Saturday night witnessed a Cave performance the likes of which Carleton had never seen before. It was Mucca Pazza, a so-called "circus punk" band with 30 members, a huge sound and an interactive style, which was responsible for the blowing of numerous Carleton students' minds that night.

Mucca Pazza!

On Saturday afternoon, members of the Carleton Chess Club rolled out vinyl chess mats on the tables in Sayles 252, laid out chess pieces, chess clocks, and drew a scoreboard on the blackboard.  That’s all you need for a four-hour tournament of this old and devilishly hard game.

Let's chess!

The Volunteer for Carleton Phone-a-thon was quite an event this year, bringing in a record-breaking attendance of 493 students.  This annual phone drive took place over the course of several days third week.  A small army of student volunteers packed the Great Hall in the evenings, manning massive phone banks to call up alumni.

The volunteers...

On Friday and Saturday, Carleton's newest improv troupe took the stage at Little Nourse for the first time.

Cooler ranch...

CANOE (that's the Carleton Association of Nature and Outdoor Enthusiasts) made igloos on the Bald Spot this weekend.

There’s good news and bad news for those of you looking for an excuse to enjoy your favorite red wine or green tea.  The health benefits of these beverages have been touted for years, but the scientific evidence to back up these claims is inconclusive.  Cam McDonald-Hyman, senior biology major, investigates.

What's the verdict?

Here at Carleton we can do some pretty weird things after we’ve been cooped up indoors in January for too long.  But even here, why would you stand around in back of the Rec Center for a couple of hours in tights and a tutu, screaming your head off?  The answer is the Crazy Carleton Classic Relay.

Skiers in tights...

Over winter break, the fifteen lucky Carleton students in Biology 361: Tropical Rainforest Ecology got to travel to Costa Rica for two weeks of intensive research at the La Selva Biological Station.  We had designed our own experiments over the course of the fall term to put to work while we were there - three teams of five people each studied leafcutter ants, orchid bees, and poison dart frogs.  The two weeks at the station were an intensive experience of sample collecting, hiking, evening seminars, mudstaches, and rice and beans.

See a photo essay of the trip.

We already know Carls are a bunch with diverse talents and interests.  But did you know that they keep being cool when they go home in December?  Check out some of the diverse answers Carleton students gave when I asked them,

"What's the coolest thing you did over winter break?"

The hall in Boliou is full of clicks and whirs the evening of the last day of classes.  LEDs and a bunch of Christmas lights strung up around the ceiling glint off of the shiny metal bits of the army of robots that have temporarily invaded Carleton’s art building.  They’re surrounded by a crowd of people, a large proportion of whom are fascinated little kids.

This is the final exhibition of Art, Interactivity, and Robotics, one of the coolest freshman seminars ever to have seen the light of day.

About the robots...

“Alistair Sloan,” the long-awaited medieval Western by Alexander Cooney ‘11 has finally come to Carleton.

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It’s that time of the term again!  Time for the weird, the wacky, and the best of the NNB.

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