GRADUATION PETITIONS – deadline October 1st for January Grads!

For those students planning to graduate in January, please remember to submit your Graduation Petition! Deadlines: No fee prior to October 1, $20 late fee after Oct. 1, $50 late fee after Nov. 1.  Final deadline November 15th. 

Graduation Petitions are available through my.newschool.edu (click on Student tab, click on Graduation Petition).  Students are responsible for submitting the completed form to the Registrar’s Office, 65 Fifth Avenue (fax # 212-229-5648).  Questions: contact The Registrar (212) 229-5620.

Fogelman Library News

 

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.

Rock The Vote Campaign

The Rock The Vote Campaign hopes to engage New School students, faculty, and staff in what will prove to be one of the most historical elections in our lifetime.

 

Rock The Vote On-Campus Events

Student Services is organizing on-campus debate events in the Lang Cafe featuring a one hour program prior to the start of each of the debates which will be televised following each presentation on the following dates:

 

Vice presidential debate Thursday, October 2, 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Program: What Exactly Does the Vice President Do Anyway?

 

Second presidential debate Tuesday, October 7, 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Program: What Makes this Presidential Election So Historical?

 

Third presidential debate Wednesday, October 15, 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Program: And Now…an International Perspective on the U.S. Presidential Elections.

The New School has over 2,000 international students, professors, and scholars. This program is an opportunity for the New School’s international community to share their perspectives on the upcoming election.

 

Sponsored by the offices of Student Development & Activities, Intercultural Support, International Student Services, Student Housing & Residence Life, Student Disability Services, Health Education, Career Development and by the University Diversity Initiative.

FALL 2008 UNIVERSITY BLOOD DRIVE

 

This year’s semi-annual two-day fall blood drive is scheduled for Thursday, October 2, and Friday, October 3, 10:00 a.m.-3:15 p.m., at the Student Lounge, 6 East 16th Street, lower level. The New School has established a new and efficient web-based scheduling system: see below for login instructions. We ask you to support and participate in this important endeavor.

 

This is an opportunity for members of The New School community to contribute life-saving blood to grateful New Yorkers and to demonstrate our community spirit. There is an ongoing need for blood in our area for patients including accident victims, surgical patients, cancer patients, burn victims, hemophiliacs, and the elderly. The spring 2008 drive was a success with more then 60 donations.

 

New Web-Based Scheduling System:

Donors should try to make an appointment in advance via the new web scheduler, but walk-ins are always welcome.

*Important: initial access to the web scheduler requires all donors, new and returning, to click on the “New Users” sign-up button, so you can create a password for future access to the site.

 

The entire registration/donation process should take about an hour, with the actual blood-giving process lasting six or seven minutes. Donors must be between the ages of 17 and 75 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good health, and not have donated blood within the last 56 days. Donors must also bring photo identification. Afterward, there will be snacks available, and complimentary Chartwells Dining Cards for donors will also be available while supplies last.

 

If you have specific questions about donating, please contact the New York Blood Center at 800.688.0900, or visit their website.

THE BARBARA JORDAN LECTURE SERIES: RONALD W. WALTERS ON THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm

The New School, Arnhold Hall, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

FREE for all students, New School faculty, staff and alumni

Reception to follow

 

At its origins, the United States was committed to the idea of a “social contract,” a contract between the government and the governed to protect those inalienable rights articulated so clearly in the Declaration of Independence: the right to life, liberty, and happiness (or, implicitly, the right to property).  Establishing government through a contract does not obliterate the need to unearth the moral underpinnings of that contract – the need to protect those most in need of protection and those who, historically, have been treated inequitably.  Hurricane Katrina and the government and polity’s response to it, raised the question of the moral and political obligations we have to all of our citizens: how do we care for those most in need of our protection?  Under the auspices of the Barbara Jordan Fund, which has as its objective analyzing the state of American democracy, we have invited Ronald W. Walters, Distinguished Leadership Scholar and Director of the African American Leadership Program.  He is the author of the recently published, The Price of Racial Reconciliation, and Professor of Government at the University of Maryland.  Sponsored by The Wolfson Center for National Affairs.

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.

Cave Canem Legacy Conversation: An Evening with Ishmael Reed and Al Young:

Distinguished Poets Discuss Their Lives in Letters

Wednesday, October 1, 6:30pm

The New School, Arnhold Hall, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Admission: Free

The New School Writing Program and Cave Canem Foundation, North America’s premier “home for Black poetry,” sponsor an evening of conversation and poetry with Ishmael Reed and Al Young. After a brief reading, the poets will engage in a lively dialogue about the historical and cultural influences on their work. The program is the 15th in a Legacy Conversation series exploring the lives and work of distinguished Black poets and scholars. Supported, in part, by The New York Community Trust, Lila Wallace Theater Fund; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Public Art Fund Talks at The New School with Rob Pruitt

Wednesday, October 1, 6:30 pm

The New School, Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Admission: FREE for all students, $5 anyone else.

Last year artist Rob Pruitt became fascinated by his iPhone and its ability to document aspects of everyday life from the most mundane to the most revealing. Following in the footsteps of Andy Warhol, who intently chronicled his world through tape recordings and filled up numerous time capsules with his items from his everyday life, Pruitt has documented a-day-in-the-life-of-the-artist everyday for the year since purchasing the phone, which he refers to as “an extra brain in my pocket” as well as a “sketchbook for someone who doesn’t draw.”  Pruitt sees art all around him – as evidenced by 101 Art Ideas You Can Do at Home (1999), a set of instructions for transforming everything into art and demonstrating both his conceptual and pop roots. In the early 1990s, Pruitt collaborated with artist Jack Early before striking out on his own to create works that have ranged from paintings and sculptures to photographs and events: at last year’s Frieze Art Fair in London, he turned the booth run by Gavin Brown’s enterprise into a flea market, selling items consigned by artists and friends including records, clothes, brownies, books, and artwork. Rob Pruitt was born in 1964 in Washington DC and lives and works in New York. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad since the early 1990s. His latest project, “IPhotos” is on view at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York City through October 11, 2008. For more information, call the Public Art Fund at 212.980.4575.

Graduate Program in International Affairs Seminar Series: Andreja Zevnik on Deconstructing Guantanamo

Wednesday, October 1, 6:00 pm

The New School, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor

Admission Free; reservations required at gpia-events@newschool.edu

Professor Andreja Zevnik delivers a lecture entitled “Ontologies of Subject and Law for International Relations: Deconstructing Guantanamo.”  Professor Zevnik is a researcher in International Theory at the University of Wales. Her work is on the alternatives in thinking (ontologies) of subject and law for international relations with particular reference to Guantanamo detainees; her main theoretical approach is the theory of Jacques Lacan. Sponsored by International Affairs

New York Times Talk Immigration: the Economy and the Election, 2008 and Beyond

Friday, October 3, 6:30pm

The New School, Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Admission: Free; rsvp required, by contacting communityaffairs@nytimes.com

 

With Hispanics becoming the fastest growing minority in the U.S., their influence in the upcoming elections is expected to be profound; from hot button issues such as immigration reform, to how immigrants influence and affect our nation’s future. Join us for this important conversation moderated by Julia Preston, New York Times national immigration reporter, featuring: Arturo Vargas, executive director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; Deepak Bhargava, executive director, Center for Community Change; Antonio Martinez; Al Despertar, co-anchor and investigative reporter, Univision 41; and Heather Mac Donald, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and City Journal contributing editor. Sponsored by the New York Times and The New School.