Carleton has a military problem. Or, more accurately, the entire U.S. education system has a military problem. I get a reasonably steady stream of recruitment emails from the United States Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy and on occasion, the Minnesota National Guard. This isn’t new — I started receiving these…
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…