Advocate, November 2009, Vol. [21], No. [3]

Document Type

Newspaper

Publication Date

11-2009

Volume

[21]

Issue

[3]

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

From the Editor’s Desk: Education Über Alles. (p. 2)

Adjuncting: The Collapse of the Tenure Track. Alison Powell (p. 4)

Health Issues: Rapid HIV Testing Returns to GC on Dec. 3. Collette Sosnowy (p. 5)

Political Analysis: The Militarization of Crowd Control. Justin Rogers-Cooper (p. 6)

Dispatches from the Front: Grading Papers is Hell (But It Doesn’t Have to Be). Talia Argondezzi (p. 8)

Books That Changed the Way We Think: Autonomy! Review of Autonomia: Post-Political Politics, edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi (MIT Press, 2007). Ashley Dawson (p. 9)

Lessons in Terror at John Jay. Abe Walker (p. 11)

Poetry: From “The Unofficial Record.” Doug Sparks (p. 16)

Masthead (p. 2)

CUNY News in Brief: New Schools, Old Hippies, and a Dead Domain (p. 3)

Hunter Cafeteria Workers Win Settlement with AVI!!!

CUNY Law Found Harboring a Bunch of Hippies

CUNY’s Community Colleges Abandon Open Admissions Policy

CUNY Can’t Fund its Community Colleges, but Opens New School in East Harlem

CUNY Lets Domain Name Drop

Leftover PSC Funds for the Taking

Book Reviews

Singing the Body Politic. Review of I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature, edited by Peter Swirski (McGill University Press, 2009). Alison Powell (p. 13)

Who Cares About Wal-Mart? Reviews of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business by Nelson Lichtenstein (Metropolitan Books, 2009); and To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton (Harvard UP, 2009). Carl Lindskoog (p. 14)

Art Review (p. 17)

A Dutch Treasure Comes to the Met. Review of “Vermeer’s Masterpiece.” Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael Busch.

Music Reviews (p. 19)

The East Village Scene. Reviews of The First Annual Nublu Jazz Festival; Al Foster Quartet at Nublu; and Andrew D’Angelo’s Gay Disco Trio at Drom. Mark Schiebe.

Theater Review (p. 20)

McCraney’s Mythologies. Review of “The Brother/Sister Plays” by Tarell Alvin McCraney at the Public Theater. Frank Episale.

Film Reviews (p. 22)

Murder at the Rijksmuseum: Peter Greenaway Tackles the Mysteries of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. Reviews of “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” (2009) and “Nightwatching” (2007), directed by Peter Greenaway. James D Hoff.

News from the Doctoral Students’ Council (p. 23)

Open Meetings and Chartered Orgs

A Few Other Announcements

Upcoming Meetings

The Back Page (p. 24)

New Grad Center Provost Has Amazing Hair. Matt Lau.

ph.d. comics. Jorge Cham.

Announcements / Advertisements

Don’t Submit. Contribute. The Advocate (p. 4)

Research Assistant Position. Professional Staff Congress-CUNY (p. 5)