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By Adam Zaki Published: November 22nd, 2017 City University of New York’s (CUNY)  #GivingTuesday campaign is taking place this Tuesday, Nov. 28, and has goals to pass last year’s donation total. After raising $21,000 in 2016, the goal for this year is to surpass that, and continue that pattern for …

By Adam Zaki Published: November 22nd, 2017 “If you think of education as a daring adventure, CUNY Brooklyn College might be right up your alley,” reads bestvalueschool.com’s opening sentence describing Brooklyn College, after ranking the school #52 in its list of Top 100 Affordable Universities. While being praised on the …

By Zainab Iqbal Published: November 15th, 2017 Whether or not racial violence is a factor of policing was one of the main topics of debate yesterday at the Gold Room on the sixth floor of the Brooklyn College Student Center. As per one of the events in the “We Stand …

By Adam Zaki Published: November 15th, 2017 In a packed Woody Tanger Auditorium on Nov. 1, the Brooklyn College Women’s Center hosted Andrea J. Ritchie, an African American police misconduct attorney, who spoke about her new book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and …

By Zainab Iqbal Published: November 15th, 2017 Every year, the City University of New York Board of Trustees (CUNY BoT) discusses the issues of tuition and funds. Tuition hikes are decided amongst the Board, which essentially regulates all of CUNY, and is also involved with distributing funds. But should it …

By Zainab Iqbal Published: November 15th, 2017 The New York Police Department (NYPD) has permission from Brooklyn College to use the bathrooms on campus, according to Director of Public Safety Donald Wenz. Though all of the comfort stations are accessible to the NYPD on campus, Wenz said the college prefers …

By Zainab Iqbal Published: November 8th, 2017 “In other words, there could be an informant in this room?” a student asked. “Yes,” the panel simultaneously answered. On Thursday, Nov. 2, after the second campus airing of “Watched”, a 19-minute documentary about the New York Police Department (NYPD) undercover agent surveilling …

By Carmen Saffioti Published: November 8th, 2017 “Art for Art’s Sake” is what is written on the cover of the fourth edition of “Weirdo Brigade.”  The zine is a Brooklyn College publication of student artwork, poems, photography, rants, prose, and more. However, the “Weirdo Brigade” is unlike any other literary …

By Christopher Thompson Published: November 8th, 2017 The Toys for Tots program, put on every holiday season by local Marine Corp Reserve units, is on the Brooklyn College campus in room 1407 at  William James Hall in until Dec. 15. The non-profit organization sets out each fall with the mission …

By Hannah Grossman Published: November 8th, 2017 Posters with the headline “Terrorist Supporters” listed names of Brooklyn College faculty and student supporters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a pro-Palestine group that advocates for international economic pressure through sanctioning and boycotts on Israel, known as BDS (Boycott, Divest, and …