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The danger of comparing national tragedies

N. Malte Collins April 10, 2020

News fills our house 24/7. I’m almost not exaggerating. In the daytime downtime, approx. 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., my dad, working from home, will play NPR on the radio and, around our characteristically...

the Intellectual Spot RIDDLES

N. Malte Collins February 20, 2020

◉ Who is Lincoln’s logger? ◉ What has three legs, balances on a stick, and reads the newspaper? ◉ What’s extremely flat, likes attention from strangers, and feels most at home on the...

50 Shades of Mad libS

N. Malte Collins February 14, 2020

Dear Physical Education Teacher, Please excuse my son/daughter from missing sexy class yesterday. When Lewis Tomelson :$ awakened yesterday, I could see that his/her nose was hot....

The Bald Spot endorses Pete Buttigieg for the 2020 presidential election

N. Malte Collins February 7, 2020

Today for the uhh (…) [Carletonian] I’m gonna be (…) endorsing uhh lemme see Pete Buttigieg. There’s been a (…) geez (…) lot going around about this fellow heh. I don’t know too much about...

Students observe political process at 2020 Iowa caucuses

N. Malte Collins February 7, 2020

On Monday, February 3, the night of this year’s Iowa caucuses, Carleton students, along with Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Melanie Freeze, traveled to Mason City, Iowa’s North...

Hanson talks hoops: interview with Carleton Basketball captain

Hanson talks hoops: interview with Carleton Basketball captain

N. Malte Collins January 31, 2020

Kent Hanson ’20 is a Senior Captain of Carleton Men’s Basketball, two-time all conference, and 2019 all-region player. Already a decorated Knight, Hanson is playing some of the finest basketball of...

Carleton College is Pregnant, A Fanfiction

N. Malte Collins January 17, 2020

Another day, another dollar—so they say. Beginning work as an OB-GYN, you quickly realize how soon everything becomes the same. All the idiosyncrasies of all the hundreds of thousands of deliveries...

Racing My Heart: On Trans Identity

N. Malte Collins November 8, 2019

I am deeply afraid of my heart beating inside my body. It beats harshly, loudly; I get scared hearing it slave away at making my body breathe, move, think—almost as if neither party deserves the other....

College rankings and their propensity for enhanced facts

N. Malte Collins October 11, 2019

One of the more frustrating things about capital-L Life is the persistent, complete human inability to capture and understand every single detail. More specifically, how every medium seems to fall short...

5 takeaways from Kanye’s “Jesus is King” album

N. Malte Collins October 5, 2019

Kanye West is a hip-hop artist (as some people might call, a “rapper”). He is pretty famous and a lot of people love him a lot and thinks He’s good at making music. He’s pretty good. He was born...

All 159 Rottblatt innings, ranked

N. Malte Collins May 31, 2019

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Senior spotlight: Q&A with Saul Wildavsky, GOP captain

N. Malte Collins May 31, 2019

NC: How long have you been on the Gods of Plastic (GOP) team, and what did your path to that position look like? SW: I’ve been on the team since I was a first year, and, going into my junior year,...

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