Fall 2019 - Issue 6

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BY KALI-RAY SKINNER After months of negotiations, the Four Winds Café reopened its doors on Tuesday, Oct. 22.

The college carved out $24,000 which will pay Metz to assist with bringing Four Winds to a more business-savvy student run operation over the semester. The Board Of Trustees (BOT) money that was offered over the summer to help kickstart the café is still up for grabs, however the BOT needs a sound proposal from the Four Winds Committee before they provide the funds.

“The college is going to subsidize opening for the fall,” Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Mark Stier said. “[Metz] has got the building cleaned up, approved by the Health Department, a menu that has been shared with student committee members, they’re ready to roll out a training program for the student staff and they hired a new manager.”

The first Four Winds Committee meeting of the semester was held on Wednesday, Oct. 9. Jay Stewart, chair of the committee, along with

Third-year Emily Schenck, Bill Moore and first-year transfer Elan Sandler welcome eager students to the soft opening of the café.

five other students and Stier were present.

“The goal [of working with Metz] is to provide a training ground for the fall so that the students can be given the keys in the spring,” Stier said. “The committee’s responsibility right now is to work with Bill Moore, [manager of Metz] and John Martin, the Vice President of Finance, to create a proposal to at least have an operation that breaks even, ideally they

want to make a profit, but bare minimum they want to break even.”

Details about the business plan and the best time to take back student ownership of Four Winds are being worked out as the committee decides how they want to shape the future of Four Winds. Stewart and Stier both emphasized the importance of students getting involved to preserve Four Winds. However, Stewart feels creating a business plan

that breaks even isn’t feasible for the trajectory of Four Winds.

“The business plan was rejected because it had a projected $13,000 loss in the first year, which I look at as realism,” Stewart said. “While that is not great, that is in line with what people expect from other cafés of a similar size. If you were to open up a privately owned café in an area with 800 people you would not expect to break even first year.

The student committee has reached out to economics professors on campus to get assistance with the business plan. Stier provided the committee with Metz’s budget plan for this semester, and Metz’s has stated they can assist students with creating a viable business plan.

“We need to make a plan that includes multiple options, including if we are going to continue some form of relationship with Metz and some plan if we are not going to continue any relationship with Metz,” Stewart said. “We have a few positives by going through Metz. First continued on p. 10

PCPreview: cops, costs and cryptoids

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Despite recent budget cuts, the triannual Palm Court Party (PCP), also known as the Center of the Universe Party (COUP), will take place on Friday, Nov. 1. Co-hosts and secondyears Clayton Bauldree and Gillian Boll will be throwing “Cryptid COUP: a Campus of Oddities,” a night where they encourage students to turn off the lights and let the dark in.

Since 2006, the Campus Police Department (CPD) has hired additional security to patrol the perimeter and prevent outsiders from accessing campus during PCP. The CPD currently hires G4S Secure Solutions to monitor the event.

G4S also provides security guards in the library after 9:00 p.m. and is

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the school’s go-to company for extra security during large events. During PCP, the security officers are strategically placed around the perimeter and refer to CPD to resolve any disputes.

Sgt. Kelley Masten emphasized the difference between the hired guards and trained CPD police officers.

“They are not what we call hands-on, they’re more just our eyes and ears for the safety of the perimeter,” Sgt. Kelley Masten, who has worked at the CPD since Aug. 2010, clarified. “They are strictly just security while we are state-certified law enforcement, so we can do different things than they can do. No handson for them, we will handle anything that requires that.”

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For this PCP, there will be 10 G4S security guards, each costing $30.30 per hour and one G4S supervisor costing $45.50 per hour. Additionally, the CPD hires a deputy from the sheriff ’s office at $42 per hour, with an extra vehicle costing $10 per hour. The total hourly cost for external security is $400.50. PCP is scheduled between 9:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., so the total cost for seven hours is $2803.50.

Masten said that even more security was present at previous parties; for this PCP, there are two less security officers and only one deputy.

Three CPD officers who would have been there otherwise will not be present.

According to Masten, the New College Student Alliance (NCSA) has

been paying for the outside security since it started in 2006. Starting this fiscal year, the NCSA will also be required to pay for overtime for CPD officers. Masten was not present at the negotiations and could not elaborate on the terms of that agreement.

Last year, the NCSA originally budgeted $15,000 for all three PCPs but later had to cut the budget to $10,500. Because student enrollment has decreased and is directly correlated with NCSA revenue, this year’s budget was cut to $6,000 for all three PCPs. The budget includes funding for security, decorations, bands and anything else.

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CWC and RAs provide contraceptive resources after NCSA budget cuts Contraceptives come in many forms: pills, condoms, implants, injections, vaginal rings, diaphragms and patches. At New College, the only contraceptives currently available for free to students are condoms, both male and female. Access to other forms of birth control can be found locally. However, before adventuring out in the community for an intrauterine device (IUD), students are advised to make an appointment with the school’s Nurse Practitioner, Kripa Varghese, to see which option is best for them.

The two main types of contraceptives are hormonal and barrier methods, however, only barrier methods are able to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or sex-

ually transmitted diseases (STDs).

With cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis at an all time high in the United States, particularly among adolescents and young adults, barrier methods are highly recommended.

“About half of [the] people in the country will get an STI,” Program Director of the Counseling & Wellness Center (CWC) Anne Fisher said. “The biggest age group for first catching one is between 15 and 24, so that’s right in this age group.”

Condoms can be obtained in the CWC and from Residential Advisors (RA). Water-based lubricants are better-situated to prevent condoms from rupturing. If paired with an oilbased lubricant such as coconut oil, the condom is more likely to break.

Students can also purchase hormonal contraceptives through the school with their insurance and pick them up at a local pharmacy. Planned Parenthood is another resource for contraceptives, specifically birth control shots and IUDs, which Fisher recommends since the organization makes them more economical. Emergency contraceptives (ECs) are also an option, but one Fisher advocates to use sparingly.

“Using EC is really hard on your body and you don’t want to use it unless you have to, so it’s not a method of birth control,” Fisher said.

These contraceptives were previously funded by the New College Student Alliance (NCSA) and were available to students on campus, but

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The CWC provides a variety of condoms, including flavored ones.

due to recent budget cuts, students must now get them from an outside source. For students who have any further questions about the use of contraceptives, the CWC is an available resource.

Free seasonal flu shots available in Hamilton Center The seasonal flu will affect about eight percent of the population between the ages of 18 and 64.

A method to reduce the likelihood of contracting the flu is by receiving a flu vaccine. The seasonal flu shot protects against the three or four influenza viruses that are predicted to be the most common during the season.

The Counseling & Wellness Center (CWC) will be hosting a flu vaccine clinic in Hamilton “Ham” Center on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. All vaccines will be given through injections. Nasal spray vaccines will not be offered.

Health Education Coordinator Robyn Manning-Samuels recommends students bring their student ID cards, as they may be asked to sign in with those.

“The clinic will have screens this year so that the vaccines can be administered privately so other people don’t have to see it,” Manning-Samuels said.

The vaccines will also be free to all students.

“You can just show up, we’re not running insurance or anything,” Manning-Samuels said.

Although choosing to receive a flu shot is voluntary, receiving one can benefit those who are not able to get a flu shot due to an egg allergy or other reasons.

“The more people who are vaccinated against this disease, the more likely it is that people who can’t get the vaccine are protected,” ManningSamuels said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a page on their website solely about the flu vaccine, so students can refer to that regarding any health concerns.

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First-years and Catalyst staff writers Sofia Lombardi and Sierra Laico recently received flu shots.

Health in Motion bus offers free full-panel STI testing The Sarasota Department of Health (DOH) operates a Health in Motion bus that visits the college every last Wednesday of the month from 11:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. The bus functions as a mobile walk-in clinic that tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). All testing is offered free of charge, though screenings for human immunodeficiency disease (HIV) are not always available.

Because the bus is an extension

of the Sarasota DOH, the on-site clinic offers full-panel STI screenings to students, including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital warts and HIV with patient consent. This comprehensive STI screening can only be done by appointment at the clinic.

If an appointment is not made, they can only test for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.

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at the clinic is also required. However, appointments made at the clinic are not free. Fees are charged based on income, but their services will not be denied to a patient because of the patient’s inability to pay.

The Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC) also offers testing for syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV and chlamydia along with prescriptions and treatments where possible. Howev-

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The DOH walk-in clinic is open Monday 1:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m, Wednesday 1:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m and Thursday from 8:30 a.m to 11:30 a.m.

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Quizbowl team embarks on a quest for knowledge

BY IZAYA GARRETT MILES New College is not known for its sports programs. There is a stereotype about Novo Collegians being more erudite than athletic and preferring the air-conditioned indoors to the green sports pitch. While many students break those stereotypes, there is one club where one can live up to it and still bring competitive glory to the college: Quizbowl. The Quizbowl team goes to other colleges to compete in tournaments. On Oct. 5, the Quizbowl team went to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to play the Early Fall Tournament (EFT). Three of the members, all thesis students, scored in the top ten of participants: Harley Andrews ranked fifth, David Honsinger ranked sixth and Chris Coon ranked tenth.

Quizbowl is a trivia game where two teams, each with up to four members, compete to score the most points. Each team is read a series of decreasingly obscure clues which point towards the answer; when a player knows the answer, they buzz in and give their answer. ‘Toss-up’ questions are read to both teams, and often give bonus points if a player answers very early in the question.

Quizbowl’s First Consul (the club’s equivalent of a President) Carlos Gonzalez, a second-year, wrote this question as an example: During a portion of glycolysis, PFK acts as both a reactant and one of these substances. Within these substances, the relationship between the rate of diffusion and reaction is given by the Thiele Modulus. The effectiveness of these substances can be reduced by certain Lewis bases in a process called (*) poisoning. A heterogeneous substance of this type has a different phase from the other molecules in the reaction. In biology, these substances are called enzymes.

For ten points, name this type of substance that lowers the activation energy of a reaction without participating in it.

The answer to this question can be found in the largest text on the front page.

If a team answers the question while the reader is still reading the bolded text, they get what’s called a ‘power,' which means they get 15 points as opposed to the standard ten points they would receive for getting the answer correct after the bolded lines. If the team answers incorrectly, they ‘neg’ and lose five

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The Quizbowl team posed at the Early Fall Tournament.

points. As long as the team answers the question correctly, the team receives the chance to answer a ‘bonus’ question. A bonus question consists of three parts, each giving one or two clues as to the answer. For every part of the bonus a team answers, they receive an additional ten points.

Quizbowl players often remember odd tossups they scored on. The first tossup Gonzalez ever scored on was when he answered ‘Mr. Krabs’ at the clue, “[a character] whose appearance online includes waking up in a crowd and body slamming a baby.”

Any Quizbowler has myriad wacky stories about the specific knowledge they never thought would be used coming up in a question and earning them the points.

Quizbowl came to New College in 2014. In an interview over Telegram, Leo Law, New College alumnus (’15) and former First Consul, said Quizbowl was “the place where curious people go to see how much they know, learn things they didn't know about, and just have fun.” continued on p. 11

Campus Climate Town Hall brings student concerns to the forefront through open conversation

BY SIERRA LAICO Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Hamilton Center on Tuesday, Oct. 8 to discuss the recent plans and progress made by administrators to try to aid the concerns expressed by students over the past couple of years. Some of the issues addressed include the administration’s accountability for past misfires, lack of administrative support for student-driven initiatives, the increasing police presence on campus and making the campus more accessible for all students.

Chief Diversity Officer and Dean of Outreach Bill Woodson, accompanied by President Donal O’Shea, led the Campus Climate Town Hall.

Organized as a casual conversation space, the town hall allowed members of the community to give comments and suggestions as Woodson discussed progress and plans of the administration.

A major concern that was brought up numerous times throughout the meeting regarded Student Disability Services (SDS), which has undergone several organizational and administrative changes within the past year.

“We’ve connected with the [other] SDS [offices] in the area,” Direc-

tor of Student Success programs Anjali Cadena said. “We’re working with Eckerd College, USFSM, Ringling and State College of Florida so our services are up to par and consistent with what other colleges are doing and so we’re very much well-connected with a network and doing the best work we can do.”

Joe Mayer was introduced as the newly-hired Assistant Director for Student Disability Services. Other positions that the SDS plans to launch include another Assistant Director and a Coordinator, which is an administrative position for someone who can work with students more effectively, with experience in advising and working in a college setting. SDS asserts that they no longer just grant or decline accommodations, but they aim to provide students with success support as well.

“We recognize that all students, regardless of who they are, need student success support to close that gap between how high-achieving they are academically and what college requires as independent skills to be a learner,” Cadena said.

While on the topic of student wellness services, Woodson furthered the conversation by speaking about the Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC), which has finally been

able to slightly alleviate the length of the long waitlist that many students have been put on due to a shortage in staffing. Woodson mentioned that there has been feedback about the CWC only being open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and that evidently there is a desire for after-hour support, which is being investigated for an opportunity to provide extended hour services for students.

After being questioned about the accountability of the administration’s actions and the lack of administrative support for student initiatives such as providing free reproductive and sexual health resources and how the community can be assured of positive changes actually happening in the future, Woodson said that trust is built through seeing peoples’ day-to-day performance, and it is up to students to decide whether or not the performance is deserving of their trust.

After remaining quiet throughout the conversation, O’Shea left midway, leaving Woodson to lead the discussion alone.

Woodson said that there has been a lot of progress made that he has been very pleased about, but admits there are a lot of things that he is anxious that the administration cannot move faster. He emphasized

that the new Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, Loretta Shields, has high expectations for how the staff and faculty treat each other and how they take care of the students.

“If you are seeing things that you don’t think are being acknowledged in a timely way or if you see promises being broken, I hope that you will come tell me or another person about it,” Woodson said. “And if they are not able to respond in a way you find satisfactory, I hope you will come to me about it.”

Concerned with uneven power dynamics, students both inside and outside of the town hall expressed their discomfort with the increasing presence of police on campus and some of the recent actions made by them that are believed to be unjust. Various suggestions have been made by students to aid this distress.

Although administration has been quiet about the subject, Woodson insisted that he is listening and is continuing to have conversations with the campus police to better the wellbeing of the students.

“The police don’t report to me, and I’m not going to try to override policing protocols, but I am certainly continued on p. 11

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The Climate Action Plan: how New College aims to slowly minimize its carbon footprint

BY CHRIS MARIE DE FELIPE The New College of Florida Climate Action Plan, prepared in 2010, was the first call to analyze and modify the school’s individual contribution to climate change. Since 2010, however, many changes have affected the variables involved in being eco-friendly. Now, with global climate strikes stressing the urgency of climate action, interested students are particularly compelled to follow up on the momentum begun by those who drafted the original plan.

The 2010 Climate Action Plan, prepared by select students and faculty, was released with the overall goal of promoting the progressive policies and technological innovations to push New College into a position of positive impact on the environment, not just through words but through on campus action. While the college’s vulnerable locale gives it extra incentive to combat climate change, a concerned student body and faculty is the backbone needed to develop a practical plan to make the personal and systemic actions necessary to offset carbon emissions.

The platform was completed with student research from alumni Allison Wyatt, Llyswen Berna, Lucas Ballestin, Michael Dexter‐Luffberry. The plan was prepared by Jenna Clark, past director of Environmental Studies Jono Miller, and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Julie Morris. It recognizes the environmental threats that stem from climate change imminently facing New College. These threats include ocean acidification, harmful algae blooms and sea sponge die-offs, sea level rise, shoreline erosion and damage from storms and flooding.

There are nine principles outlining the school’s commitment to the plan, including all bodies of the school being aware and participatory, educators placing focus on enhancing campus education of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as behavioral and structural changes to contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

“It began as an initiative of the environmental studies program, with an Independent Study Project (ISP) every January during which students would gather information about the different elements of the Climate Action Plan and assemble that data into a picture of where our carbon emissions are and where we have the best chance of reducing it,” preparer of the Climate Action Plan Julie Morris said.

Students initially compiled the figures on carbon emissions until the duties were transferred to New College Physical Plant and Facilities, which leads initiatives on reducing

water, gas and electricity use. Students applying skills related to their careers and interests in fieldwork on campus is one of the fundamental pieces in making New College more environmentally sustainable.

Jono Miller helped spearhead the organization behind the student and administration collaboration on the plan, including sponsoring some of the related ISPs. He also contributed to the graphics and layout of the plan based on data collected by students.

Miller’s students brought his attention to intriguing data collected about environmental and climate issues on campus, which then needed to be adapted for public conversation.

Students started to put more pressure on faculty and administrators, demanding answers to specific questions about energy use. Multiple professors and administrators responded by becoming more involved in the formulation of the Climate Action Plan.

“In order to be prepared for these student requests, they started collecting and summarizing that information, so the need for student involvement became diminished as the administration took more responsibility for collecting the data,” Miller said.

What has changed?

By lowering emissions by three percent annually, New College expected to reduce carbon emissions up to 25 percent by 2023. Currently, there are no data on the college’s current carbon emissions. Second Nature, a research organization dedicated to accelerating climate action in higher education by focusing on offsetting carbon emissions and climate action plans, analyzed annual carbon emission assessments for New College until 2013. After the assessment was no longer a requirement, the tracking of carbon emissions became extra work neglected amongst time crunches. This year, the momentum has been revived.

Angela McTigue (‘15) leads several roles at New College since graduating in May 2019, one of which is working at the New College Physical Plant and Facilities to track the progress of the Climate Action Plan. She submitted the 2018–2019 data and is expecting Second Nature’s analysis to be updated on New College’s profile.

“Some of the strategies for reducing carbon are a little flawed, such as the first one which is adjusting thermostats to 78 degrees,” McTigue said. “That’s very warm! No one is around to enforce that either.”

McTigue is adapting similar ideas with equivocal applicabil-

ity into the updated Climate Action Plan, such as solar-powered golf carts and personal limitations on shower and laptop use. She is highly interested in opening up the intersectionality of the plan.

“It’s important to provide the reasons behind changing our ways other than just reducing carbon emissions—giving that insight into actions of sustainability,” McTigue said. “We’re not just doing this for the environment, but for people and students; the community.”

Second Nature’s analysis will yield interesting data marking the changes that have been made on campus. To reflect the new carbon emission statistics, the new data will need to include all buildings added, such as the letter dorms built after 2007.

“Also, the 2013 data doesn't include our efforts for the compost program or recycling on campus, or the estimated carbon emission reduction from having free bus access, or how the Green Fee has impacted our carbon footprint,” McTigue said.

The Green Fee, administered by the Council of Green Affairs (CGA), is a portion of student tuition that goes toward student led sustainability efforts, totaling $28,000 annually.

Started in 2012, the CGA also works on promoting the composting bins on campus, bike sharing programs, growing the community garden and reviewing and implementing any proposals for sustainability from students.

Tidy Island, located in the north portion of Sarasota Bay, is half-comprised of residential houses and halfcomprised of mangrove forest. The 177.7 acres were given to the New College Foundation, and are currently being used as a research area.

“Dr. Brad Oberle, Dr. Jayne Gardiner and Dr. Sandra Gilchrist currently have a research project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency in the mangrove research area,” Morris said.

The carbon sink, formed by the line of mangroves, significantly offsets New College’s total carbon emission. Mangroves are able to sequester 1.5 metric tons of carbon per hectare each year. According to the Climate Action Plan, Tidy Island sequesters 107.44 metric tons of carbon annually.

Another carbon sequester is the Food Forest, west of the detention pond in Old Caples, started in 2016.

Among other fruits and vegetables, jackfruit, mulberry, mangos, jamaican cherries, starfruit and figs are grown for and by the community.

New College’s Boars Head and Hamilton Cafe have undertaken a menu with consistent vegan options,

a step forward in reducing overall carbon emission through the taxing use of meat in meals. The dairy and meat industry are a heavy source of carbon emission in the United States: for every 100 grams of beef, 105 kilograms of greenhouse gases are produced from the belches and droppings of livestock, the quantity of feed required to grow them and the widespread deforestation to clear land for farming.

At each food section, vegan substitute meats and plant based meals are available and many non-vegan meals can be made vegan by removing an ingredient. By reducing the dependence on meat and making veganism more accessible to students, the college shrinks its carbon footprint.

However, students with multiple dietary restrictions often struggle finding food that aligns with values, allergies, diet restrictions and taste—or sometimes a combination of these factors. While there is room for improvement in diversifying meal options and reducing carbon emissions stemming from animal products, as lab grown meat and vegan imitation meals grow in popularity, many vegetarian and vegan students are excited that the campus that has taken this initiative.

Goldsmiths, University of London is drafting a climate plan that includes banning beef from their campus by 2025. Additionally, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and United Nations (UN) Environment created the Cool Food Pledge, signed by multiple organizations including Harvard, the city of Milan, Ikea and Hilton, which emphasizes the shift to plant-based meals.

A critique often cast on climate action plans is that they are unrealistic. After the Green New Deal circulated news outlets, Fox News panelist ripped into the proposed solutions daily. Many found ending air travel, shifting to solar power and phasing out dependence on meat a utopian fantasy.

The New College Climate Action Plan has ambitious ideas and goals, an outline of changes that many are reluctant or unwilling to make, not unlike the Green New Deal.

Although even incremental change can be difficult to spur, the collective effort to halt climate change is picking up steam among campus institutions, and New College, as a progressive and environmentally conscious campus, is eager to be a part of it.

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The Activist Newsletter Throughout this week (10/23 - 10/30), activists have the opportunity to participate in public talks, group meetings and walks of solidarity. Read on if you want to get involved in the community regarding food waste reduction, farmworkers’ rights and anti-racist work.

BY HAYLEY VANSTRUM Thursday, Oct. 17 Saturday, Nov. 2 Eat Local Week 2019 Sarasota, FL Celebrate sustainable food and farming while learning about reducing worldwide food insecurity at Transition Sarasota’s annual Eat Local Week. This year’s theme, “Exploring Food Waste,” will explore topics such as hunger, food loss, and wasted resources through various events, including tours of recycling facilities and compost sites, plant walks with local experts and a zero-waste vegan and vegetarian-friendly dinner prepared by renowned chef Gaetano Cannata. For more information about event details, including locations, times and costs, visit transitionsrq.org/ eatlocalweek. This series of events is open to the public.

Thursday, Oct. 24 An Evening with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers @ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

HCL 7 - New College of Florida 5800 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota FL Take advantage of the opportunity to hear from a member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) about farmworker rights, the Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) and the Fair Food Program over dinner at An Evening with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. This event, put on by New College students involved with the SFA, is intended to encourage students to make connections with farmworkers within the coalition and to get more involved with the SFA in the future. This event is free and open to students, faculty and staff.

Thursday, Oct. 24 Not Giving Up: Maintaining Our Commitment to Justice in Unjust Times @ 7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Fox Hall - Eckerd College - 4200 54th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL Join Eckerd students for anti-racist educator Tim Wise’s Not Giving Up: Maintaining Our Commitment to Justice in Unjust

Times, a talk regarding Wise’s activism experience and the work that needs to be done to dismantle racism in America, particularly within times of turmoil. Tim Wise is the author of several highlyacclaimed books, including his memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Oct. 26 Domestic Violence Awareness Walk @ 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

The Ringling Bridge - 1667 Spring Creek Dr, Sarasota, FL Join members of Queens of Domestic Violence Awareness, a local organization dedicated to spreading awareness of intimate partner violence and providing support for survivors, in their Domestic Violence Awareness Walk over the Sarasota Ringling Bridge. This organization seeks to educate the Sarasota community about signs of domestic violence, how relationship abuse intersects with other social factors and actions that can be taken to support individuals in dangerous and abusive situations. This event is $20 per person, with all proceeds benefiting Queens of Domestic Violence Awareness, and is open to the public.

Saturday, Oct. 26 #HashtagLunchbag Sarasota Monthly Meet-Up @ 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Raff urty’s Bar and Grill - 1888 Main St, Sarasota, FL Volunteer with Sarasota’s chapter of #HashtagLunchbag, a global movement dedicated to bringing meals to those who need them most and spreading love within local communities, at the group’s monthly meet-up and action. Help out with packing up bagged lunches, writing notes of encouragement and distributing much-needed food to Sarasota’s homeless population. This meetup is $10 to cover food costs and is open to the public.

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Doctors for Camp Closure protest immigration policies

BY SOFIA LOMBARDI On Saturday, Oct. 19, Doctors for Camp Closure (D4CC) held a rally in the U.S. Navy Memorial Plaza, mere blocks from the White House.

This rally turned out nearly a hundred physicians, students, reporters and local activists, all ready to challenge the actions of the current presidential administration’s immigration policies.

D4CC represents a group of “physicians coming together to fight the human rights violations against asylum seekers and immigrants coming to the US,” according to their official website. They recognize that every person, regardless of their immigration status, has a right to sufficient care. In migrant camps that hold extreme overcrowding issues and inhumane conditions, this right is unable to be met, and has put these individuals at unnaturally high risk for illness and death.

D4CC works to defend the rights of these individuals not only through traditional activism, but also through the structured work of a legislative action team, a logistics team and a legal team.

At the rally on Pennsylvania Ave., many physicians served as guest speakers, testifying to the horrid conditions people living in migrant camps are forced to endure.

“I barely use the word administration because I’m not exactly sure what it is they’re administering except cruelty,” a physician who quit his job to pursue advocacy work for undocumented immigrants full time said. “These human beings having to be put into this source of trauma in these detention centers is just globally a crime against humanity.”

Physicians, students, and activists passed out stickers, touted handmade posters and hung drawings and baby clothes on a clothesline from

migrant children, representing the prison-like conditions they live in and the youngest children (infants) in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

Fatima Rehmatulla, a freshman year pre-medical student at George Washington University, attended the rally with fellow students in support of D4CC. “This group has a really strong presence in our area, and really does its best to reach out to local college students,” Rehmatulla said. “I’m here today because I feel that there’s not enough consistent activist pushback against Trump’s concentration camps, and our voices need to be heard.”

Diego Bolivar, a local community college student with aspirations of becoming a nurse, came out to support the cause at 8 a.m.

“As an immigrant, seeing the way these migrants and asylum seekers are being treated as if they are inhuman is horrifying,” Bolivar said, citing the reason why he is so passionate about this cause. “These people are being held in conditions worse than the United States treats imprisoned criminals. All we can do is continue to stand up for these people without voices.”

Over the past three years, antiimmigrant rhetoric has increased considerably following the election of president Donald Trump. Despite this, positive views on immigration have remained fairly consistent. According to a Gallup poll conducted during the first week of June 2019, 74% of Americans “on the whole” consider immigration to be a good thing for this country. D.C.’s latest pro-immigration protest is evidently reflective of the current mood of the country, and as D4CC and the proimmigration movement gain traction, the current state of American immigration politics may change.

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This local DC physician was heavily involved in advocating for pro-immigration policies.

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All photos courtesy of Salvador Dalí Museum of Art

E x p l o r i n g n e w e x h i b i ts at Th e D a l i M u s e u m

BY ADRIANA GAVILANES Second-year art student Tara Norton and Catalyst staff writer Adriana Gavilanes entered the dimly-lit gallery of Salvador Dalí’s masterworks illuminated by phone screens to explore a new augmented reality (AR) exhibit, entitled “Visual Magic: Dalí’s Masterworks in Augmented Reality.” Other open exhibits feature Dalí’s sculptures and prints from Spanish romantic-era printer and painter Francisco Goya, who inspired Dalí’s work. This exhibit, along with two others, will be open to the public until Nov. 3 at the Salvador Dalí Museum of Art in St. Petersburg. Each exhibit brings a different element of Dalí’s life and work, drawing on the themes of Surrealism, Classicism and Catholicism.

Visual Magic: Dalí’s Masterworks in Augmented Reality This exhibition works in tandem with the free Dali Museum app, available on both Apple and Android smartphones, to bring each painting to life with digital animations. Visitors can focus on specific points of each painting to reveal the picture Dalí curated when creating the work.

The new AR feature also shows Dalí’s interpretation of his work.

“I think [the augmented reality] helps the viewer in general,” Nor-

ton said. “If you’re not Dali then you don’t fully understand the piece. Art is so subjective, so the augmented reality helps the viewer connects the dots and it really demonstrates the digital age were living in.”

An additional screen displaying the AR for each piece is next to each painting with a description of the artwork.

“I’m not sure how important downloading the app really was because while it was interactive, if you didn’t want to use [phone] storage, the exhibit had a screen with the augmented reality right next to the piece,” Norton said.

Bronzes from the Vault The exhibit Bronzes from the Vault opened on June 6 and features the only sculptures Dalí worked on by hand. In addition to the collection of sculptures found in the galleries, there are four large-scale bronzes ranging from six to 10 feet.

“The sculptures in this exhibit were very figurative and in motion,” Norton said. “The thing sculpture is grounded upon is realism and the human body so it's just abstracted figurative sculptures where some are more realistic and some are more abstracted.”

The bronzes can be found in the Avant-garden, located at the back of the museum.

“I really appreciate that the Dalí has outdoor art as well,” Norton said.

“They have a beautiful landscape area and I’m glad they made use of that.

It’s fun to get outside of a cold building and get outside into nature, it ties into the viewing experience.”

Before Dalí: Goya — Visions and Inventions The museum introduced the “Before Dalí: Goya—Visions and Inventions” exhibit on Sept. 21, showcasing the work of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Goya’s work played a critical role in the development of Dalí’s artistry. Both painters came from Spain and Dalí ultimately felt a profound impact of Goya’s work because his art portrayed issues Dalí had to deal with in their country.

Goya’s paintings and etchings from the late-18th and early-19th centuries are celebrated for revolutionary qualities never seen before in art.

The exhibit features two series of first-edition prints and three paintings. The first series of prints, “Los Caprichos,” is a collection of satirical prints about superstitions and social issues of Goya’s era. The second print series, “La Tauromaquia,” depicts the history of bullfighting on the Iberian Peninsula. Both series highlight Goya’s printmaking techniques, regarded as revolutionary

back then and today.

“I think seeing the influence Goya had on Dali was super monumental, as with every artist, we don’t live in a vacuum,” Norton said. “Seeing what influenced him at the time really helps you understand the work that he did and the reason he did certain things.”

Of the three exhibits “The augmented reality exhibit was my favorite exhibit,” Norton said. “Not only did it have such a variety of different artwork but I loved seeing how [Dalí] commented on society.”

Norton added that the aspect of virtual reality was very cool because of its uniqueness, noting that as an avid art museum-goer, this was the first time she had been to an exhibit incorporating AR. “It gives us a peak of what is to come for the future of art,” Norton said.

The Dalí Museum of Art opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 5:30 p.m. every day except for Thursday, when it closes at 8 p.m.

Regular admission costs $25 for adults and $18 for students with identification. The price drops to $12 on Thursdays after 5 p.m.

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Goya's The Forceful Rendón Stabs a Bull with the Pique, from Which Pass He Died in the Ring at Madrid, 1816

Dalí's handmade large-scale bronze Terpischore, Muse of Dance is part of the "Bronzes from the Vault" exhibit located in the Museum's Avant garden.

Dalí's The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1968-70, is an oil painting on canvas, part of the "Visual Magic: Dalí's Masterworks in Augmented Reality" exhibit.

Dalí's The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1958-59, oil on canvas

Goya's Yard With Lunatics, 1794, is part of the "Before Dalí: Goya--Visions & Inventions exhibit."

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Students share their fall break travels and experiences

BY HAYLEY VANSTRUM Mod 1 saw a hurricane, shifting leadership in administration, new professors and a fresh start to the school year. After the highs and the lows of the first few weeks of school, students were in dire need of a break. Some spent break visiting family, travelling across the country, attending conferences, camping, hiking and even performing in local productions. The following students shared their unique experiences.

Jacob Brody-Ogborn Smoky Mountains Second year students Jacob Brody-Ogborn, Tara Norton, Cora Van Vleet, David Perkins and Catalyst Digital Editor Adriana Gavilanes spent fall break exploring Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, hanging out and relaxing at Cosby Campgrounds.

“We went because we wanted to camp and a lot of my friends had not experienced any type of mountains before,” Brody-Ogborn said.

During their trip, the group spent time appreciating nature, making the most of getting the opportunity to recharge away from New College for a little while.

“The best parts were hiking with friends and de-stressing from school,”

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Ogborn, Norton, Perkins and Gavilanes (from left to right) enjoying the cool mountain air in Cosby, Tennessee.

Brody-Ogborn said. “Also, it’s a lot of fun to tend to a fire.”

Cait Matthews Olympia, Washington Thesis students Olivia Siegel and Catalyst Layout Editor Cait Matthews took their week off to visit Erin Everdale, fellow New College thesis student, in Olympia, Washington during Everdale’s exchange semester at Evergreen State College. Matthews and Siegel, who had never been to Washington prior to this trip, planned this visit to catch up with their friend while taking some much-needed time off from their busy thesis year.

“At Evergreen we hiked in this breathtaking forest adjacent to the dorm’s parking lot,” Matthews said.

“The trails there lead to the college’s

gravel-laden beach, where many trees fall perpendicular to the shoreline.

It’s a spectacularly beautiful campus, nature and building-wise, with a strikingly quiet soundscape compared to New College. They also have a student run cafe called the Flaming Eggplant, which was interestingly closed last year for the same reasons as Four Winds and is also projected to reopen this fall.”

Along with checking out Evergreen’s campus and experiencing Washington’s natural beauty, Matthews and Siegel spent some time exploring nearby cities, appreciating Washington’s dedication to supporting local businesses and creating sustainable, welcoming environments.

“Practically every shop [in Down-

town Olympia] seems to be a locallyowned business!” Matthews said. “It was so nice to see them thriving and not being drowned out by a bunch of corporations. While there, we were grateful to see a jellyfish dancing in the Budd Inlet of Puget Sound. [In Seattle] my friend Eddie graciously showed us some special places and helped us navigate. I’d never seen a city with consistent public compost bins, rainwater used to flush toilets, and zero-emission electric trolleys and buses before.

There were lots of local businesses, beautiful parks, and loads of spaces with blatant inclusive intentions.”

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Debunking the tenure process: how students can be involved in the promotion of faculty

BY SERGIO SALINAS Professors can hold a variety of different titles, including assistant professor, associate professor and simply, professor, but it can often be confusing to know what these titles truly mean. The difference in these titles comes down to tenure, which gives professors job security, allowing them to teach, conduct research and provide service to students in ways they see fit.

At New College there are four academic divisions: Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. Professors are reviewed each year by the chair of their respective division. When it comes to tenure, professors are reviewed by the Provost Advisory Committee (PAC), of which there are three, each with its own chair. The current chairs are Professor of Mathematics Patrick McDonald, Professor of Mathematics Eirini Poimenidou and Professor of Spanish Language & Literature Jose Portugal.

A tenure-track professor has a review scheduled for the spring of their second and fourth year to evaluate their teaching, research and service provided to students. The chairs are then in charge of sending recommendation letters to Provost Barbara Feldman after the review process. In between PAC reviews, professors have a third-year retention vote, where if a positive vote

is presented, the professor is retained for the next specified amount of years.

Students can be involved in the tenure process and, by extension, the selection of faculty members at New College in two ways. The first is course evaluations given by students at the end of each semester. The second is the call to letters where students and faculty members can send in letters regarding a professor’s “teaching and scholarship, and service to the college, the profession and the community,” as stated by McDonald in an email sent out to students and faculty.

“The [course] evaluations are very important,” Portugal said. “It's the only evaluation in the file that can be introduced without a signature. I always try to remark to my students that they have in their hands a very important evaluation and also a very privileged one, which is good because students can be frank about their evaluation, but they have to be responsible. With every kind of privilege that you have you have a higher level of responsibility.”

After the first two PAC reviews, professors enter their final year of review in which the seventh-year review is held.

“In their final year of review, a candidate for tenure submits a complete portfolio of work and accomplishments performed since their

hire,” Feldman stated in an email interview. “This portfolio is reviewed by outside reviewers, the division, the Provost Advisory Council (made up of tenured faculty from across the college), the Provost, the President and the Board of Trustees.”

PAC reviews often involve promotion from assistant professor to associate professor and from associate professor to professor. Assistant professors are tenure-track entry level positions. When new professors are hired, most, but not all, will receive a tenure-track position.

Professors not in tenure-track positions hold the rank of either adjunct professor or visiting professor.

Adjunct professors are typically only at the college for a semester, during which they teach a course or courses specified in their appointment letter.

Visiting professors are similar to adjunct professors, but are typically hired for a full semester or longer, during which they teach specific courses, usually offering new classes that were not offered before. An example of a visiting professor is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Carr, who offers creative writing courses to explore the viability of having a creative writing area of concentration (AOC).

“A visiting professor is a term appointment, Feldman said. “Some-

times visitors are hired to replace faculty who are on leave for the year and sometimes they are multi-year appointments for the purposes of bringing additional expertise to the college.”

Outside of providing stability to a professor’s employment, tenure serves as a tool to protect academic freedom.

A tenured professor can only be fired with just cause, which allows professors to hold a sense of control over the ways in which they conduct their classes, research and service to the community. Without the process of tenure in place, institutions would have complete control over their faculty.

“The larger definition of tenure is an appointment that is indefinite in time and that can only be stopped by cause,” Portugal said. “That's the fundamental idea of tenure, but the point of tenure is that it's always been seen as central to protecting academic freedom. Faculty are free t o do research and communicate their results of their research. Faculty are free to teach and be open and frank about the material that they teach without fear that they will be censored or fired.”

Tenure is an important part of any college institution, but at New College, students have a way of being involved in the process. Through

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The life behind the badge: one officer’s story

BY IZAYA GARRET MILES It is not hard to find a police officer on campus. Sometimes they patrol around on foot or cruise near the Bayfront in a Campus Police Department (CPD) branded car. Sometimes they sit down in Hamilton “Ham” Center and eat Italian subs from the C-Store. Ryan Welch is one of the 10 police officers on campus. He has been apart of the campus for over three years, but his public service started over a decade ago.

In high school, he had a lot of friends that were enthusiastic about the military.

“I have always known that was the route I wanted to take,” Welch said. “I don’t know exactly why, per se.

I guess a sense of public service.”

In 2007, Welch joined the Florida Army National Guard.

“I didn’t really do my job that I joined to do,” Welch said. “We did convoy security, there was no [military occupation specialty] for a convoy security team member.”

In 2010, Welch was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait to serve as a Convoy Transport. As part of the convoy, Welch spent much of his time around gun trucks, which were armed with 50 caliber machine guns. He and his team

were protectors of other sorts of vehicles, many of them civilians that were working with the United States government. Welch started off as alternating between driver and gunner in the truck, before being made a Truck Commander, which gave him sole responsibility for the truck and the men inside it.

“We were there to make sure that nobody was going to try and attack them on the way,” Welch said.

Welch was deployed again to Qatar in 2013, as a signal support specialist. His job was to manage the military’s network, with his exact title at the time being Information Manager Officer. His secondary job was Force Support Technician, where he would monitor the entry control points of the base and make that the explosive device scanners were operational.

“Qatar was a little different,” Welch said. “There was a lot more leniency as where we could go. Qatar is very much like Dubai, there’s a lot of money there, things like that. It was more like a nine to five.”

In 2014, Welch entered the police academy. He had gotten hired with the Bradenton Police Department, where he worked for a short time, though a service-related back injury rendered him unable to continue in that role.

In June 2016, Welch was hired at New College.

Reflecting on his time since 2007, during his service both at home and abroad, Welch shared it is hard to remember any specific days as extraordinary.

“These 11 years has gone by real quick, like a blink of an eye,” Welch said. “From the time I joined until now went by pretty quick.”

Welch remembers the most notable time in his service was just shortly before his son was born in 2013, just before Welch’s deployment to Qatar.

“I only got to see him for three days before I was deployed,” Welch said. “Then I left for nine months. It was good because my wife and I didn’t have to worry about finances, since I was away, making money, and not really spending any.”

Despite the difficulty of leaving his newborn son, Welch is thankful that his son was not older when he had to leave.

“He doesn’t remember it,” Welch said. “I hear stories sometimes from friends of mine, where they’re leaving for the military and their kids are about six years old. They leave, and then they come back and have a hard time readjusting. Because they’re at an age where they can remember this

stuff.”

In addition to foreign deployment, the National Guard also has domestic responsibilities. During natural disasters within their states, the National Guard operates under the state government in order to provide humanitarian aid. The Florida National Guard is especially active during hurricanes, given the large threat they can pose to the state.

“We’re typically responsible for maintaining and running shelters,” Welch said. “We would provide food and water, and search and rescue. A lot of our military vehicles are high water vehicles that can get through places other vehicles can’t.”

Welch is currently is an M-day member, which means he drills one weekend a month and two to four weeks a year. If the situation requires it, Welch can be called up and put into active duty. He is currently a Staff Sergeant second battalion at the onesixteenth field artillery, based out of Winter Haven.

“We [law enforcement officers] are members of our community,” Welch said. “We have families, we have lives behind the badge. I think that’s something a lot of people tend to forget: we’re human as well.”

Submission: the ethics of escalation SUBMITTED

BY ISAAC DENNER A few weeks ago, an incident occurred in Palm Court. A student and a police officer got into an argument about another student, who, the cop claimed, had been concealing an alcoholic beverage. The first student was handcuffed.

The entire situation was handled poorly by the cop, both in the sense of how the cop acted as a person and how the cop acted as a cop. The situation never should have escalated to the point that it did; the officer egregiously overacted in handcuffing a student over a nonviolent incident in which nobody was in danger. But the police officer also made the mistake of egregiously overacting as publicly as he did and as blatantly as he did. Rather than moving the confrontation to a less public place, the police officer simply did this in the far corner of Palm Court. It was hard to miss the fact that this incident was happening. It was hard to miss the fact that this incident was escalating. Perhaps the cop was trying to make an example of the two students; perhaps the cop was simply trying to handle the incident as quickly as possible. I do not know. What I do know is that the Wall hosts ended up sitting next to the handcuffed student in a show of solidarity, and eventually more joined. What began to accumulate was a small audience.

Audience to authority does two

things: it holds authority accountable, and it makes authority uncomfortable.

The first of those two is important. Accountability is deeply necessary in the prevention of injustice, misconduct and incompetence. Accountability is what prevents injustice and incompetence from going unnoticed and uncorrected. Accountability led to Joy Hamm’s resignation. Accountability led to the creation of the Student Library Advisory Committee (SLAC). Accountability is one of the many tools that we can use to keep our authorities—housing, the police, the administration—in check.

The second thing that audience to authority provokes—discomfort—is more troubling. Seeing authority uncomfortable gives some people a pure, childlike feeling of glee. But discomfort also provokes authority; it leads it to think less clearly and it leads it, occasionally, to escalate situations.

Within the small audience that had gathered to watch the police officer on that unfortunate night, someone suggested that we find more people to join our small crowd. I agreed and chatted with a few people about the incident that was unfolding. I was surprised by some of the reactions— most NCF students that I interact with are not pro-cop. Most of them, at least in theory, would relish the chance to make a police officer uncomfortable.

But several of the students I talked to seemed to be worried about the audience that was gathering. They seemed

to be worried about the reaction of the police officer to this audience, and how the student would be affected by it. Indeed, the police officer seemed put visibly on edge; he was jumpy, short, and snappy. These students seemed afraid that in witnessing this police officer, in protesting this police officer, the student’s situation would deteriorate.

This raises an interesting, and, in light of recent events, particularly pertinent question: is protest worthwhile if it escalates threats to a student’s well-being? If it means that they might be arrested rather than simply warned? If, in a worst-case scenario, the police do not simply harass a student, but physically harm one? If this is a risk, should bystanders idly sit by as police officers overcomplicate, overact, and overstep?

I do not think that this question has a simple answer. When I ask questions, I usually seek clear, general, resounding answers. However, the ethics of escalation have so many variables, so many possibilities, so many hypotheticals. Marginalized students will be treated worse by police. Intoxicated students risk making damaging mistakes in escalating. Time, place, attitude—all of these are variables that affect how situations of protest will unfold. I am, personally, not equipped to provide the clear, resounding answers that I desire. I cannot say what every student should do in this situation.

Here is what I can say. I can say

what I, personally, would want in this situation. I believe that the police need to know that if officers overstep boundaries, if they overstep their role in our community, that students will notice. That students will be unhappy.

That police officers, in acting as they do, are actively damaging our trust in them.

I have privilege in this position.

White, cishet, male-presenting people have never been marginalized by police. My situation would likely never escalate as much as a PoC’s. My safety and wellbeing would likely never deteriorate in the same way. I have privilege in this position, and to me, that means there is a responsibility to use it.

I strongly urge every student reading this to consider, if they were in the situation of those two unfortunate students in Palm Court several weeks ago, what they would want done. I strongly urge the students reading this to ask their friends what they would want done. I believe that students have a responsibility to keep authority in check, but only under the consent of those who might be affected.

So I hope that you have a conversation about whether or not you would like to play a role, if the opportunity arises, in keeping the cops accountable. In keeping the administration accountable. In keeping our campus a place where students are respected, and a place where students are safe.

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Four Winds opening date was pushed back because Metz was finding a manager and cleaning the café.

The college has some leeway with assisting the student-run café to get back on their feet into the spring.

“We didn’t open when we wanted to, so we have some additional funds that we could use to continue it into the spring,” Stier said. “If the student committee needs more time to work on the proposal, we can do it until the money runs out, basically. Sales will extend the life of Four Winds into the spring.”

Metz’s Part Four Winds was set to open on Oct. 1, but opened on Oct. 22 for the “Grand Reopening Celebration” that was held between 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Bill Moore, the on-campus manager of Metz Culinary Management discussed the plans for the opening.

“Max who is a student here is working on having two bands there for me,” Bill Moore, the on-campus manager of Metz Culinary Management, said. “We’re gonna give away

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Changing locations to reduce security costs was also discussed, but Massen said that drastic changes were unfeasible for the upcoming party.

“When you have COUPs or any event that takes place in multiple different locations, that does pose more of a security concern for us,” Massen said. “Every event is looked at on an individual basis, so you have to put everything into perspective and assess it so that the safety measures aren’t compromised.”

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cake and some drawings for the café, probably have some games on the back patio, just some fun things to do. We are going to do some poetry readings that day, probably after the bands are done.”

Currently, the Four Winds menu, titled “Four Winds Student Café” has coffee and tea, four smoothies, a few cold beverages including Jarritos and 221 Kombucha, along with convenient snack items, bagels, danishes and desserts. For coffee fanatics—this is college, after all—the café will be serving cappuccino, espresso, caffe americano, caffe mocha, iced coffee and brewed coffee.

“We’ve heard from the other side of campus, administration and all that, they would like to have food there but something a little more stable,” Moore said. “Once I talk to the committee, maybe we could add that down the way.”

Moore said there is potential to offer vegan or fish-based grab and go meals like salads and sandwiches at Four Winds.

Moore hired a total of nine students and three are returning Four Winds employees. Two students will be on shift at a time, with the manager being there the whole time. Katie Thomas, third-year, is a returning Four Winds employee who looks forward to getting Four Winds back to what it used to be.

“I worked there last fall and I really liked it, it was probably one of my most favorite jobs I ever had,” Thomas reminisced. “I’m excited that we’re opening again. It’s definitely going to

be different because it’s under Metz, not just like Four Winds owned, but hopefully we’ll get it back to where it was by next semester.”

A local, retired school teacher was hired as the manager. She is the only manager for Four Winds, and will be working five hours a day.

“She’s excited about [the concept of Four Winds], and that made me happy,” said Bill.

While Metz is managing Four Winds, the profits made, if any, will return to Metz. Comparatively, when the students are in charge of Four Winds, the money goes back to the students.

“It’s a Profit and Loss (P&L) statement so if we [Metz] lose money, the college pays for it, but if we make money, then it comes to Metz,” Moore said. “You have to have a certain amount of revenue to be successful to meet all your costs, your P&L.” Bill has some ideas for contributing to Four Winds creative spirit but wants input from the students.

The Food Services TA, Daria Paulis, who did not respond to messages from the Catalyst, works to be the in between of dialogue between students and Metz.

For events held at Four Winds, students will need to go through the Office of Student Activities and Campus Engagement (SA[u]CE) and they will have to pay a Metz employee to be available to sell food and coffee, take care of the inventory and facility during the event and clean up after the event. In the past, a Four Winds employee did not need to be

present at special events.

Bill is thinking of having a Happy Hour from 4-7 p.m., where they could have live music or poetry readings, and have free vegan pizza and other dishes, in order to promote community and revenue.

“I know on my end, the most important thing is that this is ready for the students to take over because I don’t want to see them take it over, it fails, and it closes again,” Moore said.

“We’ve gotta find a way to keep this place open and running. If they’re ready and the students want to open it, let’s do it. If not, let’s wait.”

Closing Remarks “The only thing that students need to be aware of is that the future of Four Winds is 100 percent dependent on their participation,” remarked Stier. “If it comes down to lack of sales or involvement, there’s a chance that we won’t open [in the spring] the way we want to, under the student supervision. There’s tons of different ways it could be opened, but our first choice is to have this be a student-centered, student-run business model.”

Both Moore, Stier and Stewart agree that for Four Winds to become successful, student involvement is crucial.

“This is your space, this is a student space. Unless we work to keep it, we’re not going to have it,” Stewart said. “If Four Winds is no longer a student run organization in five years it won’t be because of enrollment, any of the other issues, it will be because students here and now aren’t involved,” Stewart said.

Massen added that fencing in an area can help with reducing security costs.

“We left [the location] up to the COUP sponsors to decide where they wanted to have COUP and the choices were between Rural America [the area around the bike shop, tennis courts and softball field] and just the regular America [the usual PCP locations],” Daniels said.

Event-throwers Clayton Bauldree and Gillian Boll chose not to opt for Rural America.

“We plan on using HCL 7 as a chillout space, the bandroom, the banyan tree and hopefully Palm Court if we get approval,” Bauldree wrote in an email interview.

In their original email sent to the Forum, Bauldree and Boll wrote that the Banyan tree will be transformed into the Mothman’s nest and will feature a stage for live bands.

“We hope to get some live music to bless the beautiful ears of the Mothman,” they wrote.

The bandroom will become the Lizard Man’s Den with DJ sets and Palm Court will become an enchanted forest.

Throughout the night, Bauldree and Boll will try to keep student-police interactions peaceful.

“As we are walking through the event we hope to diffuse any situations with police calmly,” Bauldree said. “There have been a lot of unfair interactions with students lately where police have been the aggressors. By standing with students in times of conflict with campus police, we hope to dissuade any kind of aggression via the police.”

Also, despite the budget cuts,

the co-sponsors hope that everyone has a good time on November 1st. “[We] both just want people to enjoy the party we've put together,” Bauldree said. “There is a lot of stress on PCP hosts to make the event as rad as possible, with not a lot of thanks afterwards, and we just hope people will feel that we've created a sufficient place to party.”

Sarasota Opera hosts College Night Nov. 6 The Sarasota Opera is hosting a College Night for the Nov. 6 performance of “Rigoletto.”

New College students and faculty are invited to a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the courtyard directly next to the Opera House, at 61 N. Pineapple Avenue. Refreshments will be served. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance may be purchased for $10 immediately before the performance.

Students and faculty wishing to attend should contact Maribeth Clark at mclark@ncf.edu.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Quizbowl, as fitting for an odd "sport" in an odd school, has adopted a number of quirks. For one, the naming of its officers, ‘First Consul’ instead of President and ‘Second Consul’ instead of Vice President, is unique to New College. Furthermore, during any given round of Quizbowl, there will be a number of hats being thrown across the room.

“Just as personal rules, my Quizbowl operates under the hat rule, meaning whenever a player powers a tossup, they receive the Quizbowl fez which they may then proceed to wear,” Gonzalez said over a Telegram interview. “Whenever players neg, I like to give them the

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 going to be a voice for student perspective as to what they’re looking for,” Woodson said. “I know at the end of the day if we are keeping the campus safe using protocol that works for our students that’s what’s going to work better, so there will be further conversations. I can’t promise an outcome, but I can promise you further conversations.”

Students looking to make the campus more accessible urged that accessibility on campus benefits everyone, not just those with disabilities. Woodson, with a notepad and pen in hand, claimed he is always open to suggestions that would make

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 benefits of going up north for fall break was getting to see real fall, something Floridians rarely get to experience.

“Seeing real fall was incredible!”

Matthews said. “It was reassurance that I’m meant to live in the cold, as I’m a pretty warm person. Especially in Seattle, as long as people are dressed comfortably warm enough for their bodies and have a rain jacket on deck at all times they’ll be set.

Fall was interesting in this region because only a small portion of the trees have leaves that change color, as evergreens and such do not. There was a solid mix of deep greenery, reds, oranges, and yellows, which especially popped in the gloomy weather.”

Despite having a fun time with friends, Matthews and Siegel are ready to return home and get back into the swing of things at New College.

“The last several days were

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Quizbowl wizard’s hat (the wizard of course being our devilishly handsome Second Consull), since I would rather encourage players to buzz on their hunch and get it wrong than for them to know the answer the whole time and never buzz.”

That wizard’s hat has Mickey ears and, like so many other treasures of New College, was found at the Free Store. It has since been thoroughly washed.

“So, come drop by sometime, we are very welcoming,” Gonzalez said.

“You will add a lot more to the club than you might expect, at the very least you can meet some cool people, try on some pretty cool hats and flex on your Mr. Krabs knowledge.”

Quizbowl meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Izaya Garrett Miles is currently serving as the Second Consul of Quizbowl. the campus and community more accessible for everyone.

“Disability accommodations benefit everyone as a whole,” thesis student Jennifer Lin said. “The reason why we have closed captioning on TVs is not just for people who are hard of hearing, but if you’re in a loud bar and you can’t hear the volume of the TV—that helps you too!

So, framing the idea of accommodations in the mind of helping everyone in the community versus just those in need is probably something that we should do.”

Students interested in becoming involved in these conversations can attend the next Campus Climate Town Hall meeting, which, according to Woodson, will be sometime this November. mostly void of direct sunlight, so while I was excited to get away for awhile and experience new things, I’m ready to return back home and get some consistent vitamin D,” Matthews said. “It’s time to get back on the thesising train and see our cat, Skitters!”

Megan Ballard Denver, Colorado Third-years Megan Ballard and Catalyst Copy Editor Anna Lynn Winfrey travelled to Denver, Colorado during their break, spending time camping, cooking by the campfire and relieving some of their schoolrelated stress.

“Camping was so much fun!”

Ballard said. “We drove up to Mount Princeton and relaxed in some hot springs. Then we found our campsite right next to the Arkansas river. We set up our tent first and then built a fire before the sun went down. It wasn’t as cold throughout the night as I thought it would be, I actually was pretty hot. We cooked our dinner over the fire and made s’mores at the end of the night. For dinner we made potato packs, which are basi-

cally cut up potatoes, onions and carrots, wrapped them up and put them in the fire. We made some beans and then melted some cheese on the potatoes and dinner was served.”

Ballard, who had never gone camping before this trip, thoroughly enjoyed the experience and is planning on going again someday soon.

“It was so nice to be out of the Florida heat for a couple of days!”

Ballard said. “Watching the leaves change reminded me of being home in North Carolina. It was nice and warm during the day and chilly throughout the night!”

Lucy Sanz Rocky Horror Picture Show Thesis student Lucy Sanz spent her last weekend of fall break at Sarasota Sky Club and Bar, putting together and performing in Sarasota’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Ball. Sanz worked alongside several professional performers including drag king Spikey Van Dykey to put on a memorable show, one unlike she had ever been a part of before.

“We all came from different places to put on this show,” Sanz said. “Some of us drove hours just to be there and I actually flew back to Sarasota early just to be in this production, so we only got the chance to practice the day of. That being said, I feel like my three years of doing Rocky at New College prepared me for this performance.”

In the production, Sanz played Magenta, her favorite character not only in Rocky Horror, but in all of theatre, and made the most of this opportunity to play around with the role and make it her own.

“I was comfortable with the job because I know Rocky Horror like the back of my hand and I identify with Magenta's bold and fearless attitude, and mostly her hair,” Sanz said. “Being in a shadow cast is mostly intended to be fun so my only job was to channel Magenta's spunky energy and to have fun with it. I always enjoy putting on this show because whether it’s a performance in HCL 8 or at the Sky Bar downtown, the goal is always to just have fun. Everyone in this performance was just happy to be apart of it, ready to kill it on stage, and excited to bring that fun and joy to the audience.”

Sanz loves the entire experience of Rocky Horror, but especially enjoys being able to make connections with audience members and to see the joy it brings into their lives.

“One of the best parts of Rocky Horror is the interaction the cast gets to make with the audience,” Sanz said. “It's so fun to join the crowd and share energy with the people who come out to see us, so it was especially great to have my friends there for support so I could interact with people I love. I always thought I would only get the lucky opportunity at New College so it was a joy and huge

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surprise that I could do that in local Sarasota. It would be a joy to do this again for the last time at New College this January and I hope that once I graduate I could have the chance to do this again wherever I end up after graduation.”

Amaranth Sander Students for Zero Waste Conference Thesis student Amaranth Sander, along with fellow classmates thesis student Sydney Clingo, third-year Danielle Whiting and first-year Kaylee Snell spent the first weekend of fall break in Philadelphia for the Post Landfill Action Network’s annual Students for Zero Waste Conference.

Sander, Clingo, Whiting and Snell presented on compost at New College, teaching students from other schools about the process of composting on a college scale and providing advice on how to start composting programs at their own institutions.

The group also attended workshops on plastic pollution, environmental racism, environmental justice, food waste, recycling and more.

“We also participated in an ‘un-conference’ where we connected with students and environmental activists and leaders from all over the country to dive deep into specific environmental topics, like incinerators or different environmental organizations on college campuses,” Sander said. “We also went to a Circular Economy Workshop, held by the Ellen MacArthur foundation which was really amazing. We talked about different ways that a non-linear economy based on redesigning products, recycling, and mimicking nature to make things more sustainable.”

Along with presenting, going to workshops and participating in group discussions, Sander enjoyed being in the city of Philadelphia and connecting with fellow conferencegoers.

“We also had a great time eating lots of delicious vegan food in Philly and talking to tons of other students that cared about the environment like we do,” Sander said. “Our plan is to use all the knowledge we gained from this conference to implement more sustainable practices at New College, especially through our ecorep program!”

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Information for this article was gathered from the NCF Faculty Handbook 2019-2020

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FRUITVILLE GROVE PUMPKIN FESTIVAL brings fall festivities to Sarasota

BY JACOB WENTZ With state temperatures still climbing above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, many Floridians question whether October truly represents the change of season from summer to fall. Despite the weather, the Fruitville Grove Pumpkin Festival aims to celebrate the arrival of fall with copious cornucopias, plump pumpkins and festivities for families and locals to enjoy.

The Pumpkin Festival is an annual event held by Fruitville Grove, a farm-fresh family market that offers a wide variety of produce, jams, honey, butter, snacks, hand-dipped ice cream and other organic, glutenfree and non-GMO items. Opened in 1987 by the Taylor family, the store prides itself on its family-oriented approach to local farming and community engagement.

“My mom started the festival because she realized, when I was born, there weren’t many things going on in Sarasota for families to do—community events—so she figured, ‘Well if no one else is doing it, I may as well start,’” festival organizer Nadia Taylor said.

“It was very small, it was back when we had a small store in the back, we had a few vendors and a lot of the vendors are actually still here with us today.”

After spending last fall in Washington D.C., thesis student Ormond Derrick appreciated Fruitville Grove’s efforts to bring the season to Florida.

“Seeing the colors of the leaves change in D.C. made me really value mother nature,” Derrick said. “While it’s not nearly as cool here as it was in D.C., this festival brings me back to some really good memories.”

After bringing fall splendor to Sarasota for 31 consecutive years, the Pumpkin Festival set a new record last weekend. Sunday, Oct. 20 brought the largest crowd the festi-

val has seen to date. Groups of people enjoyed food from various food trucks, crafts from local vendors, circus performances, petting zoos, live music and more.

“Every year we just built it up,” Taylor said. “Every year we would get a couple more vendors, every year we would offer new activities, and so today you caught it on our busiest day yet. We’ve never been this busy, this is our absolute busiest day.”

The festival does not charge a fee for admission or parking, allowing visitors to spend money on the food they choose to eat and the activities they choose to partake in.

“We try to let everybody know that it’s free admission and free parking and what keeps us going every single year is purchases of pumpkins,” Taylor said.

The pumpkin patch, located directly at the entrance of the festival, sports pumpkins of all types, shapes, colors, sizes and textures. The variety enables visitors to find the perfect pumpkin, whether they desire large pumpkins to carve, small pumpkins to use as tableside decorations or deliciously plump pumpkins to cook into pies.

The Pumpkin Festival also brings community businesses together.

This is the first year that Kristin Sprinkle, owner and founder of Sprnkl Design, has joined the extensive list of vendors.

“They’re great here,” Sprinkle said. “They’re very family-oriented.

I actually grew up coming here and now my kids get to come here too and enjoy the festival while I’m a vendor. The event really helps with the community feel.”

The last two days the festival is open are Saturday, Oct. 26 and Sunday, Oct. 27.

“Next weekend we’ll have the food trucks and loads of events,” Taylor said. “Come on out! We would love to have you!”

"I feel like I'm in 27 places at once today," festival organizer Nadia Taylor said.

All photos Jacob Wentz/Catalyst The patch features big pumpkins, small pumpkins, pie pumpkins and tall pumpkins.

"That's what corn is supposed to look like," thesis student Ormond Derrick said.

Scarecrows became popular during the heyday of the U.S. agricultural period.

Fruitville Grove sells pickled vegetables and sauerkraut among other country goods.