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Pagel’s Hiring Noted by Rochester Post-Bulletin
4 December 2012Bob Pagel’s hiring as Carleton’s football coach was covered by the Rochester Post-Bulletin. Pagel, who coached the Knights on an interim basis this past year, is the Knights’ 17th head coach and will also serve as an assistant professor in the Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation (PEAR) Department. Pagel is originally from the Rochester area, playing high-school football in Eyota, Minn. Read more about Pagel on the Carleton Athletics website’s press release on the hiring.
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Republican-Set Deadlines Didn’t Match Voter Results in Fiscal Cliff Squabble, Says Schier
30 November 2012Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, is quoted in the Nov. 30 edition of the Miami Herald and many other newspapers regarding the deadlines set forth by Republicans long ago in regards to the scheduled tax increases and budget cuts. These automatic “triggers” have created the “fiscal cliff” scenario that could occur after the New Year unless Congress and the White House can come to a budget agreement. It’s a scenario, according to Schier, that the Republicans miscalculated. “Republicans set up the deadlines feeling voters would move in their direction. But in the last election, they didn’t move in that direction,” he said.
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Weisberg’s Work on “The Last Pictures” Covered By Pioneer Press
26 November 2012Joel Weisberg, the Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences, was featured in a Nov. 26 article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press about his involvement with “The Last Pictures” project. Weisberg designed a time map that was attached to a silicon disk that contains 100 images selected and/or taken by artist Trevor Paglen to represent humanity. The disk, and the accompanying time map, was launched into orbit from a launch pad in Kazakhstan on Nov. 20 aboard the EchoStar XVI satellite by the Dish Network. There’s no appreciable atmospheric drag that high up, so in theory the satellite and its message to the future “will probably be up there until the sun swallows up the Earth, which will be in 5 billion years,” Weisberg said. The article also ran in the Northfield News on Saturday, Dec. 8.
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Election Results May Lead To Status Quo, Schier Says
11 November 2012Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, told Bloomberg Businessweek on Nov. 11 that the recent election results might mean little change in the political landscape. “The national government has not functioned well of late yet this election returned to power the same leaders in the House, Senate and presidency who have presided over little recent progress,” he said. “That makes the prospects for breakthrough reforms that solve pressing national problems murky at best. It was a status quo election when the country needs far more than status quo solutions.”
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Hath Not a Cow Eyes? Philosophy Students Tackle Animal Ethics in Public Presentation
10 November 2012Culminating a trimester’s worth of intensive study, eleven Carleton College philosophy students led a public presentation last Wednesday, Nov. 7 at Northfield’s Just Food Coop highlighting their findings on the humane treatment of farm animals. The students have been taking a course entitled “Animal Ethics: The Moral Status of Animals,” taught by visiting professor Sarah Jansen, which examines different ethical theories when pondering whether humans have a moral obligation toward non-human animals.
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Carleton has received a major federal grant to advance the study of the Middle East on campus from the U.S. Department of Education. The College earned the $172,206 grant through the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program for a two-year project, “Consolidating Middle East Studies at Carleton College.” The project will be directed by Adeeb Khalid, the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, and Stacy Beckwith, Associate Professor of Hebrew, Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies.
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Schier Tells Reuters Virginia, Ohio Will Be “Harbingers” In Election
5 November 2012Ohio and Virginia will be the key states to tell how the Presidential election will fall, according to Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science,in his quotes to Reuters. “I wouldn’t expect Ohio or Virginia to be called early, but if it starts to look clear one way or another that would be an early harbinger,” he said. The story was picked up my msnbc.com, among other national media outlets.
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Appleman Returns To Syracuse, Receives Tolley Medal
25 October 2012Deborah Appleman, the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of Educational Studies, returned to Syracuse University, where she served as a visiting professor, to receive the prestigious Tolley Medal in recognition of her work on literacy and areas of scholarship related to life long learning. While on campus, Appleman delivered a lecture entitled “Liberal Learning behind Bars: Literacy Education with the Incarcerated.”
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Carleton College Celebrates the Legacy of Senator Paul Wellstone
19 October 2012The Carleton College community lost one of its most cherished members, former political science professor and U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, in a plane crash ten years ago. Carleton will host a series of events on Oct. 25, the tenth anniversary of Wellstone’s death, to commemorate his life, honor his tenure as a Carleton professor, and celebrate his legacy of civic engagement that continues with today’s Carleton students. The main event, “Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Wellstone” begins at 12 p.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel and will be streamed live via Carleton’s website or available for on-demand viewing.
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Dickens Marathon Covered By Star Tribune
18 October 2012The Oct. 19 edition of the Star Tribune’s “On Campus” section covered Carleton’s Charles Dickens marathon, where student, staff and faculty read “David Copperfield” over a two-day period. Higher education beat reporter Jenna Ross noted that the event had “75 people reading 871 pages, mostly in 30-minute chunks, over 37 hours.” Arnab Chakladar, an assistant professor of English, who organized the reading, said “I was there from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., and it was hopping.”
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