Look Who’s Trusteeing at CUNY: Profiteers, Union Busters, Witch Hunters…
by Advocate Staff
We’ve all seen those “Look Who’s Teaching at CUNY” ads on the subway. You know, the ones with distinguished professors grinning like all get-out straight into the camera.
The PR campaign puts your teeth on edge if you’re part of the “invisible” 57% of CUNY teaching staff with no job security, getting poverty pay for the […]
CUNY News In Brief
by Advocate Staff
CUNY Hits the Streets to Protest Budget Cuts
In answer to Governor David Paterson’s slash and burn tactics against CUNY and its 450,000 students, members of the CUNY community took to the streets in protest.
On Monday, September 23 protesters marched from the Graduate Center campus to Paterson’s Madison Avenue New York City Offices in a public demonstration […]
Shocking Wall Street : Disaster Capitalism and the Promise of Progressive Reform
by Advocate Staff
“Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up/ to the sky/ and ask the sky and ask the sky/ don’t fall on me.” — R.E.M.
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
In her prescient and controversial […]
Three Days in the West Bank
by NBen-Ari
One Saturday morning in August, eight human rights activists were on their way to visit villagers attacked by paramilitaries. Earlier that morning armed paramilitaries attacked a young man while grazing his flocks outside of his village, and beat him up. The activists had decided to travel to the village to collect testimony. Upon driving toward the […]
Teaching Writing Intensively (and Often)
by James Hoff
It happens at the beginning of every semester. Tucked into my tiny mailbox are a stack of about fifty blue and white student evaluations. The scantron sections of these evaluations, where students “rate” their professors in several categories on a scale of one to seven, never seem especially helpful to me. After all, it is inevitable that […]
Graduate Student Health Insurance on the Way But Not For All
by Jessie Goldstein and Renee Mcgarry
Beginning in January 2009, many students at the Graduate Center will have access to health insurance through the NY State Health Insurance Program (NYSHIP). Many of us have fought hard for this basic right, and it would seem that our efforts have been rewarded. The Adjunct Project is appreciative of all the hard work that […]
The Battle of St. Paul
by Abe Walker
“If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain’s resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry Left never will.” — President George Bush, addressing the RNC via satellite feed, September 1, 2008
“I Am The Angry Left.” — T-Shirt seen at demonstration outside RNC, September 2, 2008
For casual observers on the east coast, the […]
The Nurse Practitioner Will SeeYou Now
by ROConnor-McGinn
More than a year after the departure of the previous nurse practitioner, the Graduate Center welcomes Adraenne Bowe to its ranks. She joined the GC earlier this semester.
A New York native who earned her nurse practitioner credentials on the west coast, Bowe became the second person to fill the role since the Student Health Services center […]
Putting the Bad in the Battle In Seattle
by Nicole Wallenbrock
Battle in Seattle, directed by Stuart Townsend.
Battle in Seattle has gained more press exposure than the average independent film due to its controversial setting: the riots and demonstrations attended by over 50,000 at the WTO conference in Seattle, Washington in 1999. And then there is the film’s talk show-hopping Hollywood star, Cherlize Theron. The […]
What’s Happening to America
by E.L. Doctorow and Ashley Dawson
Last month marked the Advocate’s inaugural forum seeking to understand “What’s Happening to America?” Since then, the question has been injected with increased urgency as American politics have soared to the heights of a chilling cynicism, while our economy has suffered a descent into chaos. Following the parade of madmen and women that marched across the stage […]
