Governor David Paterson’s decision to balance the state budget by punishing public education systems has rippled through the CUNY system with remarkable speed. While considerable attention has been rightfully paid to the reduced quality of education at campuses across the city, less...
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or...
JUSTIN ROGERS-COOPER For many graduate students, becoming an academic means developing a set of personal beliefs about debt. My scholastic history is a history of debt and borrowing. During my suburban high school years northwest of Columbus, Ohio, my parents assured me that we could...
DANNY NASSRE Those concerned about the fate of humanity might want to take a look at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, the publication’s symbolic warning of how close we are to destroying ourselves. Your concern might grow when you discover that the clock is...
RENEE MCGARRY AND JESSE GOLDSTEIN We heard it officially this week. The nation has been in a recession since 2007, and we’ve all witnessed CUNY feeling the pinch. Undoubtedly, there are times when we, as both students and adjuncts, feel powerless, and probably times when we feel scared...
