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Lawns across Northfield display signs for a variety of candidates, including Zweifel and Dahl.
A new future or more fiscal responsibility: Northfield mayoral candidates split on priorities
Becky Reinhold, Editor-in-Chief • November 1, 2024
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What’s new in sports: Halloween week
Katie Hirsche, Staff Writer • November 1, 2024

Women’s Swimming and Diving The Knights opened their season at the Cows, Colleges and Contentment Classic in Northfield on Oct. 26, facing...

CCCE and CarlsVote host Minnesota politicians for “All Politics Are Local” panel
CCCE and CarlsVote host Minnesota politicians for “All Politics Are Local” panel
Luke Heschel, Beat Writer • November 1, 2024

Last Wednesday, Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) and its subsidiary CarlsVote group hosted an “All Politics Are...

From the Archives: ECC introduces Digital Arts and Humanities minor
Karen Wang '21, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus • October 25, 2024

Note from the Editor: This article was originally published on Mar. 1, 2019. The Carletonian is 147 years old, with over 3,400 issues published...

Carleton students could flip the house: vote in MN-02
Angie Craig, Contributing Writer • November 1, 2024

In 2022, months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I credited students at Carleton with keeping MN-02 a pro-choice district. You...

Don’t forfeit your vote.
Ian Rothfeld, News Editor • November 1, 2024
A final plea to vote blue in the 2024 election
Ella Parke, Viewpoint Editor • November 1, 2024
Fellas, you are enough
Bax Meyer, Managing Editor • November 1, 2024
Double the major, double the fun?
Theo Borowski, Contributing Writer • October 25, 2024
Our nutty neighbors: a rage against Carleton’s campus squirrels
Madeleine Goldberger November 4, 2024

Carleton College’s campus is being faced with a pressing epidemic. And no, it’s not the amount of opps created through failed Marriage Pact...

Spoon strategy: an exploration of Carleton’s spoon assassins
Tabitha Jones, Bald Spot Editor • November 4, 2024

Over the last week, countless classes have been interrupted, innocent diners snuck up on and dorms camped-out in the interest of the spoon game....

Train horn found to be enormous fart after student consumed Burton English Toffee Cappuccino
Olivia Gottlieb, Contributing Writer • November 4, 2024

Everyone’s heard it. Unfailingly, in two hour increments, freight trains tear through Northfield, emitting an ear-shattering horn sound that...

Train horn breaks sound barrier, sound bath continues as normal
Isaac Kofsky, Viewpoint Editor • October 25, 2024

On Sunday, Oct. 20, a freight train traveling through Northfield made a sound that measured 117 decibels, seven decibels over the limit to produce...

Vol. CXVLIII, No. 9
January 9, 2024