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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
