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How to Enjoy the Arb During Tick season

After a cold winter and a rainy spring, the weather is finally perfect to get out into the Arb! In these last couple of weeks, you can get out and see the wildflowers blooming, the leaves on the trees budding, the flooding Cannon River and the geese and their newborn…

Dawson’s Divinations

  Sproncert, Rotblatt, Honors Convocation, graduation. Life is about to increase in intensity with celebration and pomp. This IS graduation for all of those semester-schools out there: soon, Carleton will be one of a lonely few still pushing deep into the summer. It may be time to celebrate, but it is…

Doechii to be Replaced with Tucker Carlson

It shocked Carletonian readers and writers alike to learn in a campus announcement email that Doechii had stepped down as headliner of Sproncert. In fact, we in the editors’ meeting were so shocked that after reading the first sentence, we stopped reading and heard the rest of the information solely…

Arb Notes: Otter Encounter

During the annual frog and toad survey that happened in Week 4, we were very fortunate to see and hear at least one River Otter (Lontra canadensis) in the retention pond near the Lower Arb entrance.  For the frog and toad survey, we start around sunset and go on a…

Common Room Draw Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

As May approaches, it’s now time to put into motion the housing plans you’ve been dreading since you opened your inbox to find the worst draw number in existence. Whether your number is 5 or 500, here are some common room draw mistakes and how to avoid them. Being overly…

Which AI language is the funniest?

Technology Reporter To paraphrase the old poem: “First they came for the jobs, and I did not care, because I did not have a job. Then they came for our romantic relationships, and I did not care, because I am a Carletonian editor. Then they came for our jokes, and…

Prairie Fire in the Arboretum

Spring has arrived, and the Arboretum is starting to flower and leaf out. But spring has also brought a couple of non-traditional signs to the Arboretum. Burned patches of ground, plumes of smoke — what are we up to? Here in the Arb, staff, student crews and volunteers burn sections…

Carleton to Be Demolished in Order to Build Oil Pipeline

Shocking all four attendees at Wednesday night’s CSA meeting, it was announced that Carleton College and oil giant ExxonMobil had reached a decision in their talks on the future of the liberal arts school’s campus, which sits directly over the planned path of a massive oil pipeline. Wally Weitz, chair…