Crossbows and plunder pants: reenacting De Soto's conquest

All photos Christine McCormic/Catalyst Lazarus demonstrates the proper use of the matchlock arquebus. This early firearm was used by De Soto's army on their expedition throughout the southeastern United States. Thesis student Dayna Lazarus never was a history buff. “I liked history, but avoided trying…

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Customers play with construction equipment at local business

All photos Alexis Santos/Catalyst Pete Russell loads bowling balls onto the skid steer loader to place them in goals. The 21-acre field on the corner of Tallevast Road and State Highway 301 sits empty on most days, but on others tourists don hardhats and climb…

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Students share their stories over soul food

Anne Larkin/Catalyst Alum Loren Mora ('06) at the Storytelling night. The Four Winds Café filled with narrators and narrative-appreciators alike last Wednesday night, the familiar furniture re-arranged into a circle conducive to storytelling and soul food eating as brave, funny, clever students perched above us…

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Swanky dinner party aims to raise $100k for NCF

As strains of The Beatles’ track “Yesterday” and other classical ditties performed by a violinist and harpist were heard in the background, nearly 600 well-dressed socialites, alums, philanthropists and others noshed on choice cuts of filet mignon and made small talk at a dinner held…

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"42: the Women of Sierra Leone" presented at NCF

Photographer Lee Karen Stow reflected, “A very well known photographer once said something and it stuck in my mind. She said, if something is not documented in the eyes of the world, it does not exist. These women exist. This situation exists. So I try…

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News Corp.'s The Daily makes debut on iPad

photo courtesy of the Daily The Feb. 11 issue of The Daily was updated just minutes after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as President of Egypt. On Feb. 2, News Corporation’s CEO Rupert Murdoch introduced the world to The Daily, the first daily national news publication…

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Hoop dreams: one Novocollegian's love of the game

photo courtesy of Evan Dunlap Despite having an undefeated football team, Novocollegians are notoriously apathetic when it comes to following professional or collegiate sports. But thesis student Evan Dunlap bucks the trend. A die-hard basketball fan, Dunlap manages and writes for a well-respected online blog…

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Farm workers fight for their rights

All photos Anne Larkin/Catalyst One of the protesters at the Paradise Plaza Publix. “¡Justicia ahora!” (“Justice now!”) demanded an invigorated mass during an afternoon protest on Sun., Feb. 6 in front of the Paradise Plaza Publix, holding signs rebuking the supermarket chain’s refusal to comply…

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New College faculty and staff switch to Gmail

The transition from Microsoft’s Exchange 2003 e-mail service to the web-based Google Mail, also known as Gmail, began last week for New College faculty and staff members. The move, approved the Technical Advisory Committee in April, is slated for completion in January. “We’d like to…

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