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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 17h

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 1d

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

—J. Philippe Rushton
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 1d

New College has fewest Trustee committee meetings of any university #NCA www.novocollegian.or...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 1d

Surprise Shake up at the NCAA #NCA

Surprise Shake up at the NCAA — Novo Collegian Alliance

Ben Brown (New College class of 2005), board member of the New College Foundation and the Chair of the New College Alumni Association, unexpectedly resigned from the Foundation Board on Tuesday, March 25, 2025

www.novocollegian.org

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 2d

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

—Bernard Berenson
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 3d

New College was founded in Sarasota, Florida, 65 years ago! Join the NCA in celebrating and honoring that tremendous milestone! #NCA #NCAstrong #NewCollege

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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 3d

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

—Jean-Paul Sartre
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 4d

No kidding! We have questions!

New College Foundation faces growing pressure from alumni leaders over spending crisis

Alumni, ex-board chairs say New College Foundation misused restricted funds, warn of lawsuit if financial records aren't released for independent review.

www.heraldtribune.com

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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 4d

A grim recap of the loss of academic freedom in Florida.
floridatrident.org/f...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 4d

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

—Xi Zhi
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 5d

Round-up: Op-eds & Opinions #NCA www.novocollegian.or...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 5d

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 5d

March FL legislative update #NCA

March FL legislative update — Novo Collegian Alliance

What will the spring 2025 legislative session bring for New College? Will it take over the Ringling Museum, or even USF Sarasota-Manatee? Learn more in the NCA’s legislative update!

www.novocollegian.org

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 6d

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

—Rudolf Steiner
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 7d

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

—Arthur Helps
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 8d

New College hires faculty for new “Division for the Study of Western Civilization” #NCA www.novocollegian.or...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 8d

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

—Edmund Husserl
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 8d

Corcoran promotes sports over critical New College needs (again) #NCA

Corcoran promotes sports over critical New College needs (again) — Novo Collegian Alliance

The library roof is still leaking, but there’ll be a million dollars for “sports”. Is this what an honors college in desperate need of programmatic and infrastructure improvements really needs? (Dec. 16, 2024)

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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 9d

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

—Francis Parkman
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 10d

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

—Martin Heidegger
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 11d

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

—George Santayana
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 12d

Are NCF student scholarship funds going to Richard Corcoran’s salary? #NCA www.novocollegian.or...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 12d

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

—Epictetus
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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 12d

Corcoran's Top Tier Student Housing: A Moldy Trailer Park #NCA www.novocollegian.or...

Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 13d

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

—Blaise Pascal
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