“It needed to be something uniquely New College,” said interim President Richard Corcoran.Īmong many changes under the new trustees, New College is upgrading its sports teams to include baseball, softball, soccer and basketball, Corcoran said. New College is adorned with banyan trees big enough for a person to climb inside on its bayside campus. It does retain the Null Set brackets as eyebrows and sports a leafy hairdo. This new mascot features a brown, fierce-looking banyan tree with “arm” branches raised in a muscular flex pose. That’s usually expressed as ”( )” and was viewed by many students, faculty and alumni as perfectly suited to the quirky, historically progressive college that doesn’t use traditional grades. The tree mascot will replace one that has been in use since 1997, which is the mathematical formulation of the Null Set. Ron DeSantis chose a new mascot Thursday for the Sarasota school: The Mighty Banyans. The New College of Florida trustees dominated by conservatives appointed by Republican Gov.

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