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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
