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Students form a “human blockade” in front of the UC after Board of Trustees failed to hold a divestment vote

Demonstrators and counter-protestors in front of the University Center at 63 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Aarya Kini

Thursday afternoon, after The New School’s Board of Trustees failed to hold a vote to divest from companies supporting and arming Israel, over 200 demonstrators gathered in front…

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Campus security lacked a proper plan to manage visitors to the Norman Finkelstein talk

Abou Farman (left) and Norman Finkelstein (right) at Tishman Auditorium in the University Center. Photo by Gigi Schweitzer

Non-New School visitors were allowed into the University Center, without being signed in by TNS community members, for an event Wednesday night with Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist,…

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