For most people, breakfast with The New York Times usually connotes a
leisurely morning perusal of the newspaper over a cup of coffee.

Cameron Smith '00 rides 10,000 miles to raise funds for cancer research.

Students celebrate soy at Tofu Fest.

Mia Lowden '01 choreographs a chemical reaction.

Kate Collyer '04 is called to "Come on Down!"

Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel is now home to a portable canvas labyrinth, patterned after the one set in the stone floor at the Chartres Cathedral in France.

It’s 11:17 p.m. on the Saturday night before finals and four male college students in matching white t-shirts and black shorts are running along an ice-covered path behind the library. As they reach the snowy volleyball pits, they pull off their shirts, throw their hands above their heads, and, in World Cup-fashion, scream "Goal!" One does a handstand on a snowbank and sinks headfirst into a mountain of whiteness, until he is just an upside-down torso with kicking legs sticking out of the snow.

Two Carleton College graduates on the path to professional acting careers cringe when theater veterans advise them, "You should only do theater if there's absolutely nothing else you could see yourself doing." For Sharon Polli and Maesie Speer, that old theater saying doesn't do justice to the breadth of the liberal arts education they've just completed at Carleton, where they each earned a B.A. degree with a special major in theater studies this past June.

The drinking fountain in the hallway. The coffeepot in the office. The candy dish on the end table. So often, we instinctively indulge ourselves regardless of actual thirst or hunger. It's the thing to do, especially in a Minnesota January, when food and drink are used to counter the chill we incur from the frigid climate. For a handful of students and faculty at Carleton College, however, the pressure to resist such urges recently increased. As Muslims, they fasted during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar that commemorates the revelation of the Koran to Mohammed.