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Love, Lucy: Age gaps and college relationships

Illustration By Lydia Chiu

Love, Lucy is the New School Free Press’ weekly advice column, where writers anonymously share thoughtfully researched solutions to your questions about life. Send submissions through Love, Lucy’s…

Home away from home

International students at The New School talk about places that remind them of home. Being so far from home causes them to miss that familiarity, finding ways to get that same comfort in the city. Illustration by Camila Giraldo

International students share how they find pockets of home in the city. To leave home and travel to New York City is a huge upheaval. As of fall…

Lang students offer community and advice through peer connection program

Lang Peer-to-Peer Connect student volunteers answer the questions and concerns of passersby in the Lang cafe last semester. The student-founded program piloted in the fall and continues to serve students this semester, combating the lack of community and access to advising services that students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts have been experiencing. Illustration by Caitlin Du

Lang Peer-to-Peer Connect, a student-founded program, is running for a second time this semester after it piloted in the fall. In the middle of the quiet Lang Cafe,…

During Pandemic, Student Journalists Become Essential Workers

Illustration by Michael Izquierdo.

Within the course of just a few days, Washington Square News, New York University’s student paper, reported on the school’s first COVID-19 deaths: Rodney Mack, a public safety…

Racquel Samuel: From First-Gen Student to First-Gen Leader

Growing up in Brooklyn, Racquel Samuel, a first-generation American, didn’t give college much thought. With the help of family, teachers and supportive organizations, she became the first in…

Why I’ll Never Be President

The University Center gym. Photo by HJ Gaskins

On Feb. 6, Barack Obama stood in the auditorium at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis and outlined his plan for making two-year community colleges free. One reason…