Due to the lack of police personnel on campus throughout this fall semester, Walls have been in peril - and several have been forced to either reschedule or give up their party. Since the first couple problematic weekends, however, RAs have begun to co-sponsor Walls…
Something stressed to prospective students as a strong feature of the academic landscape at New College is the ability to create an area of concentration (AOC). Third-year Sabrina Finn recently finalized her AOC, “Interdisciplinary Studies of Language,” after two years of struggling to navigate the…
Third-year General Studies student and new Chief of Staff Olivia Van Housen is a fresh face in the New College Student Association (NCSA), yet many students may be familiar with her from such roles as the co-President of Animal Interest Club, or looking dapper in…
Over the summer, seven cameras were added to the residential side of campus totalling 101 cameras located on the campus. This, along with the recent mail theft and a trend of vandalism to student spaces, has led to a discussion on student safety and privacy…
“For the third consecutive year, New College did not score high enough on the Florida Board of Governors performance based metrics to receive performance funding,” President Don O’Shea wrote in the September State of the College Report. Our frustratingly low performance on state metrics has…
It is thought that if students of color have professors that look like them, success is more tangible. People of color who are attempting to gain access to jobs in academia face large hurdles in the hiring process and beyond. Despite minority groups in the…
“Art goes unappreciated and unpaid,” agreed the Four Winds co-managers, Sophia Schultz and Ava Howard. This was intentionally not the case this past Saturday evening at the Four Winds’ student art show, an event the café would like to see become a recurring tradition. Both…
A couch and a microphone faced the room, Christmas lights were strung across the walls while one large rainbow colored pride flag and one pink, blue and white trans pride flag hung from the ceiling. The couch faced rows of chairs that were quickly filled…
After response to a guest of a student wearing a Nazi costume on campus, the importance of community standards seems more relevant than ever. For those interested in becoming community leaders, expanding personal knowledge and creating dialogue about important issues - both on and off…
Last February, Professor Zhang met with Shi Kun, Director of the USF Confucius Institute, along with Professor of History Xia Shi and Professor of Chinese Language and Culture Fang-yu Li to discuss possible collaborations between New College and USF. These collaborations would work not only…
