Nobody reads the Carletonian. It’s something that is often joked about in the weekly pitch meetings and editorial meetings. It sometimes feels like a half-joke, since we put all this effort into slapping together enough words to create our weekly publication without really seeing what the reaction to any of…
Rahim Hamid
And so here we are, from fall to spring. The winter is gone, the grass is once again green and, for all of us, the academic year is coming to a close. As a freshman, it’s really hard to believe that I’ve been here for three trimesters. I’ve weathered every…
There are cars burning on the roads that I used to drive on every day. My friends from back home send me messages in horror as institution after institution begins to shut down amid fires and destruction in the streets. I look at the news and social media and am…
I had never really danced before coming here. I had been a part of one or two choregraphies for a wedding here or there, but never had I considered dance to be something that I should take seriously. It was just people moving around in fancy ways; what was there…
For all my freshmen in the crowd: do you remember Dean Williams saying that we shouldn’t sign up for every single email list during those CarlTalks I’m sure half of us were unconscious for? Well, I can safely say that, over 7 months later and having two terms here under…
Dear readers of the Carletonian, I would like to take this opportunity to formally apologize on behalf of the entire Carletonian editorial team for the mistakes made in the Carletonian’s last crossword puzzle. We were unaware of the hurtful connotations of several words that ended up in the puzzle and…
I don’t like the term “Modern Art”. It really doesn’t mean anything. Does it mean work from the Impressionists in the late 1800s, the first major departure from the academic style of painting that came before it through Parisian Impressionist exhibitions? Does it mean the abstract “action painting” of Jackson…
With the application cycle coming to a close, Carleton College has made headlines across the United States for its newly unveiled admissions policy. In a stunning win for advocates of admissions equity and equal opportunity, the college has officially announced that they will be accepting every single applicant to the…
My grandfather passed away almost exactly two years ago. He was the man who raised me, made me who I am and supported me when I really had nobody else. He had been all around the world before settling down in his home in Pakistan, a country that was younger…
“American Psycho” as a film and book have come into a sort of cultural vogue lately, with images of the titular “psycho” Patrick Bateman cropping up in countless memes, edits and even the Student Union Movie Organization’s movie selection polls this term. But why has this cult hit from the…