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McLain Family Band to Perform at Carleton College
28 February 2000The Carleton College Department of Music welcomes the McLain Family Band to campus on Friday, March 3, 2000, for a morning convocation, an afternoon round-table discussion and an evening concert. The evening event will feature the McLain Family Band with the Carleton Orchestra, under the direction of Hector Valdivia, S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Orchestra. The program will include selections by the McLain Family Band, Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven, and Concerto for Bluegrass Band and Orchestra, written for the McLains by Phillip Rhodes, Carleton’s Composer-in-Residence. The events are in honor of Rhodes’ 25th anniversary at Carleton and his 60th birthday.
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Creating Treasures From Trash: Carleton Students Refurbish Old Computers For Students in Need
18 February 2000As we become increasingly more dependent on newer and faster computers, a computer is considered “outdated” soon after it leaves the store, and after a couple of years, many computers are relegated to the attic or set out on the curb. Often, those of us who rely on these machines don’t quite know what to do with an old computer once we’ve purchased its replacement.
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Service Learning Projects Encourage Activism
15 February 2000In “Biology of Global Change,” a new course at Carleton College, students study the serious impact modern human existence is having on the environment. Outside of class, they are doing something about it.
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Carleton Emeritus Professor of English Philip Sheridan Dies
4 February 2000E. Philip Sheridan, emeritus professor of English at Carleton College and former resident of Northfield, died on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2000, at his home in Barrington, R. I. He was 83.
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Not Your Ordinary Winter Carnival: Carleton Students Blow Off Steam With Spicy Chili, Frozen Steaks and Human Bowling
1 February 2000For students in rural Minnesota in the dead of winter, one might think the options for fun are limited to the indoors, or at least to traditional outdoor sports like hockey or skiing. Not so at Carleton College, where students will exit their cozy dorm rooms this weekend for some imaginative fun in the ice and snow at the College’s Winter Carnival, a tradition that dates back to the 1930s.
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Carleton College Emerita Professor Ada M. Harrison Dies
29 December 1999Ada M. Harrison, one of Carleton College’s most admired and beloved professors, died Monday, Dec. 27, in Northfield, Minn. She was 85. A respected economist and devoted teacher, Harrison taught economics for 31 years at Carleton, specializing in industrial organization, economic theory, and accounting. A public memorial service was held Friday, Jan. 28, 2000, in Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel.
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Carleton Student Studies “Junior High” Phase of Sierra Dome Spiders
19 November 1999For two-and-a-half months last summer, Carleton College senior Rachel Bercovitz of Des Plaines, Ill., studied the “junior high” phase of sierra dome spiders, observing the species’ mating rituals-from avoidance of the opposite sex to two boys fighting over one girl to ultimate consummation. Bercovitz conducted lab experiments to test an established hypothesis linking a female’s weight to the length of her “associative” period, and along the way developed a new hypothesis that a male sierra dome spider will fight harder for a female who is about to mature, versus one who is farther from her sexual prime.
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Carleton Students Head to West Africa for Cultural Study
10 November 1999Carleton College French professor and self-described expatriate Chérif Keïta is going home. He will return to his native Mali in January, bringing 19 of his students with him for a three-month stay, his longest visit since he left the West African country as a teenager to pursue his education in 1972.
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Perry C. Mason Named to Endowed Professorship
11 October 1999The Carleton College Board of Trustees recently approved the appointment of Professor of Philosophy Perry C. Mason as the College’s first John E. Sawyer Professor of Liberal Learning. The five-year appointment honors Mason for his skills in mentoring colleagues in teaching, scholarship, and service, and for his ability to forge consensus on difficult issues, particularly through his leadership in important administrative roles and on key committees.
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Carleton College Names Professorship for John E. Sawyer
11 October 1999A new endowed professorship at Carleton College, given through a generous gift by one of the College’s former trustees, Francis T. (Fay) Vincent, Jr., will be named in honor of John Sawyer, a former president of Williams College and of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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