Adjunct Layoffs on the Horizon: Effects of Paterson’s Budget Cuts Continue to Reverberate Through CUNY Schools
by Advocate Staff
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 attention has been directed at the negative effects experienced by the thousands of […]
Shut it Down
by Advocate Staff
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 it may be both. But […]
Debting on the Future
by Justin Rogers-Cooper
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 afford the very best college. My “hard work” would determine my future, […]
In Midnight’s Shadow
by DNassre
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 currently set at five minutes to midnight (the closer to midnight, […]
Budget Cuts, Tuition Hikes, and Job Insecurity
by Jessie Goldstein and Renee Mcgarry
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 and alarmed. Do we have to? And what […]
Afghanistan: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State Part 1
by CParenti
Note: This is the first part of a two-part article. The second half will appear in the February 2009 issue of the GC Advocate.
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I will begin with a story that I hope casts some light on why and how the US occupation of Afghanistan is failing.
I was with my friend and interpreter Ajmal Nakshbandi. We were on the […]
Bolaño s Inferno
by TKrause
Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer. 2666. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 898 pages.
With the translation into English and publication of Roberto Bolaño’s final work and masterpiece, the sprawling antinovel 2666, Anglophone readers can now confirm his status as one of the last great twentieth-century authors, a writer on a par with Kafka, Borges, Pessoa, and Sebald. […]
Social Justice and the Inner City School
by SOutterson
William Ayers et al. City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row. New York: New Press, 2008. 384 pages.
Before his radical history became fodder for conservative sound-bites in the presidential election, William Ayers was a writer on education reform and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and three other professors of education […]
Yes, You Can Say No, But the World Will Have to Go
by Alison Powell
Eric Weisbard. Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 323 pages.
Henry Rollins, most notably of the hardcore punk band Black Flag, once said, “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of […]
Marcus Garvey and Black Solidarity in the 21st Century
by LPorter
Grant, Colin. Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 544 pages.
Rolinson, Mary G. Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920 – 1927. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 296 pages.
Shelby, Tommie. We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity. Cambridge: Harvard U. […]
