Puerto Rico School Teachers Go on Strike: Demand higher wages, smaller classes, better facilities
by Advocate Staff
On Feb. 21, after more than 30 months of stalled contract negotiations between the Puerto Rico Teachers’ Union and the central government, many thousands of Puerto Rico’s 42,000 public school teachers went on strike, closing down schools across the small island territory and sparking violence in some cities.
Although Puerto Rican teachers make a starting salary of […]
NP on the Way? Student Affairs says new nurse practitioner could be on campus by mid-April
by Advocate Staff
According to Sharon Lerner, the Director of Student Affairs, the long saga of finding and hiring a new nurse practitioner for the student Health Services Center may finally be at an end. The Health Services Center, located on the sixth floor of the graduate Center, has been without a nurse since the former director of Health Services, […]
What Nader’s Bid Really Means
by Advocate Staff
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” —Aristotle
By the time this goes to press, I am sure we will have all heard the chorus of doom and gloom voices from the […]
CUNY Grad Students Deserve the Same Health Insurance as SUNY Grad Students
by EZitani
With the Democratic campaigns focusing on the subtle differences between Senator Clinton’s platform of mandatory (but “affordable”) health insurance for all and Senator Obama’s platform of mandatory insurance for children and “affordable” insurance for all, the language used in their debates reminds me so much of our own struggle as CUNY graduate students for adequate […]
GC Technology
by Advocate Staff
Windows live email update
Following last month’s announcement that the Graduate Center’s conversion to Windows Live for student email was deferred, Assistant Vice President of Information Technology Robert Campbell said that the IT department is continuing to discuss alternate solutions with students. “We met with the DSC and put together a working group of students,” Campbell said, […]
Letters
by Advocate Staff
Dear Editor:
I send my congratulations to Michael Busch, for his article “Plan Colombia and the American War on Drugs in Latin America,” from the January, 2008 issue.
Our Kansas City chapter of the Colombia Support Network just returned (December, 2007) from a trip to Colombia, spending half our time in rural Putumayo and half in Bogotá.
Maybe if enough writers […]
Now is the Time for Graduate Student Health Insurance at CUNY!
by Carl Lindskoog
Don’t look now, but the movement for graduate student health insurance is rapidly gaining momentum. Graduate students are speaking publicly about our lack of health insurance and mobilizing a surprising campaign to achieve this urgent need. Here is what has been happening and what is coming up in the future.
Last semester graduate students initiated a new […]
Catching More Flies with … Butter?
by TRobey
I don’t know why I thought teaching my History 101 class to make butter would be a good idea.
In April of last year I packed two glass mason jars, a pint of heavy cream, some spoons, cheesecloth, bread, and salt before making my long trek to Queens College. As I switched between local subway and express subway, then subway […]
Repetitive Motion Injuries of the Mind
by NStanford
My shocking realization a couple of semesters ago is that graduate students are at high risk for insanity. Yes, insanity. That old proverb that says there’s a fine line between brilliance and insanity? Well, that’s us, mates.
When I was a kid, I saw the difference between brilliance and insanity in very clear-cut, very segmented and delineated terms. Smart people were on […]
The Adjunct Trend: Rethinking Composition Curriculums
by NDorfeld
According to oratory experts, every problem/solution investigation needs three key points. The first point, commonly referred to as the problem step, must make readers conscious of the situation and its potentially hazardous outcomes. The second point, the need step, addresses the need for action. The third and final point, otherwise known as the solution step, […]
