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The occupation of 90 Fifth Ave. proved to be a contentious and divisive issue for the entire community. For many students, the occupation represented a manifestation of the ideals that they had come to The New School to experience: our historically active and progressive university was, once again, making its voice heard in an important social movement. But plenty of others were opposed to the occupation, and raised concerns about the graffiti on the walls of the Student Study Center, the loss of valuable — and limited — study space at the university, and the perceived exclusiveness of the occupation.

We are a group of students who acted to establish the occupation of the Study Center at 90 Fifth Ave. that began on Thursday, November 17. Our enthusiasm for the occupation was grounded in our ambitions to open an autonomous space in support of the Occupy movement, which recently had a hasty eviction from Zuccotti Park. We wanted to secure a base for connecting protests and struggles across the city, giving impetus for the further development of the burgeoning student movement.

They continued to stare and say nothing, for the doors had opened and the crowds were filing in. As the three friends took their seats, one of them suddenly looked back as if to say, “I know what you meant and I don’t like it.”

Between music theory classes and rehearsals, Mannes students can be found in the fifth floor lounge of the Mannes building on 150 W. 85th St. They might be studying sheet music, taking a nap on a couch, or eating pasta from Tupperware.

According to Alliance for The Arts, the “George Way Collection is gathered mostly from local sources, considered by experts to be the largest collection of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and English furniture outside the UK.”

The university retroactively amended an incorrect statistic in the report, listing a sexual assault case in the 2009 figures that was previously unreported to the federal government.

October 15 marked the 29th day of Occupy Wall Street, and an international day of action that culminated in mass demonstrations throughout the world. Protests reached as far as Tokyo and Sydney, with the most well attended demonstrations in Rome attracting over 200,000. In New York, an estimated 6,000 protesters met in Washington Square Park before marching to Times Square, for what was coined as an "Occupation Party."