Shout :: Carleton College

Faces on Bricks

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:42:16 -0500

Springtime at Carleton is generally associated with random acts of artwork. Remember the tepee, giant table and chairs, and iron stick figures scattered across campus? This year’s collection of outdoor art embodies the same uniqueness, but favors a more rogue style. Our favorite? A shifty face projected onto the side of the Concert Hall after dusk.

Click here to read more about the site-specific media works gracing campus.

Cuts for Cancer

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:04:16 -0500

There’s no such thing as a free haircut — unless of course you’re donating those lengthy tresses to “Cuts for Cancer”. This year’s event drew dozens of Carls who chose to lop off their hair for a good cause.

Click here to read more about the Cuts for Cancer event.

Apocalypse Symposium

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:31:51 -0500

Could we really all become brains in jars without somebody to carry us around?

This was just one of the many quandaries pondered at last week’s Apocalypse Symposium. After the success of last year’s event, which focused on how to survive during the apocalypse, Carleton’s best and brightest met again this year to discuss how to thrive after the end of civilization as we know it. The event was held in Sayles Lounge, with such highly apocalyptic snacks as chips and soda (fortunately, no kool-aid) on a side table.

Click here to read more about how to get by when the world ends.

Junior Art Show 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:13:46 -0500

Walking by Boliou? Take a few minutes and check out this year's Junior Art Show. The exhibit, featuring the work of junior Studio Art majors, opened Friday, April 18th and will stay up through May 4.

Stratford's Sanskrit Show

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:08:56 -0500

The lights were low in Little Nourse. Indian music struck up, and Laura Stratford ’09 pirouetted onto the stage draped in jewelry and a magenta dress. With red dye on her fingertips, palms, and soles of her feet, she began her one-woman performance of Shiva-Shakti-Sambhavan (a Sanskrit fairy tale by the poet Kalidasa).

Click here to read more about and watch part of the Sanskrit performance.

Celebrating James Baldwin

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:22:06 -0500

Last Saturday concluded a weeklong symposium on the life and works of James Baldwin, a multitalented writer who wrote on race, sexuality, and American culture. Because Baldwin is considered so prolific, Carleton organized an array of diverse events to pay respects to his work. The symposium included talks, movie screenings, book readings, and a performance of one of his plays.

Click here to read more about how Carleton celebrated James Baldwin.

Asian Fusion Plays Convo

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:14:32 -0500

A stunning performance was missed by the Carls who caught a few zzz’s instead of attending last week’s convocation. Luckily, the Music professor and her multicultural band “Asian Fusion” gave an encore performance in the concert hall later that night.

Click here to read more about the encore performance.

If You're Into Flat-Topped and Four-Legged Things...

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Students who were in Stephen Mohring's Studio Art class Advanced Woodworking: The Table last winter showed off their creations in Boliou early this term.

Click here to check out the tables.

Unashamed: A New(ish) Student Publication

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:29:21 -0500

The religious climate at Carleton is difficult to assess. On one hand, people could generalize forever about how most students here aren't particularly religious, but then again, what does that really mean, “not all that religious”? When I think about my own friends here, most if not all of them are in some way attached to religion, and if not they’ve at least mulled over its personal significance. That’s not to say that Carleton students frequently dive into religious conversations, but the notion that Carleton exists outside of all religious beliefs seems like an inaccurate and sweeping statement.

With this on my mind, I sat down last week with Joe Gammello '08 and Angie Kim ‘08, two editors behind the only campus publication solely devoted to religious issues, Unashamed.

Click here to get the scoop on the publication Unashamed.

GoPrint: Slightly Slower, Much Greener

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:30:18 -0500

Whoa! New technology! Craziness! Last term, an unbidden window popped up on every computer screen in the CMC labs. With its perky label, GoPrint cheerily demanded (in maize and blue font, of course) for your username and password each time you clicked “Print.” Once at the printers, a laptop with an ominous looking card-swiping box instructs you to swipe your OneCard to release the print jobs. Thus was the end of the 2-minutes-before-class-paper-print.

Click here to read more about Carleton's new, greener printing system.

Late Night Trivia 2008

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:17:48 -0500

1. What club is specifically for people who left Carleton in their wills?

2. What Chinese historian claimed that the Chinese discovered in 32 BC what would later be known as one of the Galilean moons?

3. What president’s mother cut off his allowance when she discovered he was having an affair with his wife’s secretary?

4. In the original Star Wars series, who is the only non-Jedi to use a lightsaber?

5. What humanities professor named their child after a 19th century Danish philosopher?

If you can answer any of the above questions, chances are you won the coveted LNT statue (and infinite respect from your fellow Carls). This year's pre-finals radio extravaganza was not for the dim-witted or meek.

Click here for the scoop on this year's Late Night Trivia competition.

Best of the NNB

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:13:23 -0500

As a slimmer version of Craig’s List, our beloved NNB has been the mouthpiece for student organizations, campus events, the lost and found, and random requests. We’ve found some of the NNB’s submissions to be of noteworthy praise, wit, and concern: How did those insects get into somebody’s mailbox? What could “Mathematical Models of Rock Deformation” be about? The following is a collection of some of the best, weirdest, only-at-Carleton NNB ads from this term.

Click here to read a collection of superior quality NNB submissions.