EUGENE LANG COLLEGE PRESENTS FILM SCREENING WITH CINEMATOGRAPHER HASKELL WEXLER
Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler will discuss his six-decade career as a cinematographer and present a film screening at Eugene Lang College on Tuesday, October 7, at 7:00 p.m.
Wexler’s combined artistry with activism in work both as a director of films such as Medium Cool and as a cinematographer working with directors Elia Kazan and John Sayles documenting the immigrant experience, racism, and the struggle for workers' rights. In addition to his two Academy Awards, Wexler has received an Emmy, five Oscar nominations, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Cinematographers.
The free event will take place in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. The evening will begin with a screening of the 1965 classic The Bus. The film follows the San Francisco delegation to the historic 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony. A Q&A session with Wexler will follow.
THE NEW SCHOOL PARTNERS WITH PBS
The New School is very pleased to announce that we have partnered with WNET, Channel Thirteen, to webcast New School public programs through their new video site “Thirteen Forum.”
WNET is promoting the site as “presenting New York’s best lectures, debates, and conversations to the world.” The New School joins many of the city’s top cultural and educational institutions in this venture. In addition to our ongoing partnership with Fora.tv, this new site will provide another great outreach venue for the university.
On Wednesday, October 29, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., Russell Shorto will discuss his most recent book, Descartes’ Bones, at The New School in the Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor.
Russell Shorto is a world-renowned writer. A frequent lecturer in New York and throughout the United States, Shorto is the director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam. The institute is the center for American culture in Amsterdam, which presents speakers from around the world to European audiences.
Shorto’s most famous book, Island at the Center of the World, an internationally-acclaimed bestseller about the Dutch founding of Manhattan, won the New York City Book Award, the Washington Irving Prize for contribution to New York history, and many other awards. Shorto is a regular contributing writer of the New York Times Magazine.
Descartes’ Bones is a history of modern philosophy and the conflict between faith and reason. Descartes is most famous for his philosophical writings where he asserts that science and mathematics can explain everything in nature. Descartes’ Bones is a historical detective story, which seeks to solve the mystery of the location of Descartes's skull and how it got separated from the rest of his remains. Retracing the journey of the great 17th-century French thinker's bones—through six countries, across three centuries, through three burials—Shorto follows the philosophical journey into modernity, launched by Descartes' mind-body problem.
Candidates for The New School Honorary Degrees
The university expects to present six honorary degrees at its May 2009 commencement exercises. Awardees are accomplished in their field and are generally chosen from a discipline that represents the various schools and programs of the university. Honorary degrees will be awarded from the categories listed below. Candidates do not have to be graduates of The New School.
Categories:
- The Arts: Classical Music, Jazz/Contemporary Music, Theater, Film, Television, Writing, Visual Arts
- Design, Journalism
- The Humanities and Social Sciences
- The Natural Sciences
- Public Life and Government
Nominations for honorary degree candidates and University in Exile Award candidates are welcome and should be submitted no later than Friday, October 24, 2008. For additional details to nominate candidates for either an honorary degree or the University in Exile Award, please go to the University Commencement Website.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES
Learn how to use RefWorks, a software program that allows you to import and keep citations in your own database, print a properly formatted bibliography in seconds, insert in-text citations while typing papers, and more!
Throughout the semester, Fogelman Library offers a one-hour workshop on this valuable resource. To see the currently offered classes and to sign up, visit the Library website.
The New School Library's online catalog—called BobCat—has a new look. To help users navigate this new interface, the New School Library has prepared an online introductory video.
You can find the link for the video on the library website, or you can go directly to http://library.newschool.edu/tutorials/bobcat/overview.
You can also find a quick guide at http://library.newschool.edu/tutorials/bobcat/pdf/overview.pdf
For the duration of the fall semester, Fogelman Library will continue to be located on the lower level of 65 5th Avenue. The library plans to be open for business in its new space before the start of spring semester classes. Look for announcements regarding the library's future move to 55 West 13th Street on my.newschool.edu, and in future issues of the Weekly Observer.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FACULTY MEMBER ANNIE HOWELL GRAND PRIZE WINNER AT IFP FILM WEEK
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| Grand Prize Winners (l to r) Susan Youssef, Annie Howell, Matt Porterfield with Panasonic rep (l) Jan Livingston |
Last week at Independent Feature Project’s (IFP) Independent Film Week in New York, Media Studies Faculty member Annie J. Howell won the Panasonic Digital Filmmaker Grand Prize Award for her feature-length film script, Black Kid.
Howell participated in the Emerging Narrative Program, pairing filmmakers with industry executives for meetings and consultation. Howell’s script was one of 40 projects chosen nation-wide from 500 applications, and was one of three grand prize winners.
Founded as a satellite program of the 1979 New York Film Festival, the nonprofit IFP has evolved into the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers. Since its start, IFP has supported the production of 7,000 films and provided resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers—voices that otherwise might not have been heard.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
TCDS HAS ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SUMMER IN KRAKOW, POLAND
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From July 8 to 25, our increasingly competitive summer campus in Poland again welcomed talented young scholars committed to the strengthening of civil society — from the NSSR, Lang College, and universities around the world - 35 participants from 15 countries on 5 continents. They came to study — for a full semester’s credit — challenges in politics, culture, and society that are faced today by democracies young and old.
In a demanding curriculum, students chose 2 of the 4 seminars offered by our dedicated New School professors: on political culture, by Jeffrey Goldfarb; on globalism and cosmopolitanism, by Elzbieta Matynia and Andreas Kalyvas; on the role of gender, by Ann Snitow; and on genocide, memory, and evil by Richard and Carol Bernstein.
Coursework was enhanced by screenings, study tours, and guest speakers like the poet Adam Zagajewski and historian Jan Gross- adding up for many to a pivotal experience personally, intellectually, and professionally. Nostalgic alumni visited us who in their respective countries now hold positions of influence in academia, media, government, and civil society. For students from the post-communist or developing world, the Institute offers, as Prof. Snitow puts it, “the opportunity to talk openly and at length with students from the New School whose experiences and frames of reference are very different from their own. The results are dramatic and transformative.”
“I was touched by the slices of life through which my peers had lived”, writes NSSR student Jeffrey Purchla; “having the inherent turbulence of one’s life compounded by war, genocide, hate — yet still harboring ideals strong enough to attend an institute promoting democracy and diversity.” And Lang student Michael Gorup: “I know that this program has played an integral role in my intellectual development, in addition to welcoming me, comfortably and confidently, into a new-found academic community.”
For more on the 2008 Krakow institute or to join the January 2009 Cape Town institute visit the TCDS website.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
PARSONS STUDENT RECEIVES FULBRIGHT AWARD
Chloe Chelz, a master’s student in History of Decorative Arts & Design, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Scholarship. Chelz will study in Italy, and she is one of over 1,450 US citizens traveling abroad for the 2008-2009 academic year through the Fulbright US Student Program.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international-educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946, under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has funded approximately 286,500 Americans to study, teach, or research abroad, and 178,340 students, scholars, and teachers from other countries to engage in similar activities in the United States. The program operates in over 155 countries worldwide.
CANTONESE OPERA WORKSHOP/DISCUSSION
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A discussion/workshop on Monday, October 13, from 12:00-1:30 p.m., featuring Cantonese opera performers Danny Li and Pui-Yan Li will allow audiences to get fully immersed in Cantonese opera. Participants will be introduced to its symbolism, connotations, costumes, movements and sign languages. Scenes from various operas will be shown.
Cantonese opera is a fine art that includes fluid and graceful body movements and expressions. The drama in any opera comes from the elaborate and flamboyant costumes, exquisite wigs, and colorful make-up worn by the actors.
Danny Li was born into a family of Cantonese Opera professionals and started training from the age of eight. Li is an experienced performer and renowned artistic director in Hong Kong. In 1980, he formed his own troupe named the Group of Hong Kong Experimental Cantonese Opera and was invited by the Hong Kong Urban Council to perform at the Chinese Opera Festival representing Cantonese Opera. In 2005, Li formed the Art of Cantonese Opera Association in New York in hope of promoting the traditional arts of Cantonese Opera in America.
Pui Yan Li, graduated from Wellesley College in 2000 with a major in Chinese. In training since 2003, he become a professional performer and dedicated himself to the preservation and promotion of the art of Cantonese Opera.
This free event will take place at the Parsons Auditorium, Midtown Campus, David Schwartz Fashion Education Center, 560 Seventh Avenue.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
CLASS STRUGGLES: STRENGTHENING SCHOOLS BY STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
New York City’s public schools are held accountable for their students’ educational progress. But what happens when problems at home hold students back, or when young children aren’t coming to school? Could the city create a school-based safety net in the lowest-income neighborhoods? The Center for New York City Affairs will release an analysis of absenteeism in the early grades, looking at the role that schools and families play in the academic success of a child—and what is needed to help more children do well.
The event will be held on Tuesday, October 21, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, with introductory remarks by Richard Rothstein, research associate, Economic Policy Institute, and author of Class and Schools; and Dennis Walcott, Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development, City of New York.
Moderated by Clara Hemphill, co-founder, InsideSchools.org and author, New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide, the panel will include: Lilliam Barrios Paoli, executive director, SafeSpace; Jane Quinn, assistant executive director for Community Schools, Children’s Aid Society; and Luis Torres, principal, Bronx P.S. 55.
Admission to this event, supported by the Child Welfare Fund, the Milano Foundation, the Sirus Fund and the United Way of New York City, is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
FACULTY MEMBER AWARDED A FULBRIGHT SENIOR SPECIALIST AWARD
Joseph Heathcott, associate professor of Urban Studies at Lang College has received a US.Fulbright Senior Specialist Award for 2008-2011. The senior specialist program selects scholars for three-year terms to serve as on-call experts. Over the course of the three years, senior specialists are funded to travel by invitation to two destinations for up to six-weeks in order to provide expertise in research, professional training, or curriculum development. Typically, scholars visit universities, museums, institutes, and other agencies. Heathcott will consult in the areas of historic preservation, cultural resource management, and urban planning.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
THE MANNES ORCHESTRA AT SYMPHONY SPACE
On Tuesday, October 7, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Orchestra led by David Hayes, conductor and director of orchestral and conducting studies, will play a program to include, Haydn's Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, "Drum Roll"; Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67.
Symphony Space is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. Admission is free and no tickets are required. For more information call 212.580.0210 x4817
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA TO PRESENT IBSEN’S THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY
The New School for Drama presents Henrik Ibsen’s The Pillars of Society as the first offering of the FIRST LOOK Performance Series. Drama’s FIRST LOOK is a program of performances of classical and contemporary works staged in a final rehearsal atmosphere, with minimal sets, lights, costumes, and props. The production of Pillars, translated by Michael Meyer, features the third-year acting students and is directed by Johanna McKeon.
Set in a seaside port in provincial Norway, The Pillars of Society tells the dramatic story of a wealthy ship owner who has married to further his career. He has, however, a scandal in his past, and all attempts by this “pillar of the community” to hide his shame come back to haunt him in the present.
A Drama League Directing Fellow, Ms. McKeon comes to Drama from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she directed the premiere of Ann Washburn’s I Have Loved Strangers, as well as workshops of The Liddy Plays by Brooke Berman and The Stonewater Rapture by Doug Wright. She has also directed at the Vineyard and Ontological-Hysteric theatres in New York City.
Performances are Wednesday-Saturday, October 15-18, at 8:00 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday at 3:00 p.m., at The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are recommended; call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.
For more information, visit the Drama website.
DRAMA PLAYWRITING FACULTY MEMBER HAS TWO PLAYS CURRENTLY OFF-BROADWAY
Playwright and Drama faculty member Michael Weller is having a prolific start to the theater season, having recently opened two new plays off-Broadway: Beast at New York Theatre Workshop this past August and Fifty Words at MCC last week.
A dark comedic play that lies outside the bounds of realism, Beast is the story of two soldiers who were badly mutilated in the war in Iraq and their process of re-assimilating. The soldiers eventually get the commander-in-chief alone and tell him what they think about how things are going abroad. Fifty Words features a couple in a marriage that is hitting a major rough patch; when their son is at a sleep-over at a friend’s house one evening, their resentments and revelations surface during an all-night fight.
In addition, Fifty Words is directed by Drama directing faculty member Austin Pendleton, who Weller gave the script to read three years ago when it was originally completed; it was when the play was presented in a reading earlier this year at Drama for program director Robert LuPone, and his co-artistic director of MCC Bernard Telsey and MCC associate artistic director William Cantler, that plans to produce the play moved forward. “The minute the reading was over the three of us made eye contact and thought, ‘We want to do this play,’” Telsey said.
Beast is currently playing until October 12 at New York Theatre Workshop (www.nytw.org); Fifty Words is produced by MCC and currently playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (www.mcctheater.org).
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
New School faculty leads with Willie Nelson at Farm Aid
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You don't get too many phone calls like the one New School Jazz alumnus and faculty member, Scott Kettner received recently. Kettner and his band, Nation Beat, were profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered, in a spot by Afropop Worldwide's Banning Eyre. Kettner was then contacted by a new admirer: Willie Nelson's manager who proclaimed Nation Beat the most exciting new thing he'd heard in years and asked them if they would be available to sing with Nelson at Farm Aid on September 20. What got American music icon Willie Nelson (and many other listeners) so excited about Nation Beat was the innovative remixing of Northeastern Brazilian rhythms with American rural-roots music. The band's version of Hank William's "I'm so Lonesome" done in Maracatu style is one of the songs the legendary Nelson sang with Nation Beat at Farm Aid.
Kettner is a composer and plays drums and percussion. He has studied intensively in Brazil, and in 2004 became a member of one of the oldest existing traditional Maracatu groups from Recife, Brazil, Maracatu Naçäo Estrela Brilhante (founded in 1906). In 2003 and 2005, Kettner was awarded an artist grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council for his project Maracatu New York and the Nation Beat, and was a 2006 Latin Jazz Ambassador with the US State Department. Kettner was also awarded an artist grant by the Brazilian government to bring his group to Recife, Brazil, to record a CD together with the traditional Maracatu group Estrela Brilhante. Kettner also composed and recorded for the latest Cascabulho CD, a world famous Mangue Beat group from Recife, Brazil, which was nominated for a 2005 Latin Grammy Award. He leads The New School Brazilian Drumming Ensemble.
To hear the NPR segment, Nation Beat: American South vs. South America go to the NPR website. To view the performance at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachuetts, go to the Farm Aid website.
LIVELY AUDIENCES TURN OUT FOR ELECTION DEBATES
As anticipated, New School audiences at the first presidential debate and the sole vice presidential debate have been engaged and animated. On Friday, September 26, the rain didn’t dampen the spirits of close to 200 people, most of them students, from turning out for the first of four one-hour, pre-debate programs. The program, which was held in the Lang Café, featured several student organizations who presented their findings on where the candidates stood on a number of important issues including the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gay rights, and the environment. Following the program, the presidential debate between Barak Obama and John McCain was televised.
Approximately 450 very lively audience members gathered in Tishman Auditorium to watch the vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin explain their positions on the issues. Prior to the debate, close to 200 students gathering in the Lang Café, attentively listened to Greggory Keith Spence, professor in Professional Practice, explain the duties and responsibilities of the vice president and how past and current administrations have interpreted the role. Some of those complexities of the vice presidency that Spence covered in his presentation proved relevant as they were discussed by the candidates during the actual debate.
Student Services with co-sponsorship from the University Diversity Initiative, organized these university-wide debate events. The next event will take place on Tuesday, October 7, at 8:00 p.m. in the Lang Café, 65 West 11th Street, where Herbert Greenhut, faculty member at The New School for General Studies, will lead a discussion about the historical significance of the 2008 presidential election. At 9:00 p.m. the second presidential debate will be televised in Tishman Auditorium.
For more information, please contact the Office of Student Development and Activities at studev@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Earn $50! Psychological testing volunteers are needed for fall 2008—spring 2009. Doctoral students in the NSSR Clinical Psychology program need supervised experience giving a range of tests, some you may have heard of. Find out how psychologists work and learn something about yourself! Volunteers meet with one clinical PhD student several times throughout the year. Volunteers must be available both fall 2008 and spring 2009. Total testing time is about 6 hours, plus an hour of feedback in the spring 2009 semester after testing is completed. Test is strictly confidential and is supervised by PhD clinical psychologists on the New School faculty. Clinical students may discuss anonymous test results in small groups, but only the PhD student conducting the tests and the instructor will know each volunteer’s identity.
If you would like to volunteer, please contact the teaching assistants, Rebecca Rosen and Katherine Barboza, to arrange a telephone interview. Email Roser694@ newschool.edu or barbk846@newschool.edu
with any questions for the instructors, Dr. Andrew Twardon and Dr. Ali Khadivi, and it will be passed on.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER WALK ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
The New School is taking part in the American Cancer Society's annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Sunday, October 19, at 9:00 a.m. in Central Park.
In 2006 and 2007, The New School collectively raised an impressive $6,902. This year the challenge for the university community is to beat last year’s total. Your donation will support the society's lifesaving research, educational policies, advocacy initiatives, and patient service programs, and it will send a message to cancer patients and survivors everywhere that hope starts here. Please take just a few minutes to donate and show that you care about fighting this disease.
To get information about registering and joining in the walk or just to make a donation, go to The New School's team-page on the web.
THE NINTH TCDS DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN CAPE TOWN,
SOUTH AFRICA
The New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies will be conducting its ninth Democracy and Diversity Institute in Cape Town, South Africa, January 6-22, 2009. During the intensive two-week program, up to 40 junior scholars and graduate students from sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, Latin America, and central and eastern Europe will gather to examine challenges to democracy in the host region and beyond. The institute will offer seminar courses in political science, anthropology, economics, sociology, and gender studies, to be co-taught by faculty from The New School for Social Research and South African academics. Students will select two of the four seminar courses; they will also attend a series of master classes conducted by scholars and intellectuals from South Africa and other countries in the region. The program includes evening guest speakers and study tours to socially and politically significant sites in the Cape peninsula.
New School students will receive credits upon successful completion of their coursework (three credits per course). This graduate program is also open to advanced students from Eugene Lang College.
The following seminar courses will be offered at the 2009 institute:
Democracies and Boundaries: Conflicts About Membership, Borders, and Diversity
Prof. David Plotke,Department of Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Gender and Democracy
Profs. Elzbieta Matynia, Department of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research, and Shireen Hassim, Department of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Democracy and Africanism
Prof. Hylton White, Department of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, and guest speakers
Shifting Power in the Global Economy: Rethinking Development Strategies
Profs. William Milberg, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, and Stephen Gelb, executive director, the EDGE Institute, Johannesburg, and Department of Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Applications, with full instructions, will be available beginning in September at www.newschool.edu/tcds. The deadline for applications is October 17, 2008.
For a full program description, contact TCDS at 212.229.5580 x3136 or tcds@newschool.edu, or visit www.newschool.edu/tcds.
CATCH THE “VAN GOGH AND THE COLORS OF THE NIGHT" EXHIBIT AT
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FOR FREE
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 two tickets for their guests. Enjoy!
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.
THE BEST DEAL FOR AFFORDABLE THEATER, Dance, and concert TICKETS:
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
An exciting spring theater, music and dance season is under way: Why pay $100 or more, when you can pay $20-$36 for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows, dance performances and concerts? 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 $27.50, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for $20-36 per ticket include: 13-A New Musical, The 39 Steps, Absinthe at the Spiegeltent, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Boeing Boeing, The Fantasticks, Flamingo Court, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hairspray, Irena's Vow, Legally Blonde, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Marvelous Wonderettes, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening, The Seagull, To Be Or Not To Be and Xanadu.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.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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