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... are still reeling from last year’s round of cuts. We lost 5.4 percent of our budget in the fall of 2010, and another 8 percent reduction is expected in 2011. To weather these cuts, the administration has cut offi ce budgets and laid off staff. Initially, the president also considered slashing 15...

..., the prospects are very bleak: state funding is drying up, and there are no prospects for its replenishment. California’s 32 percent tuition increase in 2009 and SUNY-Albany’s closing of its French, Italian, Russian, Classics, and Theatre programs in 2010 have served notice of the new world order from...

... the years.25 Thus the share of non-nationals in the population of La Courneuve doubled after the 1960s, jumping from 11 perCent in 1968 to 25 percent in the 1990 census. As for African Americans, they have held a monopoly over the perimeter of the "Black Belt" from its inception. And the areas...

.... They reported that race and gender were almost 100 percent homophilic in both projects, but they argued that “value homophily,” or friendship due to shared values, drove “status homophily,” or friendship due to shared characteristics. Lazarsfeld and Merton based their findings on the existence of value...

... of Prop 209’s implementation, enroll- ment of underrepresented minorities (defi ned as African American, Native American, and Chican@/Latin@) at uc Berkeley dropped from 21.4 percent to 11.2 percent.6 Figures for 2010 show that African Americans make up only 3.4 percent of the student body, Chican...

... (just prior to the electoral victory of Hugo Chavez) the World Bank estimated Venezuela's degree of urbanization to be 92 percent, the highest in all of Latin America, and this remains the case to the pre- sent.19 Since the discovery of oil in the 1920s, the population...

..., it represented an 80 percent cut in the overall teaching budget, the abolition of state funding for the arts, humanities, and social sciences, and the larg- Porter: Student Unrest, University Unrest 243 est single shift in funding in the history of the English...

... billion in 2007–8; as of 2010 they accounted for over 12 percent of all student lending, up from approximately 3 percent at the beginning of the 2000s.5 By one estimate, these types of loans are on track to outpace federal loans within the next fi f- teen years. Furthermore, the market...

... name to the condition of exception to which we have grown habituated. Here in California, the Regents of the University of Califor- nia approved a 32 percent tuition increase in November 2009.3 The frequent quotation of this fi gure often lets slip that the recent change had...

...- sible, quality higher education across the disciplines at this largest university in the Caribbean region and the largest Hispanic-serving institution in the United States, in a US territory with a nearly 49 percent offi cial poverty rate and 17 percent unemployment, Puer...

... for understanding the economics of a proposed UC cyber campus. The dropout rate for students taking online courses is persistently and consistently high, paralleling the dropout rate of for-profi t colleges. It is routinely 20 percent higher than dropout rates from on-campus courses, 52 qui parle fall...

... during the bombing the populations cycle or grouped in uneven aroma de yerbas colors, love and squawk and when traveling forage lower, Darién’s seven percent decline is Istmina’s loss white...

... percent of land owner- ship in the UK is unaccounted for, while 37 million acres of land (two-thirds of Britain) are under “private” ownership. Twenty-four million dwellings stand on 7.7 percent of British land. The modern twist that compounds this inequality is manifested...

... except by answering ‘Because it was he; because it was I.’” 15 The dog is not the leading candidate because of its genetic quiddity . We share 96–98 percent of our genes with chimps and only 82–84 percent with dogs. (It’s around 90 percent for cats.) But as interesting as chimps are to study...

... to prevent development in what remains of the original Atlantic rain forests (5 percent)—besides whatever else we might say about the practice (and about that word “ecobar- 266 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 rier,” symbolizing the wall of “sustainable development”) is also...

... the ideals of the wartime generation: in November of 1921 students accounted for 13.1 percent of the movement's membership, while youths un- der the age of twenty-one made up 15 percent of the rank and file. The identification with youth was reflected in the leadership...

... becomes something of a fiction. According to Addameer, a Palestinian legal advocacy organization, since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967 Israeli forces have arrested more than eight hundred thousand Palestinians, or almost 20 percent of the Palestinian population in the occupied...

..., Kadue: Green Shade 169 and of the more abject animal kingdoms— an attention to how the other 99 percent of the biomass lives would certainly seem integral to a more vibrant and more sustainable understanding of biopower. What doesn’t come through in Nealon’s book, however, is how biopower...

... or otherwise—is a significant one. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey suggests that nearly 80 percent of rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows personally: an acquaintance, friend, current or former romantic partner, or family member...

... the law of Oedipus—one of the founding myths of European selfhood, European philosophy. According to Fanon: “in the French Antilles 97 percent of the families cannot produce one Oedipal neurosis” (BS, 152). This comment has been read (by critics and by Fanon himself...