Carleton Athletics: Men's Soccer: Knights Move Up in Both National Polls
The Carleton College men’s soccer improved to 12-1-1 on the season with a pair of victories that week. Those results helped the Knights move up in both top-25 national polls this week. Carleton jumped...
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10-16-2012Athletic Fields. 30 minutes. 4 miles.Easy running during practice.
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: OKCupid Season Preview: Detroit Pistons (#28)
My self-summary I’ve been around for a long time, and I know pain. I struggled through thirty years of life before Joe, Isiah, Dennis, Rick, Vinny, Jon, Chuck and Mark helped me transition to the...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Soccer: McGarrity Breaks Goal Record as Knights...
Branden McGarrity scored twice, breaking the Carleton College record for goals in a single season, as the men's soccer team posted an 8-0 triumph over Northwestern College in a non-conference contest....
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Golf: Knights Finish What They Started, End Ninth...
Carleton finished what it started at the Golfweek Division III Fall Preview, closing with a final-round 324 to finish ninth overall at 1,008. The Knights posted the day's fifth-lowest score, passing...
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Surf ‘n Siege: Huge Abandoned Island Fortress in Florida
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] 70 nautical miles off the coast of Key West in Florida is a series of seven islands set among a graveyard of over 200 ships, crowned with a massive...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Limits on the state
Will Ross, a BBC reporter, describes the production end of the oil bunkering business in the Niger Delta. The limited capacity of the state, corruption, and the desperate poverty of the Ogoni people...
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10-17-2012Town + Gillette. 60 minutes. 8 miles.Out the door at 6:15 AM. Felt really tight and sluggish. Extra slow and easy pace.
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Wild Speculation and Outlandish Guesses: Relationship Edition
In light of our ongoing season preview, today we asked The Discussants about some relationships in the NBA. Which coach and players pair are in the cutest relationship? Alex Maki: I think the all-time...
View ArticleCarleton News: Ad Whiz Bill Hillsman ’75 Dissects Political Election Ads in...
Just in time for Election Day, Carleton College’s Humanities Center will present political advertising professional and “ad whiz” Bill Hillsman ‘75, along with Carleton political science professor...
View ArticleCarleton News: Bookstore Manager Tripp Ryder Named President of MIBA
Congratulations to Tripp Ryder (Bookstore Trade Book Manager), who was named President of MIBA (Midwest Independent Booksellers Association) at its annual conference October 3-5. Tripp will serve as...
View ArticleCarleton News: 2012 Graduate Ramirez Wins Student Paper Award from Minnesota...
Ruben Ramirez '12 (St. Louis Park, Minn.), who graduated from Carleton last June with a B.A. in economics, has received the second-place award in this year's Undergraduate Student Paper Contest from...
View ArticleCarleton News: Weisberg Featured on Walker Art Center Website
Joel Weisberg, the Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences at Carleton College, was recently featured in an article on the website of the Walker Art...
View ArticleCarleton News: Kohen Published in Journal on Undergraduate Research
Chemistry professor Daniela Kohen has coauthored an article published in the Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, a journal about student-faculty collaborative research. The article,...
View ArticleCarleton News: Nieuwkoop Awarded Fulbright Fellowship in Germany
Carleton alumnus Andrew Nieuwkoop '06 (Holland, Mich.), who graduated with a B.A. in chemistry, has been awarded a Junior Research Fulbright Fellowship to conduct post-doctoral research in Berlin,...
View ArticleSusan Letcher '00: For Phyllis, October 2012
The way that water holds the shapeof a hull for a moment after the ship passes,then falls inward to embracethe absence.The light of afternoon in the grasses,the lull of crickets slowed by time and...
View ArticleCarleton News: Myint Appears on LinkAsia TV
Tun Myint, assistant professor of political science at Carleton, appeared on Dec. 2 on LinkAsia TV regarding Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to Burma/Myanmar. Myint's appearance comes...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Presents "Acoustic Africa: Afropean Woman" featuring...
Thursday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. in the Carleton College Concert Hall, the public is invited to a not-to-be-missed Celebration of African Song. "Acoustic Africa: Afropean Woman" features Dobet Gnahoré, the...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: OKCupid Season Preview: Sacramento Kings (#27)
My self-summary Hey baby. You ready to take a ride? I’m lean, mean, and ready to roll. Gimme the green light, cause I’m ready to go right now. Are you? Do you really think you can handle one of the...
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Gone to Seed: 9 Green Plant-Sprouting Product Designs
[ By Delana in Design & Products & Packaging. ] Once a product’s primary function has been served, most of us choose to either throw away or recycle whatever is left. An increasing number of...
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