After nearly half a century of patrolling the world’s oceans and embarking on countless environmentally-conscious activist missions, Rainbow Warrior II, the flagship of international activist group Greenpeace, was finally retired to a quiet life as a hospital ship off the coast of Bangladesh. Its successor,…
Muammar Gadaffi was confirmed dead on Thursday, Oct. 20 after rebel forces overran Sirte, the Libyan ex-leader’s hometown and the last bastion for the loyalist faction. According to Al Jazeera, both the former leader and his son, Mutassim Gadaffi, were killed “following an apparent attempt…
President Gordon “Mike” Michalson recently established the Advisory Committee on Diversity (ACD) to advise him on matters relating to campus diversity. Discrete activities occurring across campus and discussions with last year’s ad-hoc Faculty Committee on Diversity prompted Michalson to establish the ADC. He announced his…
graphic courtesy of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Levels of all bacteria found on hands and cell phones in the U.K. The researchers found that generally, cities in the north such as Glasgow showed greater levels of hand contamination than southern cities such as London. Your…
Restless, Gus Van Sant’s newest flick, is an impassioned, bittersweet tour de force. Gus Van Sant is known for cinematic oddities such as My Private Idaho, Paranoid Park and Good Will Hunting. Restless is a love story between terminally-ill Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasakowski) and Enoch…
Cryos International, one of the world’s largest sperm banks, released a statement saying that they will no longer be accepting samples from red-haired men. The branch, located in Denmark, which boasts to have caused 18,841 pregnancies since 1991 and ships specimens to 65 countries all…
It should come as no surprise to those of us who have already felt ire towards Florida’s current governor, Rick Scott, that he has once again alienated students in his latest action against higher education. In recent interviews with the Herald Tribune and right-wing radio…
Screenshot courtesy of New College of Florida After it was decided that the previous Internet portal could no longer satisfy the needs of the growing student body and expectations of the school, a new portal costing about $29,500 debuted earlier this October. Before, students could…
Gracelena Ignacio/Catalyst Michalson poses with the NAACP award in his office. Student members of the President's Advisory Committee on Diversity Tristan Zucker and Destiny Lyals also attended the event. “I think one of the great things about the local chapter of the NAACP is that…
Taylor Meredith/Catalyst Braasch answers questions from the audience at the end of his presentation. It was the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 that marked Gary Braasch’s transition from nature photographer to photojournalist of environmental issues. Braasch, standing at a safe distance, was able…
