Preheat: a welcome home

Photos Courtesy of Kaley Soud. While Burning Man is well known as being a festival for radical self expression, what goes unnoticed are the many burns in between and the Burner culture that underlies it all.  Due to some fortunate random circumstance I found one…

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Local journalist wins Pulitzer Prize

Photo courtesy beaumontenterprise.com After twice being a finalist in the last four years, Sarasota’s local paper at last walks away with its own Pulitzer Prize. Paige St. John, emerging after two years from piles of public records and hours of corporate interviews, released a report…

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In Focus: Cardboard Regatta

A throng of sea-fairing adventurers turned out on April 16 at the sail club for free food, live music, and piles of cardboard lured students down to compete in the annual cardboard regatta.  Nine boats were built in the course of four hours with stomachs…

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Speaking out for justice

All photos Kaley Soud/Catalyst “Something very wrong is happening in our world. Innocent people's precious lives are being stolen and destroyed by our criminal justice system. These tragedies occur far more often than most people realize. Corruption, human error and bad practices all lend themselves…

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In Focus: Mike Long gets pied

On April 9, students on campus hosted Relay for Life to raise money to help find a cure for cancer.  The event included a barbecue, soccer and football games against Ringling and as a finale, a pie to be thrust in the face of the…

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Full circle: once a student, now a professor

From one journey of life to the other, Professor Arin Mason traveled the spectrum of time when she decided to return to New College, her alma mater, as a teacher for the spring 2011 term. Arin Mason, a ’93 alum, has now seen this college…

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4th Annual API Conference

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…

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Tobacco for less money with fewer additives

Upon my first steps into Cheap Tobacco, I was besieged at once by the sound of rolling machines and the atmosphere of cigarette smoke. As I looked around, the customers glanced at me from their conversations placidly, trying to determine if I was old enough…

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Behind the scenes at PCP

The barefoot population and the self-motivated academics are some of the things that set New College apart from other schools. But there is one New College tradition that catches the eyes of outsiders everywhere three times, every year — the Palm Court Parties, or PCPs.…

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