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Kevin Draper '10: Sample Size Matters! NBA Observations From a Guy who has...
Editor’s Note:Infrequent contributor Hans Peterson drops by to deliver his end-of-season guesses about what happened this NBA season. Hans is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, and has...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
4-18-2013Town Loop. 58 minutes. 8 miles.Mild (48 degrees) and wet. Relaxed and easy pace. Felt OK.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Available candidates
Iranian politicians are beginning to put their names forward as candidates to be candidates for the presidential election. Which ones will be approved? Does it really make a difference? To whom? Final...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Post-exam elections
Okay, the Iranian election won't take place until a month after your students take the AP exam. The election might even take place during summer vacation. But this election guide from the BBC might...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Offcut Cityscapes: Sketching Sculptures with Band Saws
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Sculpture & Craft. ] An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap – but this designer-and-artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Updated Carleton Baseball Schedule Announced
Due the run of wet weather that has wreaked havoc with the baseball season, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) announced plans on Thursday to re-arrange the schedule in an attempt...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: The Killers
The killers came earlydressed in the rags of their reckoning...they cameshivering with delightat the action they perform:the daylight, to them,was another trigger. (1970)
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Alison Sommer '05: Panic at the disco... of my mind
For people who've never had a panic attack, I've got to assume the name of it sounds kind of... lame. I mean, we all have moments of panic. "Did I leave the car running?""omg, my child just bolted into...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #154: Checked Out
When I saw this cart nap, I had one thought:I hope she doesn’t need to get an economy-sized raft of toilet paper.Shoppers are asked to leave heavy items in their carts at the register.Come to think of...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College to Host Earth Day Celebration, Weitz Center...
Carleton College will host an Earth Day event celebrating the Weitz Center for Creativity’s LEED® Gold certification on Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get?...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Protecting their turf and income
The Mexican union for teachers has seen its leader jailed and its authority constitutionally restricted. People don't normally concede political power, especially when its linked with income. Some...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Soccer: Three Knights Earn NSCAA Scholar All...
The Carleton College women’s soccer team is known for their success both on the pitch and in the classroom, as the Knights have the highest total number of National Soccer Coaches Association of...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Soccer: Two Knights Earn NSCAA Scholar Awards
Carleton College men’s soccer players Neil Bartholomay (Jr./St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) and Simon Ginet (Jr./Arlington, Mass./Arlington) were named to the NSCAA Scholar All-North/Central Region...
View ArticleCarleton News: Education Policy Expert Emily Schultz ’05 to Present Carleton...
Education policy expert Emily Schultz, Carleton Class of 2005, will present Carleton College’s weekly convocation on Friday, Apr. 26. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial...
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Alison Sommer '05: How QUEER!
This is, like, pretty much one of the hardest topics for me to write about. That's why, although I made the place-mark for it weeks ago, I haven't posted anything about it until the letter Q (today's...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: NRA and Watertown
NRA SAYS: "NO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PRESSURE COOKERS!"Pressure cookers and other objects that may be usedas weapons...practically anything, really, are coveredunder the Second Amendment.
View ArticleCarleton News: Jarman Presents on the Work of Historic Civil War Artist
Baird Jarman, associate professor of art history, presented "The Melodramatic Mode of Reportage: Thomas Nast as a Civil War Illustrator” at the Midwest Art History Society’s annual conference in...
View ArticleCarleton News: Christian Science Monitor Features Article by Crowell '14
The April 14 edition of the Christian Science Monitor recently featured an article by Carleton student, Maddy Crowell ’14 (Chicago). The article describes Crowell’s experiences with the protest...
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