Tag: NYU

Students of NYC celebrate 4/20 at Washington Square Park

A group of New School students sit on the grass at Washington Square Park on April 20 to celebrate 4/20. Like most others celebrating the marijuana-positive holiday, they were celebrating by taking the drug. Photo by Emma Donelly-Higgins

Students and residents of New York celebrated the global cannabis festival, April 20, over a year after the passing of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, which legalized…

Continue reading Students of NYC celebrate 4/20 at Washington Square Park

Over 150 rally in support of NYU and New School adjunct union

Supporters of ACT-Local 7902, a union that includes New York University and New School adjunct professors, marched up University Place in the rain to show support of the union members on April 14. Many protesters said the NYU administration has not given adjunct professors fair compensation during the pandemic, and gathered to express their views while the union negotiates a new contract with the administration. Photo by Katie Pruden

Students, professors and more gathered at Union Square Park to show support for NYU and New School faculty, whose employees are negotiating a new contract. Around 150 people…

Continue reading Over 150 rally in support of NYU and New School adjunct union