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Northfield Women’s Center reacts to student protest and criticism

Almost a year ago, the landmark Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson thrust abortion back into the harsh limelight of American political and cultural life. The Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, sent dominoes tumbling across the country as states scrambled to either enshrine or dismantle legal access to…

Inaugural VPIEC Dina Zavala talks future of IDE at Carleton

Dina Zavala was recently announced as the inaugural Vice President for Inclusion, Equity, and Community (VPIEC). Zavala, the current Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will be tasked with implementing Carleton’s community plan for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE), which was formulated in the…

Carleton’s Students for Reproductive Freedom protest Northfield Women’s Center 

On Thursday, April 27, Carleton’s Students for Reproductive Freedom (SRF) held a protest at the Northfield Women’s Health Center. In a campus-wide email, organizers called for students to “join us in protesting against a Crisis Pregnancy Center, a fake abortion clinic” and led students on a march from Sayles to…

Carleton’s 2024 budget: Comprehensive fee, student work, financial aid

Each year, Carleton’s Board of Trustees must approve an annual budget for the coming fiscal year. After rounds of input and suggestions from a myriad of committees composed of students, faculty and staff, the 2024 budget was announced this March. This year’s budget contains an increase in the student-work wage…

Carleton announces loosening of COVID-19 requirements for end of year

On March 12, 2020, then-president Steven Poskanzer released an all-campus email: “We are moving to limit the number of people on campus and to teach at least the first half of Spring Term 2020 courses remotely, helped by a one-week extension of spring break.”  What started as a temporary measure…

Carleton names first vice president for IDE

After a months-long selection process, Carleton announced that the new office of Inclusion, Equity and Community (IDE) will finally have a leader. On Wednesday, Feb. 22 Dina Zavala was named Carleton’s inaugural vice president for inclusion, equity and community (VPIEC).  Zavala, who is currently the interim vice chancellor for diversity…

Four-way race for CSA president

Election season at Carleton is officially underway, and four students have declared their bid to replace Jancyn Appel ‘23 as Carleton Student Association (CSA) President. Quinn Buchman ‘24, Michael Carey ‘24, Shaheer Jaffar ‘24 and Stephanie Lee ‘24 have declared their candidacy for the top position in student government.  Candidates…

The SAT: The promise of meritocracy? 

As of Feb. 3, Carleton has closed the door on applications for the class of 2027. Applicants numbered more than 6,000. Most were in the top 10% of their class, about 20% identified as BIPOC and 80% indicated that they would apply for financial aid. Yet one number in particular…