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How to Avoid the Swine ...

This flu season (2009-2010), there are more uncertainties than usual because of the emergence of a new 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (previously called “novel H1N1” or “swine flu”) that has caused the first influenza pandemic (global outbreak of disease) in more than forty...
Where’s the Anger?

Where’s the Anger...

Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before. On September 11, 2009 I passed my second exam and advanced to candidacy. On September 10, 2009, I was told I wasn’t going to receive my first paycheck until October 8, 2009. I also discovered that about 150 graduate assistants—through no...

DSC Page

For this month’s installment of the DSC page, we have a mix of the practical as well as a more reflective section about what it means to be a student at the Graduate Center and also be employed by the Graduate Center itself. Let’s start with the practical. Party We’re having a...
The Revolution <i>will</i> be Televised

The Revolution will<...

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Revolution is a spectacle, and terror is public performance. That, it seems, is the message of the action-filled The Baader Meinhof Complex by German director Uli Edel. Adapted from journalist Stefan Aust’s book of the same title, the film attempts to tell the “true story” of what later became known as the first generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF)—Germany’s Weather Underground, but with a martyr twist.