The Cultural Diversity Festival, an event hosted by second-year RA Paolo Baez-Perez, celebrated the various backgrounds of Novo Collegians. The event emphasized cultural education, but in a fun way; there were many distinct foods to try, dances to watch and history to learn. With the…
New College was recently awarded a $750,000 grant from the Andrew V. Mellon Foundation in support of our humanities programs. The grant, which will be given to the school over the next five years, is intended to bolster projects between New College and the…
The Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC) is an important resource for many students on campus, providing many undeniably vital services, but the CWC can be underwhelming to some students and downright useless or uncomfortable to others. It will not come as a surprise to students…
Since 2015, Jim Obergefell has become the face of the recent wave of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. His fight for gay rights reached its climax when he was the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, where he claimed that state officials…
The rise in drug-related deaths in the United States has become a public health crisis as deadly and widespread as the H.I.V. epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. An estimated 125 people a day die from a drug overdose in the United States, 78 of…
Retired New College Police Department (NCPD) Sergeant Kenneth “Ken” Vickers passed away in the early morning of Sept. 16. A friendly face on campus for 18 years, Vickers is remembered by students, faculty and staff as a warm, kind individual who made lasting connections with…
In a survey of New College students on the forum, students expressed over 13 different dietary restrictions that could impact their ability to find food on campus, with the most common dietary restrictions being vegan and vegetarian students with 18.27 and 25.96 percent of the…
The funk ended before it could start. As was the case for third-year student Mei Jing Bernard upon finding out that her Wall, Get FUN-ky, occurred on a weekend night where the New College Police Department (NCPD) was understaffed. With her Wall still weeks away,…
When asked about the problem of accessibility, including mental and physical disabilities, on campus Director of the Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC) Dr. Anne Fisher said, “Our campus has always been a mess. I've been here for a long time and it's always been…
Four Winds returned with its classic brunch event this past weekend, extending its normally scheduled weekday hours to Saturday and serving up some yummy vegan options. Customers had two main course options and two side options. The mains included a scrumptious cinnamon raisin french toast…
