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…
Carls came out in droves this week to munch on free Kurry Kabab and reach out to alums in the annual Volunteer for Carleton stewardship event held in the Great Hall. With more than 450 students already having participated and nearly $20,000 raised, organizers on Thursday were quick to declare…
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…
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…
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…
“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…