Adjunct Pay: More Experience Means Less Money
by EBalleisen
* 8.48% up to the last day of the contract. On 9/19/07, adjuncts will receive a 1% increase, uncompounded, and full-timers will receive an $800 addition to base salaries. ** 15.16% from 11/1/02 — 02/28/07. Sources: PSC-CUNY contracts; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Everyone in academia knows that adjunct work pays badly. But there’s a disturbing fact about […]
Resisting the War Machine, One 1040 at a Time
by PFairbanks
“Let them march all they want as long as they pay their taxes.”
Tax resisters protest outsidethe IRS building in Washington, D.C.
This quote, by Alexander Haig, former U.S. Secretary of State, is found on many websites that advocate or explain the phenomenon of war protest known as tax resistance. Underscoring the truth of this is a quote by […]
“Truth Will Out”: Don Imus and the Return of the Living Repressed
by Advocate Staff
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
— Sigmund Freud
It is by now an undisputed fact that Don Imus, the zombie-like host of the “Imus in the Morning” show, a man many of us — thankfully — knew little or nothing about before last week, is clearly a racist son of a bitch […]
Letters
by Advocate Staff
Accusing Sami Al-Arian
Dear Editor:
Mr. Fairbanks’ article on the plight of Sami Al-Arian has some inaccuracies that deserve correction. The first is that Al-Arian’s plea agreement establishes that he lied both in connection with his providing support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and in connection with his brother-in-law’s entrance into this country.
Second, you fail to note that […]
Graduate Center Technology: Help Desk Getting Some Help of Its Own
by Advocate Staff
As the semester winds to a close, the Information Technology department is poised to hire six new part-time professional technicians to man the Help Desk. Starting in May, interviews will be held to fill the new positions, which will be known as IT Professional Assistants (PAs). Considered to be “Level One” support, the new PAs will […]
Academic Repression Update / A Question of Scholarship: On the tenure controversy of Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein
by CBrown
Norman G. Finkelstein
The intent of the statement is not to discourage what is “controversial.” Controversy is at the heart of the free academic inquiry which the entire statement is designed to foster.
1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure
On March 22, 2007, Charles Suchar, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at […]
Viva Flamenco! Or: teaching with duende in the American classroom
by SHaragos
It was one of those gray winter mornings when it was easy to forget the wonder of it all: that I live in New York City (for the third consecutive year, God, how time flies!), that I have a place of my own in the Upper West Side of Manhattan (or “a room of my own,” rather, like […]
Going Without: Grad Students Face Increasingly Tough Choices Over Health Care
by DTorres
Across the country ‘Cover the Uninsured Week,’ observed April 23 through April 29, will serve as a platform to debate, discuss, and demand health insurance coverage for the uninsured. Much media attention was garnered on the issue last year, as reports indicated that 47 million were uninsured and an additional 16 million had inadequate coverage. Yet […]
This Is Not Some Joke, Like on ‘The Daily Show’
by M. Lau
Book Review: Metapolitics, by Alain Badiou (Verso Books, 2006).
2005 marked the long overdue publication of English translations of Alain Badiou’s magnum opus, Being and Event (1988), and his more recent “little red book,” Metapolitics (1998). In the spring of that year, I had the great displeasure — in Lacanian terms, “the surplus enjoyment” — of seeing Badiou lecture at the […]
Of the
by NBilwakesh
Book Review: To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 2006, 233 pages)
There was an element of abolitionism, neither insignificant nor ignoble, which had less to do with black folk a thousand miles off, and more to do with grace at home. A type of reform happened in […]
