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Daniel Messe ’90 featured in Lansing State Journal
13 January 2005Daniel Messe ’90 was featured in a January 13 Lansing (Mich.) State Journal section titled “Local Music Beat.” Messe is the keyboard player and songwriter for Hem, a widely praised music group based in New York City. Hem was recently a pick of the week in the New Yorker Magazine, where it was described as sophisticated, acoustic folk-pop. Messe majored in English at Carleton.
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Mary Jo Hessert ’01 featured in Wausau Daily Herald
10 January 2005Mary Jo Hessert ’01 was featured in a January 10 Wausau (Wisc.) Daily Herald article titled “Medical student driven to succeed.” Hessert is currently a fourth-year medical student and naval officer who will soon finish her master’s in public health. “One of my professors says I’m hyper-dimensional because I have so many things going at once,” Hessert said. She is nervous about the possibility of being sent to Iraq after seeing and treating many wounded soldiers. “It’s so sad, I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s hard to know what to say to someone whose life has changed so quickly,” Hessert said. She majored in biology at Carleton.
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Chérif Keïta (French) film featured in South African newspaper.
8 January 2005A documentary film by Chérif Keïta, professor of French, titled “The Life and Times of John L. Dube” was featured in a January 8 Pietermaritzburg (Natal, South Africa) The Witness article titled “New film on life of SA icon needs distributor.” Keïta’s work will have its premier at the Pan African Film Festival in Burkina Faso in February.
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Carleton featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
7 January 2005Carleton was featured in a January 7 Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “Number of Doctorates Edges Up Slightly.” The article reports that Carleton is the second-ranked liberal arts college in the nation for sending the most undergraduates on to complete doctoral programs between 1999 and 2003.
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Jim McCorkell ’90 quoted in The Chronicle of Philanthropy
6 January 2005Jim McCorkell ’90 was quoted in a January 6 Chronicle of Philanthropy article titled “Innovation — and a Personal Touch — Get Priority in New Charities.” McCorkell is the founder of Admission Possible, a St. Paul nonprofit organization that helps high school students from low-income families get into college. “I saw how hard my parents’ lives were. That was the inspiration,” said McCorkell. He majored in political science while at Carleton.
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Carleton basketball link mentioned in Star Tribune.
5 January 2005Carleton’s link to the inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was mentioned in a January 5 Star Tribune article titled “100 years of hoops.” The article highlighted the 100th year of basketball in Northfield, Minn. Naismith’s college roommate, Max Exner, was Carleton’s first physical education professor and brought the game to town in 1893. Northfield High School’s girl’s basketball history began with a November 4, 1904 game against a team from St. James, Minn. St. James won 39-6.
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Charles Hayden ’78 featured in Philadelphia Inquirer
1 January 2005Charles Hayden ’78 was featured in a January 1 Philadelphia Inquirer article titled “A Better Chance supports high-achieving students.” Hayden was a participant in the ABC program which has, since 1963, served as an educational matchmaker for middle and high school students. Hayden majored in political science at Carleton and is an attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Jeremy Gantz ’04 featured in The Patriot Ledger (Mass.).
30 December 2004Jeremy Gantz ’04 was featured in a December 30 Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger article titled “Reaching out to help” about the victims of the Asian tsunami. Gantz is a Fulbright Scholar studying the educational system in Sri Lanka. Away on vacation during the tsunami, Gantz’s mother reported that he would soon return to see the condition of his apartment and to lend assistance in recovery efforts. Gantz was a history major at Carleton.
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Women’s basketball team trip to Thailand featured on FOX Sports.
22 December 2004The Carleton women’s basketball team’s service learning trip to Thailand this past summer was the focus of FOX Sports Net’s “NCAA On Campus” show, which aired Wednesday, December 22. The feature was shot on campus in November and featured interviews with Tammy Metcalf-Filzen, associate professor of physical education, athletics and recreation and head women’s basketball coach, and seniors Katie and Beth Freeman of Richfield, Minn., and Kristi Colbenson of Rushford, Minn. Katie Freeman is a chemistry major, Beth Freeman is a history major and Colbenson is a biology major.
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Carleton athletics mentioned in Denver Post and Boston Globe
15 December 2004The Denver Post and the Boston Globe both ran stories in December about college athletics that mentioned Carleton. The December 29 Globe article, titled” Pace setters for graduating college athletes,” mentioned Carleton as one of few colleges that has a graduation rate of 80 percent or more for athletes. The December 31 commentary in the Post, titled “Let college sports go pro,” assured readers that both students and sports thrive at schools without athletic scholarships, including Carleton.
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