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CSA Cuts Spring Break Trip Funding

Carleton’s Alternative Spring Breaks program will look different next year, due to cuts in funding for these annual off-campus service trips from the CSA. Concerned about the community service trips’ costs and contributions to the campus community, the CSA reduced funding for the trips from $10,366 this year to roughly…

Editorial

This issue of The Carletonian marks the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year and the arrival of the Class of 2015. Welcome new students! Inside the following pages you will find useful background on Carleton culture and events, and survival tips that will guide you through these first few terms…

Superhero Party headed indoors due to student safety concerns

The annual Superhero Party, the final major all-campus social event of the year, will look pretty different this year, thanks to some changes instituted by the Student Activities Office. In response to student concerns about safety at the outdoor venue in years past, the dance will be held at the…

Prof. Harry Williams heads to China as Fulbright scholar

Laird Bell Professor of History Harry Williams will be spending the next year teaching undergraduate and graduate students in China, thanks to a Fulbright teaching fellowship he won earlier this month. Despite his long tenure at Carleton, this is Williams’ first yearlong scholarship. “One of my former students called me…

ECC to make major changes to S/Cr/NC policy and dates

“Scrunching” that Orgo class might be a little different in the coming years, thanks to some changes the Education and Curriculum Committee voted on this Wednesday. According to Patrick Burke ’14, Senate liaison to the ECC, the committee has decided to move the deadline to designate a class “pass/fail” by…