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		<title>Abolishment of the SEEK Department Pending CUNY Board of Trustees Approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEEK to become a new program once departmental status is stripped By Martha Ortiz Contributing Writer The CUNY board of trustees will vote Feb. 27 to approve the abolishment of the SEEK department at Hunter and the formation of the Ellis Sutton SEEK Program.  The restructuring of Hunter&#8217;s SEEK offerings comes after a thorough evaluation of the department which, according to an explanation of the policy attached with the meeting agenda, included the consultation of SEEK faculty and students. SEEK, Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge, is a program offered by CUNY to provide financial and counseling services to “high potential, low income students who otherwise might not be able to pursue a college degree because they are not academically well prepared for college level,” according to the CUNY website. “The evaluation and assessment of the Hunter SEEK program was driven in part by a CUNY-wide initiative, as reflected in the 2011-2012 goals and targets of the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs to evaluate SEEK programs CUNY-wide,” said Vita C. Rabinowitz, provost and vice president for academic affairs.  The change into a SEEK program would mean the hiring of a director that would report directly to the Provost, “who could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USG Halts Decision to Allocate Club Spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kimberly Devi Milner Associate News Editor  Last week Hunter’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) held an impromptu forum to discuss the tension broiling between Hunter’s numerous clubs and the Student Space Allocation Committee (SSAC) processing their applications for campus space. At this time, the SSAC&#8211; comprised of Hunter administrators and USG representatives&#8211;has halted the reallocation process affecting the college’s 146 clubs, as many disgruntled club members have united against what they see as an undemocratic process. On the Feb. 9th USG meeting, Hunter Student Clubs United (HSCU)&#8211;the unchartered group that formed out of resistance to the reallocation process and represents over 30 clubs filled the room. Assistant Director of Student Activities, Teneia Wooten, and USG Cultural Affairs Commissioner, Jarret Freeman, faced immediate dissension as the group citied the lack of transparency of the reallocation process, and demanded sweeping reorganization. “We think there were a lot of losers and few winners,” said International Socialist Organization (ISO) member William Russell, regarding the room assignments. “We can have a process where everyone can feel like a winner. We want a club union,” said the masters’ student, vocalizing HSCU’s primary demand. The coalition of student clubs that butted heads with the USG panel evolved shortly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poses Park Bike Racks Seek to Reduce Bike Theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secure bike racks installed at Poses Park to combat a string of bike thefts John Bolger News Editor Additional reporting: Kimberly Devi Milner, Associate News Editor and Nikelle Riggs, Contributing Writer In response to a rash of bike thefts that plagued Hunter&#8217;s main campus last semester, a series of bike racks has been installed in Poses Park, located just East of the Hunter East building.  The rate of bike theft at the campus has fallen dramatically since the installation, although bikes continue to be stolen. Poses Park requires a Hunter OneCard swipe to open the park&#8217;s metal door.  The park is equipped with two infrared cameras which watch the park&#8217;s five bike racks, an additional camera films outside the entrance to the park.  Although Poses Park offers the most secure option for cyclists to lock up their bikes – according to Meredith Halpern, executive director for marketing and communications at Hunter, no bikes have been stolen from Poses Park – it has yet to gain popularity with bike riders, and bikes continue to be stolen from the campus&#8217;s 12 other bike racks. A bike was stolen last month from the main campus&#8217;s north bike rack, according to Public Safety&#8217;s daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First PIPA and SOPA, now ACTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesser-known bill threatens freedoms; US already a signatory David Khukhashvili Staff Writer Many Americans were aware of the recent talks that in Congress regarding SOPA and PIPA, but ACTA, a similar bill, is still unknown to many more, though it may be even more dangerous. ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is an intellectual property treaty that in its broadest sense is designed to strongly enforce copyright laws and intercept counterfeit goods. But these are not bad goals in and of themselves, especially since there is evidence linking counterfeited goods to terrorism. So what is wrong with ACTA? The answer lies at the root of its inception. At the core of the negative ramifications associated with ACTA lies its utter disregard for transparency. In 2007, the United States and the European Union, along with several other nations, joined forces in drafting a trade agreement behind closed doors. No detailed information regarding the intricacies of this agreement was released to the public. To date, only limited information is available and most of this is from unofficial and unaffiliated third-party sources. A lack of transparency can be construed as a lack of democracy, and when bringing forth the issue of eroding civil, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Websites!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A call to make Hunter’s digital realm more user-friendly Christian Davies Contributing Writer Can you imagine if you had to visit five different websites with three different user names and passwords every time you wanted to find a new piece of information on Google? If that were the case, we’d avoid the site like E. coli. So if we’re not willing to put up with such frustration on the Internet, why on earth should we put up with it at Hunter? Between applying as a transfer student last Spring and beginning classes this past week, I was given five different websites to go to for pertinent information: cuny.edu, “MyChoice” (I still haven’t figured out if this is the same as MyHunter and have absolutely no idea what purpose is served by either), Hunter WebMail (Enhanced and Standard Editions), CUNY Portal, and hunter.cuny.edu. To gain access to these five different websites, I was given three different passwords and three different usernames—one for MyChoice (or MyHunter), one for Hunter Webmail, and one for CUNY Portal. It’s quite a lot for a new student to keep track of, especially if the new student has a full-time job and other responsibilities that don’t leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunter Lobby No Longer 24/7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lobby hours changed after over a decade of 24 hour a day access By Kimberly Devi Milner and Nistha Lamba Once open to Hunter students 24 hours a day, the Hunter West lobby&#8217;s hours of operation have been changed to match those of the library&#8217;s. The lobby now closes at 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10:30 p.m. on Friday, and 8:30 p.m. on weekends.  Public Safety has enforced the new policy made by senior Hunter administrators since mid-January. Because the Hunter campus is monitored by public safety 24 hours a day, the lobby will remain open, but students and visitors will not be allowed to remain inside past official operation hours. The lobby’s 24-hour access policy had been in place at the college for nearly two decades, and students previously availed the area outfitted with tables, chairs and a microwave to study or sleep after the library closed.  The new hours especially affect the college’s homeless population, and students who take night classes. “It’s a problem for people who take night classes,” said Psychology student Beryl Teitelbaun. Teitelbaun emphasized her concern that students who work all day then take night or evening classes pay the same tuition as day students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupying CUFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City University Film Festival screens 10 Occupy related shorts Maria Hernandez Contributing Writer On Feb. 3 the City University Film Festival at Macaulay kicked off with a screening of 10 short documentaries on the Occupy movement. Drawing from the work of students across CUNY, the festival brings together student filmmakers, professors and the public to watch and discuss some of the most fascinating work emerging from the City University. Nick Shimkin, the artistic director of CUFF, organized the event, saying “This was a chance to present strong student work in advance of our upcoming festival in March, and also give greater exposure to some of the amazing and inspired film and media coming from Occupy Wall street, a lot of which has been made by CUNY filmmakers.” The program opened with a brief talk by Martin Lucas of the IMA-MFA program, who discussed the ways in which the media has followed and catalyzed international conversations about OWS. He cited the mimetic aspect of certain images, such as the pepper spraying incident at UC Davis this past November and videos of the student protests at Baruch. According to Lucas, the various media that have proliferated around Occupy Wall Street have produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peripheral Visions of Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New art exhibit focuses on Italian industrialization Peter Dunifon, Associate Arts and Entertainment Editor Ryoko Sakai, Contributing Writer In the Hunter West lobby&#8217;s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, a new exhibition opened on February 2 with artworks featured from twenty-one Italian photographers. Spanning from the 1950s to the present day, the images offer a perspective of Italy that often goes unseen. Professor Maria Antonella Pelizzari of the Hunter College Art Department, and a native of Italy, curated the exhibit. With the title “Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s–Present,” the exhibiteffectively integrates artwork into a solid historical foundation. The impressive exhibit collects a wide range of work not often shown in the U.S., and the exhibit covers a lot of space inside the Leubsdorf Gallery. Every possible area, from a glass display facing out on 68th Street to a projection of photographs covering the south wall of the Hunter West lobby, is utilized. The artwork itself covers a lot as well: real, surreal and many abstract photographs, films, a rare book of Italian magazines and even an interactive piece.  A primary theme of the exhibit is industrialization in Italy. The works challenge the cliches associated with beautiful Italian countrysides and romantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Right Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hunter Project exhibit takes on the internet  Julian Rivas Arts and Entertainment Editor Continuing to display work quietly in the basement, Thomas Hunter Projects installed a massive new piece by Matthew Garrison at the start of the semester titled “Be Right Back.” With a name inspired from the internet acronym, “BRB,” the installation attempts to visualize and embody the internet. The work covers an entire wall of the Thomas Hunter Project room with 837 webcam shots of empty rooms that resemble an overwhelming collage of colored walls and random furniture pieces when viewed as a whole. Up close though, the empty rooms showcase eccentricities and personalized modes of living. The collage accurately communicates the duality of comforting and unsettling vibes that one often encounters while surfing the web. Matthew Garrison began developing his idea for “BRB” nine months ago, after being approached by the Hunter College art department about displaying his work in the Thomas Hunter Project&#8217;s room. An artist who’s claimed to be interested in social networking and in traversing the space between analog and digital, Garrison spent hours sifting through webcam chat sites to take hundreds of screenshots of empty rooms. Garrison’s project avoids making grandiose statements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrians Protest Chinese and Russian Veto Outside Hunter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Bolger News Editor Approximately 75 people gathered at the intersection of 67th street and Lexington Avenue Feb. 10 to protest Russia and China&#8217;s decision to veto a UN resolution issuing an ultimatum to the embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down.  The protesters chose the intersection because of its proximity to the Russian mission one block away, which the protesters could not seek a permit for, one protester said. The protesters chanted in English and Arabic, waved Syrian flags and held signs written in English, Arabic and Russian.  “No fly zone over Syria is our first priority now,” read one of the sings, another sign read “stop killing our children.” The demonstration ended sharply once the permit expired.  Police presence was minimal and no confrontations broke out between police and the crowd.]]></description>
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