The New College Student Alliance (NCSA) Senate meeting began with a slow trickle, taking almost 30 minutes to reach quorum. With recent changes to the Student List, Forum and other modes of communication, Senate meetings now serve as one of the only ways to publicly…
When I chose to go to New College, I liked that it was small. I had been warned of the grand legacies of wild New College. Study hard. Party harder. That’s the New College way, so I had been told. This excited me, but between…
On Wednesday, May 19, the glitter-clad cohorts of 2020 and 2021 will have the chance to travel through time and back again as they safely dance the night away at this year’s cyberfuturism-themed Center of the Universe Party (COUP), which will be the college’s first…
Students have been waiting in anticipation for this semester’s Wall schedule to come out. Some are excited to go have fun and dance with their friends, while others want to plan ahead for when they need to get earplugs to drown out the loud music…
In 2012, enfant terrible filmmaker Harmony Korine changed the discourse around a college rite of passage: Spring Break. His abject, star studded film Spring Breakers featured all the tropes of neon bikinis, binge drinking and EDM, interspersed with robberies, drug dealers and murder. It holds…
It is a Friday night and Palm Court is empty. The year is 1971 and Florida has just become one of 30 states to have lowered the drinking age to 18 years old. There is a group of students sitting on the benches, a…
The Something Wicked this Way Comes Center of the Universe Party (COUP) took place on November 7, 2015. The event was hosted by thesis students Garrett Murto, Lara Grauerholz-Fisher, Logan Starnes, and Catalyst writer Bianca Benedi. From the lo-fi bedroom pop of the Old Mail Room…
Excitement is high as students anxiously await the first Center of the Universe Party (COUP) of the school year. With a team of thesis students behind the scenes of “Something Wicked This Way Comes” COUP, students can expect nothing short of fun with new…
