New School Economic Review

Police and Protest at the New School… Again

by Benjamin on April 15, 2009

Over the winter students at the New School occupied a building in protest over the way president Bob Kerrey and one of his (many) VC’s, John Murtha,  is running the university, calling for their resignation and actual student representation in the administration. Where last time 30 hours of protest was peacefully resolved, on Friday Bob Kerrey called in NYPD armed with helmets, mace and batons, according to the New York Times  blog, and Saturday print edition. 

Reports of violent suppresion of the protests were confirmed by videos of the protesters who were outside the New School building, and tempers continue to flare with information and disinformation spread by the administration, although everyone seems to agree that “the scale of the action appears disproportionate to the situation and videos show apparent excessive force being used to apprehend students” (e-mail from the Provost and Deans, April 13). 

It is probably no exaggeration that President Kerrey’s approval ratings are lower than even Mr. Bush’s at his worst, but whereas the President of the USA has to have his term renewed by public election every coupld of years, the students will have no say in Kerrey’s continued tenure.

More on The New School in Exile Pages, Faculty support from the University Senate, and now we wait…

Beware absent minded professors and angry students!

by Benjamin on February 19, 2009

As the markets find something new to be afraid of and NYU students fight for their rights and occupy a building, a little like New School students were forced to do earlier this year, we take a light-hearted approach to occupation and provide a list of signs that should be on every campus, courtesy of www.PhDcomics.com:

More to follow on the supposed crash in commodity prices this fall tomorrow.