Dan Schofer '00
3-7-2013Ink Road. 28 minutes. 4 miles.Chilly (25 degrees) and nice. Felt pretty good. Splits: 7:49, 7:30, 6:56, 6:29.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Temporary Urban Coffee Farm Grows & Sells Bean Brew
[ By Steph in Culture & Cuisine& Global. ] Coffee lovers are getting a special treat at this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival: an urban coffee farm installation made primarily of...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Tennis: Knights Top Another D-II Program
The Carleton College women’s tennis team concluded the indoor portion of its 2013 schedule with a 6-3 victory over Winona State University, a NCAA Division II program. The Knights raised their record...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: The Essence of Buddhism and Poetry: Ikkyu
hear the cruel no-answer 'til the blood drips downbeat your head against the wall of itIkkyu 15 Century Zen Poettranslated by Stephen Berg
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Sanctions creating new government opponents?
K. Sue Witmer, who teaches at Northeastern HS in Manchester, PA, recommended this report from the government-owned Russian news agency, RIA Novosti. I second the recommendation, in part because it...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
3-8-2013Adams Loop. 70 minutes. 10 miles.Chilly (30s), sunny, and breezy. Eased into a good steady pace. Felt pretty good. Splits: 7:56, 7:17, 6:59, 7:04, 7:01, 6:57, 6:49, 6:54, 6:40, and 6:49.
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Black Velvet
My teacher, Vajracharya The Venerable Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche,had dates with a variety of ladies. One was a "Black Velvet" girl....whoappeared on billboards across the East Coast, at least.After...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Gender cleavage in Russia
In US politics, the cleavage is identified as the gender gap. Outside of northern Europe, the gender cleavage is a political reality.Ask your students to find evidence of the cleavage in the countries...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: One Chinese characteristic of socialism
Back in 1992, supreme leader Deng Xiaoping said, "The country should allow some regions and people to get rich first and then gradually push for common prosperity." Well, the first part of that is...
View ArticleLarry Sampas: Still Cheaper than Cable: Over the Air TV Channels in...
Did you know you can still buy rabbit ears for your TV? My last scan through our airwaves with a $12 RCA antenna got me 33 channels to choose from. It out-performed my rooftop antenna and/or its old...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Homeless Hotel: Radical Urban Retreat has No Rooms, Ever
[ By WebUrbanist in Boutique & Art Hotels& Global. ] You may have seen some strange and unique accommodations on AirBNB, but few hosts can boast something as unusual as Faktum Hotels, an...
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Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy Miss Guy, Vol. 30
Diss Guy: Penny HardawayLast night’s “big” story was JaVale McGee’s much-anticipated confrontation with his number one bully, Shaquille O’Neal, in an interview that went much, much worse than TNT...
View ArticleCarleton News: London Publishes on Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Little Village'
Professor of music Justin London recently had his article, "Ephemeral Media, Ephemeral Works, and Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Little Village’" published in the latest issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and...
View ArticleCarleton News: Fisher Authors 'At Home in the World: Globalization and the...
Jim Fisher, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, Emeritus, has published his book At Home in the World: Globalization and the Peace Corps in Nepal. The book provides a detailed,...
View ArticleCarleton News: Schmitt-Harsh's Study Analyzes Landscape Change in Guatemal
Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Robert A. Oden, Jr., Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts in Environmental Studies, has recently published an article titled, “Landscape change in Guatemala:...
View ArticleCarleton News: London's Article Featured by 'Music Perception'
Justin London, Professor of music, recently co-authored the article, "Systematic Distortions in Musicians' Reproduction of Cyclic Three-Interval Rhythms,” with Bruno Repp (Haskins Labs, New Haven)...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Student Group Sponsoring Soccer Equipment, School...
Goals With Soul, a Carleton student-led organization, will be holding a soccer equipment drive and raffle auction on March 12-14 to benefit two non-profit Uganda-based organizations, S.O.U.L. Uganda...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Pitchers Shine, But Knights Split with Cougars
The pitching staff for the Carleton College baseball team surrendered only four hits in each game, but the Knights settled for a doubleheader split with University of Minnesota-Morris on Friday...
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: 呉智英 『現代人の論語』 ＜英訳＞
呉智英 『現代人の論語』Confucius for the Modern Man by Professor Tomofusa Kure (2006)Professor Kure of Kyoto University opens this book by complaining that nobody really reads Confucius, pointing out obvious...
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