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Thursday, April 9
"Picturing New Orleans: Studying Social Problems Through Filmmaking"
In this session, students from the New Orleans off-campus program will discuss their experiences studying environmental justice through paper-writing and filmmaking.

Kimberly Smith, associate professor of political science; Victoria Morse, associate professor of history; and students Nick Bellos '12, Rebecca Gourevitch '12, and Elena Rosenberg-Carlson '12

Co-sponsored by the Visuality Initiative

Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum; lunch provided for 50

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Carleton College has produced a course catalog or bulletin for about a century now. The catalog has chronicled the history of course offerings and composition of departments over these many years.

Since 1996-97, the course catalog has been available online. From an admissions viewpoint, the catalog has not been a major resource in recruiting students. Most prospective students seek information about academic departments online. Current students are also electronic seekers of academic information.

We have contemplated reducing publishing costs of printed materials for the College for the past several years. The course catalog, which currently costs about $30,000, is one of the items that has appeared questionable as an ongoing expense and certainly does now at a time of fiscal constraint and budget cuts. Besides saving the cost of printing the catalog, we would also save over $9,000 in postage costs by no longer mailing it to prospective students. The admissions office was the single biggest user of the catalog.

With some nostalgic sadness and with some regret, and after consultation with colleagues and the Administrative Council of the College, we have reached the decision not to print the course catalog beginning with the 2009-10 academic year.

In light of this decision, we will investigate the possibility of providing a full PDF printable version of the catalog online, including an examination of the costs of such a project. We will also work to ensure that the catalog is archived in a way that will make it readily available to any who need or want to review past catalogs. No longer printing the catalog will represent a dramatic change in practice, but also an acknowledgement of the practice of online information sources as a day-to-day way of doing business.

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He is not white. He’s not even light-skinned. Make no mistake about it: he is black. Yet, Daryl Davis has come in closer contact with members of the Ku Klux Klan than most white non-members and certainly most blacks.

Having spent his early childhood in Europe and Africa, the son of a Foreign Service officer, Davis didn’t experience racism until he returned to the United States at age ten, and was pelted with rocks, splintered bottles, and debris while carrying the American flag for his all-white Cub Scout troop at a parade in Boston. At fifteen, he was jeered at and told by another hate group he would be shipped back to Africa, and in his twenties, already an up-and-coming musician, Davis was attacked by a racist cop. Driven by the need to understand those who, without ever having met him, hate him because of the color of his skin, Davis decided to seek out the roots of racism.

During the past decade, Davis has walked on the edge with one foot dangling over the precipice, with experiences such as setting up surprise meetings with Klan leaders unaware of his skin color and attending KKK rallies. On a quest to do nothing more than explore racism, Davis eventually became the recipient of robes and hoods by Klan members who came to him to rescind their beliefs.

Davis earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from Howard University. An accomplished blues and R & B musician, he performs regularly with his own band. He has toured extensively with Muddy Water’s Legendary Blues Band and Chuck Berry, among others.

Davis has received acclaim for his book, Klan-Destine Relationships and his work in race relations from many respected sources including: CNN, CNBC, Good Morning America, The Learning Channel, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The American Ethical Union, and The Washington Ethical Society.

Davis’ courageous quest into the heart of ignorance and hatred results, he believes, in a ray of hope for harmony between the races and the future of mankind.