12 18 08 NYC ā Today two text messages directed me to go to the New School University for a press conference of occupying students at 10:30 a.m. ā I had just time to gulp a cup of coffee and drag off across town. Lucky Iām staying in the Golden Apple this month. When I got there, a clutch of some 20 or 30 students were milling about in front of the New School looking nervous.