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Joke CSA candidate profile: Bob Coffee

N. Malte Collins February 23, 2019

Q: What is the main issue you hope to address as a Class of 2022 Representative? A: Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Q: Where did you grow...

CSA Joke Candidate Profile: John Coffee

N. Malte Collins February 22, 2019

Q: What is the main issue you hope to address as a Class of 2022 Representative? A: Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Q: Where did...

Winter Hexapods: The Amazing Snow Flea

Will Loner February 22, 2019

Now that we are back in the double digits, some of you may be wondering, what is out there moving around the Arb? Mice can be found hopping through the snow and the shrimp are active in Spring Creek,...

Eleven celebrities who could have come to Carleton

N. Malte Collins February 15, 2019

Robertson Carricart The man, the myth, the legend. Ever since typecast as the role, Carricart infamously portrayed “a deputy” in the 1985 thriller The New Kids. Carricart was always known to bleed...

Otters in the Cannon

Andy Hoyt February 15, 2019

Otters in the cannon

Andy Hoyt February 15, 2019

You might not expect to see otters in the Arboretum, but not so long ago they were an important part of southern Minnesota river ecosystems—including our own Cannon river. Throughout the state, populations...

11 celebrities who could have come to Carleton

N. Malte Collins February 15, 2019

Carleton College isn’t really known to have an expansive list of notable alumni. Luckily for us, we can use our imagination to inflate our egos and pretend we’ve got a Harvard-caliber list of famous...

Leaked survey responses evaluating Carleton

N. Malte Collins February 8, 2019

At 2:38 p.m. on Monday, February 4, Bill Altermatt, the Associate Director of Institutional Research & Development at Carleton, sent out an email stating that the Higher Learning Commission, the association...

Understanding animal coloration

Callen Inman February 8, 2019

Sometimes animal coloration has an obvious adaptive explanation. Snowshoe hares are white in winter because individuals that blended with the snow were less likely to get eaten than those that didn’t....

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