Father Luis Barrios, a professor from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Chair of the Latin American Studies Department, has recently been incarcerated for protesting against the School of the Americas. SOA graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights cases in Latin America.
I caught wind of an incident awhile back, when two of my filmmaking friends were discussing a film crew they had spotted at Hunter. They seemed pretty upset, and I wondered why. According to one of the film students, he was with a film professor when they ran into the crew in the hallways of the third floor of the West building.
After the very first day of an unspecified semester, I became so frustrated with a teacher that I wanted to tear my hair out. The teacher was a PhD student who happened to teach a subject that I don't have any natural aptitude for, so I became very concerned that she took it personally when I didn't know the answer (which, I might add, was often).
Picture this: A year long battle of wits sharpie-scrawled upon a wall at the bottom of a dank and derelict stairway between one college student with too much time on his hands and his equally indolent nemesis. Now, envision the climax: through a fateful coincidence, just as the student puts the final touches upon another concise and insulting masterwork, his counterpart arrives to do the very same.
The United States of America experienced a revolution that occurred on Nov. 4, 2008, when millions of American voters elected Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. The switch of leadership in America signified a peaceful revolution, where the Republicans no longer held presidential office.
Edina Kacic's analysis of Twitter featured in the last issue of The Envoy, "'What Are You Doing?' The Twittering Fad Keeps Catching On," was similar to a student who goes to the first day of class, gets the syllabus, and then never goes to class again and complains that the professor didn't teach anything.
Currently, there are an estimated one million men and 200,000 women deployed in the military who fight to protect the rights of the American people. But are their rights being protected? United States military policy strictly prohibits any form of sexual activity amongst those deployed and serving.