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 so he could break the news to them in person: on their first day…
Zak Sather
News Editor
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 less than $125,000 individually or $250,000 for households. Pell Grant recipients will receive up to $20,000 of cancellation,…
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 from the North Central region, trouncing Iowa 13-1 in humiliating fashion. Ultiworld, the premier source for ultimate frisbee information, has Syzygy…
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 breakfast operations and have ushered forth a new age, one in which the day will no longer begin at 6:00 a.m. The Quarterback…
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. Rebecca McCartney, Gully Boys, Maude Latour and Tank & the Bangas, along with student bands Paranoid…
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 allocations were the largest in Budget Committee history, dwarfing last year’s previous high of $624,088. Total Carleton Student Association allocations (which include…
*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 no longer affect a school’s rank. Carleton recorded a record- low 17.5% admissions rate for the class of 2025.…
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 allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend and three other people with a hammer and a folding knife. According to CBS Minnesota and…
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 Carleton’s most famous traditions; but Rotblatt will look different this year than it did in…
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 college’s founding. The college received more than $1.4 million from 1,991 donors, with $200,000…