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An Angry Woman: Saudi Activist Manar Alsharif Shares Her Story of Defiance and Liberation
31 January 2013Manar Alsharif was angry.
A 30-year-old Saudi wife, mother and working professional, she faced harassment, sometimes violent, when walking down the street unaccompanied. “You deserve whatever happens to you when you uncover your face,” she was told. And despite her age and accomplishments, Alsharif was still forced to hire a male driver if she wanted to avoid walking. In Saudi Arabia, while not technically illegal, it is socially unacceptable for women to drive.
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Civic Engagement Director Falcon Talks of Carleton’s Support of TORCH on MPR
12 December 2012Minnesota Public Radio’s week-long series, “Ground Level: Making Connections” examined Latinos in the state and the many issues facing them and the challenges they have in becoming a real part of the community. The series profiled Northfield’s TORCH (Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes) program, which has significantly raised Latino high-school completion rates and supported that population’s college access. The program is supported by Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagment, and reporter Elizabeth Baier interviewed Carleton’s director of civic engagement, Adrienne Falcon. “Each community has to build from their place of strength,” Falcon said. “But I think the idea of connecting students to college campuses, connecting students to college students and in meaningful relationships of deep exchange is a model that is very replicable. It’s about finding, ‘Where else can we go? Who else can we collaborate with? Up in Duluth, could St. Scholastica take this one?'”
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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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Cowling Arboretum awarded funds to assist with restoration programs
30 November 2012This winter Carleton College Cowling Arboretum staff will take the first steps in a new forest and grassland restoration project, funded through the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. A $64,593 grant, administered through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, will help restore 38 acres, about 4% of the Carleton Arboretum. “While 4% seems like a small portion, Arboretum users will notice some big changes, so we wanted to make sure our users were aware of what this project entails,” reports Nancy Braker, Arboretum Director.
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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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NY Times Features Raymundo ’87’s Work on Chicago’s South Side
9 November 2012Raul Raymundo ’87 was recently featured in a New York Times article for his work as cofounder and director of The Resurrection Project, which serves Latino families on the South Side of Chicago. The Resurrection Project has been recognized for its new student dormitory, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S.–rather than targeting any particular college, the dorm is meant for any and all commuter students from the South Side who need a safe and quiet place to eat, sleep and study. The Resurrection Project, which Raymundo founded in a church basement in 1989, has developed a significant support apparatus including over 600 low-income housing units, two child-care centers, a health clinic at a local school, youth recreation programs and support services for immigrants.
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Meyer ’07 Recognized for Work in Gambia
9 November 2012Megan Meyer ’07 was recently featured in The Huffington Post for her work as executive director of A Hand in Health, a Minnesota-based nonprofit focused on providing medical assistance. Meyer participated in the “African Book Walk: A Hike Across The Gambia to End Their Book Famine,” an event created by Books for Africa to raise awareness of the lack of education in The Gambia. A year into the project, organizers have shipped more than 198,000 books to the students of The Gambia. That is 20 percent towards the one million book goal. The books range from elementary and secondary school science books to university-level books to law books supplied by Thomson Reuters.
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Video Feature: Firebellies Cooking 101-Sushi Making
26 October 2012Carleton’s student cooking club, Firebellies, partnered with Bon Appétit to teach Carleton students to make sushi over mid-term break. Student videographer Andy Rodgers ’16 captured footage from the event–ever had peanut butter and jelly sushi?
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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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Bookstore Manager Tripp Ryder Named President of MIBA
17 October 2012Congratulations to Tripp Ryder (Bookstore Trade Book Manager), who was named President of MIBA (Midwest Independent Booksellers Association) at its annual conference October 3-5. Tripp will serve as president through early October of 2013. MIBA is a regional not-for-profit trade association that includes locally owned and operated independent bookstores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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