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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
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MSA celebrates Eid al-Fitr
Uzair Khan, Staff Writer • April 11, 2025
Class of 2027 declares majors
Mallory Atack, News Editor • April 11, 2025
What’s new in sports this week
Katie Hirsche, Staff Writer • March 7, 2025
A postcard of Toff laying on the Bald Spot.
Carleton celebrates Toff the Cat’s posthumous birthday
Selina Lu, Contributing Writer • April 11, 2025

In the spring of 1997, Martha Paas, Emerita Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics at Carleton College, got a call from her daughter Emily,...

The GSC hosts Gaypril
Emilia Arabia, Features Editor • April 11, 2025

Between April 1. and April 26., the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) will host Gaypril, a series of activities that seek to uplift the queer...

International students worry about visas
Clare O'Connor, Viewpoint Editor • April 11, 2025

Since Donald Trump took office in January, more than 340 international students, faculty and researchers from universities and colleges around...

Declaring SOAN Was One of My Best Decisions — Here’s Why It Matters Now
Ross Matican April 14, 2025

In an era of tech-obsessed career paths and a growing skepticism toward social sciences, I can imagine students today might hesitate to major...

Trump cannot erase the trans community
Isaac Kofsky, Viewpoint Editor • February 28, 2025
Art in a time of crisis
Rahim Hamid, Contributing Writer • February 28, 2025
Sit next to your opps
Jackson Gutman, Contributing Writer • April 12, 2025

For some college students, one of the benchmarks of trekking into adulthood is taking the plane to and from college, and many of us experienced...

Half of campus disappears after trans day of visibility
Isaac Kofsky, Viewpoint Editor • April 12, 2025

On Sunday, April 6, over 90 students, staff, faculty and community members gathered in Skinner Memorial Chapel for Carleton’s first-ever trans...

Male sophomores declare Finance Bro Major
Olivia Gottlieb, Bald Spot Editor • April 12, 2025

As the end of the 2024-2025 school year approaches, sophomores across campus are beginning to declare their majors. Historically, the most popular...

Voter apathy group to consider endorsing CSA candidate
Bax Meyer, Editor-in-Chief • March 5, 2025

It’s not often that the Carleton Apathetic Voters for Elections (CAVE) does anything. “Most meetings get canceled 15 minutes before we start,”...

Vol. CXVLIII, No. 9
January 9, 2024