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Students and Faculty Report Continued Building Access Despite Missing Two-Week Testing Mark

ACCESSING CAMPUS IN THE PANDEMIC — The New School’s 55 W. 13th St. location, Arnhold Hall, features turnstiles that students and faculty must tap with their ID cards to open. The electronic system should not let through individuals who have not uploaded up-to-date negative COVID-19 test results to their Student Health Services portal, but this is not always the case. “I was able to access campus for the one day that I had to even though my access was red [revoked due to insufficient testing],” said Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts first-year Theo Lim-Jisra. Photo by Stevie Rowley

As The New School enters its fourth week of classes, at least five known students and one faculty member have been able to enter campus buildings despite failing…