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<title>Top Ten CUNY News stories of 2011</title>
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<![CDATA[Celebrity Death Match (Literally), Part One: Frances Fox Piven vs. Glenn Beck In what proved to be the lunatic spasms of a man whose career was going down the tubes, Glenn Beck sparked a national controversy in January by attacking CUNY’s Frances Fox Piven as being the root of all evil in American politics. Beck [...]]]>
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<title>In Memoriam Allen Mandelbaum (1926-2011)</title>
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<![CDATA[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 published several volumes of his own poetry. [...]]]>
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<title>Occupy CUNY Blog: November 28</title>
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<![CDATA[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 related news begin­ning today. The most recent updates will appear at the top with a EST stamp. [...]]]>
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<title>Is NYC ready for a General strike?</title>
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<![CDATA[If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill; Fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still. –Joe Hill On November 17, I marched with hundreds of [...]]]>
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<title>CUNY Police Riot, Ban Students from Attending Public Hearing</title>
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<![CDATA[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 Square Park where they met other contingents of students [...]]]>
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<![CDATA[St. Mark’s Bookshop Saved! The beginning of November witnessed a major victory for independent, small businesses in New York City.  St. Mark’s Bookshop, a Lower East Side institution for over thirty years, was threatened with eviction by its landlord, Cooper Union, as it struggled to scrape together monies to meet its monthly rent.  The possibility [...]]]>
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<title>Occupy CUNY Blog: Day One</title>
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<![CDATA[Wel­come to the CUNY Cri­sis&#160;blog.&#160;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 related news&#160;begin­ning today. The most recent updates will appear at the top with a&#160;EST&#160;stamp. 7:30pm [...]]]>
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<title>UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Must Resign</title>
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<![CDATA[On Friday November 18 several dozen police officers in full riot gear were called by UC Davis Chancellor or “Chief Executive Officer” Linda Katehi to disperse a crowd of occupying students at her campus. These students were all that was left of a small occupation of the campus quad that had been set up the [...]]]>
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<link>http://www.gcadvocate.com/2011/11/uc-davis-chancellor-katehi-must-resign/</link>
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<title>Andean Odyssey: A Discussion with Michael Jacobs</title>
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<![CDATA[For those who have travelled extensively throughout South America, the astonishing majesty of the continent’s Andean mountains is surely etched in the imagination. From the lush jungles in northern Colombia and the lunar salt plains of the Bolivian heartland, to the snow-covered peaks of Argentina’s southernmost tip, the breathtaking diversity of the world’s longest, and [...]]]>
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<title>MOMA’s Must-See de Kooning Retrospective</title>
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<![CDATA[The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently opened an impressive and exhaustive retrospective of the art of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997).  Born in Rotterdam, the Dutch artist immigrated to the United States as a ship’s stowaway in 1926.  He gained notoriety and success in the New York galleries by the late 1940s and became intrinsically [...]]]>
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