CUNY News in Brief (Dec...
Embattled CUNY students, already laboring under the stresses of a broken economy, are being forced to absorb another blow to their pocketbooks. On November 22, the CUNY Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition by 5 percent for the coming spring semester, and then another 2 percent for...The Subtle Art of the S...
A professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Scott Galloway, recently sent an email that has gone viral, due largely to its unique approach in response to a student’s particularly obnoxious behavior. The student, who remains anonymous, had arrived an hour late to...
Book Review: Radical Im...
Imaginal Machines by Stevphen Shukaitis. Autonomedia (2009).At every level, Imaginal Machines is a subversive text. Against the rising tide of complacency, Stephven Shukaitis sketches out new possibilities for political engagement that are at once seditious and savvy.
Theatre Review: Greek t...
Medea and its Double by Euripides, adapted and directed by Hyoung-Taek Limb. Presented by Seoul Factory for the Performing Arts and La MaMa ETC Auto Da Fe by Masataka Matsuda, translated by Kameron Steele and Shigeki Mori, directed by Josh Fox with Paul Bargetto. Presented by...
CUNY News in Brief (Oct...
Just to make sure that he seals his legacy as “WORST GOVERNOR EVER” of New York State, David Paterson has ordered yet another rape and pillage campaign against the state budget, unsurprisingly proposing to slash $53 million from allotted funds for CUNY. This, of course, instead of, uh, we don’t know, maybe increasing taxes on the rich by ½ a percent? In case other educational institutions might have been feeling left out, the governor also proposed cutting $90 million from SUNY’s annual budget, and hacking off $35 million from monies allotted to the Higher Education Services Corporation which administers student aid.
