The transition from home to college is coupled with numerous changes, adjustments, and even culture shocks for nearly every first-year student on campus. College party life is one campus culture in and of itself, the likes of which many freshman have never experienced before. To be sure, each freshman enters…
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ETB is back – woot woot! And with this term’s line-up about as exciting as I can remember since I’ve been here, you’re going to want to make sure you get yourself down to Little Nourse or over to the Weitz early and often. Kicking off the season this past…
This week, I interviewed Vivian McNaugton ’14 on her journey of coming out and accepting herself as a transgender individual. Even on a campus as open and accepting as Carleton, it can difficult to talk about some subjects. After struggling internally for years, McNaughton came out at Carleton last term.…
It’s easy to see why Game of Thrones is so popular. Although some have difficulty following its complex plot, it’s exactly this complexity which make this show so compelling; its multiple intertwining storylines and sudden character deaths create a sense of heightened reality for the viewer. Violence, sex, and love…
It was Saturday evening. I had neglected to eat lunch that day, and the specter of hunger was haunting my stomach. I also lacked shelter from the quickly escalating rain, so according to Maslow’s hierarchy my entire being was focused on hustling over to NEW Buffet, which offers the prospect…
“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was…
“SubUrbia,” a play written by Eric Bogosian and directed by junior History major Andrew Harvey, opened last Thursday in the Little Norse Theater. The play tells of a group of burnt out friends from high school in their early 20s who can’t quite get away from home, the USA any-town…
Zach McGowan, Carleton College Class of 2002, is a television actor from New York, NY. He recently landed a prominent role in Black Sails, a major STARZ production. On the show, Zach plays Captain Charles Vane, a ruthless pirate captain known for his entrepreneurial endeavors. Zach also plays ‘Shkelgim’ in…
Humans of Carleton creator Thomas Hiura ‘17 says that if there were one question someone should ask to get to know him, it would be what his top ten favorite rap albums are. “If somebody asked me that question and I gave them the answer, they would understand me…if they…
We all love to go watch Lenny Dee preform every term and laugh at the ridiculousness that the our own comedians come up with, but have you ever wondered what it takes to come up with those sketches? This is a behind the scenes look at the seven weeks of…