There have been recent efforts among faculty and students to create more dialogue on campus. Planning efforts for the next Day of Dialogue have begun as professors brainstorm on how to bring dialogue to campus. During the Faculty Meeting on Sept. 14, Professor of Music…
Classrooms have rarely gotten so loud. As bars and burns are flung in the air and beats played from a borrowed Fishman acoustic amp lead class discussion, it’s easy to forget that this is all for academic credit. Classic Freestyle and Floetry Tutorial is commonly…
Of the 193 humans and seven zombies that began this year’s annual game of Zombies, no humans survived. Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 At 3 a.m. Sunday morning two students called a group together for help with their thesis. Lily Gonzales stood in the center of…
BY MAGDALENE TAYLOR AND ELAN WORKS The potential theft of darkroom equipment over the summer has come to the attention of the student body after a Student Allocations Committee (SAC) meeting revealed that theft of $6000 worth of darkroom equipment was missing. At the…
In a sea of rankings and statistics, it’s easy to lose track of where New College stands. However, every once in awhile, one sticks out. Case in point: unbeknownst to many, our tiny liberal arts college on the bay produces the third highest proportion of…
Non-cis male representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields has long been a concern in academic communities. Research shows that the percent of American Ph.D.’s earned by women in 2011 in areas such as physics, computer science, engineering and math can be as…
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…
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…
