A sudden swell of new faces on campus hints that New College has something unusual to offer this weekend. The fourth annual All Power to the Imagination! conference kicks off today, April 1, and will go on through Sunday, April 3. “The primary theme of…
All photos Puneet Sandhu/Catalyst Standing in the back of the venue was looking like a great adult choice on my part. I could lean against the railing on a platform raised slightly above the pit. Instead of random bodies, I could see the band I…
All photos courtesy of Elena Korallis There was something in the air on campus. Something green. Something white. Something yellow, red and pink. On March 12, the New College culture club celebrated Holi on the soccer fields behind Dortstein. “Holi is a festival of colors,”…
photo courtesy of celestiamotherlode.net Ruppeiner was also the first to calculate that a black hole's charge is very stable, differing from zero by 3.301 electron units on average, assuming an uncharged background. He used Fluctuation Theory to do so. "It's crazy what people overlook," he said. "Why…
TAMPA -- First came the tomato pickers, bending at the knees and hunched over with the weight of the burdens placed upon them. Then came the people of faith, arms and eyes raised to the sky hopefully. And then those seeking food justice, with the…
Protesters, puppets and Publix. The link? Farm workers and the goal of a fair food industry. On Sat, March 5,the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) will lead a march and rally in Tampa calling for Publix to do their part in ending the mistreatment of…
A former mayor, a library manager, and a criminal justice lawyer walked into a cafe. The first two helped themselves to free pizza, but the lawyer passed up the offer, as he had promised his wife he would eat dinner with her at home. And…
all photos courtesy of Puneet Sandhu/Catalyst The cover of the documentary for sale describes New College as "America's most innovative, eclectic and avante-garde college." For New College, it has been a tumultuous and exciting 50 years since its opening in 1960. To capture its history,…
With Thanksgiving and winter breaks coming up, students might want to — or have to — return to their nests. If getting home requires a drive, consider arranging for carpools in advance. The Forum fills with offers and requests for rides out of Sarasota, particularly…
Students cast ballots online to decide the theme for the Valentine's Day 2011 Palm Court Party (PCP) earlier this month, deciding that the "Neverland" theme proposed by second-years Hannah Brown, Bryce Bresnan and Krystaal McClain & first-year Jared O'Connor would grace the campus this February. The…
