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Carleton’s top two dining halls

Jack Brown May 31, 2019

After immense pressure from the Carleton student body, the Carleton Administration has released a ranked list of the top two dining halls on campus. The ranking system is based on a variety of criteria...

All 159 Rottblatt innings, ranked

N. Malte Collins May 31, 2019

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Eye-Opening: This is what Stevie P.’s presidency would look like if he were a Tide Pod

N. Malte Collins May 25, 2019

It’s as ubiquitous as knock-knock jokes at Carleton: “What would Stevie P’s presidency look like if he were a Tide Pod?” For those unaware, Tide Pods are dissolvable pods of Tide laundry detergent...

Naturalism in the 21st century

Callen Inman May 25, 2019

The informational revolution of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has benefited ecology and evolutionary biology tremendously. Nowadays, genomic data on thousands of species are readily available,...

Where are the Sayles soft pretzels?

Jordan Shapiro May 18, 2019

While there are many issues that are currently impacting Carleton students, all of these problems pale in comparison to what is by far the number one source of grief for students at this time. Sayles...

The top ten room draw numbers

N. Malte Collins May 18, 2019

In order to maintain peace and enforce Greek life–esque upperclassmen superiority, the Carleton College administration employs a system of “random” room draw lottery numbers to decide which students...

Questions asked on a Carleton campus tour

Alec Morrissey May 10, 2019

Blanketed by darkening rivets of cloudy translucence, the day unfurled in front of Scoville like a mysterious, silky web. Enshrined within the newly-renovated stone, the Monday morning campus tour, comprised...

Drilling in the Arb: the life and times of an ichneumon wasp

Will Loner May 10, 2019

Now that spring is—at last—in the air, so too are the insects! One group about to take to the skies that you may not have encountered in the Arboretum is the Ichneumonidae, a family of parasitoid...

Arb notes: trapped carp

Christian Heuchert May 4, 2019

Rs working on Arb Crew; our job was to walk along the floodplain, picking up any trash washed up from the recent flooding. While passing by the retention pond, a huge fish broke the surface of the water...

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