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Carleton to host 3rd annual Beaverfest
May 16, 2025
Carleton wraps up peer leader hiring, still without considering Title IX violations
May 16, 2025
Scott Wopata convocation addresses food insecurity
May 16, 2025
Funding cuts to the Carletonian threaten status as a weekly newspaper
May 16, 2025
What’s New in Sports This Week: May 7-14
May 16, 2025
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: May 7-14
May 16, 2025
This Week in Sports: Apr. 30-May 7
May 9, 2025
What’s New in Sports This Week: April 24-April 30
May 2, 2025
What’s New in Sports this Week: Apr. 17- Apr. 23
April 25, 2025
What’s New in Sports this Week: Apr. 10-Apr. 16
April 18, 2025
What’s New in Sports This Week: May 7-14
May 16, 2025
Philosophy department overhauls major requirements
May 16, 2025
Student performances took place in Kracum Hall.
ISL hosts International Fest
May 16, 2025
Pope Francis' funeral at the Vatican.
Carls in Rome mourn Pope Francis’ death
May 16, 2025
Synchrony II performs final dances of the year
Synchrony II performs final dances of the year
May 9, 2025
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
Solidarity is not conformity
May 16, 2025
From the archives: Vote “yes” on swing-set referendum
May 16, 2025
NPR, PBS and DJT
May 16, 2025
A tribute to my predecessors
May 16, 2025
Advice from a Spring Term senior
May 9, 2025
CSA offers recognition for “most interesting budget request”
May 16, 2025
Spring allergies believed to just be allergies to men
May 16, 2025
CCCE hosts emotional baggage drive
May 16, 2025
New Archdruid to be elected in conclave
May 9, 2025
Seniors explore new career opportunities as job market declines
May 9, 2025
Construction along Wall Street Road
Pardon the mess
May 16, 2025
Tick tock – tick season has begun!
May 9, 2025
Rabbit escaping fire
Why is the Arb on fire?
May 2, 2025
Did you know that frogs, like this Leopard frog, use their lungs as noise-canceling headphones to zero in on their potential mate's calling frequency?
Keeping up with the frogs and toads
April 25, 2025
A Windy Arb Gets Ready for Spring
Why is every day so windy?
April 18, 2025
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 and Creative Writing minor. 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
Synchrony II performs final dances of the year

Synchrony II performs final dances of the year

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
May 9, 2025
Northfielders, Carls and Oles gather for Hands Off protest.

Carls, Northfield residents gather for “Hands Off” protest

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 25, 2025
Siberian squill densely pack into lawns.

Spring has sprung, in the Arb and Northfield

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 18, 2025
Governor Wilder speaks with Carleton students.

Carls embark from Northfield to Selma, engaging the past and present of Black history

Cecilia Samadani, Features Editor
April 11, 2025

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 10, 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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