In 2008, the Florida legislature passed a bill which established a 75 percent recycling goal to be met by the year 2020. This year New College began a partnership with Waste Management in order to work towards meeting that goal. Americans generated over 250 million…
One in five people living with HIV do not know they are infected. When looking at young people ages 13 to 24, that statistic rises to almost three out of five. For the third year in a row, Community Awareness Resources and Education Services (CARES)…
The Ebola Virus has claimed over 3,000 lives this year in the West African states of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. With five known strains and a 55 percent mortality rate, Ebola is a threat to many inhabiting the exposed areas or in contact…
As the city grapples with a rising homeless population, the solution may lie forgotten in a storage unit somewhere. Unused parking meters, installed and decried by members of the downtown Sarasota community, may be an enterprising way of collecting funds to benefit the homeless. Parking…
“There is only one issue in this country,” former MSNBC commentator Cenk Uygur told Netroots Nation, in June 2011. “Campaign finance reform.” This opens Lawrence Lessig’s book Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It. Lessig, a law professor and director…
The exterior hallways of Dort and Goldstein residence halls appear sparse since they have been cleared of the usual couches, coffee tables, tapestries and hammocks. The Fire Marshal regular inspection during Spring Break reported numerous violations across campus, including “Improper Storage” whereas “Dort and Goldstein…
Students have been upset recently that weekend events are being shut down by the Campus Police based on a “No two events at the same time policy.” Nowhere is it written that two events can’t happen at the same time or that an overlapping event…
Last Friday, April 11, campus elections were held. Presided over by second-year and Supervisor of Elections McAlister Grant as well as thesis student and Student Court Justice Matthew Andersen, the turnout was unusually large for a spring election with 301 ballots cast. Winners will assume their positions in the Fall 2014 semester. SPEAKER OF…
Students better begin plotting how they will make their millions (no, wait, multi-billions) in order to join the ranks of the mighty 1 percent. The more money lining a citizen’s pockets, the louder their voice, at least according to five Supreme Court Justices who decided the fate of the nation on April 2…
On Friday, April 11 at 7 p.m., New College’s College Democrats club hosted “Meet the Candidates”, drawing in a crowd of about 30 students into the Teaching Auditorium. Attending the event were democratic candidates Terri Wonder, for District 6 County Commissioner-at-large and Henry Lawrence, for District 16 Representative in Congress. The two candidates, both…
