We've received a tip from a very angry graduate student at the New School, the fancy New York City liberal arts school that has seen its student center occupied since Thursday. The damn occupiers are trashing the place!

Spectacularly unpopular New School president Bob Kerrey will quit in two years. Building occupations work!

Remember the angry protest outside the New School a few weeks ago, the one in which students barricaded themselves inside a building and demanded the university's controversial president, Bob Kerrey, resign? Well, they're getting their way! Bob Kerrey will, indeed, be leaving the institution. In, like, two years or so. [NYT]

In typical bureaucratic fashion, The New School has convened a committee to issue a formal report on the student takeover last month. Not addressed: Is this cop a huge dick, or what? [City Room]

The New School has sent the student body a detailed account of yesterday's brouhaha, including allegations that some of the occupiers weren't students and that they looted the cafeteria cash register.

The New School kids just won't stop getting arrested. At 10 p.m. last night, 200 protesters gathered in Union Square and tried to march en masse to New School president Bob Kerrey's house.

Well now: just because college protesters falsely cry "Police Brutality" sometimes doesn't mean that real police misconduct doesn't exist. For example: you can't knock kids down and arrest them because they say "Shame":

A protest outside the New School turned violent this morning when students seeking the ouster of the university's president, Bob Kerrey, clashed with cops. According to the NYPD, 19 people were arrested in the melee. The department's spokesman, Paul Browne, also said the operation "was done in a very organized, orderly fashion," and the arrests were made in an "orderly fashion," although this video taken by an activist seems to dispute that account. Consider your faith in NYPD flacks shattered! [NYT/City Room]

Recent student takeovers at the New School and NYU were allowed to drag on for days with negotiations and demands; but today's New School takeover has already been crushed by cops! And there's no amnesty:

Alert: student activists have taken over one of the New School's buildings, near Union Square. Again! They just did this shit a few months ago, winning nothing except ridicule. This time they might do better!

[The Kats are cranky this week as they watch a college riot involving the word "provost." Also, Jim Behrle's season's greetings.]

The Siege of the New School, in which students occupied buildings, fought off cops, and terrified school president Bob Kerrey, has ended. Revolution wins! Exclusive first hand journalism—and wanton violence—below:

Terrified and unpopular New School president Bob Kerrey has canceled his scheduled meeting with student reps tonight, citing "security" reasons. Pussy! Meanwhile the student revolutionaries may clash again with police stormtroopers!

Breaking: The student revolutionaries currently occupying the New School's Faculty building have triumphed over the Fascist security guards, winning a meaningless victory! And they have issued a "Communique" from inside the occupied territory:

Throughout the morning we've been receiving URGENT REPORTS of DIRECT ACTION by STUDENT ACTIVISTS at fancy NYC college New School. They've taken over a building! POLICE CLASHES and EXCESSIVE FORCE! Join the struggle:

The millionaire Long Island couple who were found guilty yesterday on 12 counts of enslaving and abusing their Indonesian help had their mansion confiscated yesterday. One of their twentysomething daughters, a diabetic, fainted in court when the verdict was read aloud; her mother followed suit. From the Facebook page of the couple's oldest child, 23-year-old Parsons grad Pooja, it's hard to tell that anything other than questionable decorating and bad makeup was going on in that house. In 400 candid images, the four Sabhnani kids come off like less-mouthy and more-Indian versions of the Gotti boys. "OMG, i LOVE the gift!! thank you soooooooo much deedz!!!" writes one of Pooja's sisters, both of whom go to Pace, on her page. "Hey! Didn't see you today :( and now i'm working at Borders tonight yet again - so try to come over tomorrow or else i'll just see you next weekend!" is how a wall post from a friend goes. Who knew slave owners also tended toward abuse of the exclamation point? More pictures after the jump.

Bob Kerrey, the former fitness center operator and former Debra Winger dater and SEAL team leader of the murderous 1969 raid on Thanh Phong, will stay on as president of the New School and not run for Nebraska Senator. [City Room]

Stop the presses! There's a major announcement from the New School today: What was formerly called New School University and before that called the New School for Social Research, will now be called — wait for it — the New School.