The deal to turn Governors Island over from federal to state and city control is foundering, sources close to the negotiations say. According to legislators who have worked on the deal, there is no obvious way to overcome divisions between the federal government, which currently controls the 172-acre island in the Upper Harbor, and the Read More
The only New Yorkers who will remember the 2000-1 school year with any fondness will be the graduates who finally, blessedly, put the city school system behind them and go on to happier things. Even the City University of New York is looking better these days, as the public schools finish a year marked by Read More
On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Hunter College’s first senate meeting of the year came to order in room 714W of the Hunter West Building on Lexington Avenue. As 100 or so senators–Hunter students, staff and faculty who are elected to shape the college’s academic policy–and community members filed into the wood-paneled auditorium, the tension Read More
When Mayor Rudolph Giuliani chose Jennifer Raab, a lawyer and onetime issues director for his campaign, to chair the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1994, the city’s vocal preservation community was outraged because Ms. Raab had no experience in the field. They accused Mr. Giuliani of using the Commission’s chairmanship as a political patronage post.
Now, Read More
Marcia Newfield refers to herself, with only a little irony, as a “cultural migrant worker.” She includes in that category all of the more than 7,000 well-educated people who do the grunt work of teaching at the City University of New York.
They are the university’s adjuncts, and they now outnumber the university’s 5,500 full-time Read More
If the City University of New York can’t teach, it does serve as a source of amusement from time to time. The other day a certain Renate Bridenthal, described in the papers as a professor of history, was arrested for disorderly conduct. The professor, in the company of a number of adolescent protesters, was trying Read More
Last week, you may recall, we reflected on the subject of City Council Speaker Peter Vallone and the lessons he has learned from history. This week, fellow students, we take up the subject of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the instruction that he has received from the past.
Once upon a campaign season, the Mayor was Read More
Just about everyone knowledgeable seems to agree by now-nearly two decades since his death-that Frenchman Jean Renoir, youngest son of the great Impressionist Auguste Renoir, is the best film director the Western world has known (I’d vote for the Japanese Kenji Mizoguchi as the Eastern world’s finest), and so it’s a very Happy New Year Read More
