A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES
by Advocate Staff
A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES Authored By: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn and Tom Pessah Sponsored By: Senators Gaurano , Carlton, Kwon, Oatfield WHEREAS, the ASUC notes the complexity of international relations in all cases, including the Middle East, and recognizes the inability of a body such as the ASUC to adjudicate matters of international law […]
Breaking News: Court Says No to Furloughs for CUNY
by Advocate Staff
The many thousands of CUNY faculty and staff who were recently threatened with a 20% decrease to their weekly salary, can rest easy, at least for now. Thanks to the efforts of several local unions, including the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY and the Civil Service Employees Association, the one day furloughs, proposed by Governor David […]
Omegaville
by Tim Krause
Welt am Draht (World on a Wire), Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Few, if any, film careers come close to the star-crossed wonder and terror that was the life and work of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who burst onto the scene in the late 1960s and who blazed, a baleful, maleficent, darkly beautiful comet across the […]
We are all Workers
by Renee McGarry
When Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed SB1070 (“Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act”) into law on Friday, April 23rd, I felt like many of us had the morning after Obama won the presidential election: I went to sleep in one United States and woke up in a different one. Of course, with Obama’s election — for many […]
The Ph.D. Wager
by Louis Bury
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds — if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it. —Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Over the past year or two, while writing (or, at times, putting off writing) my dissertation, I became, almost inadvertently, a part-time professional poker player. That is, I began to play online poker as a viable source of income and not […]
The University On Screen: The Top 10 Academic Films
by Lavelle Porter
The campus novel has been around in American literature for quite some time. Some critics have pointed to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first novel Fanshawe, published in 1828, as the first piece of American fiction that deals with campus life. More recently, British writer David Lodge has made a career out of penning academic novels with thinly veiled […]
Girls’ Rooms and Boys’ Rooms
by Alec Magnet
Back When I taught comp, my last observation fell on a day for which I turned out to have assigned really boring reading. I don’t know
how many of you use the McQuades’ Seeing and Writing, but it has a little portfolio of bathroom signs from around the world that caught my eye as I was franticly scanning the pages on the subway up to campus trying to find something more interesting to talk about than what I had already assigned. After thinking about it I decided to ditch my lesson plan and instead have the class talk and write about these signs. Thankfully, it turns out that there’s a mountain of things to talk about with bathroom signs.
Populism Yea! Yea!
by Frank Episale
Since 2002, Les Frères Corbusier has been building a reputation as a company able to marry the anarchic energy and scattershot intellectualism of groups like Radiohole and the International WOW Company with a more accessible, populist aesthetic. Their mission statement describes the company’s work as “aggressively visceral theater combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor, and […]
Seeking Revenue, Graduate Center Legalizes Marijuana (Satire)
by Advocate Staff
It’s the first thing CUNY administrators think about in the morning and the last thing they recollect as they shut their eyes at night. It’s the metaphorical sugar in their coffee, the salt in their soup, the ganja in their splif. It’s called money, and there’s about to be a lot less of it next year. But […]
Comings Together/Comings Apart
by Sara Jane Stoner
Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art We’re just past the halfway point of the run of Marina Abramović’s retrospective at MOMA, “The Artist is Present,” and chances are good you’ve already seen it, or maybe seen one of the blogs that has materialized in response. Abramović, born in Yugoslavia in […]
