When starting to write this reflection, I didn’t know whether to focus on my time at Carleton or the Carletonian itself. Then I thought that it’s possible I might be too jaded at this point to focus on either. Then, finally, I realized that the story of my time on…
Dylan Larson-Harsch
The Carleton Disability Services Office (DS) has received mixed reviews from students, who say that although the office has helped them to some extent at obtaining accommodations, the process can be hampered by DS disorganization and lack of support. “My experiences with Disability Services have been pretty mixed throughout my…
Dr. Marlon Bailey, the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, advances the slide on his PowerPoint. A picture of Bailey appears, but altered somewhat – he is wearing a crisp, yet drab suit and holding an oversized briefcase. His expression is turned downward in a full-faced frown. His stance…
On Saturday August 25th, seven Residential Assistants who had arrived on campus early for training were caught drinking, violating college policy that no alcohol is permitted in Carleton residences until the first day of classes. A few days later, all the RAs were let go. All were people of color.…
This year, 74 students applied to the Biology department’s Ecology in Australia Off-Campus Studies (OCS) program—the highest number of applicants that had ever applied. Led by Lecturer in Biology Annie Bosacker ’95, the trip would run during winter term 2019, and advertises on its website the opportunity to experience “the…
We’ve all had them—those TV shows we can’t stop watching, in spite of their low production values, bad writing or clearly exploitative premises. For me, it started with the show Revenge, which aired from 2011 to 2015 on ABC after the Wednesday night comedy set. The show followed the aptly-named…
This March, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ryan Terrien ’09 received a grant from NASA to work on the NEID (pronounced “new-id”) spectrograph, a device used to detect exoplanets, planets outside of the solar system. This summer, Terrien will travel to Penn State to do calibration and software simulation…
I never knew how much what kind of shoe I wear means to me until I had to start wearing tennis shoes full-time instead of my usual suede ones. It sounds vapid and petty, I know, but when I had to make the switch, I found that shoes had inadvertently…
Last Friday, seven students organized a gathering in Sayles in response to two anti-Latinx hate speech incidents that occurred at a party the previous weekend. At the party, a male student chanted “build that wall” to a group of women of color, and another male student expressed to the same…
Starting next summer, Carleton will begin construction to transition the steam heating system it currently uses to a hot water based one. The project will involve installing underground geothermal pumps under the Bald Spot, the Mini Bald Spot and Bell Field, which will be able to support both the heating…