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Advocate, December 2008, Vol. [20], No. [4], Gc Advocate

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From the Editor’s Desk: Shut it Down (p. 2)

Adjunct Layoffs on the Horizon: Effects of Paterson’s Budget Cuts Continue to Reverberate through CUNY Schools (p. 3)

CUNY News in Brief: NYU-CUNY Financial Aid Partnership a Fraud (p. 3)

Grad Life: Debting on the Future. Justin Rogers-Cooper (p. 4)

Political Analysis: In Midnight’s Shadow. Danny Nassre (p. 5)

Adjuncting: Budget Cuts. Tuition Hikes. Job Insecurity. Renée McGarry and Jesse Goldstein (p. 7)

Afghanistan: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State, Part 1. Christian Parenti (p. 8)

Masthead (p. 2)

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Bolaño’s Inferno. …

Advocate, November 2008, Vol. [20], No. [3], Advocate

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From the Editor's Desk: The Road Ahead (p. 2)

Political Analysis: The Other November Election, Michael Busch (p. 3)

CUNY News in Brief (p. 3)

Adjuncting: Adjunct Project Wants You to Have More Money!, Renee McGarry and Jesse Goldstein (p. 5)

Grad Life: The Long View from the Ivory Tower, Alison Powell (p. 6)

What’s So Democratic about American Democracy?, Advocate Staff (p. 7)

Forgetting Iraq and the Discourse of Responsibility, Steven Pludwin (p. 9)

What’s Happening to America?, Chalmers Johnson, Bill Ayers, and Amiri Baraka (p. 11)

Book Review: Democracy’s Demons: Inside the Mind of the …

Advocate, October 2008, Vol. [20], No. [2], Advocate

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From the Editor's Desk: Shocking Wall Street: Disaster Capitalism and the Promise of Progressive Reform (p. 2)

Political Analysis: Three Days in the West Bank, Nirit Ben-Ari (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: Teaching Writing Intensively (and Often), James Hoff (p. 4)

Adjuncting: Graduate Student Health Insurance Is on Its Way — But Not For All, Renee McGarry and Jessie Goldstein (p. 5)

CUNY News in Brief (p. 5)

Grad Life: The Battle of St. Paul, Abe Walker (p. 6)

The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now, Roisin O'Connor-McGinn (p. 8)

Profiteers, Union-Busters, Witch Hunters... Look Who’s …

Advocate, September 2008, Vol. [20], No. [1], Gc Advocate

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From the Editor’s Desk: I Want to Believe (p. 2)

Guest Editorial: Class Struggle and the PSC. Tom Smith (p. 3)

Opinion: Tech Fee: Let Students Decide. Gregory Donovan and Rob Faunce (p. 4)

Adjuncting: Grad Students, Job Security, and Health Care. Jessie Goldstein and Renée McGarry (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: Of Earth Monsters and Adjunct Lecturers. Renée McGarry (p. 5)

Grad Life: The Summer Fling. Erin Lee Mock (p. 6)

Political Analysis: China, New York, and the American Way. Justin Rogers-Cooper (p. 7)

The PSC’s “Adjunct Problem”: The Proposed Contract and the Future of …

Advocate, April 2008, Vol. [19], No. [5], Gc Advocate

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GC Students Rally for Better Health Care (p. 1)

Whither Democracy? The Democratic Party’s Dilemma in 2008. Maurice Leach (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: Lockdown America (p. 2)

Grad Life: Do You Need to Be Here? Questions For the Uncertain Graduate Student. James Trimarco (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: The Pile. Tim Krause (p. 4)

Adjuncting: Health Insurance: We Must Keep Pushing. Carl Lindskoog (p. 6)

The Revolution in Venezuela. Michael Busch (p. 9)

Masthead (p. 2)

Letters

“Raiding Nader.” Michael Busch, Political Science (p. 2)

GC Advocate Editor Responds (p. 3)

“Art and Authenticity.” …

Advocate, March 2008, Vol. [19], No. [4], Gc Advocate

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Puerto Rico School Teachers Go on Strike, Demand Higher Wages, Smaller Classes, Better Facilities (p. 1)

NP on the Way? Student Affairs Says New Nurse Practitioner Could Be on Campus by Mid-April (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: What Nader’s Bid Really Means (p. 2)

Guest Editorial: CUNY Grad Students Deserve the Same Health Insurance as SUNY Grad Students. Ellen Zitani (p. 3)

Adjuncting: Now is the Time for Graduate Student Health Insurance at CUNY! Carl Lindskoog (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: Catching More Flies with… Butter? Tracy E. Robey (p. 5)

Grad Life: Repetitive Motion …

Educating For Justice: A History Of John Jay College Of Criminal Justice. [Third Edition]., Gerald Markowitz

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Revision of the previously updated edition Educating for justice. 2004. Includes an interview with Jeremy Travis, the fourth President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice conducted June 5, 2008.

TOC: Introduction. The making of John Jay College; 1965-1970. The era of open admissions: 1970-1976. The crisis: 1976. The development of criminal justice: 1976-1989. The student takeovers of 1989-1991. The quest for equity. John Jay comes of age. Epilogue. Index.

Advocate, January 2008, Vol. [19], No. [3], Gc Advocate

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Plan Colombia and the American War on Drugs in Latin America. Michael Busch (p. 1)

Are Hunter’s Graduate Students Paying to Teach? Unpaid Assistantships Spark Controversy on Campus (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: The Rhetoric of Demonization (p. 2)

Graduate Center Technology: Windows Live Email Move on Hold (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: In the Classroom of the Critical Mind. Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (p. 4)

Grad Life: Wanted: Wealthy Patron(s) to Fund My Last Year of Dissertation Work. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (p. 5)

Adjuncting: The Adjunct Project: Who Are We, What Are We Doing, and How …

Measuring Knowledge Of Natural Selection: A Comparison Of The C.I.N.S., An Open-Response Instrument, And An Oral Interview, Ross Nehm, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

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Growing recognition of the central importance of fostering an in-depth understanding of natural selection has, surprisingly, failed to stimulate work on the development and rigorous evaluation of instruments that measure knowledge of it. We used three different methodological tools, the Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection (CINS), a modified version of Bishop and Anderson's (Bishop and Anderson [1990] Journal of Research in Science Teaching 27: 415-427) open-response test that we call the Open Response Instrument (ORI), and an oral interview derived from both instruments, to measure biology majors' understanding of and alternative conceptions about natural selection. We explored how these instruments …