Tamara Kormornick, Author at The New School Free Press

Blocked from registration: New School students struggle to remove holds on their accounts

Some New School students have struggled to register for fall 2022 classes due to holds on their accounts. Financial, academic and medical holds can prevent students from enrolling in key courses if they are not resolved by the student’s registration date. Illustration by Oz X. Yangas

Financial, academic and medical holds have left some students blocked from registering on time and, in one case, houseless. When Sebastián Guerrero prepared to register for his fall…

Englishman in New York

When you have a British accent in New York, everyone notices. The New School Free Press reporter Tamara Kormornick fully accepts her accent as a part of her identity after a period of suppressing it. Illustration by Caitlin Du Caitlin Du

An ode to the misunderstood in New York City. “I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York.” A featured track of my “New…

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…

Fashion on Fifth: Dogs of NYC

New York City’s Fifth Avenue is a place for owners to show off their stylish dogs. These dogs emulate NYC spring fashion. Photos by Tamara Kormornick. Illustration by Mili Patel

The New School Free Press looks at the street style of New York’s chicest dogs this spring. In New York City, the crosswalk is your runway. From the…

Affordable Theater: ‘Space Dogs’ at the MCC Theater

Van Hughes and Nick Blaemire star in their new original comedy musical, “Space Dogs.” The two-man show about the Soviet dogs who became the first creatures to orbit the earth during the 1950s is playing at the MCC Theater through March 20. Photo by Tamara Kormornick

Amidst the current face off between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden is a fresh take on the long-standing tensions between the world powers in the new original…

Student Health Services to Resume In-Person Appointments for Select Services This Semester

The New School’s Welcome Center located at 72 Fifth Ave. remains relatively empty as classes run online for the first two weeks of the spring 2022 semester. With the return of in-person classes next week, Student Health Services also plans to reintroduce some in-person services for the first time in almost two years. “A start date will be communicated to the university community in the coming weeks,” the department said in an email to The New School Free Press. Photo by Ella Neve

For the first time in almost two years, Student Health Services are set to offer some in-person medical services to New School students. “A start date will be…