Graduate Center Set to Go Wireless
by LKrasnoff
1st phase done by end of Spring ’07, IT Provost says
The Graduate Center unveiled a comprehensive plan last week for installing wireless Internet coverage within the 365 Fifth Avenue building. Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs Steve Brier said that he was “pleased to be at this stage,” and that the aim was to […]
CUNY’s Iraq Vets Seeking New Purpose in Activism
by MStar
Lehman College senior Desmond Mullinsspeaks to protestors in New Orleans.
In the days following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, there was an upsurge of patriotism in the United States that engulfed many able-bodied men and women of military age. As a result, these men and women joined the United States military in large numbers in […]
BoT Buys Baruch Prez a House
by Advocate Staff
Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College, will now also receive on top of her salary and benefits the use of a new house to be purchased by the University.
According to the April, 2006 minutes from the CUNY Board of Trustees, the new residence will be a “condominium apartment on 27th St., between 5th and Madison Avenues, […]
Our Fashionable Cynicism
by Advocate Staff
It has become intellectually fashionable these days to condemn the media. Ask any true blooded liberal intellectual what they think about the media and you are likely to get a litany of complaints –largely valid– about conservative bias, corporate influence, incompetence, and lousy reporting. What you probably won’t hear, however, and what is perhaps decidedly more […]
GC Technology: New Tech Chief Faces Thankless Role
by LKrasnoff
Robert D. Campbell has a lot of work cut out for him during his first year as the new assistant vice president for information technology at the Graduate Center.
Since July 19, his first day on the job, Campbell has identified two main goals for the Information Technology department: to comprehend the affairs and resources already […]
Academic Freedom Includes the Right to Say Two Plus Two Make Four — and Substantiate It
by KBarrett
Academic Repression in the First Person
Kevin Barrett, appearing on alocal news program. University ofWisconsin-Madison Provost PatrickFarrell Barrett to teach, as scheduled,a Fall 2006 class titled “Islam:Religion and Culture” after assurancesthat Barrett will encourage studentsto come to their own conclusionsabout 9/11, which Barrett hascalled “an inside job.”
Steve Nass wants me fired from my teaching […]
Repression and Revolt in Oaxaca
by Advocate Staff
PSC and Local Labor take to the streets in solidarity
PSC Members demonstrate outside theMexican consulate on June 28, 2006.
For almost four months, more than 70,000 teachers in the largely indigenous state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico have been waging a militant strike and facing murderous repression. The attacks on Oaxaca teachers follow massacres of striking miners, steel […]
Who Are The Board Of Trustees…And Why Should You Care?
by Advocate Staff
Who are the CUNY Board of Trustees and what is their role in the governance of the university?
A graduate student protestingadjunct pay rates outsidea May 2004 Board of Trusteesmeeting
The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York is made up of exactly seventeen members. Of these seventeen, ten of the members are appointed […]
A CUNY GC Faculty 2006 Bookshelf
by HZanzibar
Annotated Bibliography
Note: An asterisk denotes CUNY GC affiliation.
ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY Setha Low* and Neil Smith,* editors. The Politics of Public Space (Routledge, 2006). About: The consequences of how the disappearance of public space as increased privatization through private/public partnerships changes public environments into centers of commerce and consumption, and even surveillance.
ANTHROPOLOGY, URBAN EDUCATION Amy […]
The Relevance of Noam Chomsky’s 9 – 11
by Kimora
Book Review: 9 – 11 by Noam Chomsky, Open Media (October 2001)
Anyone who studies linguistics or foreign policy is familiar with the numerous works by Noam Chomsky, one of the most famous (and notorious) intellectuals of this century. Peace and social activists all over the world celebrate his efforts for greater democracy. However, critics of Chomsky’s writings […]
