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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
