If you have logged on to Baruch's home page since the December break, you may have noticed some changes: a photo of students (and now a photo of the library) and the tagline - "The American Dream still works." If you have flipped through any major business magazines recently, you may have come across an ad with copy such as: "Its surprising where some students go after Harvard and Yale......Here.
In his book Choosing Excellence: 'Good Enough' Schools Are Not Good Enough, John Merrow wrote, "'I taught it, but they didn't learn it' is the most harmful attitude of all . . . and allows teachers to avoid taking responsibility for the outcomes of their work.
Although the general media leads one to believe that the majority of "Americans" are pro-war, the turnout at the huge peace rally on Saturday February 15th proved otherwise. The gathering, which initially began in front of the United Nations on 1st Avenue and 44th Street by 2pm had widened to encompass 1st Avenue to 3rd Avenue and the mid 30s up into the 70s, and grown, by several estimates, to more than half a million people.