To Becky, Ben and all the future Carletonian editors, I hold very sparse yet specific memories of my first year at Carleton. For most of Winter Term, we lived blissfully unaware of what would come at the end. Yet, I have a quite distinct image in my head. January 31,…
Aldo Polanco
Managing Editor.
On May 15, an all-campus email went out explaining that, “due to personal reasons,” Doechii is no longer available to perform at the 42nd Annual Sproncert. The 24-year-old singer was announced by the Sproncert Planning Committee as this year’s headliner live through KRLX radio on Friday, May 5. Despite Doechii’s…
After another cycle of Carleton student and alumni fellowship applications, a total of 17 Carls were recognized by the Office of Student Fellowships in their draft report to the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Current Carl Susana Kisker ’24 and recent graduate Eric Cheng ’23 were awarded Critical Language…
On Monday, April 24, during a weekly CSA Senate meeting, Kevin Bui ’24 resigned effective immediately. The former treasurer took the opportunity to brief the rest of the council on the state of the budget and announced his resignation during an executive session. The meeting — in contrast to CSA’s…
On Tuesday, April 11, a panel of faculty spoke in the Weitz Center for Creativity on their experience teaching in the “age of cancel culture.” The discussion, titled “Teaching at Carleton during the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture and Academic Freedom,” was hosted by the Hollis L. Caswell Professor…
On April 5, students who went on the Studio Art in the South Pacific OCS trip held a reception and art show. The gallery show, held in Boliou Hall, displayed a collection amassed from the compositions the study-abroad students created during their program. As stated in the off-campus studies website,…
I have one term left at Carleton. By my rough estimate, I’ve taken a little over 33 different classes. On only a couple occasions have I repeated a professor. I counted about 11 different departments. Yet, despite the breadth afforded to me by the liberal arts, I can count on…
On Monday, Feb. 21, a vehicle driving around Third Street yelled hateful remarks at an Office of Admissions campus tour group. The incident, which happened near the Weitz Center for Creativity, was quickly denounced the next day by President Alison Byerly. “Yesterday afternoon, a hateful act of antisemitism occurred on…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Carleton alum Jonathan Capehart ’89 has been selected as the commencement speaker for the Class of 2023. Capehart joins a series of politically involved Carleton alums selected as commencement speakers, the most recent being Ramsey County Commissioner Toni Carter ’75 in 2022. “Giddy is the word…
On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2022, the Carleton College Board of Trustees voted to divest the college’s endowment from fossil fuels. The vote comes at the start of their once-per-term weekend-long meeting. The resolution, created by a trustee working group, was approved by the majority of the board. The vote follows…