Student senate ends funding of individual students under new guidelines to bring financial practices into IRS compliance

Update guidelines bring student senate funding into compliance with IRS guidelines and university policy. Photo by Jordan Fong

Students can no longer depend on the University Student Senate to fund the university’s Student Emergency Fund or their individual projects.  Following administrators’ concerns that funding in these…

The University Student Senate filled vacant seats without an election, violating its constitution

Illustration of ballot for 2022-2023 school year. Image by Elan Ma

This story was updated on March 21st 2023 at 12:35 p.m. The New School´s University Student Senate (USS) internally appointed nearly half of its student senators without giving…

Subsidize My Swipe

Petra Zarah Jarrar, founder of The Antithesis and Patrick Gallen hold up a 'MetroFair' sign. Photo by Tamar Lapin

A student senator is taking the initial steps in his campaign to use university funds to subsidize transportation costs for some of the 80 percent of New School…