rethinking the project

Over the past few months, The New School has been embroiled in a campus upheaval. Following the December student occupation at The New School, students from New York University occupied the Kimmel Student Center for a couple days in February 2009. The student groups across the city have been collaborating and organizing, with students from CUNY, The New School, New York University, and (maybe) Columbia creating a coalition of citywide student activists. As more demonstrations are likely to take place over the next month, and the New School students have vowed to "shut down" the university if president Bob Kerrey does not resign before April 1, it would be remiss for my project to not focus on these latest developments in student activism. The renewed focus will now be on student activism in the digital age, and what it means to be an activist in a time when you can live-blog your occupation, shoot video footage and post it on youtube, and publish your own "coverage" via weblogs, something the student activists of the late 1960s could only dream about.