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The challenges of maintaining a pop persona
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (242+ words) You shut the fuck up!" Gracie Gathings has 232 K followers on Instagram, where she runs @Chappellroanhub, a fan account that acts as a space to share updates and news about Roan. Everyone calls her a bitch and a terrible person…...
Questions raised about the future of The New School's Loeb residence hall
2+ day, 15+ min ago (529+ words) References to the dorm have disappeared from university resources. At the Welcome Center, three dorms are advertised on the wall; Loeb is notably missing. The residence hall has also been omitted from the 2026-2027 on-campus housing rates document." The New School…...
The New School offers additional workforce reductions in the form of a "phased retirement" plan
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (586+ words) A "phased retirement" program was recently offered to all principal full-time faculty at The New School " faculty who teach at the university for the entire school year " according to a March 23 email from Lisa Rubin, vice provost for faculty affairs....
The 'first phase of work': A conversation with University President Joel Towers
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (1470+ words) As a historic year for The New School wraps up, the New School Free Press sat down with University President Joel Towers on May 8. The conversation with Towers and the New School Free Press centered on the university's restructuring plan....
The New School's myth of community: Fact or fiction?
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (261+ words) One downside to a world of hyper-individual identities is that unfamiliarity can feel scary. "I think we have preconceived notions of people in general, especially as artists and actors; people could be a little standoffish," said Holiday Raimond Jones, a…...
NSFP LIVE: Misery and Company
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (655+ words) Before they had a band name, they had a bedroom. Diaz, alongside Lua Lamounier, a second-year Jazz Bass student at Co PA and a politics major at Lang, and Nailah Jappah, a second-year Jazz and Contemporary Voice student at Co…...
Micro joys during macro grief: artist Kenya Mc Carthy on loss and creation
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (410+ words) Kenya Mc Carthy has just finished her fourth upcycled cross-body bag for "28 Mothers," a video series dedicated to giving away bags for people who have lost their moms during this Mother's Day season." This is Mc Carthy's first Mother's Day…...
A history of protest at The New School
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1215+ words) To this day, the school prides itself on its subversive roots, advertising on its website, "Discover a new kind of university " one where scholars, artists, and designers come together to challenge convention and create positive change." What Reed called an…...
What's the cost of making art in New York City?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (824+ words) The roughly 2, 400 graduate students at The New School especially feel the burden of bringing in an income to survive, as they're typically less likely to receive tuition support than undergraduate students, according to the American Council on Education. Piecing together…...
Administrators have made it hard to openly criticize the restructuring plan, students and faculty say
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1566+ words) Efforts by administrators amid restructuring are restricting the ability of faculty, staff, and students to criticize The New School's restructuring plan, community members told the New School Free Press. Members of the Board of Trustees and Voluntary Separation Program signees…...