All photos Liz Hampton/Catalyst During the weekend of April 8, thousands of sharks teeth were found on Venice Beach, just 18 miles south of Sarasota. But the teeth weren’t found in the breakwater or in the sand — they were across the street, behind the…
Just in time to ring in the nigh-imminent completion of the new Academic Center’s construction, New College has received a $1 million donation for the construction of a bell tower in its plaza, as well as to fund other important projects. The gift, announced by…
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…
Kaley Soud/Catalyst Over the weekend of April 2nd, the campus saw the return of the fourth annual "All Power to the Imagination!" conference, which brought over 30 workshops and numerous visitors to New College to discuss how theory and practice can work together to create…
In the Gender and Diversity Center (GDC) off to the side of the Hamilton “Ham” Center, on March 29, a group of interested staff and students, consisting of Catholics, Jews and godless alike, joined together to discuss a topic important to them, women in religion,…
The NCSA election petition period ends at midnight on April 6 and all signed petitions must be submitted in the Supervisor of Elections' box. Each petition needs to have 25 printed names with signatures and box numbers as well as the name of the petitioner…
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…
New College Student Alliance Co-presidents first-year Michael Long and third-year Oliver Peckham are creating a bulletin board for Hamilton “Ham” Center that will list local businesses that give discounts to New College students. “We’re trying to get the biggest bang for our buck in terms…
The Office of Human Resources is in the process of switching from paper to electronic time-sheets. In an interview with the Catalyst, Associate Director of Human Resources YeVette Thorton said, “We in HR were processing easy 300 time sheets manually. That’s a lot of work…
The Green Fee, which was unanimously passed by the Board of Governors on March 24, will be enacted in fall 2011. The initiative would place a one dollar per credit hour fee on every student. This means a $32-36 fee per year depending on whether…
