Jeremy Gantz ’04 was featured in a May 8 article in The (Quincy, Mass.) Patriot Ledger titled “World traveler: Fulbright scholar to study in Sri Lanka.” Gantz was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Sri Lanka’s education system. During his junior year, Gantz studied abroad in Sri Lanka and lived with a local Buddhist family. Gantz is a history major at Carleton.

The unholy trinity of Apathy, Cynicism and Hopelessness was gloriously defeated by the forces of Good in Northfield’s Central Park on Saturday, May 8th. The epic battle, titled “Hope is a Thing with Feathers” was fought by hand-made puppets of all shapes and sizes and was the conclusion of the Northfield Community Day of Service.

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, more than 100 Carleton students marched down Division Street as part of the Northfield Community Puppet Theater parade. Performers were in the crowd wearing masks, walking on stilts and carrying 20-foot-tall puppets. The marchers clapped and cheered, as the procession made its way through downtown Northfield. Leading the parade was Kate Strathmann, a sophomore who co-organized the event with senior Max Wirsing, holding a sign above her head proclaiming, “Wake Up!”

The only dance major in the class of 2004, Sarah Jacobs took a decidedly unique approach to her comprehensive exercises—she staged a performance involving 24 dancers, including Carleton students and staff members.

The 2004 Carleton delegation to the World Model United Nations Conference has received one of two Outstanding Delegations awards, the highest honor bestowed on delegations from around the world. Held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, this year’s conference brought together more than 800 delegates from six continents to simulate the activities of the United Nations. Five of the six Carleton delegates also received individual Spirit of Diplomacy Awards recognizing their ability to overcome language barriers, demonstrate knowledge of the country they represent, and display the ability to compromise during the conference.

Julie Neiworth, professor of psychology, was awarded the Minnesota Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award. Neiworth is the first liberal arts college faculty member to receive the award in more than 10 years. Neiworth presented her research on tamarins at the evening’s address.

“Visions & Voices: A Celebration of OCS Photography and World Poetry” will be held Thursday, May 6, from 7-8 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Off-Campus Studies celebrates its 18th annual photo contest with an evening of world poetry and photography. Twenty-five beautiful and thought-provoking photographs from more than 100 contest entries are on display in the Library foyer. Prior to announcing this year’s top four photo contest winners, the poetry reading will include students, faculty, and staff reading poems in their native language and then in English. Off-Campus Studies

Gregory Hewett, assistant professor of English, will have two sections of his forthcoming book of poetry, “The Eros Conspiracy,” appear in this summer’s issue of The Butcher Shop literary journal.

Nelson Christensen, associate professor of physics, and Carl Ebeling ’03 are among the co-authors of two LIGO Scientific Collaboration papers titled “Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939 + 2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors” and “First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts,” both published in Physical Review.

Tory Fitchett ’05 was pictured in a May 5 Star Tribune story about Carleton’s intramural volleyball teams. “We expect complete domination,” said Fitchett about his team’s success. Fitchett is a biology major at Carleton.