Enrollment at Record High With the economy spiraling into a nose dive of recession, the number of New Yorkers returning to school has spiked in the past recent academic year. Enrollment has surged to record highs since September 2008, as the total CUNY-wide student body has reached nearly...
In a news conference on Friday, January 30, Mayor Bloomberg announced what many are referring to as his doomsday budget. This included one billion dollars in budget cuts, the core of which calls for laying off over 23,000 city workers. According to Bloomberg, the majority of these workers...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul, a Biography by John Stubbs. W W Norton & Co., 2008. 592 pages. For every man alone thinks he hath got/ To be a phoenix, and that there can be/ None of that kind, of which he is, but he. —John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First...
Pour Your Body Out (7345 Cubic Meters), by Pipilotti Rist. At the Museum of Modern Art. How do we approach Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s video installation Pour Your Body Out (7345 Cubic Meters)? The criticism, if it can be called that, up to now says that one should be completely...
Kim Moody, U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. Verso, 2007, 320 pages. Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. University of...
