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Carls want their vote to count: students navigate absentee ballots
November 1, 2024
Ballroom dance team brings beginners to first competition
November 1, 2024
Candidate vie for Northfield School Board seats
November 1, 2024
Free detergent pilot program begins in Sayles
November 1, 2024
How Carls are preparing in the final days of the presidential election
November 1, 2024
Security Blotter: October 16 – October 19
October 20, 2022
Security Blotter: April 28 – May 2
May 12, 2022
Security Blotter: April 21-26
May 5, 2022
Security Blotter: April 16-20
April 28, 2022
Security Blotter: April 10-15
April 22, 2022
What’s new in sports this week
October 18, 2024
Carleton students harvest indigenous tubers at Prairie Island Indian Community
October 18, 2024
Sports: summer, preseason
September 27, 2024
This week in sports
May 24, 2024
Sam Zachs at Carleton's game vs St. Olaf
This week in Sports 5/10 – 5/16
May 17, 2024
The English Department’s book recommendations for winter break
November 15, 2024
Javier Zamora talks to Contreras’ Spanish 204 classes.
Carleton College hosts best-selling author Javier Zamora
November 15, 2024
SHAC’s Dude Talk therapy group challenges traditional masculinity
November 15, 2024
Peer leader hiring doesn’t consider Title IX violations: how Carleton hires students to be mentors and mandated reporters without considering past conduct
November 15, 2024
Halloween at Carleton: 1995-1996.
A spooky trip through time: Halloween throughout Carleton’s history
November 8, 2024
Farm House hosts Farmstock and Farm Film Fest
Farm House hosts Farmstock and Farm Film Fest
May 19, 2022
Experimental Dance Board (EDB)
Experimental Dance Board (EDB)
May 12, 2022
African and Caribbean Association (ACA)
African and Caribbean Association (ACA)
May 5, 2022
A dance comps presentation Ayaka Moriyama
A dance comps presentation Ayaka Moriyama
April 28, 2022
Carleton's a drag: Carleton's student-run drag show
Carleton’s a drag: Carleton’s student-run drag show
April 22, 2022
Fit check: Students dress up for Sproncert
Fit check: Students dress up for Sproncert
May 26, 2022
Gorpcore is in.
Gorpcore is in.
April 15, 2022
New Mutual Aid Thrift Store
February 18, 2022
Exploring the for-Carls-by-Carls thrift scene
October 3, 2021
Embroidery: the preeminence of craft during COVID
Embroidery: the preeminence of craft during COVID
February 14, 2021
Democrats lost the center, not the left
November 15, 2024
Battalions then and now: a history of Korean military presence in Europe
November 15, 2024
What was SUMO this term?
November 15, 2024
Democrats have lost touch
November 15, 2024
Today I called my gynecologist
November 15, 2024
The secret fourth final: fall photo dumps
November 16, 2024
Campus squirrel to take over DNC
November 16, 2024
Students grapple with dark new existence
November 16, 2024
Archdruid election too close to call
November 8, 2024
Last minute housing for Externships includes suspicious limitations on breadcrumb trails
November 8, 2024
Marcescence in the Arb
November 16, 2024
The two main ecological subsections of Northfield
November 8, 2024
Asian lady beetles in the Arb
November 4, 2024
The colorful Arb is just the trees preparing for the cold winter ahead
October 25, 2024
Snakes in the Arb
October 18, 2024
Weekly comic – college vs. university
October 18, 2024
Weekly comic – dining
October 12, 2024
Weekly comic: move-in
October 5, 2024
Weekly comic: dorms
September 30, 2024
Weekly comic – self-care
May 25, 2024
Vol. CXVLIII, No. 9
January 9, 2024
Vol. CXVLIII, No. 8
November 17, 2023
Vol. CXLVIII, No. 7
November 10, 2023
Vol. CXLVIII, No. 6
November 3, 2023
Vol. CXLVIII, No. 5
October 27, 2023

The Carletonian

The Carletonian
Cecilia Samadani

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor

I’m an English major with interests in Creative Writing and Middle East Studies minors. I love all things related to art whether that be writing, drawing, music or dance, and am an avid cat person.

Cecilia ’26 (she/her) was previously a Staff Writer.

All content by Cecilia Samadani

Controversy brews amid new “Dress to Impress” Carleton update

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
November 8, 2024
Barin Nwike '25 and Defne Arat '27 performing in "Anon(ymous)"

Theater department puts on Anon(ymous)

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
November 8, 2024

Middle Eastern Languages Department hosts lecture on 20th century Palestinian music

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
October 25, 2024

I prioritize sleep over study and I refuse to be shamed

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
October 18, 2024

Alum and literary author Karen Tei Yamashita visits campus

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
October 11, 2024
Chapel welcomes new associate chaplain for Jewish and interfaith life

Chapel welcomes new associate chaplain for Jewish and interfaith life

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
September 27, 2024

A history of Carleton protests

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 24, 2024

Carleton College – an alternate universe(ity)

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 20, 2024

Let’s not get into specifics

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 17, 2024

Loving something that hurts

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 3, 2024

SEXploration promotes sexual positivity across campus offices

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 19, 2024
The photos are deliberately untitled.

Trans women of Kolkata exhibit debuts future comps project

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 12, 2024
"What It Means To Learn" by Will Brown

Black Joy is — A multimedia exhibition

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
February 9, 2024
The CaveFest poster, from the CaveFest Instagram.

The making of the first-ever CaveFest:

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
January 26, 2024

Carleton welcomes new Christian chaplain Mary Perez to campus

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
January 19, 2024

An insider on Carleton’s social dance scene: Why is it so popular?

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
November 10, 2023

Israel-Palestine: It’s a matter of journalistic integrity

Cecilia Samadani, Arts and Features Editor
November 3, 2023
From the Winter Break 2022 OCS Program: Yahnee Acklin, Alex Vue, Amadou Touré, Ariel Alexander, Leo Jordan, Hala Soliman, Nell Schafer, Sophie McManus, Margaret Hall, Kairah Foster, Teddy Friedman, and Anna Ursin lined up behind the woodstoves they built near Wolkite, Ethiopia

Professors Nega and Gross featured by the United Nations for grassroots work in Ethiopia

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
October 20, 2023
Voces8 is a 2023 Grammy-nominated a capella octet from England.

Voces8 at Carleton: A unique opportunity for choir students

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
October 13, 2023

Professor Ronald Rodman retires after 32 years with the music department

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 19, 2023
Guest electric harp concert: musical innovation live on stage

Guest electric harp concert: musical innovation live on stage

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 20, 2023

Behind the scenes of fasting for Ramadan

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 6, 2023

A retrospective on “Carleton’s a Drag” and queer culture

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
February 9, 2023

Kracum hosts Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Erin Keefe for concert and masterclass

Cecilia Samadani
January 26, 2023

Burton dinner menu

Cecilia Samadani and Sophia Ying
January 19, 2023

Putting the art in liberal arts: an interview with new faculty

Cecilia Samadani and Sophia Ying
October 13, 2022
Reimagining race in ballet: Its past, present and future

Reimagining race in ballet: Its past, present and future

Cecilia Samadani
October 6, 2022
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