CSI President Morales Gets Pay Raise, CSI Students May Pay More After receiving a $10,000 a year pay raise, CSI President Tomás Morales quickly announced his support for a CUNY plan that would raise CSI tuition.... READ MORE
CUNY Chancellor Raises SAT Math Admission Scores to CSI & CUNY
CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has unilaterally raised the SAT math admission score without the consent of CUNY faculty......READ MORE
Look Who USED To Teach at CSI!
Dr. Chamlers Clark, formerly of the CSI Department of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy Department received the boot from former CSI President Marlene Springer.....READ MORE
American Apartheid FDR’s Plan For Segregating America
and its Lasting Effects A Third Rail Special Report
by Jeff McGraham
In 1933, in the throes of the Great Depression, a thousand foreclosure procedures were initiated daily as the housing market was collapsing. To help alleviate the housing crisis, the FDR administration created the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in June of 1933. HOLC provided “long-term, self-amortizing mortgage[s] with uniform payments spread over the whole life of the debt.” ....READ MORE
Phony Soldiers? by Michael Gualtieri
You’ve heard a number of times from Jon Soltz, co-founder of VoteVets.org. Do you consider him a phony soldier? According to Rush Limbaugh, Jon Soltz, an Iraq war veteran, is a phony soldier.....READ MORE
Comrade X: The Fourth Estate & Revolution
In France, before the Revolution of 1789, there was the Ancien Régime and the États Généraux, translated as the ‘Estates General, which was a legislative body of the different classes (called estates) of the French people.....READ MORE
A Weeknight Out on the Town
for Booze & Brains by Nikki Saint Bautista
On the first Wednesday of every month, guests might get turned down at the door up to half-an-hour before the stage opens in the underground bar at the trendy Park Slope yuppie hang out, Union Hall. A crowd of asymmetrical hairstyles, retro shoes, 90s styled black-framed glasses, tight pants-wearing young people pour into every open space available in the basement, not to swing their hips or bob their heads to the latest underground music phenomenon, but to hear scientists speak for two hours. ....READ MORE