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The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1991, Vol. 3, No. 1, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Graduate School Administration Threatens Status of Over 1600 Students. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Meet the President: An interview with Frances Degen Horowitz. Andrew Long, Thomas Smith, Jonathan Lang (p. 1)

Distinguished Psychologist Sylvia Scribner Dies at 67 (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Automated System to Speed Book Checkout. Susan Newman (p. 2)

Commentary. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the DSC. Michael Glassman (p. 3)

An Advocate Announcement: CUNY Grad Students Must Be Given CUNY Adjunct Positions (p. 3)

If You Can’t Strike, Stay Out of the …

Comprehension Strategies Of Two Deaf Readers, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

Strategies for reading comprehension used by two deaf college students as they discussed assigned readings with their teacher and classmates are here shown in examples categorized, tallied, and compared. Both were active users of strategies, and their pattern of strategy use was similar: interpreting, questioning, paraphrasing, and integrating were the strategies most used. The student reader who preferred expressing and receiving English-like sign manifested a higher proportion of inaccurate interpretations and paraphrases than did the student reader who preferred receiving and expressing American Sign Language (ASL), primarily because the former was unfamiliar with written linguistic cues and conventions of narrative …

The Graduate Student Advocate, May 1991, Vol. 2, No. 6, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial: No More Lip Service. Andrew Long, Tara McGann, Michael Waldron (p. 1)

Dr. Frances Degen Horowitz is Named the President of The Graduate School (p. 1)

Planned Shrinkage of the CUNY System. Tom Smith (p. 1)

Advocate Congratulates [Dr. Horowitz] (p. 1)

Photograph: April 1991: Student controlled NAC Building at CCNY (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Student Action Halts Granting of Degree to Bush’s Secretary of Education: No Honors for Lamar Alexander. Tom Smith (p. 2)

Bartlett Speaks! The PTU, CUNY Crisis, and Student Activism. Ron Hayduk (p. 2) …

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 1991, Vol. Ii, No. 5, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Harold M. Proshansky 1920-1990. Eric K. Glunt (p. 1)

Welcome to the Occupation (p. 1)

The Pursuit of Understanding: An Intellectual History. Harold M. Proshansky (p. 1)

Off the Record with President Proshansky. George McClintock III (p. 15)

More Bad CUNY Budget News. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

CUNY Chancellor Reynolds Meets with Students (p. 2)

Graduate School Prepares Anti-Bias Pamphlet. Andrew Long (p. 2)

What the Bias Pamphlet Has to Say. Office of the Dean for Student Affairs (p. 2)

Table of Contents (p. 2)

Top 10 Demonstration Sites …

Does Our Complex Writing Lower Test Scores On Mathematics Word Problems?, William (Bill) H. Williams, Sandra P. Clarkson

Publications and Research

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we describe one of a series of studies at Hunter College to determine whether students' reading proficiency affects their performance on mathematics "word" problems. Based on this study, we reached some specific conclusions:

1. Reading ability is a separate, quantifiable factor which impacts the performance of all students on mathematics word problems.

2. Less complex writing leads to better results on word problems for all students.

3. Less complex writing leads to even more improvement in test results for “weaker” readers [those needing reading remediation] than for “average” readers [those exempting reading remediation].

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1990, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Slanderous Inferences: Environmental Psychology Faculty Defends Decision to Terminate Student. S. Saegert, D. Chapin, K. Christensen, R. Hart, C. Katz, J. Kubran, S. Low, L. Rivlin, G. Winkel, M. Wolfe (p. 1)

Rallying Against U.S. Aggression in the Middle East. Mohamed Aly and Kim Ives (p. 1)

Where Have All The Books Gone? Faculty Abuse of Library Borrowing Privileges. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Part-Timers United: New Adjunct Group Forming. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Proposed Destruction of Cree and Inuit Homelands. Julia Scalcione (p. 2)

Doctoral Students’ Council Report. Michael …

The Graduate Student Advocate, May-September 1990, Vol. 1, No. 7, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Wither the PTU? Vincent Tirelli (p. 1)

Victim of Protest? (p. 1)

CUNY Students Strike; Police Brutality Alleged. Andrew Long & Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter to all Cultural Anthropology Students and Faculty (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Intensive and Beyond: The Foreign Language Institute & The Latin/Greek Institute. Caroline Pari (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Responding to the Mystery Homophobe (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Whose Rhetoric? (p. 4)

Sexual Politics (p. 4)

A Professorial Sampler (p. 4)

Michael …

Teaching French With The Fairy Tale: Folk Tales Written By Students Of French, Francesca Sautman

Publications and Research

A small number of language departments throughout the country have begun to incorporate courses based on the fairy tale into their curriculum. In a French composition course (third-year level) which I taught at Hunter College of CUNY in the Fall of 1989, folk, fairy and marvelous tales were used as a basis for written and oral instruction. They generated fascinating examples of how folk tale structures remain quite alive with students studying and living in a contemporary, Western, highly urban environment, and how, specifically, their own cultural backgrounds and interests found a privileged mode of expression in this genre.

The Graduate Student Advocate, April 23, 1990, Vol. 1, No. 6, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Behind the Bookshelves: CUNY Libraries & the Budget Crisis. Caroline Pari (p. 1)

CUNY Professor’s Opinions Denounced: Graduate School Philosopher Accused of Racism. Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Photograph: Students on Strike at John Jay College, Spring 1989 (p. 1)

Heaviest Element Discovered. Department of Biology, University of Utah (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter from Art History Students (p. 2)

Distinguished Professor Linda Nochlin Bids Adieu. Linda Nochlin (p. 2)

C.C.S. $ (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Women in War and Peace: The Space of Female Heroism. Margaret …

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 21, 1990, Vol. I, No. 5, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

English Program Moves to Change Requirements (p. 1)

Art History Students Protest Plans to Expand Program. George McClintock III (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Poetry New York: Readings at the Gas Station (p. 2)

Wanted: Volunteers for Census (p. 2)

Oyez! Oyez! Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Mystery Homophobe in West Hall (p. 2)

Committee for Cultural Studies Redefines the First Person Pronoun Plural (p. 2)

Cartoon: I cannot comment on the canon, it would jeopardize my neutrality. Joel [illegible] (p. 2)

Students Influence Promotion Decision (p. 3)

CUNY Budget Proposal …

The Graduate Student Advocate, Feburary 1990, Vol. I, No. 4, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

DSC Restructures Student Newspaper. Jeanne A. Marre (p. 1)

CUNY Audits 1987-1988 Doctoral Students’ Council: “Serious Shortcomings” or Gross Mismanagement? Al Cofribas (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Photograph: Hallway to Heaven (p. 2)

Illustration: Wishful Thinking (p. 2)

What’s in a Name, anyway? Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Dining With Inka: The Croissant Craze (p. 3)

MLA Memories: Student Talk Out of School. Cheryl Fish, ed. (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

International Woman’s Day (p. 3)

Presidential Search Committee Announced (p. …

The Infusion Of Teachers From Eastern Indonesia Into West Kalimantan, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 15, 1989, Vol. 1, No. 3, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CUNY Chancellor Will Resign (p. 1)

Committee for Cultural Studies Plans Doctoral Program: Student Involvement Encouraged (p. 1)

A Veiled Affair. Binita Mehta (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around and About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Illustration: Post-Modernism (p. 2)

Enhancement Funds for Students with Disabilities (p. 2)

Photograph: International Students Association (p. 2)

In Search of the Missing Rib. Ed Marx (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

More Rooms Available in West Hall (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Voted In or Out of Business? (p. …

The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1989, Vol. 1, No. 1, Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

International Students: A Quality Resource (p.1)

Doctoral Student Council Elects New Officials (p. 1)

Michael Harrington: The Last Humanist? (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Remembering Michael Harrington: Being a Socialist. Will Petrie (p. 2)

Carina Yervasi of the Doctoral Students' Council Welcomes New Students (p. 2)

Cartoon. Brian Biggs (p. 2)

Arbitrary Judgements (p. 2)

Services for Disabled Students (p. 2)

The Deskilling of an Ancient Honorable Craft. Brooklyn Slim (p. 3)

Dining with Inka (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Editorials & Letter (p. 4)

Miracle on 42nd Street

Soldiers of Misfortune: CUNY, …

Revision Strategies Of Deaf Student Writers, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

Deaf high school students at different schools shared second drafts of their own narratives via an electronic bulletin board after conferencing with their respective teachers. This article characterizes the kinds of questions teachers asked during the conferences and the kinds of revisions the students made between first and second drafts. Results indicate that teachers most often ask questions that require student to provide more information; yet these questions do not affect revision as much as questions which require students to rephrase specific language. Students typically either added or substituted words or phrases that showed both similarities to and differences from …

Deaf Students Responding To The Writing Of Their Peers, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

An Alternative View Of Education For Deaf Children: Part Ii, Lil Brannon, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

How might deaf children acquire one of the primary goals of education literacy in English? This article suggests that literacy in English as well as knowledge of the English language can be acquired concomitantly through developmental reading and writing activities that reflect principles of first language acquisition if students bring to these activities relatable experiences which they have already linguistically represented. Such activities engage students in reading and writing where content and context support them in their attempts to actively understand and convey meaning in English. The end product of, rather than the prerequisite for, this meaningful reading and writing …

An Alternative View Of Education For Deaf Children: Part I, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

Quigley and Kretschmer (1982) asserted that the primary goal of education for deaf children should be literacy in English. This article presents an alternative view that there be two primary goals: (a) thinking and learning through the development of meaning-making and meaning-sharing capacities and (b) the acquisition of literacy in English. In this article, the first of these goals is viewed as the more fundamental since it facilitates the acquisition of knowledge while it simultaneously serves as the prerequisite for the acquisition of literacy in English. Because neither direct language instruction nor the exclusive use of English in sign will …

Levels Of Development In The Language Of Deaf Children: Asl Grammatical Processes, Signed English Structures, Semantic Features, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

This study describes the spontaneous sign language of six deaf children (6 to 16 years old) of hearing parents, who were exposed to Signed English when after the age of six they first attended a school for the deaf. Samples of their language taken at three times over a 15-month period were searched for processes and structures representative or not representative of Signed English. The nature of their developing semantics was described as the systematic acquisition of features of meaning in signs from selected lexical categories (kinship terms, negation, time expression, wh-questions, descriptive terms, and prepositions/conjunctions).

Processes not representative of …