Gillian Applegate ’17 will never forget one of the darkest points of her time at Carleton: the week Professor of Anthropology Jerome Levi groped her inner thigh during her work shift in the Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) department office. Applegate was one of eight student complainants in a 2016-17 Title…
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Students who reside in on-campus housing no longer have to pay out-of-pocket for laundry services. This change was instituted over the summer and announced at the beginning of the term. From 2016-2018, laundry cost $1.25 to wash and $1 to dry. Laundry costs rose by 25 cents at the start…
On Tuesday, August 27, students received an email from the Dean of Students’ Office entitled “Personal Pronoun Form.” As stated in the email, the goal of the form is to “communicate your personal pronouns electronically to your adviser and the professors of the courses in which you’re enrolled each term.”…
On July 14, Carleton received the 2019 Excellence in Sustainability Award from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). Only one other college in the U.S.— Swarthmore College—received this prestigious prize. NACUBO, a membership organization established in 1962, currently represents more than 1,900 colleges and universities across…
The Student Activities Office (SAO) has ceased production of the Lagniappe, Carleton’s in-house calendar and planner, due to declining interest and budgetary considerations. For the past 27 years, SAO (formerly Campus Activities) distributed the Lagniappe for free to students, staff, and faculty at the beginning of each new school year.…
Professor of Anthropology Jay Levi has been barred from teaching fall term following an investigation into a formal Title IX complaint, brought in May 2019 under Carleton’s Sexual Misconduct Policy. Following the investigation, Levi was found to have engaged in “sexually inappropriate conduct” with a student. He is expected to…
On Monday, September 9, an email entitled “Campus Directory Announcement” informed students, staff and faculty that Carleton’s campus directory had received a privacy overhaul. The campus directory, known affectionately as “Stalkernet,” no longer displays students’ home addresses, cell phone numbers or campus residences. Prior to the change, all three fields…
Former Carleton student Taariq Vanegas is suing Carleton College for wrongful expulsion following a finding of sexual misconduct. Vanegas was accused of sexually assaulting another former Carleton student on April 28, 2017. The incident occurred following Vanegas and his accuser’s initiation into a now-disbanded secret society on campus. Participants had…
As students prepared to enroll in Fall 2019 courses, campus activists publicized the change of Professor Levi’s name―from “Jay” to “Jerome”―displayed on the Hub, Enroll and the Sociology/Anthropology (SOAN) faculty page. Levi’s name change follows multiple Title IX allegations against the professor. In February, leaflets with information about the Title…
Only two students are currently employed as Gender and Sexuality Center Associates (GSCAs) as of week nine of Spring Term, of the thirteen originally hired to the position for the 2018-2019 academic year. In Spring 2018, under the leadership of Laura Haave, the office hired thirteen GSCAs for a peer…