The Financial Aid Working Group, appointed and created by President Byerly in April 2022, recently published their final report of recommendations. The working group consisted of current and past trustees, staff, faculty and students. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Art Rodriguez ’96 and Professor of Economics Michael Hemesath were…
Alice Qin
Viewpoint Editor
Carleton 2033, otherwise known as Carleton’s strategic planning process, was officially launched last fall. The planning structure is anchored by the Coordinating Committee, which oversees three task forces: Community of Belonging Task Force, Advancing the Liberal Arts Task Force, and Expanding Carleton’s Reach Task Force. On May 12, President Byerly…
This past weekend, Carleton’s frisbee teams traveled to Wisconsin to compete in USA Ultimate’s (USAU) North Central Regionals. While both the women’s and men’s D-I teams competed in Madison, the tournament for men’s D-III teams took place in Appleton. Carleton Ultimate Team (CUT), who competed in the men’s D-I tournament,…
On April 4, St. Olaf student Waylon Kurts was arrested after items including ammunition magazines, knives and propane canisters were discovered in his dorm room. As KARE 11 reported, police also found other items of concern, such as a detailed plan to steal ammunition from Walmart, a hand-drawn map of…
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Open AI, was launched in November of 2022. In the past few months, the tool’s newfound prominence has sparked discourse around the role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including ChatGPT, in college classrooms. As Beth McMurtrie wrote in “The Chronicle of Higher Education,”…
Contrary to what the emails distributed by the Swipe Out Hunger campaign might suggest, one meal swipe donated to Swipe Out Hunger unfortunately does not equal one meal swipe donated to a student experiencing food insecurity. In theory, one would expect that the entirety of their donated swipe—equating to around…
When the words Asian-American and education are combined in any way, a familiarly stereotypical image of a hardworking, intelligent and high-achieving student may come to mind. This is exactly the image evoked in the discourse of the affirmative action debate, which has firmly placed Asian-Americans at center stage. Anti-affirmative action…
Students from Carleton, St. Olaf and Northfield High School are leading walkouts today, Friday Oct. 29, as part of the Northfield Climate Strike. This event was organized in response to a call from the Bloomington Antiracist Coalition—a coalition of current and former students of Bloomington Public Schools—for a national student…
About a week and a half ago, I had just finished working a lunch shift at the Burton dining hall when I opened a seemingly routine Communications email. To my surprise, the 900-word message subsequently outlined several significant changes to COVID policies that would redefine the very definition of what…