photo courtesy Sara Stovall/Catalyst P.J. Helgeland, 15, appears to defy gravity as he rolls up on the coping of the skatepark's flow course. The fate of the Sarasota Skate Park hung in the balance on the night of August 25 as Mayor Kelly Kirschner stood…
Family Weekend will take place from Sept. 25-26 this year. Students’ families will enjoy a breakfast reception at Jane Bancroft Cook Library at 9:00 a.m. that Saturday morning. Families may then proceed to a 10:00 a.m. workshop on financial debt and credit in the Teaching…
The first New Music New College concert of the season will take place on Saturday, Sept. 18th at 8:00 p.m. The concert will be held at the Mildred Sainer Pavilion and feature guitarist and composer, Andrew Mckenna Lee and percussionist, Michael McCurdy. It is free…
Nearly every night on strolls to the bay, New College students can witness a great blue heron wading in the water near the dock. This heron has a long, graceful neck, grayish white feathers and is normally sighted alone. The heron has become a character…
On Aug. 26, the Princeton Review featured New College of Florida in “The Best 373 Colleges: 2011 Edition” for the ninth consecutive time, according to the Office of Public Affairs. NCF received rankings in 13 categories. The college was ranked ninth for “Professors Get High…
Over the years, bell hooks has established herself as a leading feminist scholar and an accomplished author, and beginning in March of 2011, she will be joining the New College of Florida faculty. hooks, who refuses to capitalize her name so that people will focus…
Construction-weary Novocollegians breathed a collective sigh of relief last Wednesday when Palm Court reopened for pedestrian traffic and events. The plaza, affectionately enshrined in the New College Student Alliance (NCSA) Constitution as “the Center of the Universe,” was remodeled extensively over the summer — new…
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…
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…
