Since the ACE Building debuted in August of last year, one area of the building has remained vastly unoccupied. The original plan was to make what has now come to be known as the ACE Lounge into a student café, complete with “cooking equipment, ovens,…
“I have never been a big Martin Luther King fan,” bell hooks said during a discussion about the late civil rights leader. “I was more of a Malcolm X type girl.” hooks, New College’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar, talked with students and the Sarasota community on…
Taylor Meredith/Catalyst The SMOA's newest banners boast reaching past the halfway point of its fundraising goal. The Sarasota Museum of Art (SMOA) is designed to be a modern contemporary art museum that will be housed in the historic campus of Sarasota High School. The $22…
photo courtesy of ncf.edu Dedicated on Jan. 6, the new lab has been in the process since 2001. Here, Dr. Sendova works with a student. The largest federal grant in New College history was awarded to create a lab for studying bite-sized matter. The Optical…
photos courtesy of Carl Shaw and Sara Mineo/Catalyst Breakdancing, ping-pong, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are not normally the activities one would imagine a college professor partaking in. Usually, students are only exposed to the acedemic side of their professors but instructors Carl Shaw, Patrick McDonald and…
all photos Alexis Santos/Catalyst ORLANDO – From February 17 – 19, the Orange County Convention Center buzzed with the excitement for anime, comic books, movies and video games that only MegaCon can attract. The yearly convention that brings Central Florida geeks together over the things…
Since his inauguration in January of last year, Florida Governor Rick Scott has been making enemies out of voters by consolidating control and money into his hands, especially when it comes to the economy and funding state-supported programs. However, one of the more recent fights to give Scott more power has been pushed forward less so by the governor and his staff, but by two state universities, the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU). The House Joint Resolution 931 and its corresponding Senate Bill 1508 seek to remove the democratic power of the Florida Student Association (FSA) to elect its own student representative on Florida’s Board of Governors for Higher Education (BOG). The real kicker is that there seems to be a lot of support for it.
