Late last week, “The Diogenes of Midtown,” GC Professor Jerry Watts, made a citizen’s arrest of an NYPD patrol officer outside the Graduate Center. Many are calling it the astonishing and unlikely sequel to America’s most famous racial-profiling incident, the arrest of...
Once in a while they are on public radio, even more rarely are they on public television, and none dare dream of becoming a media pariah, a la Ralph Nader. The thought of it is tantalizing, the possibility too slim. As a recent report from the Graduate Center’s Center for the Promotion...
With the Humanities facing existential budget cuts and the industrialized world melting down in the greatest credit crisis since the last scene of Fight Club, Stanley Fish may be “the last professor,” but the Florida International University Law Professor is certainly not the...
It is the worst of times. It is the epoch of incredulity. It is the season of eight dollar chicken Caesar wraps and “make-a-difference” coffees from 365 Express Café. It is the winter when, as usual, the vegan students have devoured all the library printer paper. Can spring be far...
Mark Schiebe awoke one morning from unsettling dreams to find himself transformed into a music critic who makes only fifty dollars a month. It was no dream. Across the GC Advocate community, writers are now so broke they can’t even afford to starve. Yet, the more startling fact is that...
In a move that has stunned everyone on 80th street except Jar-Jar Binks and a few other affirmative action hires, CUNY’s favorite and only chancellor Matthew Goldstein has declared himself Emperor of the entire CUNY galaxy. “Unlimited power and the idea of being able to destroy entire...
