Last Monday, April 16, Carleton Student Association Senate (CSA) denied the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) resolution, 7-11 with three abstentions, to raise Carleton’s minimum wage for student workers to $15/hour. DSA has been working on this resolution for a while and had sat down with CSA in the previous…
Julia Miller
Every term, about 35 Carleton students choose to take medical or non-medical leave, according to Assistant Dean of Students Sindy Fleming. To take leave from Carleton a student must complete a request form online and be approved to take leave. Before a student takes time off, they are advised to…
Northfield Mayor Rhonda Pownell has now been in office for a little over a year, so we at the Carletonian were curious to check in with her. The Mayor was kind enough to sit down and discuss what she has been working on for the last year, and what her…
In case you have chosen the Carletonian as your main, and perhaps only, source of news on this topic, the principle behind net neutrality is this: the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide access to internet content should not have the right to control what content gets to you, or…
Carleton College Republicans (CCR) did not make an appearance at the Activities Fair this fall. The political clubs on campus may have noticed a difference in their line-up. The club has not restarted its activities and former members of the group say it has been disbanded. The group had been…
While there has been much attention given to underage drinking on campus, addressing marijuana use at Carleton is something that still does not frequently happen. Data from the Needs Assessment Workbook, provided by Patrick Gordon, the Coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, shows that at the time students took…
Last Saturday night the annual Black Student Alliance (BSA) talent show We Speak was held in the Concert Hall. The show is put together in February every year in honor of Black History Month. This year involved an impressive and fun line up with singing, dancing, and both original and…
Climate Action Week, which will run from Friday, Feb. 10 to Saturday, Feb. 25, will feature events on sustainability solutions, this year’s theme, and will include the second annual No-Impact Challenge. Natalie Jacobson ’18, SOPE board member and sustainability office special events coordinator, discussed the importance of Climate Action Week…
Last Friday, Dean Carolyn Livingston sent out an email announcing that she would not be moving forward with the Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) Working Group. Livingston created the BIRT Working Group in October 2015 to look into whether a Bias Incident Response Team should be established on campus. The…
Many Get Out the Vote and educational efforts were held on campus prior to and during election day. On Monday, the day before the election, Senator Al Franken, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Governor Mark Dayton, Lt. Governor Tina Smith, DFL Party Chair Ken Martin and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman attended…