Campus volunteers aim to "make the world a little bit of a better place."
by Odelia Sussman in Opinion
The Queens College chapter of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) deals with important issues like the rising cost of higher education, low voter registration and turnout, the quality of public transportation, and recycling. They also reach out to the homeless and raise awareness of issues that affect consumers.
by Lauren Talerman in Opinion
"Everyone lives and dies for himself alone."
These are the words that were told to Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and writer, while he was in the camps. He recorded them in his memoir Night, but I doubt he ever truly believed them.
They aren't true.
by Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq. in Opinion
As anyone who has passed my Business Law I course should know, parties to a contract have legally-enforceable obligations toward one another.
Paragraph 30.3(d) of the recently negotiated CUNY faculty contract provides that "[t]he colleges will use their best efforts to provide teaching adjunct instructional staff with voicemail and, where feasible, to include them in department directories.
by Steve Kendall in Opinion
I will start by saying I am one of the most patient human beings I know. Over the years I have dealt with girlfriends with severe mental problems, a moron who totaled my car, and a friend who ruined my CD collection, and I never once flipped out.
But the United People party has managed to piss me off more than Brett Ratner when he destroyed the X-Men movies.
by Davis Dunavin in Opinion
When a great luminary or sage or social commentator dies, and some bloody world event happens shortly (or not so shortly) thereafter, we bring up the question over darts or coffee: "What would blah-blah-blah have said about so-and-so?" And the answer is always the same: They would have said it sucked, of course.
