Christine McCormick/Catalyst The Bugatti Veyron Super Sort was the center of attention, with event attendees crowding around to photograph every detail of the car, down to the pattern of its tire treads. I arrived in St. Petersburg last Sunday, the sunny streets flooded with a…
New College prides itself on being a place where professors and their pupils can form tight-knit relationships. But with five professors from New College’s Division of Social Sciences either being on full-time academic leave or leaving the school altogether next academic year, students may find themselves worrying that their bonds may be breaking prematurely.
Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Division of Social Sciences David Harvey told the Catalyst there was no need to panic: “We are going to muddle through and hold down the fort as best we can, but it is a real concern,” Harvey said. “We are going to be significantly shorthanded in terms of tenured or tenure-track faculty who can sponsor theses and that does mean that those people who are around are going to be substantially overloaded.”
Among those professors who will be leaving are Assistant Professor of History Bob Johnson (two-year academic leave without pay), Associate Professor of Political Science Frank Alcock (one-year academic leave) and Assistant Professor of Political Science Joe Mink (leaving New College for Hobart and William Smith College). ...
image courtesy of guardian.co.uk Ai Weiwei strikes a pointedly messianic pose in his latest installation at the Tate. One hundred million ceramic sunflower seeds currently carpet the foyer of London’s Tate Modern, each handmade using traditional Chinese methods, that are the product of the labor…
All photos Corey Rodda/Catalyst On April 6, the Bay became saturated with the scent of Jimmy Choo perfume. Tables garnished with vases of pink water and rose petals, a runway and a legion of hat-clad people transformed the space behind college hall into the fashion…
During last week’s downpour, a puddle appeared in first-year David Smith’s Second Court room. “The room is on the second floor and has been flooding ever since we moved in at the beginning of the year,” Smith said. “But it got worse with the heavy…
All photos courtesy of Anne Larkin/Catalyst It’s certainly not Mexico and it’s not quite Spain. It’s somewhere inbetween, with its multitude of cafes hawking jamón crudo sandwiches and café cortados, its old colonial facades in various states of shine and disrepair, its cobbled streets and…
Interim Director of Technical Services and Systems Librarian Nancy Spaid Where are you from? I’m originally from Colorado, but I’ve lived here in Florida for more than half of my life — always on the west central coast. I’ve lived up in Palm Harbor and…
David Belew/Catalyst It wasn’t a normal dinner at the Four Winds cafe. The rain had not let up all day and the lights were out with the diners’ faces illuminated by candle-light and the occasional flash of lightning. “Don’t let go, its very important that…
Alexis Santos/Catalyst A dragon springs from an issue of the Catalyst with the help of an augmented reality game on the Nintendo 3DS. Last year, filmmakers and TV manufacturers sought the holy grail that is 3D. Nintendo hopes to claim it in 2011 with the Nintendo…
All photos Christine McCormick/Catalyst Second-year Jonathan Weinberg meanders between the trees, his eyes darting in search of the perfect tree branch. After dismissing several that revealed flaws after closer inspections, he settles on the perfect piece of beech. “I look for wood where one branch…
