Ten minutes before his class began, Daniel Kim was nearly asleep at his desk. He yawned, rested his head on the table and closed his eyes. It is…
A.K. Simon
Social Justice Committee Elects Student Representatives
The New School’s Social Justice Committee recently held elections for new student representatives, with seven individuals chosen to help lead the committee’s work in raising awareness for social…
The Purple Monster Confronted At Washington Square
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Deleting Your Facebook Doesn’t Make You Irrelevant
A friend of mine recently deleted her Facebook page. Her decision was met with widespread concern, as if she were forever blotting her existence from the annals of…
Occupy’s Free University Returns to Madison Square Park
By Nora Newhouse, A.K. Simon, and Charlotte Woods. Four young men and women were dancing in the middle of a graveled walkway in Madison Square Park last week,…
Reality TV: More Than Just A Guilty Pleasure
As part of my concerted attempt to forge a sophisticated New School persona, I name drop Derrida, pepper my speech with terms like “post-modernism,” and pretend I read…