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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
