The long standing tradition of New College Zombies is a constantly evolving game of tag that has become as adaptable to the constantly changing campus atmosphere as the humans that must fight for their in-game lives. Each year, the Game Masters play a pivotal role…
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…
I was in the garden when Lou called me. When I answered he said “We got ‘em, Kat. We got the big dogs.” I knew better than to ask who or what the big dogs were right away. Lou Murray – the Vice President of…
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…
When a Winn Dixie off Tamiami Trail and Myrtle closed in 2010, residents of Newtown had to walk two or three extra miles south to get to Publix until the Neighborhood Walmart opened in the same spot a few years later. The Historic African…
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…
Emphasizing an idea most have known for a while, a post on Harvard Medical School’s health blog detailed a therapy dog that reduced employees and students’ stress at work. However, whether due to financial constraints or unfit living situations, it’s unfortunate that college students -…
When George W. Bush was elected president for his first term, many current thesis students were in kindergarten (first-years might have been toddlers), yet his presidency shaped, and ultimately determined, the outcomes of the most significant political events in our world. While current students were…
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…
