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...
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...
"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,...
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...
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...
