Now that the holidays are almost here, what (if anything) do you have to be thankful for?
by Advocate Staff
I am thankful to live in a city that has such a clash of culture. I am thankful for each day I take to the streets on my well worn bicycle and make it to my destination — in one piece, and I am thankful for the wonderful people in my life that allow me the room to be the strange character […]
Hunter, City Fight to Grab Beloved School
by CTurner
Most people have likely heard the old realtor adage that the three most important factors in real estate are location, location, and location. It is precisely location that has become the crux of a dispute between Hunter College and the Julia Richman Educational Complex (JREC). The JREC was built in 1923 as an all-girls high school. Initially […]
Help Wanted
by Advocate Staff
The following position is available: WEBMASTER, http://www.cunydsc.org Pay: $18/hr., 7 hrs/week. Term: February 1, 2007-May 31, 2007 (completing the current school year). Automatic re-hire for the 2007 – 8 school year available based on performance, with a possible pay raise based on experience. Proficiency at .html and Dreamweaver required. Knowledge of .php and other scripts a plus. Graduate Center Students […]
From The Editor’s Desk
by Advocate Staff
I have a confession to make: that unlike most of the people that I know, and many I respect, I didn’t vote for any Democrats this election – not even Eliot Spitzer. Like I have every other November – except 1992 when, in my youthful exuberance I voted for the charismatic, saxophone blowing playboy Bill Clinton – I voted the Green ticket across the board. I have done […]
GC Technology: GC Paper Use Getting out of Control
by Advocate Staff
Attack of the Macs Since the deployment last month of ten new Macs throughout the Graduate Center community, efforts are being made to incorporate more of the machines into the GC framework, said Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Robert D. Campbell. This includes efforts to get the present Macs up to current hardware and software […]
Academic Repression in the First Person: Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz
by GFurr
Grover Furr The specific context of this essay is my inclusion in David Horowitz’s book The Professors as one of the “101 most dangerous academics in America.” The section on me is hugely dishonest. Researched and written by one Rocco DiPippo, it was first published in Horowitz’s blog in March 2005 – a big favor for DiPippo, […]
Writing to the Test: A Cautionary Tale
by ECampbell
Everything in the small cubicle looked grey and beat-up: the threadbare partitions that enclosed me, the filing cabinet at my feet, the computer keyboard with its grime-smeared plastic cover. The flat glare of fluorescent bulbs from behind mesh ceiling screens washed out any other remaining color. It felt like the high school library from hell. And […]
Fixing the Academic Labor Crisis: Lessons from History
by Carl Lindskoog
For much of American history, the American labor movement has been like an exclusive club, barring everyone from membership but the white, male, native-born, skilled worker. The largest labor organization of the early twentieth century was the American Federation of Labor (AFL), an alliance of unions that built on and maintained the exclusive membership policies […]
A GC Refugee Finds Respect – in Canada
by TMonchinski
Professor Kincheloe moderating adiscussion on Urban Education atthe Graduate Center last year. When Joe Kincheloe was in high school in rural Tennessee considering his future options, his guidance counselor suggested he become a piano tuner. A few decades – and, with wife Shirley Steinberg, over forty books – later, Kincheloe is Canada Research Chair at McGill University’s Paulo and Nita Freire International […]
Bush’s Private Armies, Seen from Within
by MBusch
Book Review: Licensed to Kill by Robert Young PeltonNew York: Crown Books, 2006. 368 pp. Robert Young Pelton on assignment. Despite its initial efforts to behave responsibly following the attacks of September 11th, America has turned the War on Terror into a Wild West story for the 21st century. Complete with grizzled bad guys, “Wanted” posters, lawless […]
