The Subtle Art of the Student Takedown
by David Parsons
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 class and been denied admission, and later emailed the professor to explain […]
Book Review: Radical Imaginings
by Abe Walker
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 to Me
by Frank Episale
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 International WOW Company and the Baruch Performing Arts Center On […]
CUNY News in Brief (October, 2009)
by Advocate Staff
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.
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by Shawn Rice
A New Start As you know, this year started off with the biggest payroll fiasco that we’ve seen to date. And, as student representative and student advocates, we in the Executive and Steering Committees of the Doctoral Students’ Council have responded as quickly as possible. We have met with many different levels of administrators, trying to work […]
CUNY News In Brief (May, 2009)
by Advocate Staff
As the economic crisis continues to deepen, many New Yorkers are choosing to return to school, and are looking to do so as cheaply as possible. CUNY has enjoyed a sharp 12 percent increase in applications over the past year, which will likely lead to CUNY’s highest enrollment ever next semester. According to CUNY overlord Matthew […]
CUNY News In Brief (February, 2009)
by Advocate Staff
Enrollment at Record High With the economy spiraling into a nose dive of recession, the number of New Yorkers returning to school has spiked in the past recent academic year. Enrollment has surged to record highs since September 2008, as the total CUNY-wide student body has reached nearly a quarter of a million students. But the crappy economy […]
The Best and Worst of 2006
by Advocate Staff
Worst Examples of CUNY Dissing Its Own Students: Carol Lang and Miguel Malo The City University of New York does not take the most open view possible toward freedom of speech on campus, as demonstrated by the university’s unflagging hounding of two activists whose cases wound through the courts and the newspapers through 2005 and […]
