Every year, for a block of about six months, just about every shopping center and mall and grocery store is flooded with seasonal treats, from Halloween to Easter. This isn’t a bad thing in and of itself, but for retail employees, it’s started to serve…
This October, the world’s most “meme-savvy” supervillain bought online social media platform Twitter at the low, low price of $44 billion. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tesla Motors and SpaceX Elon Musk fired Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal shortly after acquiring the company and immediately…
New College basketball fans, get ready, because campus is getting its first ever competitive basketball team. Founded by third-year and Catalyst staff writer Isaac Tellechea, the basketball club is “as much of a team as we can be at New College.” Tellechea has aspirations for…
Things are getting hot and heavy in the world of professional chess. Chess world champion and grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was dethroned this September after nine years of being number one. Carlsen resigned, or surrendered, after the second move in an online match with successor 19-year-old…
The Heart Walk is an annual tradition established by the American Heart Association (AHA) in order to combat the number one cause of death in America: heart disease. This year’s Heart Walk for New College will be on Nov. 12 from 8 a.m. until 11…
In the past two years, flu rates had decreased due to mitigation strategies put in place for the coronavirus pandemic. But people should expect some changes for the 2022-2023 flu season, which won’t follow the same trend according to experts. Australia’s most recent flu season…
The Garage Sale held on Oct. 8 in the Nook not only allowed students to support each other by purchasing discounted clothes, art, food and other goods from each other, but it ignited a sense of togetherness for New College students and allowed them to…
In the violent wake of Hurricane Ian, the nearby Venice Theater was taken from the community. Twelve inches of rain, a collapsed fly loft and damaged electrical grids left the theater a molded framework skeleton and the crushed set of The Revolutionists—the production originally set…
More than 450 people are still dying from COVID-19 each day in the United States and more than 30% of people in the United States aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19—but there’s more than masking that can be done about it by the average college student than…
The saying, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” is often said to have originated from Oscar Wilde or Will Rogers—neither of whom are likely to have heard of the Spix’s Macaw and its triumphant return to the wild after nearly…
