Here now, From Curbed Marketplace , highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace . Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured? Send it to the tipline . Click here to view the full photogallery. Designed in 1954 by noted Seattle-area architect Roland Terry, this sleek cube was the home of John and Anne Hauberg, who, along with a little glass artist by the name of Dale Chihuly, founded the Pilchuck Glass School in 1971. (Terry’s the man behind the school design, too.) Anyway, the four-bedroom home has a dramatic three-story foyer that acts as a “sun catcher,” of sorts, siphoning light into adjacent rooms on each floor; whitened hemlock walls and ceilings; a full-on wrapping closet (complete with ribbon-roll holders and drawers for paper); 1,200 square feet of sundecks; and a “cloud room,” or “a room between heaven and earth” that was “designed to attract the muse of the sun,” according to the brokerbabble. The place also has utterly spectacular views of Mt. Rainier, a previous shout-out in House Beautiful, and some highfalutin tales to tell: “Still talked about in social circles today, the original owners held an impromptu Mardi Gras housewarming party complete with an 8-piece band on the mezzanine overlooking the grand living room.” And: “The elite of Seattle from the 1950s to present day have dined at [the dining room] table.” Ask? $3.35M, with many of the furnishings, appliances, and artworks negotiable. · 1101 MgGilvra Blvd. E., Seattle [Zillow via Homes of the Rich ] · Roland Terry Classic [official site]

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From Curbed Marketplace: In the Pacific Northwest, a House With Ties to Dale Chihuly

Last fall, NJ teacher Viki Knox was being investigated for homophobic remarks she posted on Facebook , like calling homosexuality “a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation,” and a “sin” that “breeds like cancer.” Now, after being suspended for the incident and about to face tenure charges, it seems that she’d rather just retire from Union High School on disability pension. [ more › ]

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NJ Teacher Who Facebooked Anti-Gay Views Wants To Retire On Disability Pension

An immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who has worked as a janitor for Columbia University for two decades graduated Sunday with a bachelor’s degree in classics, with honors. Full time custodian Gac Filipaj took classes at the school for free , often studying late into the night after the end of his 2:30 to 11 p.m. shift, then taking classes in the morning. Yesterday all his hard work paid off, and he joined his fellow students at commencement ceremonies on the sunny Columbia quad, where he also received an honorary degree in making everyone else feel like a lazy, entitled bum. [ more › ]

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Heartwarming Photo Of Janitor’s Graduation From Columbia

President Barack Obama will be in town later today, to chat with the ladies of The View, raise money and, of course, give the commencement speech at Barnard College . Tickets are needed for commencement (naturally, security at the campus will be tight)—but don’t worry, you can watch the speech live at Barnard’s website , at WhiteHouse.gov and on CSPAN. [ more › ]

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Get Ready NYC: President Obama Is At Barnard (And The View) Today

Mayor Bloomberg gave a commencement speech to the graduates of UNC Chapel Hill today, and along with an obligatory joke at Duke’s expense and a recitation of the school’s fight song, he pointedly criticized the state’s vote last week that banned same-sex marriage. Noting that America’s generations “expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents,” Bloomberg said that it was necessary that the graduates keep expanding. “And—I would argue—last week’s referendum banning same-sex marriage shows just how much more work needs to be done to ensure freedom and equality for all people.” [ more › ]

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Bloomberg’s Blasts NC’s Ban On Same-Sex Marriage In Commencement Speech

Because we need to be reminded of good things and good people, here’s another heartwarming feature on the inspiring Columbia University janitor who has spent the last 20 years learning English and working his way to get a B.A. in classics. Gac Filipaj, who fled war-torn Yugoslavia in 1992, will graduate from Columbia’s School of General Studies this Sunday . While he is very proud, Filipaj also says he wished he had told his father (who died three weeks ago) that he had been studying “because he thought that I’m not that smart.” Plus, he still sends most of his income back home to Yugoslavia. Uh, is it a little dusty in here? [ more › ]

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Janitor Graduating From Columbia Still Sends Salary Back Home

[UPDATE BELOW] In a TV interview this month, Mitt Romney ‘s wife Ann insisted, “There’s a wild and crazy man inside of [Mitt Romney] just waiting to come out.” How wild and crazy is he? Well, when he was a teenager at boarding school in 1965, he was so crazed by a fellow student’s slightly long hair that he organized a wild mob that held the boy down while Romney cut off the offensive locks, as his victim wept. Which we guess isn’t that wild and crazy when you compare it to that one time a young George W. Bush branded a dude . [ more › ]

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[UPDATE] Mitt Romney Terrorized Gay Student, Cut His Hair, According To Prep School Classmates

A few days ago some street artists went to the Midwood section of Brooklyn—where Adam “MCA” Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School —and created a mural for the late Beastie Boy . The Entree Lifestyle crew, who put it up, write: [ more › ]

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Stunning MCA Street Art Goes Up In Midwood, Brooklyn

Two teens were hospitalized with alcohol poisoning Saturday night after police broke up a raucous party in Breezy Point , the insular “privately owned cooperative” at the western edge of the Rockaway Peninsula. The parents who threw the party at their home were arrested and charged with 10 counts each of endangering a child under 17. Dozens of teens were reportedly drinking at the party—most of them lacrosse players from the prestigious Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn. Now the incident has shed unwanted light on Breezy Point, where residents pride themselves on their tight-knit community, which is mostly policed by a private security force. [ more › ]

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Parents Arrested, Teens Hospitalized After Boozy Underage Party In Breezy Point

            It has been one busy afternoon by Cooper Union! Students at the school (and others) walked out of classes this afternoon to protest both the Cooper’s coming tuition for grad students as well as the national student debt problem , and as you might expect, they got creative. [ more › ]

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Student Climbs Peter Cooper Statue In Protest, Bothers Police