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Spring 2008 Contents
> CSI & CUNY NEWS

•CSI President Morales Gets Pay Raise, CSI Students May Pay More

•CUNY Chancellor Raises SAT Math Admission Scores to CSI & CUNY

•Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!

•Mayor Bloomberg’s Budget Cuts CUNY

•CUNY Trustee Randy Mastro Dropped

•Is CUNY Going Green?

> POLITICAL DISCOURSE

•American Apartheid

•Phony Soldiers?

•Comrade X: The Fourth Estate & Revolution

•Rush Limbaugh for OxyContin

•CSI Peace Week

•Iraq War Index

•What's the #1 cause of global warming?

> POETRY

•Rimbaud

•Enlightenment

•Love Poem

•Tainted Love

•a poem

•Sin Is Only Skin Deep

> CULTURAL DISCOURSE

•A Weeknight Out on the Town for Booze & Brains

> ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

•CSI Peace Week

•Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!

•Dark Prague

•iRAQ

•a poem

•What's the #1 cause of global warming?

•Earthshare

> DEPARTMENTS

•Letters to the Editors

•Submit or Die!

•Third Rail Bullpen

•Join Third Rail


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Mayor Bloomberg’s Budget Cuts CUNY

Mayor  Bloomberg has proposed cutting CUNY’s budget by $29.8 million. In response, City Councilman Charles Barron, the chairman of the Committee on Higher Education and a CUNY alumnus stated, “This budget is going to devastate [CUNY].”  Barron voiced concern at the possibility of axing several key CUNY programs, including scholarships such as the $11.2 million Peter Vallone Academic Scholarship Program, awarded to NYC high school students who graduate HS with at least a B average and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 at CUNY.  The scholarship has helped thousands of students, including many at CSI realize their dream of a college education.

Ernesto Malave, CUNY’s Vice Chancellor for Budget & Finance added that the CUNY Prep and ASAP programs, both funded from the NYC poverty commission were not included in Bloomberg’s budget proposal. Thankfully, Bloomberg’s budget is not expected to pass the City Council without any modifications to the CUNY cuts.



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