GSU News #3

Our Fall 2009 edition of GSU News (pdf) is now available on our site! Its theme is "involvement" and it includes:

• a polemic on "the depoliticization of activism"
• a timeline of seven years of campus politics
• excerpts from recent GSU statements on teaching job availability and advanced residence
• a survey on the political responsibilities of academics
• labor news from across the country
• part one of a folk epic, "the marooned dissertation writers"

GSU News #2

The second, spring quarter 2009 edition of GSU News (pdf) contains the following:

• an administrator's guide to GSU
• a commentary from NYU on activism and organizing
• Josh Trampier's suggestions for improving healthcare
• a polemic for academic noise
• a member survey asking "what's the difference between work, play and study?"
• an allegory about a president stuck in his ivory tower

GSU News #1

The first edition of GSU News (pdf) includes the following:

• a personal story by a GSU member
• a survey of the campus labor situation
• news briefs from other campuses
• a summary of the economic crisis's impacts on universities nationwide
• a member survey asking "what is a university?"
• an anti-academic poem and a fantasy story