Dashini Jeyathurai ’08 published an article in the January 2006 issue of The Next Step Magazine, a publication that helps students prepare for life after high school. The article, titled “Unusual Scholarships,” encourages students to look for scholarships outside of the usual sources and highlighted some scholarships with unusual qualifications. Jeyathurai is from Malaysia. The Next Step Magazine is a coast-to-coast teen publication distributed in more than 21,140 high schools and read by more than 869,600 students in 48 states and in Ontario, Canada.

Daniel Lugo, associate dean of admissions, was quoted in the January issue of MPLS.ST.PAUL magazine. The article, titled “Getting in to their first choice: How your kids can have the best chance of getting admitted to their top college picks.” Commenting on how college applications are the single most important way students present themselves to schools, Lugo said admissions offices use the application to gauge a student’s aptitude for “academic rigor and intellectual curiosity.”

Tammy Metcalf-Filzen, Carleton’s women’s basketball coach, was featured in a Star Tribune story by Patrick Reusse that centered around her growing family. Five of Metcalf-Filzen’s seven children were adopted internationally, the youngest two adopted just last summer from Ethiopia. The article also mentioned the coach’s winning record at Carleton.

Hannah Ebner ’09 and Carolyn Morales ’09 were featured in a December 21 story in the Tucson (Ariz.) Northwest Explorer titled “Volunteers help Foothills seniors get into college.” Ebner and Morales graduated from Catalina Foothills High School, which has a strong volunteer program where parents help students prepare for college admissions. Both said that without the program, they might not have found out about the college they now love. Ebner and Morales returned to their high school during winter break to talk about Carleton, offer a student perspective on college life and to assure frustrated seniors that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The New Yorker magazine’s “Talk of the Town” section mentioned Carleton’s student radio station, KRLX, in a December 26 issue article titled “College Try: Baghdad to Swarthmore.” The article covers a new Swarthmore College weekly 30 minute radio program, “War News Radio,” that is broadcast on the campus and distributed by podcast, drawing about 3,000 listeners per day. The program includes news and interviews from Iraq. KRLX was one of the first stations in the world to pick up the broadcast. Information on the program was also picked up by media worldwide.

Frank Brodie ’05 was mentioned in a November 27 Star Tribune article titled “Generations collide” about the differences in age, lifestyles and work styles in the workplace. Brodie, a marketing associate at General Mills, majored in political science at Carleton.`

Dorjee Norbu ’09 was mentioned in a November 26 Saint Paul Pioneer Press article, titled “Project keeps stories alive: Hmong, Tibetan, Indian oral histories recorded,” about ethnic oral history projects. Norbu is a volunteer with the Tibetan Oral History project, seeking to preserve the oral history of Tibetan emigrants. Norbu commented on his role and how it has help him learn more about his own ethnic community — noting, for example, that Tibetans have an ability to adapt quickly and to help one another.

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a November 25 Congressional Quarterly Weekly article titled “Scanlon Plea Reflects Badly On The Hill” about the guilty plea — and possible repercussions — of political consultant Michael Scanlon. His plea agreement implicates unamed “public officials” which may cause concern for some congressional lawmakers. “I think it becomes an important scandal when it implicates key members of Congress in ways the public can understand,” said Schier. “We’re not there yet.”

Gary Ruskin ’86 was quoted in a November 24 Saint Paul Pioneer Press article titled “KARE’s ‘Today’ will be ‘advertaintment’ ” about a local Twin Cities television station’s announcement that it will change the local “Today” show to “Showcase Minnesota” and include segments that advertisers have paid to have aired. Ruskin is the executive director of Portland, Ore.-based Commercial Alert, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group. “The news is not supposed to be for sale,” said Ruskin, who majored in religion at Carleton.

Carleton was mentioned in a Voice of America Special English Education Report on November 23 titled “Number of Americans Studying Abroad Continues to Rise.” The report focused on the recently released 2004 Open Doors Report. Carleton was featured in the report as one of ten smaller schools that sends more than 40 percent of the student body abroad during their time at college.