Past editors have said this is a thankless job. They’re not wrong. “It is a minor miracle that The Carletonian comes out every week,” wrote Matt Thueson, the Editor-in-Chief of The Carletonian in 2000. A decade later, not much has changed. Our first night on the job, we were in…
Emily Howell
Steven G. Poskanzer will become Carleton’s next president, effective August 2, 2010. Currently, Poskanzer serves as the president of State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. President Robert A. Oden Jr. announced his retirement this past September, after serving as Carleton’s president for eight years. “I am thrilled,”…
In an all-campus email sent early Thursday morning the Carleton Student Association Senate announced that after receiving 565 votes, Jinai Bharucha will be the next CSA President. David Heifetz ‘11, the other balloted candidate, received 446 votes. Bharucha’s 119-vote victory was the largest in recent memory. In the last contested…
The New York Times recently published an op-ed by Joanne Lipman entitled, “The Mismeasure of Woman.” She questions how far women have come in American society. The numbers are improving: 38 women have served as Senators, 40% of families have women as the major breadwinner, and four out of eight…
Najat El Hachmi, acclaimed Catalan writer, is currently on Carleton’s campus. Winner of the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, El Hachmi explores issues of cultural identity and immigration in her two novels, “I, Too, Am Catalan” (2004) and “The Last Patriarch” (2008). One of the…
President Oden is retiring. The beginning of the school year is not usually about endings. However, this announcement gives us the chance to reflect not only on what President Oden has accomplished in the past, but also what opportunities he has created for the future of Carleton. Three years ago…
Food was on everyone’s mind at opening convocation, Monday, September 14. Internationally renowned food and farming activist Gary Paul Nabhan spoke at Carleton’s first convocation of the 2009-2010 academic year. Presenting a speech entitled “Renewing America’s Food Traditions,” Nabhan focused on the importance of place-based food production and consumption. “What…
On Friday, September 25, 2009, President Robert A. Oden Jr. announced his retirement effective June 2010. “It will have been eight years that I have served as Carleton’s president and 21 years that I have served as someone’s president. It is the best job in the world but it leaves…
The flurry of chalking, tabling, bathroom stall posters, and flyers in mailboxes that have engulfed the campus for the past two weeks is over: the results from the CSA election are in. More significantly to the torrent of propaganda, the results of the MPIRG referendum are in. As announced in…
I did not do any homework Tuesday night. And it is my impression that many Carleton students found themselves similarly unmotivated to read fifty pages of poli sci or write a two-page response paper. Instead, I headed to a friend’s room and we flipped between NBC, ABC, and CBS. As…