Cuts to CUNY Budget: As part of Governor David Paterson’s effort to trim New York State’s budget by $1 billion, legislators approved a package of spending cuts directly impinging on the welfare of CUNY students. In addition to significant cutbacks in Medicaid, the state corrections...
I’ll never forget approaching the field in Prospect Park last summer for a friendly game of Graduate Center Humanities-on-Humanities softball. I squinted in the sun, searching for the group to which I belonged. Looking to the left, I saw a group of athletic teenagers sprinting with...
What does the success of the “genocide” Olympics mean for the future of US politics, and even for the election in November? At first glance, this may sound like a minor foreign policy issue. After all, didn’t George Bush basically agree with people like Steven Spielberg about the...
On July 1st 2008 the delegate assembly of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY voted overwhelmingly to approve sending the proposed contract settlement between the PSC and the City University of New York to the larger union membership for a final ratification vote. Although the majority...
Amsden, Alice H. 2007. Escape From Empire: The Developing World’s Journey Through Heaven and Hell. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 210 pages. Cloth. $27.50 Chang, Ha-Joon. 2008. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York: Bloomsbury Press. 288...
