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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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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 the protesters were dressed in black and wore bandannas or masks to cover their faces during the Wildcat march. This march hosted some of May Day’s more disruptive and “militant”...

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May Day 2012 in Photographs

May 2, 2012
May Day 2012 in Photographs

May Day, a call for a global general strike, hit the streets of New York City. Protests took place at Bryant Park, Times Square, Madison Square Park, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, SoHo, Chinatown, Union Square, Broadway and the Financial District.Photographs are arranged chronologically.         All photographs and captions by Jenady Garshofsky and John Bolger. Share/Bookmark

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Analysis of Crime at Hunter

April 26, 2012
Analysis of Crime at Hunter

Crime records from 2009 to present reveal trends John Bolger News Editor An analysis of Public Safety’s daily crime logs, which contain records from 2009 to the present, shows that while over- all crime has decreased since 2009, crimi- nal activity is still an ongoing problem at Hunter College. The daily crime logs are maintained in accordance with the Clery Act, which mandates that colleges receiv- ing federal financial aid make available to the public detailed information about crime...

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USG Elections Continue With Most Candidates Unopposed

April 26, 2012

Kimberly Devi Milner Associate News Editor Additional reporting by Jenady Garshofsky Editor in Cheif Voting for Hunter College’s Undergraduate Student Elections began earlier this week and will come to a close on Friday, April 27 at 11:59 p.m., determining the new Undergraduate Student Government representatives for the 2012 to 2013 academic year. All candidates are running unopposed except for the positions of Undergraduate Student Government President, Evening Affairs Commissioner, and junior senators. Undergraduate Student Government (USG) currently consists of...

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Psychology Labs Move into the 21st Century

April 26, 2012

Animal and autism facilities to be revamped Kimberly Devi Milner Associate News Editor By the end of summer 2012 Hunter psychology professors will cut the ribbon to eight state-of-the-art animal study and cognitive developmental research laboratories as part of the department’s largest renovation in over 40 years. The project emerging in CUNY’s Decade of Science will provide modern labs for Hunter faculty working with electric fish, songbirds and rats, and observation rooms for professors engaged in developmental and autism studies....

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Hunter Continues Renovation of the Wexler Library

April 26, 2012

Renovations aim to modernize library for digital age Eugene Ostrovskiy Staff Writer The new entrance to the Hunter College’s Wexler Library has now opened on the seventh floor. The third floor entrance will remain closed for the duration of renovations, which are expected to be complete by the end of 2012. The library will be open during its regular hours (unless indicated otherwise) with the exception of the areas that are being renovated. None of the library’s online resources...

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James Aronson Awards at Hunter College

April 25, 2012
James Aronson Awards at Hunter College

Awards for social justice journalism draw impressive journalists throughout the U.S. Bridgit Boulahanis Features Editor The 22nd annual James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism and Cartooning with a Conscience took place at Hunter’s Lang Recital Hall April 18. The ceremony, which drew an audience of over 70 interested students and professional journalists, featured talks from the journalists who won the awards as well as a presentation from winning cartoonist Dwayne Booth. The winners, selected by a panel of...

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Fire Exit in Severe Disrepair

April 7, 2012
Fire Exit in Severe Disrepair

Extensive water damage and leaking pipes found in emergency stairwell Jenady Garshofsky–Editor in Chief and Bridgit Boulahanis– Features Editor   Despite Hunter College’s recent extensive cosmetic renovations, certain areas on Hunter’s Main Campus that are crucial to student safety remain in disrepair. An anonymous tip revealed one “of several locations” within Hunter that is currently in poor maintenance and poses a potential hazard to students. Behind one of Hunter’s main lecture halls there is an emergency exit door with an...

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Library to Close During Spring Break for Renovations

April 7, 2012
Library to Close During Spring Break for Renovations

New entrance to open on seventh floor Andrew Rice Contributing Writer In order to accommodate the ongoing renovations to Hunter College’s Wexler Library, the library will be closed this spring break from April 6 to April 11. During this time renovations will occur to the third floor and a new entrance to the library will open up on the seventh floor when the library reopens towards the end of spring break. For the past several months, the third floor...

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Outrage Continues as NYPD Spying Hits CUNY

April 7, 2012

Hunter PSC chapter to file FOIL request with college Kimberly Devi Milner–Associate News Editor Hunter’s Professional Staff Congress chapter resolved to file a Freedom of Information Law request with the college after spring break requesting information related to the NYPD’s monitoring of Mus- lim groups at Hunter. Defending the faculty union’s deci- sion to go ahead with the FOIL request, Integrated Media Arts Professor Tami Gold argued, “who exactly can come into the school if the president and high-level...

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Faculty Union Decries Security Presence at teach-ins

April 7, 2012

Kimberly Devi Milner–Associate News Editor Disturbed by what it perceived as a pattern of unusual security presence at its teach-ins, Hunter College’s chapter of the Professional Staff Congress released a resolution on March 7 condemning what it called an ongoing effort at Hunter and other CUNY campuses “to chill free speech and intimidate faculty.” Hunter’s PSC chapter alleged in a resolution that security officers had been posted both inside and outside its Nov. 17 teach-in, and that at least...

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New Sexual Harassment Policy Proposed at CUNY

April 7, 2012

Kimberly Devi Milner–Associate News Editor The CUNY board of trustees plans to vote on a revised sexual harassment policy for the university that would forbid intimate relations between students and their professors come June. A draft of the policy was circulated throughout the CUNY community on March 6 by Chancellor Mathew Goldstein, who said the proposal was a response to a request from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Faculty Senate. According to the chancellor, the new provisions...

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NYPIRG Hosts DREAM Act Teach-in

April 7, 2012

Undocumented students speak out Nikelle Riggs–Contributing Writer The New York Public Interest Research Group hosted a DREAM Act teach-in March 21 in Thomas Hunter Hall to discuss the legislation that will allow undocumented students to be awarded money from the Tuition Assistance Program. Ten students during the teach-in’s question and answer segment stood up and confessed their undocumented status in public for the first time in a bold display of courage. “We had one of the best events I...

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