On a given night, approximately 7,000 Minnesotans take refuge in homeless shelters around the state, while roughly 1,000 more homeless citizens are turned away. These numbers have sharply increased in the last two decades, and on Monday night, Carleton students participated in a Hunger Banquet sponsored by MPIRG to address…
Jane Caffrey
This past week, students found yellow notes in their mailboxes. Here is an example. Handwritten: “I hope 8th week is going smoothly! Make sure you’re taking the time to enjoy life!” And typed on the bottom: “The lord your God is with you. He is mighty enough to save you.…
Thursday, October 25 marked the five-year anniversary of the deaths of Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila Wellstone, who passed away in an airplane crash. The date carried particular resonance throughout the Carleton community, since Paul Wellstone worked as a professor at Carleton for eleven years, and the couple…
This week, we are going to focus our editorial on the drinking culture that has developed in our generation. The term “drinking culture” refers to a set of practices involving alcohol consumption shared by the community—we choose to focus specifically on the college community. As members of this culture, we…