Power Politics at Yale Power Politics at Yale
As a Russian studies major at Yale in the 1970s, I observed Soviet "elections" that were conducted more fairly than the 2002 Yale Corporation's board of trustees election. Why is ...
May 16, 2002 / Sherrod Brown
The Keyboard Campus The Keyboard Campus
"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the printed...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig
Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West
As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
Naming—and Un-naming—Names Naming—and Un-naming—Names
Critics of the war on terror—or even those who slightly question the Bush administration—may now find themselves on a list of members of a fifth column.
Dec 13, 2001 / Feature / Eric Scigliano
CUNY Under Attack CUNY Under Attack
The politics of America's largest urban university have entered a restless, disordered, tumultuous period, a violent whirlpool from which it seems unable to extricate itself.
Jun 17, 1999 / Frederick S. Lane
A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling
I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...
Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin
Money Science = Ethics Problems on Campus Money Science = Ethics Problems on Campus
The third most dispensed drug in the United States is a thyroid medication called Synthroid.
Mar 4, 1999 / Feature / David Shenk
Affirmative Racism Affirmative Racism
Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.
Feb 18, 1999 / Laura Flanders