A trio of “Mad Men” actors, Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Maggie Gyllenhaal and the late Philip Seymour Hoff man are just a few of the performers that will be on-screen for the 2014 Sarasota Film Festival (SFF). The complete program for the spring festival, known…
The recent hiring of official Title IX coordinator, Brian Mistler, is just one in a chain of changes that are a part of the New College’s policy adjustments after the White House’s issue of their report on rape and sexual assault this January. Title IX…
It is almost impossible to find a Russian news story about Ukraine that does not mention the interim Kiev government as “fascists” or “Nazis” in the first paragraph. In turn, news sources affiliated with Kiev quickly report rumors of Russian soldiers flying into the capitol.…
A billboard on a truck, parked in the Shell parking lot, peering out onto the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport states that women still earn $.84 to every dollar that men earn. A similar billboard is located south on University from the airport. Slightly out of place…
The New College sail team sailed into fourth place on Saturday, March 8 in their In-Conference Regatta, coming behind Eckerd College, Jacksonville University and the University of South Florida. Racing started at around 11 AM with a steady breeze that allowed eight races to be…
A large group of academics arrived at New College this past week, enlivening the insular campus atmosphere. The visitors were attendees of the 19th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, arriving for three days of presentations that filled up the Harry Sudakoff…
Glancing through the summer internships binder in the Career Center students can find a few 2014 opportunities, but most are outdated. Some as far back as 2004. Among the pamphlets and papers, binders and baskets labeled graduate schools, jobs and résumés, something is missing, a …
McGruff, the crime fighting dog, is in the doghouse. The actor who played McGruff, John Morales, was recently sentenced to 16 years in prison. In an ironic twist of fate, drugsniffing police pooches found 1,000 marijuana plants and a grenade launcher among 27 weapons at…
Now students can print directly from their computers at Jane Bancroft Cook Library. Educational Technology Service Coordinator Allen Goldberg, in charge of implementing the new program, reflected that the bulk of Novocollegians who work in the library do so on their own devices, including laptops,…
The first two seasons of Pokémon arrived on Netflix on March 1. The cult-like following of the show is riddled with nostalgia and childhood memories for many New College Students. “There is a lot more substance to the first season,” third-year Tyler Pratt said. “This…
