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TNS students make major financial sacrifices as tuition costs increase

Photo by Zoe Hussain

As The New School’s tuition is slated to increase by 4.3% in the next academic year, amid a national trend of skyrocketing tuition prices, many students at TNS…

Two strikes in two years – New School students express frustrations

As The New School community stops work in solidarity with SENS, students begin to feel the effect of the disruption of classes. Photo by Jordan Fong.

In the fall of 2022, the part-time faculty (PTF) union ACT-UAW Local 7902 at The New School went on strike for nearly a month. Just over a year…

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…

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…

Student Workers Left In the Dark

Illustration by Ana Rodriguez

With school online and facilities open at limited capacity, many student workers are unsure of where their jobs stand. Students who worked on campus prior to the pandemic…

“Landlords Need To Wake Up To Reality”

Illustration by Sophie Lee

I left New York City on Wednesday, March 18, to go home to Tennessee, with the expectation that our spring break would be five days. Within a span…