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For the second time in three years, Carleton’s Gods of Plastic Ultimate club team captured the Division 3 USA Ultimate championship. GoP dispatched the University of Puget Sound, 14-12, in the finals after rolling through pool play and the semifinals with relative ease. It marked GoP’s third national title in four years, as it previously won the 2009 and 2010 crowns before trying its hand at the D1 level in 2011.
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Two of Carleton’s club Ultimate teams, Gods of Plastic (GoP) and Eclipse, are representing Carleton at the 2012 USA Ultimate D3 Collegiate Nationals this weekend in Appleton, Wis. Eclipse is the defending women’s champion, while GoP attempts to reclaim the title it won in 2010 before moving to D1 in 2011. We have links to each team’s Twitter feed and to live scoring on USA Ultimate’s website.
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Photo Feature: Synchronized Swimming Show
2 May 2012The Carleton synchronized swimming team presented a dazzling show in West Gym with guest performances from the Carleton men’s swimming team.
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Carleton’s Semaphore Repertory Dance Company Selected to Perform at the National College Dance Festival
2 April 2012Carleton’s Semaphore Repertory Dance Company has been honored by a national panel of adjudicators by being selected to perform in the Gala Concert at the Central Regional American College Dance Festival in Washington, D.C.
Held May 25-27, American College Dance Festival Association’s 2012 National College Dance Festival presents three concerts featuring some of the finest dance works selected from colleges and universities throughout the country. Each concert showcases approximately ten dances, with a total of thirty schools participating in the Festival galas.
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Carleton Named 2012 Climate Leadership Awards Finalist; Vote Online for Carleton Today!
19 March 2012Second Nature, a Boston-based national nonprofit that works to create a healthy, just, and sustainable society by transforming higher education, has announced that Carleton College is a finalist for its 2012 Climate Leadership Awards, a national competition among colleges and universities to earn the title of “Most Innovative Climate Leader.”
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Photo Feature: Ebony II
6 February 2012Ebony II is a student-run dance company open to beginners, experienced dancers, and everyone in between. All dance styles are welcome, and each term the company performs student choreography in a performance open to the entire campus.
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Laurel Bradley Featured on KYMN’s “Art Zany!”
27 January 2012The Jan. 20, 2012, broadcast of KYMN (1080 AM) Radio’s “Art Zany! Radio for the Imagination” featured special guest Laurel Bradley, Director and Curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum and Senior Lecturer in Art and Art History, talking about the current art exhibit “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art.” Bradley was joined by Martin Rosenberg, co-curator of the exhibition and Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. On display, through March 11, 2012, “A Complex Weave” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by contemporary women artists of varied backgrounds exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media.
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The 1/25/12 edition of “All Things Considered” on Minnesota Public Radio includes a feature story on the current Perlman Teaching Museum exhibit, “Running the Numbers,” on display through March 11 in the Kaemmer Family Gallery in the Weitz Center for Creativity. “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” is the work of Seattle artist Chris Jordan, who presents huge color photographs — assembled from thousands of smaller photographs — based on statistical facts about American consumer culture. The story on Minnesota Public Radio features Laurel Bradley, director and curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum, and Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, who first encountered Jordan’s artwork in 2010, and was impressed by the way in which it found creative ways to present quantitative data.
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Chronicle of Higher Education: “In an Old School Building, Carleton College and Its Community Enjoy New Lessons”
21 January 2012The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Scott Carlson wrote a feature titled “In an Old School Building, Carleton College and Its Community Enjoy New Lessons” for the publication’s Jan. 21 edition. Carlson tells the history of the building, how the College purchased and planned the renovation, shows how many of the old spaces morphed into the new and how Carleton used many of the old parts of the building in interesting and creative ways. The article includes an online slide show as well.
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Carleton College has announced the formation of a new Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE), combining the efforts of the College’s Academic Civic Engagement (ACE) and Acting in the Community Together (ACT) offices, while adding a third area of public scholarship to bring increased visibility to collaborations between faculty and students, and to support the work of engaged scholarship by Carleton’s faculty. The new effort will be launched with an open house on Friday, Jan. 20, from 10 a.m.-12 noon, at the Sayles-Hill Student Center, room 150. Carleton President Steven G. Poskanzer and Dean of the College Beverly Nagel will offer remarks at 11:15 a.m.
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