Carleton College News Archives

By Chaz Muth Source: Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 A painting of Moses by artist Karen Laub-Novak is displayed Oct.

30, 1909: A local chapter of the Methodist Brotherhood was organized Sunday afternoon.

23, 1909: A.O. Hulberg has bought the interests of his brother, L.O. Hulberg, in a Northfield jewelry store.

Editor's Note: Emily Hartley is a Carleton College student journalist whose work, reprinted here, was first published on Pressville.org, an online newspaper the class created.

Brian Gilbert still isn't sure what he thought when his first journalistic work was posted online.

Veteran journalist, author and Carleton College alumnus, John Harris, will deliver the college's weekly convocation address - A "Barack Obama v. the Freak Show: Politics and Media on the Wild Frontier" - on Friday.

Being green has earned Carleton College top marks. The College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month gave Carleton an A- overall, one of the best grades of the 332 American and Canadian colleges and universities ranked.

Samuel Birnbaum of Bernardsville graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., on June 13 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

Submitted by sarevam on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 2:10pm. Misc Carleton College's ACT Center offers free tutoring for elementary, middle, and high school students in any subject.

It's tempting to go hibernation when the first real winter weather moves in, but don't let a few dreary mid-October days keep you from venturing out and enjoying yourself.

The National Book Awards finalists were announced Wednesday, and Minnesota is looking pretty good.

NORTHFIELD a ' Two local men are being charged with drug possession after Northfield police discovered six to seven pounds of marijuana in the back of their van.

NORTHFIELD a ' Julian Bond, chairman of the board of the NAACP, will speak Thursday afternoon at Carleton College.

Publisher: Doubleday, 592 pages, $35. Review: This chilling, deeply reported book shines a light on the Soviet programs, philosophies and middle managers who were behind the Cold War.

Don't let Charlie Skinner fool you. The Northfield resident may try to convince you that he's joined the University for Peace staff as some sort of deal he made with his wife, Chris Oatis-Skinner, for her move to Minnesota 13 years ago, but as far as I can tell, he's not suffering.

W hen neuroscientist Samuel Pfaff was a postdoc at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, he and his future wife often visited her family in Pasadena, California.

What: Wind-themed paintings, drawings, photos, prints, sculpture, videos and even a lawn chair by 49 Minnesota artists.

Chris Raschka does not fear change. If anything, the children's book author and illustrator, whose exhibit opens today at the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, welcomes and embraces change.

What if the Roman Empire never fell? It's a what-if question that Alexander Cooney, a cinema and media studies major at Carleton College, has explored endlessly through his short stories, drawings and speculation.

As we watch the climate change locomotive coming down the tracks, there are two choices, said 24-year-old Eberley Weblake of Ashland: sit at your computer or get out and do something.

2, 1909: Northfield's fourth annual Harvest Festival and street fair is under way.