Lighting up a cigarette in a restaurant, bar, office, or an airplane is a rapidly fading memoryñsomething our generation now only recognizes through movies and television shows like ìMad Men.î Today, 30 of the nationís 50 most populated cities, including New York City, have a ban on smoking in any indoor spaces aside from private residences, with hundreds of more [...]
Editorial Staff The title of “college professor” carries an aura of comfort: the posh life of an academic. Such a general perception encourages the notion that, as members of a culture of higher education, professors are immune to the dangers of low pay and little regard. Undoubtedly, a considerable percentage of American college professors find their jobs rewarding — certainly [...]
Numerous readers of the Free Press have offered comments on the satirical opinions’ series, “Fifty Shades of Rey” by Rey Mashayekhi, with particular ire directed at Mashayekhi’s valedictory column: “The Trappings of Cultural Sophistication (Or, Why I’ve Sworn Off Hipster Girls)”. The online response offers an opportunity to reiterate our policies regarding the Opinions Section of our publication. The aim of any opinions section is [...]
For more than a year, the Free Press has chronicled the efforts of New School students and faculty to bring the “Undoing Racism” workshop to the university. The workshop—created and implemented by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a collective of community organizers based in New Orleans—attempts to initiate a dialogue around institutionalized oppression in American society. The dialogue [...]
While most demonstrations in the wake of last fall’s Occupy Wall Street movement have served as little more than a soapbox for student voices, Students for a Free Cooper Union have proven far more successful in fostering a tangible discourse on the state of higher education. Tuition-free since 1902, Cooper Union’s mission of providing education “free as air and water” [...]
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy left much of New York, and The New School, incapacitated. All but two academic buildings and student housing facilities were plunged into the dark, leaving hundreds of students without the means to access their university. The administration had no choice but to cancel classes. For the entirety of the week following Sandy, there was a [...]
Over the last six weeks, the Free Press has been gathering reporting on the damage caused by the construction of The New School’s University Center to its neighboring buildings. The article was spurred after the discovery that in early March, The New School spent $1.54 million on a luxurious duplex apartment stretching from 5 E. 13th St. to adjacent 10 [...]
In March of this year, the Free Press published an editorial adovocating for the establishment of a 24-hour academic building at The New School. At the start of the Fall 2012 semester, a petition made its way around campus, calling for the same thing — establishing Arnhold Hall as a 24-hour building on campus. At the time of publishing, over 650 [...]
Alvin Johnson, The New School’s first director, was a visionary by almost all accounts. A renowned economist and former editor of the New Republic, Johnson was a founding member of The New School. With the likes of Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson and John Dewey, Johnson established The New School in an act of rebellion against the entrenched hierarchy and [...]
The New School has always been a small institution. In its beginnings, in fact, it was barely an institution at all — the university’s original goal was to educate while functioning beyond the constraints of traditional academia, with its encumbering bureaucracies and endowments and politics. Fast forward almost a hundred years. Today The New School remains a relatively small institution, [...]
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