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USS changes its event requisition requirements

Photo By Jordan Fong

The University Student Senate (USS) updated its event guidelines this month after the administration enforced overall budget changes for the senate earlier this semester. Leonardo Ruales, chair of…

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…

Student Senate hosts pop-up voter registration event

USS voting registration sign and booth. Photo by Bianca Rodriguez-Mora

The New School University Student Senate (USS) teamed up with the American Library Association (ALA) and the League of Women Voters for the Reader. Ready. Voter. Campaigns. They…

University Student Senate passes ‘Cops Off Campus’ resolution

New York Police Department officers lead an arrested individual into a police vehicle in front of the Parsons building at 2 W. 13th St. Photo by Jordan Fong

In response to the arrests of student demonstrators and the continued presence of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers on campus last semester, the University Student Senate (USS)…

Behind the student senate’s funding halt

Student senators halt funding to pressure the university to divest from Israel. Photo by Alexiah Syrai Olsen.

In an attempt to pressure the university’s Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees to vote in favor of divestment from stocks and companies that fund or support…

Co-Vice Chair of the University Student Senate resigns after an impeachment petition was approved

USS Group photo available on their website; Andrade Fearon, USS advisor, and All senators except Kartik Gupta pictured. Photo courtesy of The University Student Senate

The New School University Student Senate’s (USS) Co-Vice Chair of Advocacy, Kartik Gupta, was notified on April 11 that a petition for his impeachment was approved and that…