In the spring of last year many students were dismayed by the closure of Sarasota News and Books (SNAB), but in this brave new world students don’t have to spoon with their Mr. Coffee in utter isolation. Just a few blocks from SNAB’s final resting…
Photo Courtesy of xconomy.com Paul Allen (center) stands with fellow investors Brian Binne (left) and Burt Rutan (right) in front of a replica of their privately developed Space Ship One which completed the first privately funded human spaceflight. Late last month, Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen filed a patent…
Photo courtesy of Kaley Soud/Catalyst First-year Thor Hlavaty charges into college and hits the ground running. The happy, naïve faces of freshmen Novocolliegians begin to darken as the shadows of evil, namely school work, plague the once blissful campus. First-years everywhere gasp in indignant horror…
After 16 years of being distributed in print, the Catalyst has re-entered the digital age. Each week, stories from the print edition distributed Wednesday will be published the following Friday online at ncfatalyst.org. In addition to acting as a archive for articles, the online edition…
In an email addressed to the student body, Matt Broerman stepped down from his position as New College Student Alliance Co-president. “I am stepping down from the post of your Co-President for a while.” Broerman explained to students. “As I enter my thesis year, I…
photo courtesy of Alexis Santos/Catalyst During an inspection of the College Hall seawall last month, engineers discovered structural damage to the Col- lege Hall dock and deemed it in “imminent danger of collapse.” “Basically what has happened structurally is that the steel rebar that’s in…
The Tamiami Winn-Dixie will soon engage in a one month liquidation sale of its entire stock, at deep discount prices. It will be the next in a long line of closed Winn-Dixies, all of them considered drains on the failing corporation’s financial stability. With its…
When on-campus students of the 2009-2010 school year were e-mailed their respective housing charges this summer, the warmth of those carefree months suddenly turned the hearts of certain students cold. A discomfort far more severe than the guilt of being irresponsible assailed a number of…
Over the summer the New College Campus Police hired new police officers. Among those are Jennifer Andreoli, 31, and Kelley Fisher, 27, who are both fresh out of the Fort Myers police academy and are spending their first weeks here learning the lay of the land.…
Since this past spring, a simple, leisurely stroll down to the Bay has been interrupted by the dull roar of construction equipment and the incessant beeping noise indicating that vehicles are moving in reverse. The end to this awful auditory annoyance, though, is fast approaching. A new, three-story academic center adjacent to Jane Bancroft Cook Library is set to open this January. That date became a bit closer last Wednesday, Sept. 1 as the Ajax Building Corporation (the general contractors on-site) and New College officials celebrated the “topping out,” or placement of the final roof support beam on top of the building, at noon with a barbeque lunch. The center, which will remain unnamed until a donor acquires naming rights, is the first purpose-built general classroom facility in the nearly 50 year history of New College. Currently, existing classroom space is scattered amongst relics of the Ringling estate, former dormitories and offices. The new building will also feature faculty offices, classrooms, a new café run by the Four Winds and a plaza for social gatherings.
