Students March to CUNY Central Office

May 14, 2012
Students March to CUNY Central Office

Students post outside 80th Street to voice grievances John Bolger News Editor On May 10 roughly 110 students gathered outside Hunter College to protest CUNY’s response to a demonstration last week, where two students were arrested outside the office of the Brooklyn College President Karen Gould. Hunter College was well prepared for the planned protest, during which about 50 students marched to CUNY’s central offices on 80th Street. No violent confrontations or arrests occurred, although the march did briefly...

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Two Arrested as CUNY Scuffle With Activists at Brooklyn College

May 13, 2012
Two Arrested as CUNY Scuffle With Activists at Brooklyn College

Students outraged by use of force against protesters Kimberly Devi Milner Associate News Editor Additional reporting by John Bolger News Editor On May 2 student activists rallying outside the Brooklyn College president’s office scuffled with campus and university Public Safety officers as two students were arrested, and tensions between the CUNY administration and the emerging Occupy-style student unions approached a simmering point. Focusing on tuition hikes but also decrying the surveillance of college Muslim student groups and increased campus...

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March Down Broadway Draws Thousands

May 13, 2012
March Down Broadway Draws Thousands

Confrontation escalates as the parade reached endpoint Jenady Garshofsky Editor-In-Chief Additional reporting by John Bolger News Editor On May 1 protesters marched from Union Square to the Financial District on Broadway. The march was organized by labor unions and was one of two legally permitted events throughout the course of the day. Despite the permitted nature of the event, this march prompted an abundant presence of NYPD officers ready to thwart disorderly protesters and quash contention along the route....

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Wildcat March Draws Hundreds of Black-Clad Protesters to SoHo and Chinatown

May 13, 2012
Wildcat March Draws Hundreds of Black-Clad Protesters to SoHo and Chinatown

Top NYPD brass and plain-clothed officers shutdown march John Bolger News Editor All photographs by John Bolger unless otherwise noted. Approximately 300 protesters gathered at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on East Houston Street in the early afternoon on May 1 to participate in the unpermitted “Wildcat” march. Many of...

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A Day in the Life

May 13, 2012

Into the mind of a Hunter Undergraduate Student Government official Duwa Alebdy Staff Writer Christina Chaise, a senior Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senator, has been involved with the USG for about a year now. According to Chaise, a USG Senator is the liaison between the class body that they...

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It’s ALIVE!

May 13, 2012
It’s ALIVE!

This week: it’s amore! Tara Bohensky Staff Writer Valentine’s day is long gone and gone along with it, for most women at least, is that whirlwind of romance and chivalrous behavior on the part of fiances, boyfriends and significant others. With that, of course, went the hearts that plastered...

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