 Notes
1. It is worth noting that the total cost of fees for graduate students
at Buffalo has gone from $351.80 per year to $709.80 per year in the
period 1995-96 to 1998-99. The GSEU is taking action against this
administrative move as well. Likewise, at Binghamton, for undergraduates,
it is worth noting that the administration recently raised the athletic
fee by $50 immediately following permission granted by the Trustees.
While there was some discussion about the raise in fees (which is paying
for the associated move to NCAA Division II, "scholarship" athletics), a
student vote defeated the move and the Faculty Senate voted against the
move by a two-to-one margin. Despite this, the machine moved forward (for
now at least), and Binghamton is presently bragging about their first year
in Division II sports with plans to meet the other SUNY university centers in
Division I competition as soon as possible. Fees in addition to minor but
highly publicized contributions from corporations like PepsiCo (who
recently paid for a baseball field scoreboard) will be the fuel for this
vanity contest.
2. Jennifer Lutzenberger and Emma K. Morrill, "Thursday's Protest in
Review," memo, December 5, 1998.
3. For a full text of the GSEU Statement on the SUNY Trustees, please
contact the author of this article.
4. It should be noted that the faculty members of SUNY are represented
by the United University Professionals (UUP), AFT Local 2190.
5. See GSEU Steering Committee (1999) for a summary of this fight.
6. Marc Bousqet, "Foreword: The Institution as False Horizon." Workplace 1.1 (February 1998), 23-24.
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