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With only a month left in the 2012-2013 academic year, it might seem that event after event is being thrown by different student organizations. Event sponsors go through a series of offices to get everything they need in order for the day of the event — sponsors must reserve a space, supplies, equipment TAs, make playlists and buy food and decorations. While events may be funded out of several different on-campus resources, including Student Affairs, the Council for Academic Affairs (CAA) and the Student Allocations Committee (SAC), the SAC provides the most accessible and most frequent funding for student events.
The committee began this academic year with a budget of $75,000 and, as of Apr. 29, was believed to have only about $600 remaining after some budget confusion.
Read the full story »On May 1 in the Black Box Theater, four queer leaders from the local gay and lesbian community participated in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* (LGBT) Work-life, Leadership, and Civil Rights panel, which focused on being openly gay in the workplace and the gay civil rights movement. Organized by Campus Life Coordinator for Leadership Larry Locke and Campus Life Coordinator for Student Activities Katy Collins, the hour-and-a-half long event garnered an intimate audience of Novocollegeans and members of the Sarasota communuity. The panel was comprised of Harvey Milk Festival president …
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(From left to right): Thesis students Dana Ziegler, Susanna Payne-Passmore, Christopher Mullholland and Kathleen McQueeny received Fulbright grants to study abroad next year. New College, which has the second-highest amount of Fulbright award-winners per capita, has produced 30 scholars over the past five years.
Four New College students were awarded the Fullbright scholarship for the 2012-13 year bringing the university’s total Fullbright scholars to 69. This year’s recipients are thesis students Kathleen McQueeney, Christopher Mulholland, Susanna Payne-Passmore and Dana Ziegler. New College …
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The dark music room within the bowels of College Hall was transformed into the stage for a New College student performance of the 2004 play Doubt: A Parable, written by John Patrick Shanley, last on Fri. May 4th and Sat. May 5th. The dialog-heavy play is about a severe principal of a church school named Sister Aloysius who pursues a parish priest accused of molesting a young boy. The short cast list included second-year Harrison Sherwin as Father Flynn, third-year Shelby VonHofe as the unrelenting Sister Aloysius, …
A buzzer grants entrance to Safe Place & Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC). This haven is in an unlikely location at 2139 Main St., in the heart of Sarasota’s business district. High ceilings, dark-tiled floors and a chandelier in one waiting area resemble the appointments of a high-end jewelry shop.
SPARCC was born in in 1979 during a nationwide process to create rape crisis centers and hotlines. Its role as rape crisis center evolved to also help victims of domestic violence.
The center operates a 24-hour crisis hotline that offers intervention and safety …
Turning 23 years old made my stomach gnarl up like a twisted tree trunk. I’m older, but I have nothing good to prove it. Not the house, or the good job, or the self-satisfied smirk at all the little victories I thought I would have achieved by now. I can’t even pay my own bills. I’m just a slightly more mature high schooler with slightly blacker lungs.
There are mixed signals when it comes to growing up nowadays. Twenty-somethings are expected to be more responsible, but in a journey rather than …
