From the Editor: THE ADVOCATE Year End Overcap
by SSunshine
As we come to the end of another school year, we also come to the end of another era of THE ADVOCATE, as I am stepping down as editor after this issue. Be aware that applications are still being accepted for the 2006-07 editorial helm. I would say to potential applicants: be sure to bring lots of […]
Job Openings for the 2006 – 2007 school year
by Advocate Staff
Editor-in-Chief, THE ADVOCATE: Applications are now being accepted for the position of Editor-in-Chief of THE ADVOCATE, the DSC-funded student newspaper of the CUNY Graduate Center. All applicants must be GC students. Applicants should have strong writing and editing skills, be comfortable with managing a small staff, and be willing to commit time to this project. Responsibilities […]
Racism in Education Funding? Examining the SUNY and CUNY Funding Gap
by ASiegel
Is the New York State Legislature engaged in discriminatory racial practices when it comes to funding the state’s students? While racism is difficult to prove, funding statistics are easier to analyze. In 2005 the legislature funded the SUNY student body (80% white) at $10,677 per student; meanwhile, CUNY students (about 70% of whom are people […]
Proposed Contract Bittersweet for Long-Suffering CUNY Employees
by DSkinner
After several (long) years without a contract, Professional Staff Congress (PSC)/CUNY has reached a tentative agreement with the powers that be at CUNY. The contract, which still remains to approved by both the PSC rank and file and the CUNY Board of Trustees, includes several important provisions which will affect GC students adjuncting at the colleges. The […]
Would the Real Hoverer Please Sit Down?
by EZitani
Andrea Siegel isn’t the only one at the Graduate Center who is obsessed with the bathrooms. Generally, toward the end of the day (either on the 5th or 7th floor) you will find me entering the ladies room, opening a stall door, then another, then another, only to curse under my breath — not the wonderful people who […]
The Function of Prediction: Race, Fried Chicken, and Prostates
by RGraham
The Black Man and the Chicken I am a very black man. In fact, I think that I am one of the blackest men at the Graduate Center. I am so black that sometimes, when the sun is shining just right, I appear navy blue. As a kid, I was often teased by other black kids because of my color — I was called Dark […]
Assalamulaikum GC
by NBacchus
Living as a Muslim American woman goes beyond media depictions of Muslim identities. The lives of American Muslim women are understudied, and the assimilation challenges we experience navigating American culture often go beyond the expectations of most Americans. With that said, I would like to share my personal journey of survival in “American” society. After 9/11, I decided […]
Race Education, One Comeback at a Time
by CWojtkowski
In a crowded Roman discotheque, one of the locals approached me, Peroni in hand, and began to play the “What’s Your Nationality” guessing game. “Cinese?” “No” I replied. “Giapponese?” he asked. “No!” Having exhausted his list of Asian countries, he said, “pero tù…” and with that, using his finger, pulled the corner of his eyelid to the […]
On the Uses of Hipsters
by Advocate Staff
When my dad visited me recently, from Eastern Europe, we often took the L train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. While we traveled I’d amuse and surprise him by picking a spot to stand where (I would tell him) a seat would open within a station or two. I was never wrong about which passenger would exit between the Bedford and […]
Teaching at Sing Sing Has its Rewards for Prof
by Kimora
Although I am a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal, I am also a prison educator. For the past 17 years, I have taught courses to incarcerated men and women in prisons, jails, drug treatment centers, and halfway houses in Minnesota, New York, and Canada. Since 2004, I have taught violent offenders who are about to be released […]
