New School president’s controversial townhouse to be sold for budget deficit relief

The West Village townhouse, or the Scatturo House, at 21 West 11th Street. Image by Jordan Fong

The New School plans to sell the president’s West Village townhouse, otherwise known as the Scatturo House, in an attempt to remedy the university’s current $52 million budget…

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…

“Who are you?”: Reflections from a university student jailed and tortured in Maduro’s Venezuela

Illustration by Erica Kruse

In 2018, then-22-year-old Victor Navarro was arbitrarily and illegally detained in El Helicoide, “Venezuela’s largest and more notorious torture center,” according to the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). As…

An evening worth $100,000: annual Parsons Benefit will honor Neiman Marcus CEO and Naomi Campbell

The 2023 Parsons Benefit will take place at Cipriani Wall Street. Image via Cipriani website

The annual Parsons School of Design Benefit is set to take place Wednesday, May 24, at Cipriani Wall Street. In prior years, the event has stirred controversy due…