Beloved teacher, translator, poet, scholar, and mentor, Allen Mandelbaum died on October 27th, 2011 at the age of 85. Mandelbaum is perhaps best known for his award winning translations of The Divine Comedy and the Aeneid, which won him the National Book Award in 1973, but he also...
Welcome to the Occupy CUNY blog. We’ll be covering the recent situation developing at CUNY around proposed tuition hikes, the protests against them, and the unacceptably forceful response from the police and university brass. We will be reporting on this crisis and...
A full day of action across CUNY campuses culminated in an ugly incident at Baruch College on Monday November 23. It began with a series of student walkouts from classrooms throughout the city between lunchtime and the late afternoon, at which point protesters converged on Madison...
Adjunct Healthcare under Attack—PSC Members fight back The start of the new academic year could mark the beginning of an adjunct healthcare bloodbath if the rising cost of insurance, CUNY’s “meh” attitude, and the city’s blind eye to the welfare of adjuncts aren’t successfully...
Tony Kushner’s latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Guide to the Scriptures opened this month in New York to critical acclaim. But praise for Kushner, whom many consider the greatest living American playwright, was drowned out by outrage...
