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Towelheads, Diapers, And Faggots: Reviving The Turban, Jasbir Puar

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

In the days and weeks following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, there has been a rapid proliferation of mocking images of a turbaned Osama bin Laden, not to mention of the turban itself. In a photo-montage circulating from Stileproject.com, even George Bush has been sporting a bin Laden-esque turban. Another internet favorite is a picture of bin Laden superimposed into a 7-11 convenience store scene as a cashier. Posters that appeared in midtown Manhattan only days after the attacks show a turbaned caricature of bin Laden being anally penetrated by the Empire State building. The …

A Review Of Maivan Clech Lam's At The Edge Of The State: Indigenous People And Self-Determination, Jeffrey D. Martino

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Advocate, October 2001, Vol. [13], No. [2], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

War or Peace?

On the Precipice of World War 3 Oppose the “Jihad” and the “Crusade.” Louise Ammentorp (p. 2)

Why War is Not the Answer. Josh Little (p. 3)

Martyrs. Anonymous Author (p. 3)

Unexcusable, Unexplainable, Unavoidable Acts of Terror? Andrew Kennis (p. 4)

Why the U.S. Public Has Been in a “War-Like Mood.” Andrew Kennis (p. 6)

Masthead (p. 2)

Immigration

The Many Tortuous Ways an Alien Can Become a Permanent Resident. Nassima Abdelli (p. 7)

Art (p. 8)

Picassos from Málaga at the Graduate Center Art Gallery. Patricia Siska.

Art Historians Do Their Part …

Panel Presentation On Immigration And Criminal Law. Sponsored By The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York., Neha Lall, Jen Murray

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hip-Hop/Scotch: "Sounding Francophone" In French And United States Cultures, Francesca Sautman

Publications and Research

This essay adresses the relationship between "being/speaking Francophone" and forms of ethnic-cultural dissent in France and the U.S. In both countries, terms such as Francophone and Francophonie are often captured by specific political agendas and practicies. What it means to be "Francophone" involves complex interfacings between various langages, including English and French, between competing discursive claims made on the basis of linguistic home and the particular forms of cultural and linguistic hybridity, such as French hip-hop culture and world music.

Making Writing Matter: Using "The Personal" To Recover[Y] An Essential[Ist] Tension In Academic Discourse, Jane Hindman

Publications and Research

Considers how constructing a hopeful professional discourse requires substantial revision of current professional discursive practices. Notes that the search for local knowledge and a shared, more hopeful discourse has rekindled interest in the rhetorical as well as material authority of ideologies, in various forms of writing collected under the overdetermined rubric "the personal." (SG)

Advocate, September 2001, Vol. [13], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Adjunct Organizing

Adjunct Confessions. Tim McCormack (p. 2)

Adjunct Action Set to Heat Up in the Fall. Kristin Lawler (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 2)

CUNY Life

Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Zalk Dies at 56. Nassima Abdelli and Mark Petras (p. 4)

Zalk was Advocate for Students. Jocelyn Boryczka (p. 4)

Zalk Worked Hard for Child Care. Linda Perrotta, Grad Center Director of Child Care (p. 4)

Comments from Colleagues (p. 4)

Sue Rosenberg Zalk: A Scholar, Mentor and Friend. Jennifer Leigh Disney (p. 4)

Childcare Center: A Year Later. Linda Perrotta (p. 7)

Student Government …

Applying Information Competency To Digital Reference, Lisa A. Ellis, Stephen Francoeur

Publications and Research

Presented at the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference (2001), this paper presents a case for applying information competency (IC) standards to digital reference services at academic libraries. Practical reasons for applying standards or guidelines to e-mail and online chat reference services are given with some insight to the nature of digital reference interactions. The standards that arose from the information competency movement in academic libraries are described and offered as a touchstone for planning and designing digital reference services. The paper concludes with preliminary ideas for how IC standards could be applied to the provision of digital reference.

Lgbt Studies: Past, Presences And Futures, Richard M. Juang

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

When I rolled out of bed at 4 am on April 20 to make the trip to New York for "Futures of the Field: Building LGBT Studies into the 21st Century University," the idea of discussing institutionalization was less than appealing. In a time of staff cutbacks, increasing courseloads and notoriously poor job markets, going back to sleep seemed a much better idea.

Standing Against Censorship—Again, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Good afternoon. I'm Alisa Solomon, the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Cay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York, and I'm glad to be here on behalf of CLAGS to voice our strong objection to Mayor Giuliani's so-called Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. We at CLAGS are not fooled by the Mayor's disingenuous assertions that this committee is merely a group of concerned citizens exercising their free speech in offering him their advice, for we recognize many of the members as long-time activists in the effort to squelch dissident viewpoints and legislate their own narrow morality. …

Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

I’ve just finished teaching an undergraduate Shakespeare class at Baruch College—CUNY to a class of mostly business majors. For many of the students, English is not their first language, so predictably, they had some trouble parsing Shakespeare's text. But they had no difficulty at all understanding what was going on between Patroclus and Achilles in Troilus and Cressida, or, arguably, between Antonio and Sebastian—or Olivia and Viola or Orsino and Cesario—in Twelfth Night. In general, they were not in the slightest surprised to find homoeroticism in the works of the Greatest Writer Ever. (Indeed, critically analyzing Bardolatry was …

The Outbreak Of West Nile Virus Infection In The New York City Area In 1999, Denis Nash, Farzad Mostashari, Annie Fine, James Miller, Daniel O'Leary, Kristy Murray, Ada Huang, Amy Rosenberg, Abby Greenberg, Margaret Sherman, Susan Wong, Marcelle Layton

Publications and Research

Background In late August 1999, an unusual cluster of cases of meningoencephalitis associated with muscle weakness was reported to the New York City Department of Health. The initial epidemiologic and environmental investigations suggested an arboviral cause.

Methods Active surveillance was implemented to identify patients hospitalized with viral encephalitis and meningitis. Cerebrospinal fluid, serum, and tissue specimens from patients with suspected cases underwent serologic and viral testing for evidence of arboviral infection.

Results Outbreak surveillance identified 59 patients who were hospitalized with West Nile virus infection in the New York City area during August and September of 1999. The median age …

The Ticker, May 7, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, April 23, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Classified Information was a publication that informed the College about Library services, personnel, upcoming events, new technologies, and available resources.

A Distance Education Collaboration: The Learning Café Experience, Miriam B. Deutch, Beth Evans, Lori Scarlatos

Publications and Research

As distance education collaborations between high schools and colleges increase, there is a concern that little has been done to assess the quality and effectiveness of the resulting virtual courses (Carr & Young, 1999). Yet it is equally important to address or consider the many challenges and issues of the collaboration itself. How these issues are addressed will seriously impact the success of any college distance education project in collaboration with other institutions of learning, including K-12 schools, community centers, and private industry. This article is about collaboration issues between high schools and colleges. It focuses on what the developers …

The Ticker, March 26, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Separation Of Auditing Tax Services From Management Consulting Services: Implications For The Profession, James S. Turley

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, March 19, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, February 26, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Ticker, February 13, 2001

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Advocate, February 2001, Vol. [12], No. [4], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Talking with Noam: In Part II of an Exclusive Interview, Noam Chomsky Discusses Flawed U.S. Policy on Colombia. Andrew Kennis (p. 1)

Same Old Same Old as Another Semester Begins. Tracy Steffy (p. 1)

Sartorial Sobriquets. Mrs. Eleanor B. Tippler, M.Sc. (p. 3)

At Robert Moses’s Knee: Where Herman Badillo Learned to Remove Blacks and Latinos from CUNY. Rob Wallace (p. 6)

Herman, Horowitz, and The Grad Center Whitewashing. Rob Wallace (p. 8)

Giuliani Shreds Bill of Rights; Costs New Yorkers $50 Million. Mark Petras (p. 8)

Escape from Park Ave: A Memoir. Frank Benjamin (p. 9) …

Course Catalog 2001, Laguardia Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Over the past two years since the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie Wyoming, the circumstances of his death have held a symbolic place in the story of violence against gay men and lesbians nationally. University of Wyoming Professor Beth Loffreda's book Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder is on the "Lambda Book Report" best-sellers list and MTV has recently premiered "Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Matthew Shepard Story" that dramatized the events of October 6th, 1998. The telling and retelling of Shepard's murder in both academic books and popular culture suggests …

Major Advances, Omar Portillo

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

When I receive copies of my college transcripts from CUNY these days, under my major it reads, "Gay and Lesbian Studies," followed by "Gender and Sexuality Studies." As far as I know, I am the first CUNY undergraduate to see such a major on his/her transcript. I have managed to build this major through the CUNY BA program — which allows students to fashion their own major if no campus provides it, by compiling courses at a range of CUNY campuses — and CLAGS has been instrumental in my achieving this goal. It makes me feel so proud to know …

Teaching Social Justice Through Legal Writing, Pamela Edwards, Sheilah Vance

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence In Lawyers, Susan Bryant

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

"God Gave Us This Land:" The Ovahimba, The Proposed Epupa Dam, The Independent Namibian State, And Law And Development In Africa, Sidney Harring

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Invisible Can Or, Gendering Corporate Globalization Trouble: Technological Utopianism And The Language Of Erasure, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

In the following, noted science fiction scholar Marleen S. Barr argues for an increased attention to science fiction as a literature of the potentials of globalization, a genre that has largely been marginalized in discussions of the future of a globalized techno-culture. Further, Barr argues for greater attention being paid to feminist utopian fiction which helps to reimagine women's roles in the increasingly complex, and increasingly capitalistic, globalized techno-culture that has continued to marginalize the female body (and consciousness) in much the same way that scholars have denied the possibilities of utopian science fiction.

Pegasus 2001, Bronx Community College

Yearbooks

2001 yearbook from Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.