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The Graduate Student Advocate, December 1991-January 1992, Vol. 3, No. 4, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial: Cuomo Plays the Tune for CUNY’s Dance Macabre. Andrew Long, Tara McGann, Michael Waldron (p. 1)

CUNY Budget Faces Cuts: Another Tuition Increase Expected. Tara McGann (p. 1)

CPI Bombs at Lehman. Granville Ganter (p.1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

CUNY Board Prepares to Enact New Anti-Protest By-Laws. Ronald B. McGuire (p. 2)

City Council Calls on State to Pick Up CUNY Funding. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

Around & About The Center (p. 3)

A Scene from the Multi-Cultural Battlefield: Curriculum Politics in History. Michael Scott Weinstein.

Join the PSC! A Part Timers Update. Ron Hayduk. …

The Graduate Student Advocate, November 1991, Vol. 3, No. 3, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial: Trustees to the Community: Guns before Butter. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Art History Students Serve Notice to CUNY Administration. Andrew Long (p. 1)

CUNY Moves to Centralize Security; Committee Recommends Peace Officer Status. Ian McGowan (p. 1)

The Human Cost: Guards React to CUNY’s New Security Policy. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

Editorial: City Council Ponders CUNY/SUNY (p. 2)

CUNY Hires Anti-Terrorist Specialist as New Directory of University Security. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

SUNY Graduate Students Gain Union. Eric F. Coppolino (p. 3)

Graduate Workers of the World Unite (p. 3)

Notes from Your Student Government (p. …

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1991, Vol. 3, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Maybe They Wrote You a Letter. Pamela Donovan (p. 1)

The Facts and Fictions: USS Spending Allegations. Tara McGann (p. 1)

Reynolds Redux: There She Goes Again. G. Gantor (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editorial: A Call for Action (p. 2)

Around & About The Center (p. 3)

Art History Interviews 4 Finalists for Nochlin Post.

Art in Public Places: Two Exhibitions open at the Graduate School.

DSC Steering Committee Protests Status Letter. Steering Committee, DSC.

Masthead (p. 4)

Letters & Commentary

Congratulations, “Sister” Clare. Kim Edel (p. 4)

My Heart in my Throat. …

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].