Booker Middle launches hydroponics program

Devin Slegeski held a packet of lettuce seeds up to his eighth grade science class at Booker Middle and asked, “What am I holding here?” The kids responded with conviction: seeds – duh. “Wrong,” Slegeski said. “I’m holding $15,000.” That’s when everything clicked, Slegeski said.…

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Danish scholar gives talk on feminism and academia

Under the tumultuous new presidential administration, even the ever-objective world of academia has begun to engage with activism. A talk was held by Danish scholar, Bjarke Oxlund, in the Anthropology Lab last Wednesday, May 3, to discuss tensions between feminism, activism and anthropology. Oxlund posed…

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Family and friends remember Rodney Mitchell
The dinner provided the first opportunity to publicly screen a documentary covering Mitchell’s death and the community’s monumental reaction to it. Photo by Kat Grimmett.

Family and friends remember Rodney Mitchell

CW: police brutality, racism The Sarasota officers that shot Rodney Mitchell five years ago are still on duty today. A documentary screening and dinner was held at the Peace Education and Action Center this past Sunday, March 19, to celebrate Mitchell’s life and to support…

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Newtown Alive comes to New College

The living history of a community once segregated from Sarasota. That’s what Newtown Alive has preserved - in all its success and struggle - and that’s what the project’s director Vickie Oldham shared with guests from New College and wider Sarasota last week as part…

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Suiting up for Sarasota Democrats’ dinner party

The Sarasota Democratic Party’s Annual Kennedy-King Dinner is a fine opportunity to meet and mingle with local democrats and tap into political and activist currents in the area. It is also a chance to sit pretty for a night. The first thing to know about…

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SAC clears up budget discrepancy

After careful accounting and a few impromptu meetings, the Student Allocations Committee (SAC) has cleared up what was thought to be a budget discrepancy. At the close of the Feb. 5 SAC meeting, the remainder of the budget was recorded to be $22,528, but a…

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How to survive Winter Break

I don’t mean to assume but I’m willing to wager that some of you share the same apprehension I have of going home for break. The way it goes for me, I feel like a fish out of water for about a week, bored and…

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