Spring Break
According to a recent email sent out to the Hunter community by school officials, College President Jennifer Raab has negotiated with the developers of a new apartment building in East Harlem to offer discounted housing to Hunter College students. The new building, located on East 119th Street and Third Avenue, stands right across the street from the new School of Social Work and the CUNY School of Public Health.
This July, at a press conference at Bellevue Hospital, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced that she was awarding CUNY nursing programs with a grant for $500,000. The money will be used to support nurses teaching at Lehman College and Borough of Manhattan Community College, as well as to fund the new Hunter-Bellevue accelerated nursing program.
Mihi cura futuri, Hunter College's motto, is Latin for "mine is the care of the future." The school's Children's Learning Center, a small office responsible for providing safe and affordable childcare for student-parents studying at Hunter, has operated under this motto for the past 26 years.
Today, while waiting in line for the bathroom at Starbucks, a young woman emerged from the bathroom, agitated at the lack of toilet paper. Five days ago, I sat on a busy dirt road eating a falafel sandwich from a sheet of newspaper. People, cars and donkeys heaved by in masses.