To follow up last week’s article about the new internship coordinator position, the Catalyst profiles student internships. Students say interning gives them real world experience, insights into their interests, thesis ideas and prepares them for their future careers. ANNA RODRIGUEZ Second year Anna Rodriguez, an…
Round up the kittens and throw some cheeseburgers on the grill, “Trailer Park Boys” is back. Netflix has revived the cult favorite, which ended its initial run in 2008. The company is producing three new specials, two new movies and two full seasons of antics…
FREE TIME: Designate time to do your work and give yourself free time. It is helpful to plan chunks of two or three hours to truly focus on a particular project and work on it without letting your mind wander. An hour and a half…
Hindustani classical music seeped through the doorway and the smell of fresh wood fanned through the clean, methodized space. No, this was not a trendy meditation spa where “Namaste” was dropped on the regular, but instead a cozy record shop in downtown Sarasota, satirically named…
Developing technology has allowed easier access to resources for students around the globe. Computers and laptops with an internet access let students look up information from anywhere with internet access, and with the late 2000s boom of eReaders, students have experienced more freedom than ever…
The Housing Department is getting a number of revamps this year, including staffing and structural changes, and a new system for room draw. With the recent leave of Campus Life Coordinator (CLC) Shannon Smigo and upcoming departure of CLC Aaron Baker at the end of this semester, the staff will look very…
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) hosted their spring 2014 action, the Now Is The Time Tour, a 10-day tour culminating in a 24-hour vigil in Lakeland, FL. The event, which travelled through 10 U.S. cities, called for major corporations Wendy’s and Publix to join…
This past week, New College welcomed Dean and Professor of Music and Opera Studies Michael Burden to Sarasota, and the United States, from Oxford’s College of St. Mary’s or as it has always been referred to “New College.” During a simple reception hosted in the…
A trio of “Mad Men” actors, Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Maggie Gyllenhaal and the late Philip Seymour Hoff man are just a few of the performers that will be on-screen for the 2014 Sarasota Film Festival (SFF). The complete program for the spring festival, known…
The recent hiring of official Title IX coordinator, Brian Mistler, is just one in a chain of changes that are a part of the New College’s policy adjustments after the White House’s issue of their report on rape and sexual assault this January. Title IX…
