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Spring 2008 Contents
> CSI & CUNY NEWS

•CSI President Morales Gets Pay Raise, CSI Students May Pay More

•CUNY Chancellor Raises SAT Math Admission Scores to CSI & CUNY

•Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!

•Mayor Bloomberg’s Budget Cuts CUNY

•CUNY Trustee Randy Mastro Dropped

•Is CUNY Going Green?

> POLITICAL DISCOURSE

•American Apartheid

•Phony Soldiers?

•Comrade X: The Fourth Estate & Revolution

•Rush Limbaugh for OxyContin

•CSI Peace Week

•Iraq War Index

•What's the #1 cause of global warming?

> POETRY

•Rimbaud

•Enlightenment

•Love Poem

•Tainted Love

•a poem

•Sin Is Only Skin Deep

> CULTURAL DISCOURSE

•A Weeknight Out on the Town for Booze & Brains

> ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

•CSI Peace Week

•Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!

•Dark Prague

•iRAQ

•a poem

•What's the #1 cause of global warming?

•Earthshare

> DEPARTMENTS

•Letters to the Editors

•Submit or Die!

•Third Rail Bullpen

•Join Third Rail


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  CSI & CUNY NEWS

CSI President Morales Gets Pay Raise, CSI Students May Pay More
After receiving a $10,000 a year pay raise, CSI President Tomás Morales quickly announced his support for a CUNY plan that would raise CSI tuition.... READ MORE

CUNY Chancellor Raises SAT Math Admission Scores to CSI & CUNY

CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has unilaterally raised the SAT math admission score without the consent of CUNY faculty......READ MORE

 

Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!

Dr. Chamlers Clark, formerly of the CSI Department of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy Department received the boot from former CSI President Marlene Springer.....READ MORE

Mayor Bloomberg’s Budget Cuts CUNY
....READ MORE

CUNY Trustee Randy Mastro Dropped

....READ MORE

Is CUNY Going Green?

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  Political Discourse

American Apartheid
FDR’s Plan For Segregating America
and its Lasting Effects

A Third Rail Special Report
by Jeff McGraham

In 1933, in the throes of the Great Depression, a thousand foreclosure procedures were initiated daily as the housing market was collapsing. To help alleviate the housing crisis, the FDR administration created the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in June of 1933. HOLC provided “long-term, self-amortizing mortgage[s] with uniform payments spread over the whole life of the debt.” ....READ MORE

Phony Soldiers?
by Michael Gualtieri

You’ve heard a number of times from Jon Soltz, co-founder of VoteVets.org. Do you consider him a phony soldier? According to Rush Limbaugh, Jon Soltz, an Iraq war veteran, is a phony soldier.....READ MORE

 

Comrade X: The Fourth Estate & Revolution

In France, before the Revolution of 1789, there was the Ancien Régime and the États Généraux, translated as the ‘Estates General, which was a legislative body of the different classes (called estates) of the French people.....READ MORE

Rush Limbaugh for Oxycontin
....READ MORE

CSI Peace Week

....READ MORE

Iraq War Index

....READ MORE
Global Warming

....READ MORE
 
  Poetry

Rimbaud

READ POEM

Enlightenment

READ POEM
Love Poem

READ POEM

Tainted Love

READ POEM

a poem

READ POEM
Sin Is Only Skin Deep

READ POEM

  Cultural Discourse

A Weeknight Out on the Town
for Booze & Brains

by Nikki Saint Bautista

On the first Wednesday of every month, guests might get turned down at the door up to half-an-hour before the stage opens in the underground bar at the trendy Park Slope yuppie hang out, Union Hall. A crowd of asymmetrical hairstyles, retro shoes, 90s styled black-framed glasses, tight pants-wearing young people pour into every open space available in the basement, not to swing their hips or bob their heads to the latest underground music phenomenon, but to hear scientists speak for two hours.
....READ MORE

 
  Departments

Letters to the Editors

 


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