GC Students Rally for Better Health Care
by Advocate Staff
We’ve all heard the stories: the CUNY graduate student who, upon realizing she had probably severed a nerve in her finger, still contemplated whether or not to go the emergency room; the CUNY graduate student who, with a broken shoulder, gave the hospital a fake name so as to avoid the exorbitant costs of an X-ray; or even […]
Whither Democracy? The Democratic Party’s Dilemma in 2008
by MLeach
The 2008 presidential election campaign has highlighted a number of questionable and problematic practices of the Democratic Party. Indeed, the nomination process, it seems, has become as important as the candidates themselves and many commentators are beginning to question such things as the use of superdelegates in the nominating process, the use of caucuses to select […]
Lockdown America
by Advocate Staff
“Children I want to warn ya’, ‘cause I’ve been to California” –Bow Wow Wow
“Until the racial bias and class basis of super-incarceration are attacked head-on, California’s prisons will remain graveyards of human rights.” – Mike Davis, 2004
In 2004, less than six months before the humiliating defeat of then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, the author Thomas Frank published a popular […]
“Raiding Nader”
by Advocate Staff
To the Editor:
You contend [in “What Nader’s Bid Really Means,” GC Advocate, March 2008] that opponents of Ralph Nader’s most recent run for the White House are worried about his role as spoiler to any Democratic candidate, concerned with his political idealism, or scornful of third party politics. These reasons have nothing to do with […]
Do You Need to Be Here? Questions For the Uncertain Graduate Student
by JTrimarco
Since I dropped out of graduate school in 2005, there have been plenty of ups and downs. Among the ups are the several articles I’ve published in good magazines, the album I collaborated on with the industrial music group Experiment Haywire, and the many hours of paid and volunteer labor I’ve been able to contribute to political […]
The Pile
by TKrause
Sometimes, every few weeks during the fall and spring semesters, my home is overrun by a creature I call The Pile. The Pile is a stack of student papers, usually some 25 – 30 in number, in dry times as few as 10 or 15, at flood-tide (the unholy confluence of, say, two written assignments in a row) some 60 or so. […]
Library Catalogue Machines
by Advocate Staff
In order to remedy the problem of numerous library catalogue computers breaking each month, the library has purchased 30 licenses for the Deep Freeze software to be loaded onto the 30 library catalogue machines found throughout the library, according to Elaine Montilla, Director of User Services for Information Technology. Deep Freeze protects computer baseline configurations, […]
Spitzer and Pollock
by NKurchanova
On the second day after the bombshell revelation of the then-still-Governor Spitzer’s involvement with a prostitution ring, the New York Times released a series of articles detailing the circumstances, not so much as the actual “fact” of the governor’s infidelities (which was scrutinized on the first day of the news), but of his life before the fateful […]
Health Insurance: We Must Keep Pushing
by Carl Lindskoog
Over the past month the campaign for graduate student health insurance has grown tremendously. Graduate students are signing up for the campaign in large numbers, calling and writing letters to their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate, and insisting that Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and President Bill Kelly hear our urgent appeal: CUNY graduate students […]
The Revolution in Venezuela
by MBusch
Splashed along the walls of Caracas’ Parque Central metro stop, billboards advertise all manner of consumer goods: beauty creams, thirst-quenching Polar Beer, the latest movies. As I stand waiting for the next train headed downtown, a row of three ads catches my attention. Bookending this triplet are posters celebrating Hollywood’s blockbuster hit Transformers. Each ad features a huge, […]
