New Index Ranks GC Among Top 50 U.S. Research Universities
by Advocate Staff
The Graduate Center was ranked 36th overall in the new Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, with a “Z score” that is +0.52 above the national mean. [view large version] A new and controversial faculty productivity index has ranked the CUNY Graduate Center 36th overall among the nation’s 50 leading research universities, with many programs, including Philosophy, […]
Walking Away From Torture
by Advocate Staff
Benjamin Franklin’s oft quoted statement “those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” has become a kind of rallying cry for civil rights groups in the post 9 – 11 world. Although there is scholarly disagreement about whether or not Franklin was the original author of the phrase, it […]
Letters
by Advocate Staff
Violent crime at CUNY This matter is urgent! That CUNY has lost even one student to violent crime is unacceptable. That we have lost both Romona Moore of Hunter College, and Imette St. Guillen of John Jay College, in the last few years, and have not altered our registration practice for incoming students to require mandatory […]
GC Technology: IT Goes Shopping: New PCs Coming
by Advocate Staff
In an effort to uphold its designation as “Best Example of CUNY Respecting Its Students: The GC IT Turnaround,” (Advocate, February 2007) the Office of Information Technology purchased 300 new computers to be deployed this month. Roughly two-thirds of these machines are slated for student use, and will replace the public computers on the C-level […]
The PSC and CUNY Resume Contract Negotiations: What Graduate Students and Adjuncts Can Expect
by Carl Lindskoog
Students who have been at the Graduate Center for any length of time will surely remember the long, difficult contract campaign of the last few years. Thanks to CUNY’s intransigence, faculty and staff went years without a contract. Despite protests, picket lines, and a huge meeting at Cooper Union, it seemed CUNY was never going to give […]
History of the World, Part 28
by MWilson
It just wasn’t possible. And yet, there it was. Twenty-eight classes; twenty-seven topics. I had an extra day. I’d expected the opposite. Brooklyn College had performed reconstructive surgery on its core curriculum and, in the process, changed the rules for the class I teach, The Shaping of the Modern World. Since time immemorial the course had embraced […]
Academic Repression Update: ‘We Shall Rise’: the Persecution of Dr. Sami Al-Arian
by PFairbanks
Dr. Sami Al-Arian Since the attacks of September 11th, the climate for Arab Americans and Muslims has changed dramatically. Directly following the attacks, hundreds of immigrants were held for months at a time with no charges brought against them. According to Human Rights Watch, hate crimes directly following the attacks increased by 1700% and many Muslims […]
Blaming the Victim (and the British)
by MLeach
Book Review: Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell.Encounter Books, 2005 (355 pages). Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the latest rehash of the culture of poverty thesis that presupposes that the black poor are trapped in a never ending cycle of bad behavior that perpetuates itself across the generations. Sowell, an economist at the conservative […]
Holy Punks in the Fog of War
by ABorst
Music Review: Black Monk Time by the Monks (Polydor 1966; Repertoire 1994). In the midst of a mid-life crisis, F. Scott Fitzgerald once suggested a connection between his nervous breakdown and his work as a screenwriter, a job that subjected his texts to the whims and profit-mongering of co-writers, producers, directors, and actors, his personality disintegrating with the corruption of […]
’54 characters, 23 scenes, 4 square meters’
by Frank Episale
Theater Review: The Attic by Yoji Sakate. Translated by Leon Ingulsrud and Keiko Tsuneda. Directed by Ari Edelson. A scene from The Attic. Living in North America’s preeminent theatre city, New York audiences tend to believe that they have access to, and knowledge of, the full scope and breadth of the theatrical universe. In truth, […]
