Viewpoint

Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap… What was that? Not the chirps from the goslings on Lyman Lakes, but the sound coming from my mouth in reaction to the Met Gala red carpet this year. A wise woman once said, money cannot buy taste. This is reaffirmed every awards season as the…

I spent a good chunk of my senior year trying to fight against Carleton’s plans to change some of the traditions and spaces that I love. However, I am not here to talk about the college’s efforts to slowly prune itself of parts that I held dear and hope that…

The current backlash directed towards the administration from the student body may feel rash. Though the varied backlashes address an array of issues, they all share one thing in common: the issues and subsequent grievances are symptoms of an encroaching and out-of-touch administrative body at Carleton.  Beginning in Fall 2020,…

The issue of food insecurity isn’t new for those of us who aren’t privileged enough to benefit from the fruits of wealth. The definition of food security is the availability of food and individuals’ ability to access it. This Viewpoint is a follow up to the previous article written in…

I’ve noticed, lately, that people tend to treat them as simple and simply synonymous — but like most things, it’s more complicated than that. The claim “all philosophy is autobiography” (PA) seems to imply a sort of ground-level mirroring, that to write philosophy is in a clear and immediately comprehensible…

I found Zak Sather’s article on the cons of a decreasing acceptance rate to have misdirected rage and a misunderstanding of on whose shoulder these problems should be most properly laid. It seems to me that many students on campus want the education Carleton provides without the selectivity that enables…

Carleton’s current COVID-19 response scares me. Student attitudes toward it scare me more.  Last week, a news article was published in the Carletonian describing the current COVID-19 situation on campus with quotes from four students. The first described COVID-19 as a cold, the second equated it to other infectious diseases…

I would like to remind folks that just because we cohabitat in a so-called “liberal haven” does not mean that there aren’t problems that marginalized students encounter at this predominantly white institution. Once we acknowledge the inequities in our space, we then have to recognize the need to become an…

President Alison Byerly and Carleton Trustees, As some of you may or may not know, Carls Talk Back originally began as a silent protest at the convocation speech of Arno Michaelis — a former white supremacist — in February of 2018. Later, it evolved into an all-encompassing movement that advocated…