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Coming Next Fall: The Northfield Metro Express
June 8, 2009 at 10:27 amYou’re the student with Northfield Option who can’t find anywhere to park on campus. You need to get to Target but would rather not spend the entire Saturday evening on the Love Bus doing it. Or even after begging for a ride in the NNB, you can’t go to a neat concert in the Twin Cities because there’s no way of getting there. Transportation issues are a problem at Carleton.
Tofu Fest
June 3, 2009 at 3:59 pmAt Carleton, of course we'd have a tradition in celebration of a squishy white gelatinous cube. Carleton's annual Tofu Fest has been going on since 1997.
Stargazing
June 3, 2009 at 3:28 pmThis time of the year, there is still a great deal of light in the sky at 9:00 in the evening. On Friday night of 8th week, a group of students met up in front of the Observatory as a pink-and-purple sunset slowly faded from the western sky. The Bald Spot seemed to glow softly in the growing twilight.
Conlanging at Carleton
May 28, 2009 at 2:40 pmWe’ve all heard the actors speaking seeming gibberish at each other in Lord of the Rings and Star Trek. And in many movies and TV shows, alien languages really are just gibberish, created to make the place sound more exotic. But a few creators of imaginary cultures take the time to put together constructed languages (conlangs for short) for their worlds, complete with grammatical rules and vocabulary that people can learn and speak. Seventh weekend, the brave explorers of Benton House showed us some of the possibilities of where fantasy languages can take us.
To boldly split infinitives that have never been split before...
The Pillowman: Should We Be Laughing At This?
May 27, 2009 at 1:44 pmThe Experimental Theater Board recently put on a production of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh- a very tense, very bleak, horrifyingly dark murder play. Weirdly enough, it had the audience laughing uproariously almost every minute.
Don't Dress for Dinner
May 27, 2009 at 1:09 pmThese past few weeks have been good ones for Carleton theater. There have been so many performances, it's barely been possible to go to all of them, and they have all apparently been quite entertaining in one way or another. The ETB production of Don't Dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti did not disappoint in this respect.
And A Partridge in a Bonduc Tree: Carleton's Second Annual Spelling Bee
May 26, 2009 at 2:20 pmSpelling bees have a strange combination of intensity and quirkiness that is hard to find anywhere else...
Anywhere except here, of course. Intense and quirky is what we're all about. So naturally we needed a spelling bee.
It's not quite the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee- but a few of our competitors were finalists in the National Spelling Bee when they were middle school students, so there was still a pretty heavy competition level.
Body Positivity Potluck
May 26, 2009 at 9:54 amIt all started with a post to Shapely Prose, a blog maintained by the authors of Lessons From the Fat-o-sphere. Oprah Winfrey had recently received a lot of media attention for gaining weight. The post said, as Jill Rodde ’09 paraphrased, “Hey, Oprah, 200 pounds isn’t the worst thing that could happen to you. Please love your body.”
Eat the Lawn
May 21, 2009 at 1:33 pmFor the past two weeks or so, a troupe of students has been hard at work tearing up the lawn between Olin and Boliou. It started with cutting up all the grass in a lima-bean-shaped patch of ground and hauling it away, then students hoed the earth to soften it and made paths winding between raised beds. A painted wood sign in the middle of the plot reads “Eat the Lawn.”
Spring Concert Sunshine
May 19, 2009 at 9:40 amMiracle of miracles – it didn't rain for Spring Concert! (This is the first time in three years, those of you who are freshmen.) Students took advantage of the sunshine to lounge around on the grass, play beanbag toss, and enjoy some cotton candy and Chapati's. And, of course, listen to great music.
Capture the Ball
May 18, 2009 at 1:24 pmA bunch of people, two large inflatable excercise balls, one college campus, and one huge forest. These are the necessary components for a game of Capture the Ball, a very large-scale Capture the Flag-style game which was played across Carleton last weekend.
What is that thing crawling out of the ground?
May 14, 2009 at 2:05 pm
It seems that every spring term odd things start popping up around campus. Like giant tables. Now it’s happening again: one morning, a couple of weeks ago, there appeared to be a bunch of tentacles attempting to crawl out of the ground in front of the library. Was it something from the Tunnels trying to take revenge on us all?
