Yesterday I watched five bison go from living animals to flanks of meat ready to be cut and packaged for consumption. Early in the morning my ENTS class “Global Food Systems” piled into Northfield Lines vans and headed out to Cannon Falls to visit a slaughterhouse. Lorentz Meats serves the…
Emma Nicosia
“There is nothing magic about the number three,” explained Dean Associate Dean of the College George Shuffleton. He was referencing the three quantitative reasoning encounter (QRE) classes required of all Carleton students. “A lot of faculty think it’s really important,” said Shuffleton. However, some faculty and students express frustration with…
Orange Flower Water opened last night in Little Nourse Theatre to a nearly full house, unusual for a Thursday night Experimental Theatre Board show. The play will continue to run this Friday and Saturday night at 8:00pm. The opening of the play was prefaced by a flurry of rumors surrounding…
Last year on February 28 the Carleton community mourned the loss and celebrated the lives of Michael Goodgame, Paxton Harvieux, and James Adams, members of the Class of 2015. Goodgame, Harvieux and Adams were on their way to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport to catch a flight to an ultimate frisbee…
After last week’s CSA election, confusion rippled through the student body; why would the referendum for a proposed outdoor basketball court pass if 440 students voted yes and 656 voted no? As CSA President Becca Giles explained in an email Sunday night, CSP (Committee for Student Projects) projects can pass…
It’s that time of term again. You know, the time when Carls are super busy, have a lot of work, and become incredibly stressed? Oh, wait, that’s true for every day of the academic year for every Carleton student. A little known fact about Carleton, it seems, is that every…
From land that was once part hobo camp and part dumping ground for the local slaughterhouse grew the Carleton College Farm. A local remembers it as, “a sort of way-station where the numerous knights-of-the-road overnighted.” In 1914 Carleton’s third president, Donald J. Cowling, birthed a vision for a dairy farm.…
Sketch comedy group Lenny Dee opened their winter show “Dee by Lenny for Lenny Dee” last night in Little Nourse Theater and will continue to run Friday and Saturday nights. Ten minutes before the show started the seats were nearly full, and eager audience members began to file into folding…
Despite writing an opinion piece about Valentine’s Day, I don’t have an opinion for or against its celebration. Or, at least, I don’t want to have one. Yes, it’s a holiday commercialized by Hallmark, and chocolate companies and evil stuffed animal corporations that reminds single people they are single, and…
Room draw numbers for the 2015-2016 school year went live Feb. 3 at midnight. Chloe Bergstrand ’16 went to bed early that night, but was awoken by a friend’s phone call, demanding her to check her number. She was number one. “It was a stunning surprise,” she said. “You never…