<nday night, the Carleton community received an e-mail from Dean Hudlin Wagner announcing that Director of Campus Activities T. Todd Masman would be leaving the college to look for new opportunities after just four months with the college. Masman’s departure now leaves the important Campus Activities office with no director, no associate director, and no assistant director, and represents the third departure from the office in the past year, and the fourth from the Division of Student Life.
After this last departure, students should ask, “Why?” It has become clear that the leadership of the Division of Student Life is ineffective. Campus Activities has continued to take steps backward, not forward. As such, The Carletonian calls for a public explanation from the Division about the rotating door that has become the Campus Activities office. It has become a debacle unbefitting an institution as elite as Carleton. Changes need to be made soon before it is too late, and before students begin to question the effectiveness of the office and the Division any more than they already have.