Novo Collegian Alliance
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A community of students and alumni striving to protect and preserve the liberal arts heritage of New College of Florida
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

—Arthur Helps
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New College hires faculty for new “Division for the Study of Western Civilization” #NCA www.novocollegian.or...
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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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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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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

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

—George Santayana
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Are NCF student scholarship funds going to Richard Corcoran’s salary? #NCA www.novocollegian.or...
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

—Epictetus
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Corcoran's Top Tier Student Housing: A Moldy Trailer Park #NCA www.novocollegian.or...
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

—Blaise Pascal
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A Former president of Harvard gives a short insider history of higher ed and why elite institutions (like New College) failed to defend themselves from attacks by conservative politicians. Long, deep read!
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
Opinion | A former president of the university explains how we got here.
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

—Jacques Derrida
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

—George Santayana
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

—Francis Bacon
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What happened in Aug. 2024? It was all about the books. "The disposal of the books came amid a yearslong effort by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to turn the small liberal arts school — known for its progressive student body — more conservative."
Florida college dumps hundreds of books, many on sexuality, race and feminism
“Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey,” “Feminist Thought” and “Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Hip-Hop” were among New College of Florida's discarded titles.
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"Why fascists hate universities" Yes, we know why, but J. Stanely at The Guardian puts it all into perspective in this opinion piece from Sept. 2024. tinyurl.com/yrvtm5ev...
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

—Claude Adrien Helvetius
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

—Jean Piaget
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"Annals of Inquiry" article from The New Yorker focuses on Chris Rufo used CRT to invient a culture war conflagration. Given his role in the attack on NCF, it's an important read.
How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory
To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

—Albert Camus
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