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How did news of Carleton’s antiracism training spread to conservative websites?

Zoe Pharo May 30, 2021

On Monday, May 24, faculty and staff participated in their last anti-racism training session, marking the end of a series of monthly community-wide webinars and affinity group discussions that have been...

Students drove hours for vaccines; those fully vaccinated now exempt from certain protocols

Students drove hours for vaccines; those fully vaccinated now exempt from certain protocols

Zoe Pharo May 2, 2021

On Wednesday, April 28, President Steven Poskanzer announced that Carleton will require the COVID-19 vaccination next fall, joining nearby Macalester College and a number of other colleges nationwide.  “In...

Seven catalytic converter thefts overnight at Carleton

Zoe Pharo April 11, 2021

On Tuesday, March 16, Andrew Fitch ’21 was preparing to pack up his 2001 Honda Accord, which was parked in the Laird Stadium Parking Lot.  “I had finished all my finals, so I was getting ready...

Funding approved for Carleton Bike Cooperative to enable student repairs

Funding approved for Carleton Bike Cooperative to enable student repairs

Zoe Pharo March 6, 2021

On February 15, over $3,800 in funding was unanimously approved by the Carleton Student Association (CSA) for the Carleton Bike Cooperative—proposed by Jacyn Schmidt ’21 and Andrew Farias ’21 in...

Five students may join the ranks of Carls on Jeopardy!

Five students may join the ranks of Carls on “Jeopardy!”

Zoe Pharo January 30, 2021

“Minnesota’s Northfield College got this name in 1871, honoring a benefactor.”  If you answered, “What is Carleton?,” you would be correct, the college is named after William Carleton,...

New Year’s Eve video a reminder of racism at Carleton

Zoe Pharo January 23, 2021

Content warning: themes of racism On New Year’s Eve, a video of Carleton student Jay Haws ’23 was posted to the Instagram Story of a former classmate who attended Stillwater High School in Minnesota...

Winter means more time inside. How is Carleton addressing ventilation and airborne transmission?

Winter means more time inside. How is Carleton addressing ventilation and airborne transmission?

Zoe Pharo January 16, 2021

As temperatures drop in Minnesota, students will be spending more time indoors, which is exactly where COVID-19 has the potential to spread – via contaminated aerosols.  “An aerosol is, by...

Carleton adopts land acknowledgement drafted by the City of Northfield

Zoe Pharo October 17, 2020

“Northfield was founded in 1855 —  8 years before Minnesota exiled Dakota people from the state and during a period when coercive and sometimes deceitful treaties dispossessed Dakota people of...

Meet the Carl who majored in Russian and wound up translating ‘Parasite:’ A conversation with Darcy Paquet ’95

Meet the Carl who majored in Russian and wound up translating ‘Parasite:’ A conversation with Darcy Paquet ’95

Zoe Pharo May 30, 2020

“My phone wouldn’t stop ringing,” said Paquet. After Parasite received the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Darcy Paquet ’95 came into the spotlight for his translation of the film’s...

Grandparents now welcome: student clubs adapt to online environment

Zoe Pharo April 17, 2020

Next Wednesday from 5-6p.m. and Friday from 6-7p.m., over 60 students will be dancing simultaneously to the song “Boss B*tch” over Zoom.  Some students may be accompanied by siblings, others...

The Carleton Red Cross Society at work. / Source: Carleton College Archives, The Algol 1919-1920.

In 1918, the Flu pandemic arrived at Carleton; students were quarantined—on campus

Zoe Pharo April 3, 2020

The 1918 flu killed 675,000 people in the United States, with over a quarter of Americans sickened. Worldwide, the death toll was between 50 and 100 million This was no ordinary strain of the flu. According...

How to choose convocation speakers: a Q&A with Kerry Raadt

Zoe Pharo February 28, 2020

The weekly convocation series at Carleton College is a shared campus experience that brings students, faculty, staff and Northfield residents together for an hour presentation from experts in a variety...

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