treat me like garbage. I’m used to it. 

    I just take the abuse and treat people respectfully. 

    I will continue to treat everyone at Baruch College with the utmost respect regardless of what curveballs anyone continues to throw at me. 

    In my spare time I’m trying to promote myself on social media to open up doors for my career. I’m not making excuses and I’m going to make it happen. 

    One annoying thing is that NYC law enforcement has people in plain clothes follow me around and play music in the background to ruin my videos. It’s been proven that law enforcement uses music to sabotage videos.

    I’m also going to try and promote myself in other ways to try and open up doors so I can elevate my life and get off the street. 

    I have a good attitude, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t party so I have that going for me. 

    Also, I’m reaching out to various organizations, cold calling hedge funds for money, etc. 

    Baruch College CUNY is the best opportunity ever. I just need to do my part, elevate my situation and make the Baruch College family proud knowing they helped a homeless person that was being tortured by the police into an apartment. 

    I never mention a word about the police under any circumstances to anyone at Baruch College besides you via email.

    I have a lawsuit moving forward against the NYPD and I’m about to sue the FBI next for not helping me.

    People are paying the police to harass me. NYPD Internal Affairs aren’t helping me at all. In my opinion, the FBI should be helping me. It will be up to the judge to decide. I’m going to try to sue the FBI in Federal and State court. 

    Thank you and your team again for everything. 

    I understand that life isn’t perfect. 

    Baruch College is running a tight ship here. The professors are amazing. I’m actually enjoying the information I’m learning. I’m trying to figure out ways to monetize the knowledge. 

    I’m focusing on the positive and opportunities and not letting the police kill my spirit. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: Email to the New York State Office of Higher Education about New York City law enforcement viciously harassing me inside Baruch College.

    Greetings New York State Office of Higher Education,

    New York City law enforcement had three women try to crash into me and harass me at Baruch College today May 7, 2022. 

    I emailed you the exact locations inside Baruch College, times, and dates earlier. 

    I left school and New York City law enforcement had their plain clothes team follow me right over to where I’m at without a care in the world about being caught. 

    I have an open lawsuit against The City University of New York right now: Mark Pine Vs The City University of New York. New York City law enforcement can care less.

    New York City law enforcement has zero oversight and when it comes to harassing me they don’t care what evidence they leave in their wake. 

    For example, I just posted videos to social media showing that New York City law enforcement has blocked my phone from calling NYPD 911. 

    The US Attorney Southern District blocked my phone number. 

    The NYPD blocked my phone number from calling all the precincts and NYPD Headquarters. 

    The New York FBI blocked my phone number. 

    The Albany FBI blocked my phone number. 

    Now NYPD 911 blocked my phone number. I’m not sure if the NYPD 911 is a permanent block or a temporary block while they are viciously harassing me in clear view of security cameras. Today isn’t the first time that New York City law enforcement has blocked me from calling NYPD 911. 

    I posted a video on YouTube and Twitter showing that my phone can call any number right now except NYPD 911. 

    When New York City law enforcement has their plain clothes team harass me like they are doing right this minute, I’ll call NYPD 911 so there is a record of the time, day, date, location, of where I’m being harassed. 

    I usually call NYPD 911 anywhere from dozens to hundreds of times per day off Baruch College campus, never in Baruch College.

    In total, I’ve called NYPD 911 more than 20,000 times easily if I had to guess because NYC law enforcement has been harassing me every day for years. The NYPD 911 operators tease me and harass me on the phone. 

    In addition to NYPD 911 I call all 50 states FBI field offices and press the extension for a live bank robbery or kidnapping. 

    I have reported New York City law enforcement to the FBI field offices thousands of times. Lately, I call the FBI field offices dozens to hundreds of times per day when I’m outside of school and New York City law enforcement has their plain clothes team harassing me for hours on end.  

    So far the only FBI field offices to block my number are the New York City FBI and the Albany FBI. There might be a few others I’m not sure. The FBI hangs up on me a lot. 

    Right now I’m minding my own business trying to study and New York City law enforcement has their plainclothes team viciously harassing me in clear view of public and private security cameras. New York City law enforcement can care less. 

    New York City law enforcement just figures there is no way I’ll ever get the security video to prove that New York City law enforcement has people that work for them in plain clothes viciously harassing me every day. 

    I’m not mentioning a word about this to anyone at Baruch College.

    Every single day when New York City law enforcement has women and men, students and staff, harassing me at Baruch College, shoving their phones in my face, teasing me, blocking me from walking, and crashing into me I just ignore it and walk away. 

    Please let me know if you have any advice for me. 

    I don’t have a criminal record at all. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party. 

    New York City law enforcement ran me into the ground and now they tease, rob, and harass me all day every day because people I know pay them to do it. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: A few Baruch College security guards running scams on me. 4/1/2022.

    Greetings Baruch College, 

    First and foremost, I always treat everyone at Baruch College and CUNY with the utmost respect regardless of how they treat me and it’s not always nice. 

    I just showed up at the library building a few minutes after 7 AM. The doors to the library were locked. 

    I don’t usually visit this building, so I don’t know my way around it. 

    I walked down the steps and towards to turnstiles to see if I could get to the library by the elevator. 

    Two security guards purposely tried to bump into me right in front of the turnstiles. I didn’t say a word. 

    Then another security guard tried to go through the turnstile at the same time as me, behind me, without respecting my space at all when the building is 99.9 percent empty. I’m not sure if there is a security camera there or not. 

    I would not have even been in this building if the printer in the vertical building wasn’t broken for the past week. 

    I did not say a word to any of the security guards about it. I can care less. 

    I have a feeling I know what this is about but I’m not going to speculate in this email. 

    I don’t know if there is a security video of what just happened or not.

    I’m used to this kind of thing. People I know are still paying various law enforcement to harass me every day. 

    I never mention a word about the NYPD to anyone at Baruch College or CUNY besides you. 

    I don’t like complaining to you but I have to cover myself when there is probably security video with me surrounded by a bunch of security guards like I just robbed a bank. 

    One more quick thing. 

    Yesterday I was visiting some professors during office hours. Another coincidence. 

    One of the professors who I used an email from the professor in my ongoing lawsuit against CUNY in the New York Court of Claims was standing between the exit and me. 

    I politely said hi and that was it. 

    I’m not sure if someone thinks I’m mad at the professor, I’m not. The professor did me a favor. In my humble opinion, the professor proved my case with the email. 

    Even if I was unhappy with the professor, I wouldn’t say a word. I have worked a million hours to become a Journalsim Major at Baruch College.

    Also, I believe the professor was told to send the email, I don’t believe it was the professors idea. I like the professor. The professor is a great teacher.

    The same exact way I didn’t take it personally when I was put on probation from your office. I have no clue whose idea that was. Anything negative that happens to me I blame on law enforcement.

    I respect and like you. Someone else might hold a grudge if they don’t understand the dynamic of how organizations and law enforcement work. 

    I think you’re great and your whole office is doing a great job. I love this school. Nothing is perfect. 

    I’ve been through hell and back in my life. I don’t have a criminal record. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t party. 

    I don’t want to go to another college. I love CUNY. 

    I just have reason to believe that NYC law enforcement is running their usual scams (just now with the security guards, professors asking me to go off campus with an 18 year old woman, take our masks off and take pictures of each other and share all our personal information, last names, phone, email, etc. what does that have to do with school?) and I want to try and get help from a judge because the only government employees I’ve ever seen put some type of restraints on law enforcement is a judge and the courts. 

    If I’m correct a judge’s name and decisions are connected to public record and all judges value their reputation. 

    That is the total opposite of other government employees that just ignore the people when it’s convenient for them and there is no public record. 

    For example, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, the Public Advocate’s Office, the New York City Council, NYPD Internal Affairs, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, US Attorney Southern District’s Office, etc. 

    I don’t have an issue with the security guards. New York City law enforcement runs around and tells people at the post office, HRA, etc. to pull the same thing on me everywhere I go. I treat everyone at the post office, HRA, and here respectfully regardless of what’s going on. 

    I have the highest tolerance for scams and insults against me that exists on the planet. 

    In my opinion, everyone has to do what law enforcement says regardless of if it’s right or wrong. 

    I mad at the people I grew up with that pay New York City law enforcement to harass me. I’m not mad at the people they are paying or random people that get wrapped up in this. 

    The only ones who have the power to help me are judges and a few other random individuals that are almost impossible to reach. 

    I’m making the best of the situation like always. I will continue to treat all the staff, students, etc. at Baruch College with the utmost respect even if they purposely try to bump into me, crash into me, ask me to share all my personal information and go off-campus and take pictures of 18-year-old women from my classes, etc. 

    The police can’t believe I’ve survived all their abuse (arrested in Nassau County, broken arm, made homeless, robbed dozens of times, etc.) 

    Now I’m getting thousands of visits on social media and it’s only a matter of a little luck and someone is going to reach out and lend me a hand and I’m going to get my life back.

    In the meantime, I’m going to continue to act like​ a perfect student at Baruch College because without Baruch College I would have been toasted by law enforcement by now. You and everyone else here made my life 100X more comfortable than HRA would have without CUNY. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: Respectful request to a Baruch College professor for an extension (3/22/2022).

    Greetings Professor, 

    First and foremost I have the utmost respect for you and all my professors. I love this class and the material is fascinating. I will remember it forever. 

    Treating people respectfully is more important than anything. That goes triple for you. I’m 45 years old and I can handle a no. 

    I just like to mention that upfront because I’m CUNY for life. I’m going to graduate from Baruch College and then I’m off to a CUNY graduate school. 

    I want to remain on the best of terms with the entire staff at CUNY and I don’t want anyone to think I’m complaining. I make the best of all situations. That’s how I landed at CUNY.

    I am requesting to take Wednesday’s exam next week instead of this week.  

    If the answer is no, I 100 percent respect your decision and I’ll make the best of the situation. Either way, I’m studying every waking hour minus work I have to do for other classes. 

    I have a good handle on all the material.

    I’m not looking to change the rules. I’m not looking for special treatment. I’m merely presenting my situation and asking what the policy is regarding a one-time extension for this one exam. 

    I do not speak with any students in the class. I don’t speak with any students in the whole school. 

    The reason being is that I’m 45 years old. Furthermore, I’ve been living in the street homeless for the past five years. 

    I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t have a criminal record. Just bad credit, no money, and evictions on my record. 

    I mention that because usually when people mention homeless a number of individuals think trouble. Homeless people have a bad reputation. 

    The reality of the situation is that there are a lot of homeless people like me. No one would know we are homeless unless we tell them. We are doing everything like everyone else, except at the end of the night, we sleep in cars and the train. 

    I’ve been a full time student at CUNY for two years. Street homeless the whole time.

    I don’t think the majority of student’s parents would want their children associating with homeless people so I keep to myself. 

    I always treat the Baruch College staff with the utmost respect at all times with zero exceptions. The only time I interact with students is during mandatory in class student projects. 

    If a comet hits the earth, I will not ask for another extension for any assignment or exam. 

    Now that I understand how the class works, I will catch up and stay up with the material. 

    I think I can do OK under the circumstances as it stands now.

    What put it over the top and made me want to ask is that I’m at the Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Room right now and I might have to come back here on Tuesday or Wednesday to another department where I’ve been before. 

    Plus I’m not even sure if I have the right material for the exam. Meaning the two poems and two stories.

    Please let me know if you require any additional information from me. I can provide all documentation to back up the information in this email. 

    I don’t lie to anyone at CUNY or anywhere for that matter. There is no need to. When I’m out in the street the way I am, things happen and sometimes I end up in the hospital. This isn’t including urgent care visits.

    I’m mostly healthy. I have all my shots, I’ve been tested for many things. I had a negative COVID test today at CityMD. I keep as clean as humanly possible for a homeless person. 

    February and March 2022 Hospital Emergency Room Visits:

    March 21, 2022 Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Room (here now). 

    March 14, 2022 Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Room 

    March 1, 2022 NYU Langone Hospital Emergency Room 

    February 19, 2022 New York Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Room

    February 18, 2022 New York Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Room

    February 16, 2022 NYU Langone Hospital Emergency Room 

    February 12, 2022 New York Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Room 

    Please let me know if you require any additional information from me. I will gladly provide any and all information required.

    In the meantime, I’m going to study non-stop and make the best of the situation. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine

  • Opinion: Email to Baruch College about someone pointing a video camera at my class from a podium. 3/14/2022.

    Greetings Baruch College,

    Someone has a video camera on the podium in this classroom pointing at the class. 

    I’m not taking a picture of it because I’m not taking any pictures inside of a classroom. 

    It’s not my professors. I suspect it’s another professors. 

    It just seems a little strange to have a video camera pointing at the class from a podium. It’s one of the video cameras that people buy when they want to upgrade the video camera on a computer or laptop. 

    Not sure if I should contact you or the help desk about this. 

    I did not mention a word to my amazing professor about this because I highly suspect it’s not his video camera. 

    Thank you and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine 

  • Opinion: Email to Baruch College about a student harassing me (3/11/2022).

    Greetings Baruch College,

    This was a very quick one. 

    I was walking up the stairs in the vertical building. 

    A student walked in front of me, so I slowed down to give him the right of way. He sort of faked like he was going one way and then went another way. Then he started to waive his cell phone in my face. 

    This happened on the six floor by the steps, not the escalator side. 

    I did nothing as usual. I didn’t say a word, I just kept walking. I have no idea who the student/person is. 

    Also, I don’t understand why students would be taking pictures or video recording other students, isn’t that against the rules? I don’t understand what someone might do with that video?

    Thank you for the offer to speak with Baruch College security about these issues. I’m going to respectfully say no thank you. 

    I don’t want to report any instances of students harassing me unless they are caught on Baruch College security cameras. I would prefer to avoid getting into she said/he said scenarios that would happen during the pre-technology era decades ago. 

    Regardless of what anyone does to me, I never say a word so I have nothing to defend. I don’t care if a student put her/his hands on me. I would just run away and then email you or the NYPD.

    There is nothing anyone at CUNY can do to me to get me to react in a negative fashion under any circumstances. 

    First of all, it’s the way I am. Second of all, CUNY is too valuable to me. 

    On a positive note, everything at school is going amazing. I love it here even with some students that I have no idea who they are harassing me for no reason. 

    Hopefully one day there will be more security cameras in the hallways although I know that there are a lot of people that have to connect to make a decision such as that at Baruch College / CUNY. 

    I’m about to do an informative speech in COM 1010. That is one of my favorite classes. 

    I’m going to do my speech about CUNY / CUNY grad schools so I can start to research where I want to go for graduate school. I’m sticking with CUNY. I love being part of the CUNY family. Nothing is perfect, overall CUNY is a stellar offering. 

    The only thing that would make me want to leave CUNY is the million to one long shot that my outside ventures start earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. This month I earned about $3 so I’m not quite there yet. 

    I owe a lot to CUNY, so I don’t want to give the impression that I’m always complaining. I started to attend office hours with my professors and it’s giving me a huge advantage in my classes. Office hours are such a valuable resource, I can’t believe I’m just learning it now. 

    Last thing, I wasn’t even filing my Federal or New York State taxes before attending CUNY. Now I file every year in January. That is one of dozens or hundreds of benefits I enjoy on a daily basis thanks to CUNY. 

    I’m going to continue to stay on top of my studies and one day soon I’ll get a roof back over my head. There is a lot of staff members at CUNY that helped me along the way that I can’t wait to go back to and say I’m not homeless anymore one day, including you. 

    Thank you again and have a great day. 

    Mark Pine