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[JP]

Students Occupy New School Building, Again

Updated, 11:40 a.m. | About three dozen students entered a New School building at 65 Fifth Avenue shortly before 6 a.m. on Friday with the intention of staging a takeover similar to the one carried out at the university in December, according to a graduate student who is involved in the demonstration.
“The students just entered the building, the student said at 5:55 a.m., adding that he was outside, on a sidewalk. “And the police are already here.”
The December takeover lasted about 30 hours. Then, students barricaded themselves inside a ground-floor cafeteria at the building, protesting a host of issues, many connected to the administration of the university’s president, Bob Kerrey.
The students adopted a list of eight demands including a greater student voice in university affairs and the resignations of Mr. Kerrey, a former senator from Nebraska; James Murtha, the executive vice president; and Robert Millard, treasurer of the board of trustees, who students said was connected to a private security company working in Iraq.
That action ended after negotiations, but a students group calling itself the New School in Exile promised further disruptions if Mr. Kerrey did not accede to their demand to resign by April 1.
“With their demand still unmet as of this date, students have once again reclaimed this neglected, symbolic building which housed the New School for Social Research,” student organizers said in a news release on Friday. “On the 75th anniversary of the University in Exile, New School students are reclaiming the tradition of protest and political action that birthed the university and gave it meaning for generations to come.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/students-occupy-new-school-building-again/?hp

Some pictures my friends took:

 

[JP]

WTF, can a mod fix the title please?

 

[Majic Walrus]

Yay for civil disobedience. Boo for not understanding free market. If they don't want to go to the university they should boycott attendance not continue to pay for schooling while they protest. It isn't very effective.