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If you don’t like something, then write something

Being an editor of the opinions section of a small liberal arts college’s newspaper comes with a couple perks. Namely, I get to hear some fairly hot takes from my peers on campus. I think that I am in an amazing position to feel out how people feel about various…

Letter from The Editor: “Nobody reads the Carletonian”

Nobody reads the Carletonian. It’s something that is often joked about in the weekly pitch meetings and editorial meetings. It sometimes feels like a half-joke, since we put all this effort into slapping together enough words to create our weekly publication without really seeing what the reaction to any of…

Letter to the next editors: where I’ve gone wrong

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,…

Something is Rotten at The Guthrie: A Review of “Hamlet”

In Joseph Haj’s “Hamlet,” a production put on to celebrate the Guthrie’s 60th anniversary, Claudius calls for “Lights! Lights!” during the fictional Murder of Gonzago play, as he has thousands of times in “Hamlets” past. In lieu of Claudius stopping human actors putting on the play, we have projections in…

The end of the year (as I know it)

And so here we are, from fall to spring. The winter is gone, the grass is once again green and, for all of us, the academic year is coming to a close. As a freshman, it’s really hard to believe that I’ve been here for three trimesters. I’ve weathered every…

Away from home as it all burns down

There are cars burning on the roads that I used to drive on every day. My friends from back home send me messages in horror as institution after institution begins to shut down amid fires and destruction in the streets. I look at the news and social media and am…