SUBMITTED BU MARK A. JOHNSON, INTERIM DEAN OF STUDENTS Dear Students, Having served in multiple roles during three different stints at New College over much of the past 30 years, I've engaged in many conversations about community at New College. Numerous conversations with students, faculty,…
It is a Friday night and Palm Court is empty. The year is 1971 and Florida has just become one of 30 states to have lowered the drinking age to 18 years old. There is a group of students sitting on the benches, a…
Study abroad is expensive. Like, way expensive. Fortunately, New College participates in the National Student Exchange (NSE), a nonprofit consortium of almost 200 schools. These schools exchange students through special programs that cut the cost of of study abroad and help fill in gaps where…
Another season’s NBA trade deadline has come and gone, and this particular season’s exemplifies exactly how most deadlines occur: a ton of – sometimes unfounded – rumors build up a fan’s hopes for action, only for almost all of the rumors to flame out and…
Now that Super Bowl 50 is in the books, many fans are left with a feeling of emptiness without a game to watch every Sunday. Luckily, the offseason can be almost as exciting as the real season, and this offseason is looking like it might…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD There’s an exhilarating combination of empathy and contempt in “Hail, Caesar!,” the latest comic concoction from Joel and Ethan Coen. Immersed in the day-to-day of a Hollywood studio in the 1950s, the film follows the travails of Eddie Mannix (Josh…
The Bike Shoppe began in a First Court Pei dorm room. Now in its 26th year in existence, and its 22nd year in its current location behind the Fitness Center, the Bike Shoppe has functioned primarily as a place just to fix up your bike.…
Two months after New College students voted for Seven Deadly Sins to be the theme of the February Center Of the Universe Party (COUP), the hosts, first-years Emily Via and Austin Gray and second-year Sarah Cohen finally saw the fruits of their labor pay off.…
Caroline Reed has been awarded the Florida Library Association’s Leader of the Year award. A brief chat with Cook Library’s social sciences librarian. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. You were a social worker before becoming a librarian. How do these…
Volume III of the femzine, ‘Writing in the Margins,” debuted to a full house at the New College Four Winds cafe. The femzine focused on erotic autonomy, beauty and self-care. This year’s zine was overflowing with submissions. Students who attended the event received a copy of…
