From within the occupied New School in Exile, 65 5th Avenue, New York City:
We have been in occupation of the Graduate Faculty building of the New School University since 8pm Wednesday the 17th of December. More than 100 of us have taken over a student building, including our only library, which the administration has marked for demolition without creating any equivalent new space on campus. We have opened the building as a student-run autonomous space, in protest against the administration of President Bob Kerrey who recently received a vote of no confidence from the majority of faculty in this school. Details of our multiple grievances against Kerrey, his vice-President Jim Murtha, and treasurer of the board of trustees Robert Millard are laid out in our first communiqué. This morning we have an update on our situation. At around noon today New School security moved to block our access to the fire exits, preventing us from allowing in our fellow students of the Inter-University Consortium to whom they had refused access to the building in a violation of the Consortium agreement. When they failed to remove us, the NYPD were sent in to violently evict us from the fire exit and one of our fellow students was arrested. The police entered the building at the same time as President Kerrey arrived and offered to speak with us, we responded by refusing to negotiate with him and repeating our demand that he immediately resign. He left and took his police with him. At the moment our security has returned and our numbers have doubled, but we expect future incursions on our space and encourage all who support us to come to the Graduate Building at 65 5th Avenue and 14th street.
Signed,
The New School in Exile
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can you take photos and upload them? photos are undeniable and provide more coverage, useful especially if the police are involved.
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gimbel library is also a library that we have.
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ReplyDeleterock on.
What does "The New School in Exile" even mean?
ReplyDeleteFor Pete Gallo and others here, the New School was founded as the University in Exile for scholars fleeing Europe.
ReplyDeleteOh fascinating! However, these folks aren't in exile from intellectual and religious persecution. They're held up in a building on 5th ave.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when a college does nothing but j/o Marxist ideology. Get outta town, guys. It's a school. You'll be out of there in a COUPLE of years.
holy crap! You're a bunch of entitled assholes. Quit whining and do something productive with your lives. This is very immature and lame.
ReplyDeletei support this movement in many respects, but i'm really unhappy to read that the students occupying the building refused to speak with kerrey when he arrived. speaking with him wouldn't seem to imply any kind of backing down on the students' part. especially if democracy and dialogue are "order of the day" as a more recent post puts it. what was the reason behind refusing to speak with him?
ReplyDeleteThe New School wasn't founded as a University in Exile, the Graduate Faculty was.
ReplyDeleteThe New School was founded in 1919 as a progressive institution for adults -not career students.
Amen. Career students is a perfect description. Go do something with all your knowledge. Stooges.
ReplyDeleteThey *are* doing something. Evicting a confessed murderer and war criminal from a post that he is unfit for.
ReplyDeleteKeep on New Schoolers. When you open yourself up to risk with such bravery--well, it is so easy for the the bitter and anonymous to play armchair admiral. Graceful absorption of such blarney as above should just be considered part of the job.
Yours,
Hortense Caruthers