By Leigh Barber With the Late-Fall New College Student Alliance (NCSA) elections finished, second-year Carlos Santos has emerged as the NCSA’s newest president. With a total of 360 ballots cast, Santos secured 178 of the votes, receiving more than half of the first-choice ballots cast,…
Of Sarasota County’s 390,429 residents 11.6 percent fell below the poverty level from 2008 to 2012, and the number of children living in poverty nearly doubled from 2000 to 2010, rising from 12.9 to 21.5 percent. More than ever, Sarasota residents are in need and…
By Colt Dodd After nearly three months of construction, the interior Metz kitchen opened to the student body last week and was met with mostly positive feedback. Metz Culinary Management, the new food service provider that replaced the long running Sodexo earlier this semester, is…
Dr. Andrea Blanch, President and Director of the Center for Religious Tolerance (CRT), visited on Nov. 20 in Sudakoff to discuss interfaith peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine. The presentation was part of several events, including an international wellness potluck and a global map activity that…
Newstock, New College’s annual salute to Woodstock, took place this past Saturday on Z-Green. The groups that performed covered everything from rock to jazz to alternative electronic music. Newstock is an Resident Advisor (RA) sponsored event, overseen this year by Residence Hall Director Lauren Burr.…
By Colt Dodd Amid light conversation, Exposure, a thesis student art exhibition, opened in the Iserman Gallery last Thursday and will run until Dec. 11. Featuring the work of eight artists, exhibits of all different mediums ranging from oil paintings to animation were put in…
By Colt Dodd International Games Day, the one day of the year where the library becomes transformed into a gamer haven, was held on Nov. 15. Featuring games such as Magic: the Gathering and Apples to Apples in Spanish, the event lasted a total of…
This past Sunday a small crowd formed on Z-green for the first ever Council of Green Affairs (CGA) Harvest Festival. Unfortunately no local farmers agreed to sell their produce on campus, but there were plants, pumpkins and food free for the taking. The Harvest Festival…
With a truck loaded with free beer, Donal O’Shea wearing a jersey reading “Luck of the Irish” and a combination of Ringling and New College students and supporters watching on, the New College Null Set beat the Ringling Armadillos 30-0 in the 2014 Turkey Bowl.…
Scientific research and centuries of physical evidence has convinced scientists to approximate the Earth’s existence at 4.6 billion years. Visiting Professor of Biology Christopher Frost took his General Biology class on a journey through the Earth’s timeline last Friday. Using the Dort Promenade as a…
