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#newcollege
my alma mater was once as close to a utopian community of playful minds as has existed in this country.
i am so sad and ashamed by what it has become, so angry at the moral pygmies so raucously undoing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-new-college-fires-chinese-professor
ht @jennycohn
#newcollege #schoolofdivinity #theuniversityofedinburgh #edinburgh #scotland #uk #architecture
#Oxford #NewCollege's #TheNewSpace has a #WindQuintet coming up on Wednesday which looks interesting. Unfortunately clashing with my orchestra time.
'Mountain Airs and Dances'
Wind quintet Ensemble Renard
Summer Music, Op. 31 | Samuel Barber
Sea Eagle | Peter Maxwell Davies
Mountain Airs | Judith Weir
Pastorale | Amy Beach
Down Hollow Winds | Martin Butler
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from 'Mikrokosmos' | Bela Bartok
part of this term's #Wanderlust series
https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/whats
The 8pm track projects the center of the eye coming right over the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport, maybe a mile from the Center of the Universe (Palm Court, #NewCollege).
That's where we used to have our end of the world parties, when lesser storms showed up. The music still echoes, provoking ghost noise complaints from now evacuated neighbors.
Milton's forecast track is within 10 miles of #NewCollege of Florida.
By far the most wonderful place I ever lived, for the past two years vandals like Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo have been dismantling the college at an institutional level.
Maybe the algorithm doesn't like what they've done. Maybe it's helping them finish the job. Mysterious ways.
it’s cancel culture that controls the weather you see. https://www.ncf.edu/event/socratic-stage-a-discussion-on-crime-in-the-21st-century/
“Students at New College are becoming more and more isolated by various actions of the administration, including…new rules that prevent ‘unauthorized’ gatherings of 5 or more students.” https://ncffreedom.org/%5B-%5D-blog/f/the-death-of-community-gathering-at-new-college
// can this be for real?
Great news and a good message to those who want to end the positive things that libraries bring to all of us!
"New College of Florida’s library dean was terminated after an internal investigation found she purged thousands of books without following proper procedures."
https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/new-college-library-dean-terminated-following-investigation-over-books-found-in-dumpster/
New College library dean terminated after investigation over books found in dumpster | WFLA
#IAmDB
#NewCollege #Florida #Libraries #Books #BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks #Fascism #US #USNews #USpol
Update. The #NewCollege Dean of #Libraries was just fired for the book-dump fiasco.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/new-college-library-dean-fired-books-dumpster/
PS: I can't tell whether she's the responsible party or a scapegoat who did what the admin asked.
Update. The #NewCollege book dump was so badly botched (or so widely publicized) that the president put the head librarian on administrative leave.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/19/new-college-florida-library-dean-placed-on-leave-after-book-disposal/74861630007/
Meantime the president is spinning the book dump as normal library deaccessioning — on which, see the previous post in this thread.
Update. If you needed it, here's proof that this wasn't normal library deaccessioning.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/08/20/new-college-florida-dumping-books-and-losing
From a tweet by Jeremy Redfern, press secty to #RonDeSantis: “Putting gender studies books in the garbage? Great job, @NewCollegeofFL."
From a tweet by #ChrisRufo, New College board member nominated by DeSantis: “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”
New College of Florida book purge: A horror story of secrecy, ineptitude and stupidity - https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2024/08/20/new-college-of-florida-book-purge-is-a-horror-story-of-incompetence/74858922007/
"The first rule of doing something you are trying to hide is this: hide what you are doing. The image of hundreds of repudiated books in a dumpster seemed to blend the fascist horror of a 1933 book burning with a 21st century dumpster fire meme.
I’m so old I can remember when other New College books ended up in a dumpster. This is not the first time. But it is another current example of the college, drained of administrative expertise, fumbling so badly. Too many things are happening with no forewarning and no consultation. That’s by design. The college continues to advertise the features that made it great while disassembling the practices that made it great."
"Video captured in the afternoon showed a vehicle driving away with the books before students were notified. In the past, students were given an opportunity to purchase books that were leaving the college's library collection."
#books #education #gender #LGBTQ #Florida #NewCollege #BookBans #libraries
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"Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill.
A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on Tuesday afternoon."
~ Steven Walker
#books #education #gender #LGBTQ #Florida #NewCollege #BookBans #libraries
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"#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender diversity library"
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
"A dumpster…overflowed with books…from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center…Video…showed a vehicle driving away with the books before students were notified. In the past, students were given an opportunity to purchase [discarded] books."
A spokesperson incorrectly said that state law barred the school from donating books purchased with state funds.
This feels like an episode of “The Twilight Zone”….
Rod Serling…help!
“A dumpster overflowing w/
was spotted outside the #newcollege of #florida one of FL Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pet projects.”
“The public liberal arts #college was throwing out 100s ofinclding texts on #lgbtq issues & religious studies. The dumpster was located outside the Jane Bancroft Cook Library on Tues, brimming w/ from the now-defunct Gender & Diversity Cntr, reported the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.”https://apple.news/Ar6BKtSh0QomqotZFe31nGA
Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.
Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.
This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.
#USpol #USnews #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #BookBurning #LGBTQIA
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender #diversity library
h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird
