CCNY Students Sue over Shakur Sign
by Advocate Staff
The Associated Press has recently reported that City College students and alumni, including architecture student Rodolfo Leyton, have filed a lawsuit against the City University of New York in the US District Court of New York. The lawsuit, according to the AP, claims that the students’ first amendment rights were violated by the University when the […]
Pataki Appoints Two Trustees in Last-Minute Senate Meeting
by Advocate Staff
In a last minute Senate meeting on December 13th, 2006, purportedly called to finish a bill on civil confinement for sexual predators, the former Governor George Pataki and the New York State Senate confirmed two appointments to the CUNY Board of Trustees: Jeffrey Wiesenfeld and Solomon A. “Sam” Sutton. Solomon A. Sutton, the newest member of the […]
Welcome to CUNY Inc.
by Advocate Staff
With the new appointment of Solomon “Sam” Sutton, and the unexpected re-appointment of Jeffrey Wesienfeld to the CUNY Board of Trustees, former governor George Pataki has implicitly approved and helped to reinforce the continued corporatization of the City University of New York. Like other university boards, the board of the City University of New York […]
Letters
by Advocate Staff
Re: Grover Furr’s “Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz”: Grover Furr’s recent article in The GC Advocate, “Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz,” treats many serious issues that deserve our complete attention as scholars and graduate students. First, let me confess that I know Grover Furr from my years as an undergraduate at Montclair State University, […]
Tech Notes: Dude, Where’s My Computer Lab?
by Advocate Staff
The Graduate Center’s Information Technology: Musical Chairs At the start of the Spring 2007 semester there will be several changes around the Graduate Center involving the Information Technology department and services. In an effort to make IT technicians more accessible within the library, several IT staff will be moving within the library, from the C-level […]
The Best and Worst of 2006
by Advocate Staff
Worst Examples of CUNY Dissing Its Own Students: Carol Lang and Miguel Malo The City University of New York does not take the most open view possible toward freedom of speech on campus, as demonstrated by the university’s unflagging hounding of two activists whose cases wound through the courts and the newspapers through 2005 and […]
Coming to Voice: What My Students Taught Me
by MBladek
During the first difficult semester in graduate school when the task of aspiring to belong to the community of scholars seemed overwhelming, I came across an essay by Jennifer Lynn Fellman called “Damsels in Distress: Performing Femininities” from her book Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance. In it, Fellman writes about the unsettling […]
What Do We Do When the Lights Go out at CUNY?
by Carl Lindskoog
On January 10, the New York State Higher Education Committee heard testimony from members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) on the devastating impact that under-funding and de-funding has had on the City University of New York. As part of the PSC delegation, I tried to convey the experience of graduate students. I spoke about the low […]
The Horror, the Horror: 2006 in Horror Fiction
by TMonchinski
Book Review: •Cell by Stephen King (Scribner, 384 pages) •The Ruins by Scott Smith (Knopf, 336 pages) •The Road by Cormac McCarthy (256 pages) What is it about good horror fiction that hooks a reader? On the one hand, the author presents the audience with a work that calls for a suspension of disbelief. The horror fan understands this, […]
Of Free Trade and High-Tech Magellans
by MLeach
Book Review: •The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 496 pages.) There is good news and bad news about millionaire New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s latest work The World is Flat. The good news: this is a great intro to the current and ongoing hi-tech revolution. The bad news: this book […]
