URBAN CONVERSATIONS CONFERENCE: STRENGTHENING THE MIDDLE CLASS
As income disparities between wealthy and working-class families become more pronounced, middle-class neighborhoods are disappearing from American cities. How are leaders working to make their cities livable for middle-income families and affordable for the millions aspiring to gain a foothold in the middle class?
On Friday, January 25, from 5:00 to 7:15 p.m., a panel featuring Byron Brown, mayor of Buffalo; Manny Diaz, mayor of Miami; Mufi Hannemann, mayor of Honolulu; Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey; Anthony D. Weiner, congressman from New York; Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect and author of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity; Lisa Servon, associate professor and director of the Community Development Finance Project at Milano, and others will discuss these issues.
The event will take place at the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
Urban Conversations brings together elected officials and leading thinkers from across the nation to foster fresh perspectives and new insights into the key challenges facing urban America and to discuss strategies for addressing them. The Urban Conversations conference and scholarship fund are made possible by the generous support of Altria, the Rockefeller Foundation, Fannie Mae, Bill and Sheila Lambert, the Philip D. and Tammy S. Murphy Foundation, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
On Monday, December 10, The New School announced the launch of New School Alerts, a notification system designed to provide quick and reliable mass communication to the university community regarding potential and actual emergencies.
Using contact information provided by students, faculty and staff, the New School Alerts system will send messages to cell phones (text and voice), landlines, and/or email addresses during a crisis affecting The New School. The system might be used, for example, to alert the New School community about a situation that could affect safety on campus or to announce weather-related school closings.
For the safety of the New School community, all matriculated students, faculty, and staff are required to register their contact information. Continuing education students are strongly encouraged to opt into the system.
All personal information will be kept absolutely confidential within The New School and the New School Alerts system and will never be sold to a third party or used for any purpose other than New School Alerts.
To find out more and to register your contact information, sign on to MyNewSchool and click on the New School Alerts tab. If you have any questions or experience any issues when registering, please email nsalerts@newschool.edu.
THE NEW SCHOOL CELEBRATES THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF V-DAY AND THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES WITH EVE ENSLER
On Monday, February 4, writer and feminist activist Eve Ensler will be on campus to celebrate the tenth anniversary of V-Day and discuss its mission of ending violence against women and girls worldwide. The event will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
Ensler is the founder and artistic director of V-Day, an organization that has raised more than $50 million and educated millions of people; launched Karama, a partnership with nine Middle Eastern and North African countries; and funded more than 5,000 community-based antiviolence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq. The V in V-Day stands for victory, valentine, and vagina.
Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 45 languages and performed in over 119 countries; in 1996, it received an Obie Award for Best New Play.
Following the presentation, Ensler will sign copies of The Vagina Monologues: The 10th Anniversary Edition and her recent book Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir, both of which will be available for purchase.
Admission is $5 for the public and free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. Seating is limited, and tickets must be purchased in advance. In-person purchases can be made beginning January 22 at the New School Box Office. For more information, email vday@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.
CURATOR’S CHOICE
Martin Puryear Untitled (Three Seats and Bench), 1997
Wood, granite, metal
Seats are 62 x 62 x 62 inches each
The New School Art Collection
Purchased with funds from Agnes Gund and the Committee for the University Art Collection and installed in the 66 West 12th Street atrium lobby and the Vera List Courtyard.
Linking the lobbies of the landmark Joseph Urban building at 66 West 12th Street and the Lang College building at 65 West 11th Street is the Vera List Courtyard. Commissioned in 1997 by the Committee for the University Art Collection to honor the philanthropic legacy of this important university trustee, the courtyard is the setting of a major site-specific installation by the renowned American sculptor Martin Puryear. Working in collaboration with landscape architect Martin Van Valkenburgh, Puryear created a quiet, meditative space inhabited by three archetypal forms that are identical in shape but made of distinctly different materials and constructed in different ways.
These objects, which also function as communal seating, appear more like friendly inhabitants than sculptures. They seem to carry on a familial dialogue and call on visitors to share in their lively interaction. The first sculpture, inside the lobby of 66 West 12th Street, consists of uniform blocks of maple, a hard blond wood, that fit together like a puzzle. Accompanying it is a long curved bench that seems to hold it like a ball in the palm of a hand. The second sculpture, made of lilac-gray-flecked granite and placed near a thicket of bamboo, appears implacable, like a stoic sentry silently observing all that passes by while waiting to be called to action. The third, gracefully set on a rounded incline amid a grove of shimmering poplar trees, is made of metal latticework. This almost transparent sculpture has a distinctly feminine, spiritual quality that quietly presides over its surroundings.
Martin Puryear recently had a retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art.
For more information about Martin Puryear and his work in the New School Art Collection, please contact the collection curators, Silvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
DAVID LEHMAN PUBLISHES ANTHOLOGY OF EROTIC POETRY
David Lehman, poetry coordinator of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing program, associate professor of writing, and editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has edited a new anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, slated for release on February 14.
Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes humorous, the poems in the collection.are part of a long tradition of eroticism in American poetry. They explore varied landscapes of love, sex, and desire—from the body of a lover to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary pleasure. With candor and imagination they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy.
David Lehman has assembled a witty, sensual collection of verse by a wide range of poets, including Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds. The volume concludes with poems by rising stars such as Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy.
A kick-off reading and signing will be held on Monday, February 11, 7:00 p.m., at the Museum of Sex, 233 Fifth Avenue at 27th Street. David Lehman will participate along with Maggie Wells, Sarah Arvio, Michael Quattrone, Star Black, Laura Cronk, and Paul Violi. Admission is free.
ALUMNA RECEIVES A FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
Farrah Qidwai, a New School for General Studies alum, will travel to India this month as a Fulbright Scholar. Qidwai received both an MFA in Creative Writing (’03) and an MA in Media Studies (’07) from The New School. In her project, entitled “Unveiling the Muslim Screen Siren in 1970s Bollywood Cinema,” Qidwai will analyze the role played by Muslim actresses in articulating Indian identity in Hindi cinema. She builds on the methodological groundwork laid by the scholar Richard Dyer, whose investigations of “star texts” explored film stars as symbols of U.S. society.
PARSONS HOSTS JUST SAY NOise: ROCK STYLE IN THE 80’S
On January 30, Parsons The New School for Design will present a lecture examining the creation, distribution, and overall influence of hardcore and heavy metal in the 1980s. "JUST SAY NOise: Rock Style in the Eighties" features Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History and American Hair Metal, a senior editor at Paper magazine, and a rock DJ in New York City. It is the third in a series of lectures entitled “Rethinking Fashion,” which brings industry leaders to The New School to discuss the role of sustainability in fashion
Blush has been a participant in and historian of punk and rock since the early 1980s, when he promoted hardcore shows in Washington, D.C. He will discuss how in the 1980s, the contemporary music genres of hardcore and heavy metal each exerted considerable influence over popular graphic design, product design, and fashion. The varying philosophies of each genre engendered wholly differing aesthetics. Hardcore music was characterized by a DIY style while heavy metal was a corporately sponsored, mass-marketed signifier of rebellion. Somehow in the early 2000s, both styles came back into fashion.
The evening is sponsored by Parsons Core Studies and is moderated by Jessica Glasscock. It will take place on Wednesday, January 30, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Midtown Auditorium, Parsons Fashion, 560 Seventh Avenue, 2nd floor. The event is free. No tickets or reservations are required, but seating is first-come, first-served.
For more information, please call 212.229.5391 or email maligi@newschool.edu.
LOCKED OUT: HOW WILL NYC’S NEIGHBORHOODS RECOVER FROM THE MORTGAGE CRISIS?
Foreclosures are on the rise in neighborhoods throughout New York City, and entire communities are feeling the effects. How should the city and state respond to the crisis? How can banks and community development financial institutions help people with subprime loans? What will the crisis mean for working-class home buyers and small landlords hoping to secure loans in the future?
On Tuesday, January 22, from 10:00-12:00 a.m., join the Center for New York City Affairs for a discussion on what can be done to address the mortgage crisis. Speakers include Richard H. Neiman, superintendent of banks, State of New York, and Chair, Halt Abusive Lending Transactions (HALT) Task Force; Herman De Jesus, intake and outreach coordinator, South Brooklyn Legal Services Foreclosure Prevention Project; Sarah Ludwig, executive director, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP); and Alex Schwartz, associate professor and chair, urban policy analysis and management, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
This panel, supported by the Milano Foundation, will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are required by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS AND THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FOCUS THE NATION: GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA
On January 31, at 10:00 a.m., faculty and students from The New School’s eight divisions will participate in a nationwide all-day teach-in on global warming. Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America is an unprecedented educational initiative involving more than a thousand colleges, universities, and schools. The purpose of the teach-in is to educate Americans on the challenges of addressing climate change as the nation moves toward the 2008 presidential elections.
The teach-in will conclude with a roundtable on environmental justice and climate change from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. featuring speakers Peggy Shepherd, West Harlem Environmental Action; Elizabeth Yeampierre, UPROSE; and Philip Silva (a Lang alumnus), Sustainable South Bronx.
The event is cosponsored by Eugene Lang College, Lang’s Office of Civic Engagement, the Tishman Environment and Design Center, and the graduate program in International Affairs. It will take place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Admission is free. For more information, contact Bhawani Venkataraman at venkatab@newschool.edu or Nevin Cohen at cohenn@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
MANNES TRIO PERFORMS IN JANUARY
On Monday, January 28, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Trio will perform at the Mannes Concert Hall at 150 West 85th Street. One of this country’s oldest chamber music ensembles, the trio was founded in the 1920s by David Mannes, who established the Mannes College of Music in 1916. After a period of inactivity in midcentury, the trio was re-formed in 1982 and went on to win the Walter W. Naumburg International Chamber Music Award in 1986.
The Mannes Trio, featuring violinist Hiroko Yajima, cellist Wilhelmina Smith, and pianist Tom Sauer, serves as ensemble-in-residence at Mannes, presenting three concerts each year and performing nationwide to critical acclaim. Admission to the concert is free; no tickets or reservations are required. Seating is first come, first served. For more information, call 212.580.0210 x4817.
MONDAY NIGHT AT SWEET RHYTHM CONTINUES IN 2008
New School Jazz musicians take the stage every Monday night at Sweet Rhythm, a historic Greenwich Village jazz club. January performances highlight New School Jazz faculty and staff ensemble. Ensemble directors include Carlos Abadie (January 21), and Dan Greeblatt (January 28).
Sets are at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Sweet Rhythm is located at 88 Seventh Avenue (between Bleecker and Grove Streets). General admission is $10 cover with a $10 food and drink minimum; there is no cover and a $5 food and drink minimum for New School students with ID. For reservations and more information, contact Sweet Rhythm at 212.255.3626
UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
TIME OUT NEW YORK DISCOUNT OFFER
Start your year off being in the know about things free or fancy. Time Out New York is offering all students, faculty, and staff at The New School a full year's subscription for just $20! That's 51 issues for the entire year and only 39c an issue. Steal this deal for yourself or a gift to another.
An exciting fall theater season is about to get under way: Why pay $100, when you can pay $28-$32 for Broadway shows and $22-$24 for Off-Broadway shows? An inexpensive way to enjoy the best of New York culture is to join Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
To be eligible, you must be a full-time student or teacher, senior citizen (62+), civil servant, union member, staff member of a not-for-profit organization, performing arts professional, or member of the clergy or armed forces. Annual membership fee is $25, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for less than $32 per ticket include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Martin Short, The Wedding Singer, 42nd Street, Aida, American Ballet Theatre, Anna in the Tropics, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Barbara Cook's Broadway, Beauty & the Beast, Beckett/Albee, Big Apple Circus, Cabaret, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, Golda's Balcony, Gypsy, Hamburg Ballet , I Am My Own Wife, Intimate Apparel, Jazz in July, Johnny Guitar, Lincoln Center Summer Festival, Little Shop of Horrors, London Symphony Orchestra, Lypsinka!, Match, Matt and Ben, Menopause: The Musical, Mostly Mozart, NYC Ballet, NYC Opera, Our Lady of 121st Street, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Sexaholix, Take Me Out, Talking Heads, Tea and Five, The Retreat From Moscow, Twentieth Century, and Wonderful Town. So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.40/per day Monday-Saturday, $2.00 on Sunday) for home or office subscriptions to all faculty, staff, and students.
Here's how it works. Unlike traditional subscriptions, the education rate can be set up by semester or in a combination that best reflects your schedules for both delivery and billing. New School faculty, staff, and students can have a subscription Monday-Friday, Sunday only, weekends only, or any combination.
To take advantage of the special discount to the Times or to change a current subscription, students, faculty (full-time and part-time), and staff should contact the customer service center at 888.NYT.COLL, to order a single subscription or a classroom subscription of up to eight copies for required reading in the classroom.
To order a classroom subscription of eight or more copies for required reading in the classroom, contact the education program's customer service center at 800.631.1222.
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Did you know that you could get into this exciting museum for free? In order to receive your free admission, go to the lobby information desk and show them your valid New School ID. Students, faculty, and staff receive one free admission for themselves. Faculty and staff may also obtain an additional four tickets for their guests. Enjoy!
TICKETS: In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday–Friday 1:00–7:00 p.m. The box office opens the first day of classes and closes after the last paid event of each semester.
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ AT SWEET RHYTHM: DAN GREENBLATT QUARTET
Monday, January 21, 8:00 p.m.
Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue (south of Christopher Street)
Admission: [Sweet Rhythm]$10 cover + $10 food and drink minimum, no cover + $5 food and drink minimum for students with ID
Dan Greenblatt Quartet explores the depths of the mainstream sound at Sweet Rhythm. The group features Dan Greenblatt on tenor sax, David Marck on piano, Ed Fuqua on bass, and Jay Lepley on drums.
For reservations call the Sweet Rhythm box office at 212.255.3626.
FICTION FORUM: JANNA LEVIN
Wednesday, January 23, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The Writing Program presents a reading and discussion with Janna Levin, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College and author of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. Moderated by Jackson Taylor, associate director, the Writing Program.
CRAFTING PROTEST
Saturday, January 26, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: $8; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Many contemporary artists are using craft to make diverse and timely political statements. Because creating crafts is so often social and communal, they can play a vital role in the public sphere. The speakers examine the role of craft in forming national identities, especially in times of political turmoil or war; notions of patriotism; feminism and the domestic sphere; and unconventional economic models. Five artists will present projects and discuss their work. By linking the act of production and handmaking in the public realm to ideological issues of agency, participants ask how art makes political subjects. Following the discussion is a participatory component that includes collective crafting activities. Panelists include Liz Collins, artist/designer; Sabrina Gschwandtner, artist/curator; Cat Mazza, artist/activist; and Allison Smith, visual artist. Moderator: Julia Bryan-Wilson, art historian and critic, University of California at Irvine. This lecture is co-sponsored by Modern Painters and Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
FICTION FORUM: STEVE ERICKSON
Monday, January 28, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The Writing Program presents Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville, in a discussion moderated by Writing Program Director Robert Polito.
CHANGING HEALTH CARE 2008: INFORMATION LEADING TO ACTION
PROBLEMS WITH THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Monday, January 28, 8:30–11:45 a.m.
McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street
Admission: $20 per session; $50 for all three sessions. To register, go to www.wccny.org/Events/registration.pdf.
How should our health care system be reformed? Is now the right time? Do we all need to be involved? What will happen to employment-based and Medicare coverage in the absence of fundamental change? In the first of a three-part series presented by the Women’s City Club of New York, a panel of speakers discuss problems with health care in the United States today: the lack of guaranteed or uniform benefits, unpredictable costs, and unreliable coverage. They examine prospects for and political barriers to health care reform and the role of government in changing the system. They also review the findings of the Commonwealth Fund’s recent report Roadmap for Health Reform and talk about the effect of health care reform on Medicare.
Speakers include Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine; Bob Kerrey, former U.S. senator and president of The New School; Sara Collins, assistant vice president and director of the Commonwealth Fund’s Program on the Future of Health Insurance; and Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center.
The series continues with Lessons from Abroad on Wednesday, March 12, 8:30–11:45 a.m., and Building a Better System for All in April (date and time to be announced).
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ AT SWEET RHYTHM: CARLOS ABADIE QUINTET
Monday, January 28, 8:00 p.m.
Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue (south of Christopher Street)
Admission: [Sweet Rhythm]$10 cover + $10 food and drink minimum, no cover + $5 food and drink minimum for students with ID
The Carlos Abadie Quintet performs jazz originals past and present at Sweet Rhythm. The group features Carlos Abadie on trumpet, Dion Tucker on trombone, Clovis Nicolas on bass, Luca Santaniello on drums, and Jeb Patton on piano.
For reservations call the Sweet Rhythm box office at 212.255.3626
BAD SAMARITANS—THE MYTH OF FREE TRADE AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF CAPITALISM A CONVERSATION WITH HA-JOON CHANG
Tuesday, January 29 - Tuesday, January 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Most developing countries have experienced a slowdown in growth, rising inequality, and increased economic instability because of the neo-liberal policies imposed upon them by the rich countries and the international organizations under their control. In a conversation moderated by William Milberg, professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, Professor Chang will discuss how he supports this theory by stating that the policies the “Bad Samaritan” rich countries who have been imposing on developing countries differ from those they implemented during their own development and from those implemented by more recent development success stories, from Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s to China and India in the 1980s. Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research will also particpate.
Refreshments will be served. Cosponsored with the Economics Department, the graduate program in International Affairs, and the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
WRITING FOR CHILDREN FORUM: DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The Writing Program presents a reading and discussion with Deborah Heiligman, author of Fun Dog, Sun Dog and the National Geographic Holidays Around the World series. Moderated by Deborah Brodie, executive editor of Roaring Brook Press and visiting faculty member of the Writing Program.
HIV/AIDS: A PHOTOJOURNALIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC
Wednesday, January 30, 6:00 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: Free; seating is limited; reservations required by emailing. Email Nick Barber, Events Coordinator: gpiaevents@newschool.edu.
Andrew Petkun is a photojournalist whose most recent work has focused on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Petkun’s photos tell the story of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a unique and moving way. At this event, Petkun speaks about his work as well as the broader issues surrounding photography and human rights.
THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE POLITICS OF '08
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: $8; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The environmental movement has received a major boost from Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which has dramatically widened the debate about climate change and global warming. Do citizens have a right to a safe environment? Does the government have an obligation to protect the environment? If so, where does that responsibility reside—at the national or the state level? Where is the environmental movement today, and what role will it play in the presidential election of 2008? At this event, a group of individuals who have struggled with these questions will discuss the current state of the environmental movement and the impact it will have on the election of 2008. Anthony Pereira, president of AltPower, will moderate a panel including Steve Fleischli, president of the Waterkeeper Alliance; the Reverend Patricia Ackerman, special projects and media liaison for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and member of the steering committee of Code Pink and of the advisory board of the Occupation Watch Center in Iraq; and Richard Perez, senior research associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY-Albany. Sponsored by The Wolfson Center for National Affairs.
GHANA WRITERS CONFERENCE READING
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The New School Writing Program presents the Ghana Writers’ Conference Reading with Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, Quincy Troupe, author of The Architecture of Language: Poems, and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of The River is Rising. Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, faculty member in the Writing Program and director of the Pan African Literary Forum, a writers’ conference being held in Accra, Ghana in the summer of 2008.
A FACULTY BOOK PARTY, READING AND SIGNING FOR MARK STATMAN & PABLO MEDINA
Thursday, January 31, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: Free; seating is limited; reservations required by emailing ELCDEAN@newschool.edu.
Called a “definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original in 1930,” by poet laurete John Ashbury, Mark Statman and Pablo Medina, associate professors of writing at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts have collaborated on a new translation of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s masterpiece, Poet in New York.
STUDENT SERVICES
ADMINISTRATIVE REMINDERS FOR STUDENTS
DEGREE STUDENTS: WEB REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR SPRING CLASSES OR MAKE SCHEDULE CHANGES ONLINE!
Web registration and web add/drop will be open for all programs through Monday, January 28. Consult your academic advisor as needed to get your alternate/registration pin. Course offerings are available on MyNewSchool (click the Student tab, then click Class Finder). No need to stand in line at the Registrar's Office! Continuing degree students who have not yet registered will be charged a $150 late fee.
REMINDER FOR STUDENTS COMPLETING STUDY THIS SEMESTER
Students expecting to complete their studies in May 2008 must file a Graduation Petition with the Registrar’s Office at the Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor. The university cannot confer degrees or certificates for students who have not filed a petition. Filing should be done as soon as possible. No fee will be charged to students who file by February 15. Forms are available at the Registrar’s Office and online at MyNewSchool (select the Student tab and download the Graduation Petition, which is listed under the forms section).
STUDENT ACCOUNTS INFORMATION
To ensure that you receive correspondence from The New School in a timely manner, please review your official address in MyNewSchool to make sure that it is current. If it is not, you can change your address online. This is especially important for students who are expecting to receive a refund.
FEDERAL WORK-STUDY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Student Employment Office has partnered with New York City Public Service Corps to provide students with off-campus Federal Work-Study opportunities in the public sector. NYC Public Service Corps is an internship program of the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services committed to providing students with meaningful experiences to enhance their academic and career objectives. Law, graphic arts, education, journalism, research, and office administration are just a few of the areas available to interns. If you are eligible for Federal Work-Study and are interested in developing professional skills in a meaningful community service experience, stop by the Student Employment Office at the Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, room 105M.
STUDENTS: HOW TO PROVIDE VERIFICATION OF YOUR SPRING ENROLLMENT
Health insurance agencies, housing authorities, banks, or other third parties may ask you to provide verification that you are enrolled at The New School. If you registered for the
spring term prior to January 10, you can print an Official Enrollment Verification Certificate at MyNewSchool. To do this, log in to MyNewSchool and click the Student tab; then in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information. The certificate, produced by the National Student Clearinghouse on behalf of the university, serves as official evidence of enrollment at The New School.
STUDENTS: ACCESS GRADES AND REGISTRATION FEES THROUGH MYNEWSCHOOL
The New School does not automatically mail copies of semester grades. If you need a printed copy of your grades, you can request a copy through MyNewSchool (click the Student tab; then, in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information). Your semester grades will be mailed within two weeks. You can also access registration fees through MyNewSchool.
STUDENTS: REQUEST YOUR OFFICIAL ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Students can request an official transcript through MyNewSchool. Click the Student tab; then, in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information). Transcript requests are processed five business days after they are submitted. There is no fee for regular five-business-day service. Next-day transcript service is available only to students who submit requests in person. Transcripts of students with library or financial holds of any kind will not be released.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM STUDENT HOUSING
Student Housing and Residence Life seeks applicants for Resident Advisors (RA) for the 2008–09 academic year. Interested undergraduate and graduate students should visit www.newschool.edu/studentservices/housing. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Michael Corbett, or Lenny Zeiger.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES
STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE FEES AND WAIVER INFORMATION FOR SPRING
All students—degree, diploma, online only, visiting, mobility (study abroad), Lang and Parsons consortium, graduate certificate program, and non-matriculating graduate and undergraduate degree-program students—are automatically charged a Student Health Services Fee and a Student Health Insurance Fee. The Milano branch campuses and the Parsons Decorative Arts program in Washington, DC are excluded. Depending on course load and status, students may be eligible to decline these services by submitting a completed Online Waiver Form by February 19, 2008. Students may access the Online Waiver Form starting January 2, 2008, by going to www.chickering.com (click on “Find Your School” and enter 812804 as your Policy Number).
You MUST submit a new Online Waiver Form each fall semester. Those who do not register in the fall must submit the form in the spring, and then again each fall semester. If you submitted an Online Waiver Form in the fall, you will be automatically waived for the spring—no action is necessary. Students who missed the fall semester deadline are responsible for the payment of the fall semester health fees. If the plan has not been used, the student may waive Student Health Insurance in the spring semester. If the student uses the plan, he/she is obligated to pay the full yearly premium. Students who miss the spring waiver deadline are responsible for the payment of the spring semester health fees.
If a student waives the insurance, he/she can NOT choose to re-enroll in the Student Health Insurance Plan for the remainder of the academic year without providing documentation supporting the recent loss (30 days) of his/her personal health insurance coverage.
To verify whether you have been charged the fees, or to verify if the Online Waiver Form has been processed and the fees removed, you MUST access your student account using https://my.newschool.edu (click on the Student Tab, then Student Financial Services, then View Your Account Summary only). Health care is expensive so before waiving, students are encouraged to review the Student Health Insurance Plan at www.chickering.com (click on “Find Your School” and enter 812804 as your policy number).
IMMUNIZATION AND MENINGITIS REGISTRATION HOLDS
Please check your student account at MyNewSchool for holds.
You may have an immunization (IM) or meningitis (MM) hold on your account either because we have not received your immunization information or because the information you have submitted is incomplete.
Please bear in mind that you will not be able to register for spring 2008 classes until your immunization or meningitis documentation is completed and submitted for processing. Download and complete the immunization form and either mail, fax, or deliver it to our office as soon as possible. Please note that documentation sent by mail may take up to two weeks to reach our office. If time is an issue, either drop off your documentation in person at Loeb Residence, 135 East 12th Street, 2nd floor, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, or fax it to 212.614.7484.
If you need another Measles, Mumps, or Rubella vaccination, call Student Health Services at 212.229.1671 (option 2) to schedule an appointment.
The fee for the MMR vaccination is $25, which will be charged to you student account
If you have any questions, please call Student Health Services at 212.229.1671 x2820.
FLU SHOTS
The single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year.
Student Health Services will be providing flu shots while supplies last. Call 212.229.1671 (option 2) to make an appointment.
A $25 fee for the flu shot will be charged to your student account.
A FEW MINUTES FOR YOUR LIFE: TAKE THE HIV TEST FOR FREE—SPRING 2008 HOURS
Hispanic AIDS Forum, in collaboration with New School Student Health Services and the Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA), will be offering FREE confidential HIV testing every week on Mondays 4:00-6:30 p.m. and Tuesdays 3:00-5:30 p.m. The testing site will be at Loeb Residence, 135 East 12th Street, 2nd floor. For further information, please contact Student Health Services at 212.229.1671, option 1 or 2.
ANNOUCEMENTS FROM THE OFFICE OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVITIES (OSDA)
WOULD YOU LIKE INFO ABOUT PROGRAMS, ACTIVITES, AND FREE EVENTS EMAILED TO YOU EVERY FRIDAY?
If so, then email studev@newschool.edu and write "Add me, please" in the subject line and we'll add your email address to our listserv. You'll get weekly info on workshops, leadership opportunities, as well as meeting times and locations for student organizations. Even better, you'll receive a listing of FREE events in New York City such as film screenings, readings, gallery openings, and book signings.
THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES BOARD WANTS YOU
The Student Activities Board (SAB) wants you to help plan programs and events for your peers and the New School community. If you are interested in helping to plan the Spring Extravaganza, a carnival event planned for early May, e-mail SAB at: studentactivitiesboard@newschool.edu.
RECOVER FROM THOSE TGIF'S WITH ALL HEALTH BREAKS LOOSE!
Are you a student or employee who would benefit from a weekly tip to improve your health? Maybe your TGIF activities have led you to seek recovery on Monday?
Contact Eric Garrison, one of our health educators, and ask to be put on the All Health Breaks Loose email list.
very Monday, you will get a brief email with a weekly suggestion to boost your mental, physical, environmental, spiritual, social, and occupational health.
DROP-IN ADVISING
Drop-in advising takes place every Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 4:45 p.m. at the ISS office. ISS advisors are available to see students for basic questions during drop-in advising. For more complicated issues, please call the ISS office to schedule an appointment. ISS is located at 79 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor (between 15th and 16th streets.) If you need assistance, call the ISS office at 212.229.5592 to schedule an appointment.
CHANGE OF MAJOR OR EDUCATIONAL LEVEL REQUIRES NEW I-20
Please note that if you change your major (e.g., from a BA in Fashion Design to a BA in Product Design) or your educational level (e.g., MA to PhD) you MUST request an update to your I-20 to reflect your correct degree and program information.
ONLINE ORIENTATION
New international students are required to complete the online orientation during their first semester.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MENTOR PROGRAM
The mentor program is designed to assist new international students adjust academically, culturally, and socially to the United States and The New School. Mentors are available to answer questions new students may have upon arrival in the United States and during their first semester at The New School. Email IEW@newschool.edu to request an application to become a mentor.
The Weekly Observer, The New School online publication, is sent to everyone with a University email account. It is also available on the University web site. To add an external address to the email list, please send a message from the account you wish to add to majordomo@newsite.newschool.edu. In the message, on a line by itself, type "subscribe observer".
To submit at item for publication in The Observer, please email observer@newschool.edu.
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