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Advocate, December 2004, Vol. [16], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Whither Health Services? Administration Reconsiders Health Services Funding in Face of Dwindling Resources. James Hoff (p. 1)

Dispute Brews Over Dining Commons Firing. Administration and Restaurant Associates Defend Dismissal as Some Students Urge Boycott. Antonia Levy and Dan Skinner (p. 1)

Don’t Compromise with Imperial Christianity (p. 2)

Letter: What’s the Matter with Kaminski? Nate Metzger, Dept of Philosophy (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Community News

Hierarchies in Bike Culture? (Pt. 1). Will Weikart (p. 3)

A Brief History of Restaurant Associates. Dan Skinner and Antonia Levy (p. 4)

Opinions / Analysis

At Pier 57 and Central …

Song Of The Outcasts: An Introduction To Flamenco [Book Review], Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

Robin Totton's Song of The Outcasts: An Introduction to Flamenco is actually a judicious, balanced overview of flamenco, its styles, history, and practitioners. And although its author is very passionate about his subject matter, facts and opinions are not blurred or mystified, but rather presented with clarity and concision (in only 224 pages). Totton defines himself as an "explainer by trade" (p. 12), and explain he does. The challenge, though, is to explain verbally an art form that defines itself around the notion of ineffability.

Advocate, October 2004, Vol. [16], No. [2], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Scaffolding Ads Remain Despite Expired Deadline. Andrew Kennis (p. 1)

GC Students Win Right to Use Baruch Gym. James Trimarco (p. 1)

AELLA Bakes for the People of Haiti. Valeria Treves (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Editorial: A Generation Comes of Age (p. 2)

Short Takes: CUNY Adopts Master Plan. CUNY Board of Trustees (p. 2)

Nuclear Double Standard in the Middle East. Jae Kim (p. 6)

Hierarchies in Bike Culture, Part II. Will Weikart (p. 10)

Conference Review: Old Bottles / New Wine: Renewing the Anarchist Tradition. Will Weikart (p. 11)

Some Facts About Hummers (p. …

Advocate, September 2004, Vol. [16], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CUNY No RNC Organizes Large CUNY Contingent at UFPJ March. James Trimarco (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Haggard Leaving (p. 1)

Community News: LAC Conference a Success Despite Pitfalls. Will Weikart (p. 3)

Feature: Part-Time Faculty Meet at Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) VI. Dominic Wetzel (p. 4)

What Are Your Feelings About the Commercial Advertisements on the Scaffolding Outside the GC? (p. 14)

Doctoral Students’ Council

The Doctoral Students’ Council Welcomes You. Paul McBreen, DSC Co-chair for Communications (p. 1)

DSC Executive & Steering Committee Office Hours (p. 15)

The DSC is Hiring for Positions …

Performance Measurement And Performance Budgeting In The United States In The 1950s And 1960s, Dan Williams

Publications and Research

The period of the 1950s and 1960s reflects the rise of performance budgeting. It also reflects the rise of the post-war generation of academic social scientists, which is roughly the second generation of statistical social scientists within the United States. This is the period of expanding program evaluation and the rise of policy analysis. While policy analysis is fairly distinct, program evaluation is largely the same thing as performance measurement, but as practiced by social scientists with a different skill set than public administrators. This paper examines the continued evolution of performance measurement practices and other closely related practices including …

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Kyrgyzstan, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan.

Queer Cuny V Conference, Leonard Vogt, J. Elizabeth Clark

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The date May 1 means different things to different people. Historically, May 1 is May Day, an international day of solidarity for workers. For Roman Catholics, May 1 is the opening day of the Month of the Virgin Mary. For queers at CUNY, May 1 was the date of the fifth annual Queer CUNY conference.

Queer Studies In Eastern Europe: Lgbtq Scholars Convene In Fifth Conference In Poland, Tomek Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The International Conference of LGBTQ Studies was held in Poland from May 24-26, 2004. Themed as "Europe without Homophobia," the conference at Wroclaw University brought together an international group of scholars and activists to discuss homophobia, both in its global and East European forms.

From The Executive Director, Paisley Currah

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

CLAGS joins other LBGT groups in condemning the sexual humiliation and other forms of torture inflicted on Iraqi detainees by US military forces. As the AI-Fatiha Foundation for LGBTIQ Muslims noted in a press release last month, "forcing men to masturbate in front of each other and to mock same-sex acts or homosexual sex is perverse and sadistic, in the eyes of many Muslims."

Advocate, May 2004, Vol. [15], No. [1?], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Columbia Adjuncts Strike as Admin Sticks to Hard Line. Andrew Kennis (p. 1)

Horowitz to Step Down as GC President. James Trimarco (p. 1)

Regime Change at Hunter College. James Trimarco (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Editorial: Let’s Register Every CUNY Student to Vote! (p. 2)

Short Takes: Scalia-Cheney-Bush: The Year in Review (So Far) (p. 2)

Letter to the Editor. Sergio Kadinsky, CUNY City College (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Local News (p. 3)

WBAI’s “Exception to Rulers” Tour Kicks off in NYC. Paul McBreen.

Columbia Strike. Andrew Kennis.

Analysis

Thoughts on the …

Martha J. Lamb (1826-1893) Brought American History To Life, Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

Through her writings and editorial work, Martha J. Lamb did more to foster widespread interest in the emerging field of American history than perhaps any other individual in the 19th century. She achieved national recognition as editor of the Magazine of American History which preacher Henry Ward Beecher considered an “historical gold mine.” Historian Francis Parkman even claimed, “every student of American history has a stake in its success and prosperity.” That Lamb and her work were so highly regarded in the historical community, then considered a ‘man’s preserve,’ can only be appreciated by knowing the attributes and affiliations she …

Sonny Ramadhin And The 1950s World Of Spin, 1950-1961, David M. Traboulay

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Historical dictionary of Poland, 2nd ed.

Queer Zagreb, Zvonimir Dobrovic

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Queer Zagreb is an international festival that took place for the first time in Croatia from April 25-30, 2003. It presented an extensive program which included theater, dance, film, and visual art, as well as a symposium of papers from around the globe focused on queer sexuality, art and activism. It was a pioneer event of its kind in post-communist Europe, and was presented throughout the city in some of Zagreb's most established venues.

Respect And Equality: Transsexual And Transgender Rights, Stephen Whittle

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The problem of who I legally am in the world I live in has been vexatious throughout my adult life. Like other transsexual people worldwide, I face an inadequate legal framework in which to exist. Some of us live within states and nations that recognise the difficulties and attempt to provide a route way through the morass of problems that arise; others barely, if not at all, even acknowledge our being. We are simply 'not' within a world that only permits two sexes, only allows two forms of gender role, identity or expression. Always falling outside of the 'norm,' our …

Clags Launches Disability/Queerness Programming, Sarah Chinn

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

CLAGS kicked off our initial year of Disability and Queerness: Centering the Outsider programming on September 22nd with an evening celebrating the release of Desiring Disability, a special issue of GLQ on disability and Disability Studies, and Haworth Press's forthcoming Queer Crips, a collection of essays and stories by disabled gay men.

From The Executive Director: Disability And Queerness: Centering The Outsider, Paisley Currah

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

When James Anastos, a transgender man, turned 21 and moved into a residential living environment for the neurologically impaired in Staten Island, his male gender identity became a problem. "Being transgender, they told me they could have me put away if I dressed like a boy. They didn't like the way I dressed—all boys' clothes," he told me during an interview.

The Guajira Between Cuba And Spain: A Study In Continuity And Change, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

In The Name Of Harmony And Prosperity: Labor And Gender Politics In Taiwan's Economic Restructuring (Introduction And Chapter 1), Anru Lee

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Taman Shamanism (Borneo), Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Invention Of The Classics: Nationalism, Philology And Cultural Politics In Argentina, Fernando Degiovanni

Publications and Research

By the end of 1915, two inexpensive book series devoted to the diffusion of colonial and nineteenth-century texts flooded the shelves of Argentine bookstores. Their deliberately resonant and all-encompassing names - La Biblioteca Argentina (The Argentine Library) and La Cultura Argentina (Argentine Culture) - were unmistakable signs of their nationalist character and aims. Developed respectively by Ricardo Rojas and José lngenieros, two of the most important intellectuals of Centennial Argentina, the nearly simultaneous launch of both series also underscored the editors' enduring competition to promote their contrasting versions of the nation's political and cultural past. The timing of the series' …

Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

Children are a spur, a commitment, a way of imaging the future—but all too often these sorts of phrases just rattle around a vacuum, their utterance the beginning and end of the commitment. We emphasize “the best interests of the child,”but this gloss provides a moral imperative to all manner of uncompleted projects and unfulfilled policies. Likewise, the use of children’s images or presence in public forums of all types gives a patina of honorableness to practices and plans that never actually make good on the promissory note of childhood. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit is a notable example. Such …

The Mutamathil Type Style: Towards Free, Technology-Friendly, Arabetic Types, Saad D. Abulhab

Publications and Research

Efforts to adapt various Arabetic scripts to the machine are as old as the field of typography. But most of these efforts concentrated primarily on forcing the machine to duplicate the Arabetic handwritten forms. Others have practically advocated divorce from the calligraphic tradition rather than enrichment and reform. One reason why the few modern attempts to typographically solve the technology-induced Arabetic script problems had failed is that many typeforms (or many times just theoretical calligraphy style) was presented as replacement for the traditional ones rather than as optional working types. New “controversial” types should be made widely available for users …

Transcriptions, Paraphrases, And Arrangements: The Compositional Art Of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Although more or less forgotten by most musicians, Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) was a celebrated composer, conductor, teacher, editor, and performer. This thesis seeks to draw a thorough biographical sketch of the composer as both a man and a musician and to provide a general description of his piano transcriptions, arrangements, and paraphrases, as well as a detailed analysis of three of his virtuosic piano transcriptions. An analysis of Moszkowski's standing among his peers is also presented. His often under-appreciated achievements are documented in the musical journals of his day, including The Etude, The Musical Courier, The Musical Times, Musician, and …

Writing As A Reader: The Deserted Village Of Jay Parini, Fred L. Gardaphé

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Anarchism And The Politics Of Homosexuality, Terence S. Kissack

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

From the mid-1890s through the 1920s activists in the American, English-language anarchist movement carried on a spirited debate on the ethical, social, and cultural status of same-sex desire. Among Americans they were alone in doing so; no other political movement or notable public figure of the period dealt with this issue. By making same-sex desire a topic of political discourse the anarchist sex radicals helped shift the sexual, cultural, and political landscape within which all Americans operated. While the contemporary homosexual rights movement is not the lineal descendant of the turn-of-the-century anarchist movement, the activists examined in this dissertation addressed …

An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation Of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Instrumental music played on two valveless trumpets and a wooden slit-drum currently accompanies the highland Guatemalan Maya dance-play Rab'inal Achi. These two instrument types are known from the Prehispanic record and have been associated with the play since its first mention in the mid-nineteenth century.

The script of the Rab'inal Achi is considered by many scholars to have Prehispanic roots. The possibility that its accompanying music also originated in Precolumbian times is the impetus behind my study. To explore this possibility I apply ethnoarchaeomusicological research methods, incorporating data supplied by iconology-iconography, ethnographic analogy, history, archaeology, and music analysis. Ethnoarchaeomusicological …

Bartolomeo Di Tommaso Da Foligno, Michael Patrick Johnson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Once famous and influential, the fifteenth century Umbrian painter, Bartolomeo di Tommaso (1408/11–1454) has only begun to receive serious scholarly attention within the past few decades. His long obscurity was in part attributable to the fact that he was not born in Tuscany, and did not work in the great art centers of Florence and Siena, facts that by themselves would relegate him to the status of a lesser artist. Further, his paintings have never been easily reconciled with those that art history has classified as Early Renaissance in style and, indeed even when Bartolomeo was influenced by Tuscan painters, …

Berlín Era Una Festa: Capllonch Vist Pels Seus Contemporanis A Alemanya, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

A principis del segle XX, Berlín i París eren, segons Joaquim Nin Castellanos, ciutats “a l’avantguarda dels països musicals”. Segons ell, les institucions culturals alemanyes eren admirables per la seva solidesa, però entenia i es resignava a acceptar que el futur de les arts passava per París. “París o Berlín?”, es devien demanar aleshores elsjoves artistes amb aspiracions mentre preparaven l’imprescindible viatge a l’estranger per conèixer aquesta “avantguarda”.

Why Constant? A Critical Overview Of The Constant Revival, Helena Rosenblatt

Publications and Research

Recent years have seen a remarkable renewal of interest in the thought of Benjamin Constant (1767–1830). For long recognized as the author of the literary masterpiece Adolphe, Constant is now receiving increasing attention for his political writings. Paperback editions of his major works are presently available in both French and English, helping to establish his growing reputation as a founding father of modern liberalism. Constant's stature as a seminal liberal thinker has benefited from the recent climate of opinion in the Western world and, in particular, from the return to fashion of liberalism as a social and political doctrine. …