Students deck the halls for Spooky Season

Halloween carries wonderful childhood memories of candy, fun costumes and scary movies, but it can be a bit hard to celebrate away from home. To combat this, some students have found a way to make their dorms and campus spaces feel like home for the…

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Debunking the tenure process: how students can be involved in the promotion of faculty
Photo courtesy New Colege Digital Archives Student and Professor circa 1960s.

Debunking the tenure process: how students can be involved in the promotion of faculty

Professors can hold a variety of different titles, including assistant professor, associate professor and simply, professor, but it can often be confusing to know what these titles truly mean. The difference in these titles comes down to tenure, which gives professors job security, allowing them…

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The life behind the badge: one officer’s story
An unidentified University Police officer and another unidentified individual in front of Hamilton Center in the late 1970s or early 1980s. (Image courtesy of Officer Kelley Masten)

The life behind the badge: one officer’s story

         It is not hard to find a police officer on campus. Sometimes they patrol around on foot or cruise near the Bayfront in a Campus Police Department (CPD) branded car. Sometimes they sit down in Hamilton “Ham” Center and eat Italian subs from the…

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Fruitville Grove Pumpkin Festival brings fall festivities to Sarasota
The patch features big pumpkins, small pumpkins, pie pumpkins and tall pumpkins.

Fruitville Grove Pumpkin Festival brings fall festivities to Sarasota

With state temperatures still climbing above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, many Floridians question whether October truly represents the change of season from summer to fall. Despite the weather, the Fruitville Grove Pumpkin Festival aims to celebrate the arrival of fall with copious cornucopias, plump pumpkins and…

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Exploring new exhibits at the Dali Museum
Nature Morte AR apart of Visual Magic: Dali’s Masterworks in Augmented Reality exhibit.

Exploring new exhibits at the Dali Museum

Second year Art student Tara Norton and Catalyst staff writer Adriana Gavilanes entered the dimly lit gallery for Salvador Dalí’s masterworks illuminated by phone screens to explore a new augmented reality (AR) exhibit, entitled “Visual Magic: Dalí’s Masterworks in Augmented Reality”. Other open exhibits feature…

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Navigating Latinx identities at New College

According to the 2018-2019 student demographic statistics, the “Latino or Hispanic” student population is the second largest at New College, representing 20.8 percent of the student body. Those of marginalized identities, however, feel a drastic lack of community among the predominantly white campus. As National…

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