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Tars Shutdown Florida Southern in Conference Opener
By Ava Cottingham on February 24, 2026
The Rollins College baseball team opened SSC play with a 9-5 win over Florida Southern. This was the Tars fifth straight win, giving them a 7-4 overall record and 1-0...
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Pipe Bursts at Lakeside During Deep Freeze
By Sarah Ogden on February 8, 2026
Photo courtesy of Julia Clements On the morning of Feb. 1, 2026, an AC pipe burst in Lakeside Neighborhood, affecting residents in Lakeside Seymour and Lakeside Bornstein buildings. Water flooded multiple floors,...
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Rollins Tuition Rises Again in 2025-26, Increasing Financial Concerns for Students
By Kaitlynn Torres on December 7, 2025
As costs in higher learning continue to rise, many families are struggling to keep up. Rollins College’s newest update to tuition fees underscores the financial challenges students face — even as the college encourages eligible families to apply for aid. Graphic by Kaitlynn Torres For the 2025–26 year,...
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A Look Back on Provost Don Davison’s 37 Years at Rollins
By Kaitlynn Torres on November 23, 2025
When Don Davison came to Rollins College in 1989, it wasn’t a long-term plan. In fact, Davison wasn’t positive he would remain in academia at all. “I had been offered a position elsewhere, and I...
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Forty-Three Days: The Longest Government Shutdown in History
By Molly Higgins on November 18, 2025
Graphic by Molly Higgins Forty, forty-one, forty-two, forty-three. The House lay abandoned, the Senate in a stalemate, the president taking away food stamps a month before the holiday season; that was the state...
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Seeing the world through Tiffany glass

By Alexandra Holt on November 18, 2016

It’s the year 2016. A made-for-TV reality-idiot has been elected president. He is flanked by the white supremacy vote and the corporate oligarchy, demonizing regulation.…

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