Just beginning

An agreement was reached late last night, and the university leadership is urging everyone to resume where we left off. But it's going to be a bit longer and rather harder than that. For one thing, a group of students who had been supporting the part-time faculty throughout the bargaining occupied our main building on Thursday, and have no intention of leaving. "This is just the beginning!" They have demands of their own, concerning immediate matters like grading (As for all this semester) and tuition (refund for part of this semester, freeze going forward) as well as larger structural reforms. They don't just demand that current leadership be removed (as many faculty also demand); they've heard The New School started without an administration and are calling for us to become a participatory community without one again, the "non-administrative NEW School"!