The Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) performed at Carleton on Friday, Jan. 6, kicking off the winter term programming in the Weitz Center for Creativity. Dan McAlister '13 interviewed Stuart Pimsler, who also talked about the collaborative class he taught at Carleton during the winter term, which brought politics and dance together in a unique but interesting cross-disciplinary way. SPDT is a nationally recognized performance company that has been presented by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Jacob's Pillow, The American Dance Festival, and internationally in Canada, Europe, Israel, Taiwan and Russia. Founded in 1978 and based in Minneapolis, its work stands apart in the field of contemporary performance for its vast emotional range, intellectual provocations, and stunning visual environments. Dramatically powerful and insightfully witty, this company's unique vision has been hailed as theater for the heart and mind. The performance was supported by funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Legacy Amendment. For more information, visit their website at www.stuartpimsler.com.

Dan McAlister '13 checks in with the Carleton Student Experimental Theater Board and their 24-Hour Show project. The team of students writes, casts, rehearses and performs a series of plays in a 24-hour time period, making for some interesting, creative work and a sleep-deprived group of Carls.

Laurel Bradley, Director and Curator in the Perlman Teaching Museum
Senior Lecturer in Art and Art History, gives us a tour of the Weitz Center for Creativity's museum space. She talks about exactly what it means for Carleton to have such a facility and gives us a sneak preview of the two winter term exhibits. “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” is on display in the museum’s Braucher Gallery through March 11, while the Kaemmer Family Gallery hosts “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption" at the same time. For more information about the Perlman Teaching Museum and its hours, visit its website.

Video of the installation of Carleton's second wind turbine. Carleton will dedicate the wind turbine, made possible by a generous gift from Laurie Weiss Kracum ’76 and Richard Kracum ’76 of Chicago, on Friday, Oct. 21. The new wind turbine will provide power directly to Carleton’s electrical grid, serving one-third the annual power needs of nearly 2,000 full-time students plus hundreds of staff and faculty. This project reduces Carleton's carbon footprint by approximately 10 percent.

The Carleton College "Chillin for a Thrillin" Polar Plunge squad raised more $1,700 for Northfield Area Special Olympics. The team, comprised of eight Carleton students and two Carleton staff members, participated in the state-wide event by plunging into the frigid waters of Foster-Arend Lake in Rochester, Minn.

Carlos Gonzales '77, a former Carleton Board of Trustee member and currently an associate professor and medical director at the University of Arizona College of Medicine's Family and Community Medical department, delivered the blessing at the recent memorial in honor of the six victims in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting tragedy.

This video feature highlights the annual Beard Auction, a fundraiser organized by the Gods of Plastic (GOP), one of three men's Ultimate Frisbee teams at Carleton.  After six weeks of not shaving or cutting their hair, the members of GOP return in January to auction off the rights to their follicles.  Their friends and classmates buy raffle tickets to support spring travel costs and tournament fees, and the lucky winners have the opportunity to shave and style the hair of that GOPer.