From Feb. 22-23, the Florida Conference of Historians (FCH) will be hosted on New College’s campus. Presentations of diverse and compelling historical topics will be available for both the New College and greater Sarasota communities, which means students will be given the opportunity to practice…
photo courtesy of Four WindsFour Winds employees Lili Benitez, Amaranth Grace, Sydney Clingo, Andreina Carrasquero, Devin Johnson Hogan, Lorraine Cruz, Rebecca Caccavo, Briana Baumgarten, Angel Reyes, Ben Cook, Hanah Chaudhry, Alba Abrams and Elizabeth White (left to right) posed at a staff meeting. For the…
When New College alum Steven Lubka (‘13) started learning about cryptocurrency, he unknowingly agreed to take a journey into a new innovative space which would end up employing him. In fact, Lubka currently has three different positions--two of them for internationally based firms--and his most…
While a larger student base can give New College a better chance to rectify its weaknesses, there is a risk that a school of 1200 students losses the strength of a smaller community and institution. This 2017-2018 school year, Joy Hamm, the new Dean of…
“New College’s current overall budget is transformational in relation to past years,” Vice President for Finance and Administration John Martin told the Tangent in an interview. The school’s total budget increased from $36,583,086 to $46,375,205 between this year and last--actualizing the plan for growth--according to…
Bitcoin is a decentralized payments system. It is the first distributed ledger network of its kind. The descriptive word ‘distributed’ necessitates the decentralized character of this innovation. This necessarily disrupts centralized--traditionally institutional--actors’ presence in society. It is unclear how effective institutional authority’s regulation will be…
In the midst of a nine-year economic expansion, popular market sentiment is confident, while medium-term uncertainty on financial obligations loom. Additionally, long term dollar hegemony looks increasingly uncertain with rising sovereign competition in economic growth and credit worthiness. “The narrative that stocks are overvalued comes…
The biggest party on the New College campus is the famous Palm Court Party (PCP), and the only way they happen is for brave souls to take the initiative and throw it. The festivities have traditionally spanned campus wide and are known to coax impressive…
Open distributed ledger technology--or “cryptocurrencies”--global market capitalization exploded from $20 billion in February of last year to $850 billion at its peak in the beginning of January 2018, forcing the hand of governments, banks and folks around us to start talking about it. Federal Reserve…
An estimated 500 people of high ranking authority within the Saudi family and regime were detained in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh-Saudi Arabia’s capital city, beginning on Nov. 4, 2017. The next day, eight Saudi authorities died in a helicopter crash with no public statement…
