“For those whose deaths never made the news”
by ROConnor-McGinn
For more information visit Visual Resistance and Times Up.
A white-painted bicycle slouches against a lamppost a few steps shy of Crosby St., several feet from the busy traffic on West Houston. Withered flowers stick out of the bike’s spokes. The paint is flaking.
This quiet memorial the Village Voice called “Tomb of the Unknown Biker” is the only thing […]
Health Services Still in Limbo: DSC, VP Seek Interim Solutions
by DTorres
The national crisis in health care has come home to the Graduate Center Community. As reported last month, on-site access to medical consultations, prescriptions, physicals, and blood tests at the Student Health Services Center was suspended as the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) wends through the contract negotiation and procurement processes for getting a new Nurse […]
The Politics of Personality:
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Ahmedinijad and Love Iran
by Advocate Staff
From the Editor’s Desk
“This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.” — William Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost V.I. 637
There is something in the character of Halofernes — the ridiculous and bumbling pedant of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost — that resembles both Lee Bollinger and Mahmoud Ahmadiniejad’s recent professorial posturing at Columbia University. As The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins aptly pointed […]
GC Technology: GC IT Gets $1M Grant for Net Development
by Advocate Staff
Despite the large-scale improvements made to the technology resources over the past year, from hardware to software to wireless internet access, there remains one large shared groan: “Why is the network so slow?” Thanks to a $1 million capital grant to the GC Department of Information Technology from the New York City Council, improving the […]
GC Technology: Fax Services for GC Students
by Advocate Staff
Adding to the outbound fax services made available to students earlier this year, Matt Liston, head of IT’s Enterprise Networks & Systems, said that the inbound fax service is ready for student use.
Students can now receive faxes sent from anywhere in the world, and the faxes will be converted automatically into pdf files and stored on […]
Not Another Dangerous Minds Story
Challenging the Teacher-as-Savior Myth
by NStanford
Dispatches from the Front
It was my first time teaching an evening class at a community college, and I was nervous. I’d heard about how tough these night students are: not your typical, fresh-out-of-high-school, no-extra-job, too-much-time-on-my-hands learners, but cynical, busy, non-traditional students, some returning after flunking out years prior and some just trying it out for the first time. […]
GC Technology: Zotero Takes on EndNote and RefWorks
by Advocate Staff
Thanks to the software upgrades implemented over the summer, students now have access to three different bibliographic programs for their research. EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero are all part of the standard software package installed on public computers at the Graduate Center and accessible by students from home.
“I wanted to give the community as many possibilities […]
Adjuncts, Who’s Got Your Back? Your Students.
by Carl Lindskoog
Adjuncting
In the mid-1990s something curious happened on college campuses across America. Students began to wonder where their sneakers came from. They wondered who had made their new t-shirts and under what conditions. When they purchased a baseball cap featuring their college logo, what did it mean for the person who had created it?
These students were shocked by […]
Working Overtime: Parenting In Grad School
by RPorter
Grad Life
Much to my surprise, the GC Advocate has become a chronicler of my brain. Last month I wrote about my take on teaching. In that article I mentioned the birth of my son. In this article I will muse a bit on the impact — the challenges and rewards as they say — of being a parent in graduate school.
A Big Change
After extended debate […]
Ask Harriet
by HZanzibar
The Back Page
Dear Harriet, Where are all the lesbians? – Gotta Catch ‘Em All
“Where are all the lesbians.” Hmm. Let me think. You know, Gotta, I think it’s safe to say, after giving it a really good ponder, that the answer has got to be something along the lines of Hiding from you, you perverted fuck. But you know what? […]
