Timeworn Timeworn is a pandemic dream-turned-reality for Isabella Zerwas ’25 and her good friend, Luke Burney. Armed with a passion for sustainable consumption, love of fashion and some unexpected free time, the two curated vintage and secondhand clothing through bulk buys on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, as well as donations…
Karen Wang
You’ve heard of it by now: On March 16, eight people—including six women of Asian descent—were murdered in a mass shooting across several Atlanta spas. The immediate aftermath was whiplash drenched in ripened unease. In the year prior to the shooting, there had been a steady trickle of alarm regarding…
I understand what an NFT is. I really do. I know that it goes on or in or through the blockchain, which is another thing that I understand. I conducted an extensive literature review, digging deep into works such as “NFTs for dummies” to “So, you’re confused about NFTs” to…
Carleton is set to be awarded $1,168,048 from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) as part of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), signed into law on March 27, 2020. At least half of this award—$584,024—must be used for direct emergency grants to students…
Hello, please, if you would, consider eating a little less meat—or maybe none at all. (I know, I know. This topic rarely wins me Miss Congeniality, but hear me out.) Arguments for eating plant-based usually fall into three categories: ethical, health-related and environmental. I personally find all three convincing, but…
Energy Club recently installed occupancy and light data loggers in the bathrooms of Boliou, Davis and Nourse to audit light usage, funded jointly by the Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC) and the Sustainability Office. The information is being collected as part of a larger project to install occupancy sensors with funding…
From Monday, May 20, to Thursday, May 23, the Cave sponsored a series of student-led events—a Queer Meet and Greet, movie screening, discussion regarding sex titled “Sexclamation Point (!)” and student drag showcase—celebrating the first-ever Queer Week at Carleton. Oswaldo Cota ’22, Carleton Student Association (CSA) Class Representative and part…
The Economics department recently adjusted their language, explicitly allowing majors to take the two math prerequisite courses—Calculus I (MATH111) and Introduction to Statistics (MATH215)—on a Satisfactory/Credit/No Credit (S/Cr/Nc) basis. The change in policy was proposed by Chair of Economics Jenny Bourne and Registrar Emy Farley at an Education and Curriculum…
On Thursday, April 18, 2019, over 40 Carls attended a personal finance workshop led by Isaiah Goodman, the Chief Financial Advocate at the Minneapolis-based financial advising firm Becoming Financial. The workshop was the brainchild of Carleton Student Association (CSA) Representative Cole DiIanni ‘21, who received funding from CSA to bring…
From April 8 to April 12, Carleton’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosted the College’s first Islam Awareness Week (IAW) in a joint effort with St. Olaf’s MSA. “IAW is something that happens in a lot of MSAs across the country. It’s a way to bring awareness to what Islam is…