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Rushing Out: Carleton Baseball coach fired the day before practice

Zak Sather September 29, 2022

On Thursday, September 16, a day before the first fall practice, Head Baseball Coach Aaron Rushing emailed the team to meet in the Rec Center. This was no usual meeting. Rushing called them into his office...

Carleton Students to Receive Loan Forgiveness; Won’t Affect Future Aid Packages

Zak Sather September 22, 2022

On August 24, the Biden Administration announced a student loan forgiveness plan that will cancel up to $20,000 of federal student loans. Borrowers are eligible for relief if their individual income is...

Syzygy headed to D-1 Nationals

Zak Sather May 26, 2022

Syzygy, Carleton’s Division 1 women’s ultimate frisbee team, is slated to compete this weekend in the D-1 National Championships in scenic Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Syzygy emerged as the only qualifier...

The sun sets on beloved Quarterback Club breakfast

The sun sets on beloved Quarterback Club breakfast

Zak Sather May 26, 2022

Northfield’s legendary Quarterback Club’s breakfast menu was not taken from this world in one fell swoop. A series of unfortunate, compounding events concussed the local, family-owned restaurant’s...

Students optimistic about 41st annual Spring Concert

Zak Sather May 19, 2022

Carleton’s 41st annual Spring Concert is set to take place on Saturday, May 21 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Sproncert will be headlined by Los Angeles rapper Duckwrth....

Largest spending year for CSA Budget Committee

Zak Sather May 12, 2022

Spring allocations took place Sunday, May 8, as the Carleton Student Association (CSA) Budget Committee allocated more than $718,000 to various student organizations and campus offices. This year’s...

Carleton’s acceptance rate drops: we care about prestige, not people

Zak Sather May 12, 2022

*Correction: The following article claims that US News and World Report Rankings uses acceptance rate as a main criteria to judge college rankings. This practice stopped in 2019, meaning acceptance rates...

Violent incident at St. Olaf leaves students injured

Zak Sather May 5, 2022

Just after midnight on Sunday, May 1, Northfield Police responded to a stabbing at Ytterboe Hall at St. Olaf College. The suspect is 20-year-old William Schulenberg of Chanhassen, Minnesota. Schulenberg...

Carleton College Senior, Steve Merry, goes to bat at 6:45 AM at the 36th annual softball game Rotblatt, which has 144 innings , one inning for every year since the founding of the school.  The game begins at sunrise and has only two main rules: you cant try too hard, and you must have a cup in your your hand at all times.

Changes to Rotblatt emphasize safety, less alcohol consumption

Zak Sather April 28, 2022

Carleton’s annual Rotblatt tradition is set to take place for the first time since 2019 on 9th Weekend. The alcohol-filled softball game where participants must have a drink in hand to play is one of...

Maize and Blue Daze highlights impact of Annual Fund

Maize and Blue Daze highlights impact of Annual Fund

Zak Sather April 15, 2022

From April 1 to April 7, Carleton put on its Maize and Blue Daze fundraising challenge for Carleton’s Annual Fund. The college aimed to garner donations from 1,866 alumni in honor of the year of the...

All applicants accepted for Northfield Option

Zak Sather April 8, 2022

All seniors who applied for Northfield Option—Carleton’s system for allocating off-campus, non-college owned housing—were accepted this year. Seniors with draw numbers as high as 257 were able to...

New Mutual Aid Thrift Store

Zak Sather February 18, 2022

On February 27 and 28 from 1-5pm, the Carleton Mutual Aid Fund (CMAF) will hold its first ever Mutual Aid Thrift Store in the Little Nourse Theater. CMAF was founded in May of 2021, with the intention...

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