The New York Times recently published an op-ed by Joanne Lipman entitled, “The Mismeasure of Woman.” She questions how far women have come in American society. The numbers are improving: 38 women have served as Senators, 40% of families have women as the major breadwinner, and four out of eight…
Vivyan Tran
President Oden is retiring. The beginning of the school year is not usually about endings. However, this announcement gives us the chance to reflect not only on what President Oden has accomplished in the past, but also what opportunities he has created for the future of Carleton. Three years ago…
On Friday, September 25, 2009, President Robert A. Oden Jr. announced his retirement effective June 2010. “It will have been eight years that I have served as Carleton’s president and 21 years that I have served as someone’s president. It is the best job in the world but it leaves…
On Monday April 28, senior fellow at the Hoover institute and professor of political science and sociology at Stanford University, Larry Diamond gave a talk entitled “Can The Whole World Become Democratic?” Diamond’s lecture focused on the third wave of global democratization in which 97 countries out of 196 made…
A study, which surveyed 1,417 full-time professors from 927 community colleges and four year institutions concerning their political affiliation, was recently released. “The Social and Political Views of American Professors” asked participants to classify themselves in one of seven categories ranging from extremely liberal to extremely conservative. Authors Neil Gross,…
Carleton alumni Michael McCulloch ’07 and Nazish Zafar ’07 have been educating people on the prevention of malnutrition in Brazil. Their innovative proposal, entitled “The Napkin Project: Health Education on the Street,” was funded by a $10,000 grant provided by Kathryn Wasserman Davis’s 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. When Mrs.…