Since its opening in 2011, the Perlman Teaching Museum in the Weitz Center for Creativity has acted as a bridge across disciplines and media in order to connect the visual and liberal arts. With an exhibition currently being planned for next fall, this bridge will cross the theme of rivers.…
Features and Arts
For many, the image of a paper airplane conjures up visions of a childhood classroom. Students in war-torn Syria, however, are more accustomed to real planes – bombing their cities and villages, driving them into exile and away from school. That’s the problem Bailey Ulbricht ’15 hoped to address when…
Many Carleton students are unaware of activity that takes place in the arboretum from Thanksgiving Day to December 31, the annual season for bow hunters to harvest deer from within the arb. “People are surprised” to learn about the deer hunt in the arb “because it happens when most people…
Shuffling cards and rolling dice now have a place to pay out social capital. Giving back to Carleton with gaming, Daniel Lessin ’11 just opened the Quill and Blade, a game store, in downtown Northfield on January 12, 2015. The shop offers not only the goods necessary for gaming, but…
Senior Theater-History double major Andrew Harvey stars in “Talk Radio” as part of his Comprehensive Excercise. Directed by Ethan Ramsay ’17, the cast takes to the Weitz rehearsal room this weekend. “Talk Radio,” written by Eric Bogosian, gives a brief peek into the life of the semi-fictional 80s talk radio…
This past Wednesday, a European probe named Philae landed on a comet for the first time in human history. This same probe made history earlier this year by becoming the first probe to orbit around a comet. This landing will give scientists an unprecedented opportunity to observe the composition of…
Through the long and arduous journey that is the ninth week, all that students have to motivate them is the fact that the term will come to an end, and hopefully in this their suffering will cease. Once that beautiful day arrives when there is no more school work to…
Teaching dance in an academic setting was never something that Judith Howard thought she would be doing in her early days of dancing, but it’s become a fulfilling aspect of her career. In doing so she has won several awards, her most recent being the prestigious SAGE award for Outstanding…
“Irena’s Vow,” directed by sophomores Shayna Gleason and Ingrid Hofeldt, premiers this weekend in the Little Nourse Theater. “Irena’s Vow,” written in 2009, recounts the story of Irena Gut, a Polish woman who hid 12 Jews from the Nazis during the second World War. A young cast takes the stage;…
The dearth of reusable cups in the dining halls has led to widespread frustration–and the creation of a Twitter account: @Cupsandbananas, which offers updates and commentary on the number of cups and bananas present at various locations on campus. The Twitter account has 363 followers and has received tweets from…