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Baccalaureate “bacc” season marks the time from late April to the end of the academic year when thesis students present the culmination of a year’s worth of research, achievement and dedication to their chosen topic for their bacc committees and peers. At any other time,…
New College offers a number of different Living Learning Communities (LLCs) and this year one was added to the list: a Thesis LLC in Dort and Goldstein dorms. The Thesis LLC was created in order to provide a space for thesis students that was closer…
The New College library is a popular destination for students looking to work or study in a quiet environment. Thesis students in particular often congregate at the library because of this. Thesis carrels are scattered throughout the library. These are reserved private desks that can…
It is typical for students to be stressed by the prospect of writing a thesis, but there are several resources that are there to help.Photo credits: Jacob Wentz/Catalyst The Writing Resource Center (WRC) is designed to help students with their assignments as well as their…
It turns out that shark tagging and the band Queen have something in common: each are thesis research topics for New College’s 2015 cohort. For reasons ranging from limited information on a topic to desire to work outside of the box, students have been innovative…
The annual senior thesis art student show opens at Caples in the Isermann Gallery with an opening reception on Friday, Apr. 13, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition, entitled On the Precipice: Transitions + Thresholds, will feature the work of six graduating art students:…
Up until the summer of your third year at New College, the thesis project seems something of a myth, the final undergraduate proposal of knowledge. Even when you’re an underclassman and have friends that are thesis students—you don’t really know what their doing or how…
BY CAITLYN RALPH AND MAGDALENE TAYLOR A Forum flooded with puns and announcements, classes that are cancelled for three days and a tingle of stress in the air can only mean one thing: it’s BACC season at New College. Want a quick taste of this…
As BACC week begins, New College art students also present the projects they have been working on all year. The pieces ranged from digital installations to large scale paintings. Friends, family and professors attended the opening to show support for the art students. While grazing…
Living in the digital age with various methods of mass communication can create an almost too close for comfort level of intimacy. One student, Sara Gruber, has chosen to make the school’s form of mass communication – the Forum – the topic of…
