Inside the SJP Walkout for Palestinian Liberation: a closer look at Monday’s student action in the UC

Demonstrators sat in front of the turnstiles at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall on East 12th Street this Monday. Photo by Olivia Young

On Monday morning, approximately 100 New School community members walked off campus toward Union Square North to join the Walkout for Palestinian Liberation organized by The New School’s…

President Shalala borrows words from Sting’s  ‘Fragile’ amid tensions in the student body

“Fragile” singer Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, also known as “Sting." Photo by Yancho Sabev via Wikimedia Commons.

Interim President Donna E. Shalala borrowed words from Sting’s song “Fragile,” to address “the fragility of life on this planet,” amid ongoing tensions between student groups regarding the…