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Honorary Degree Recipients Announced
26 March 2003M.H. Abrams and David Maybury-Lewis will receive honorary degrees at Commencement on Saturday, June 14.
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Tou Ger Xiong ’96 featured for work with Hmong populations.
26 March 2003Tou Ger Xiong ’96 was featured in a March 26 article in the Woodbury (MN) Bulletin. The article highlights Xiong’s work as chairman of the Hmong American Partnership, one of the largst Hmong refugee agencies in the country. Xiong also works with the Hmong National Development and is chairing a $4.2 million campaign for the new Hmong American Center. Xiong also performs nationwide with his work, “Project Respectism,” which uses comedy, storytelling and rap music to encourage respect for each other. Xiong majored in political science at Carleton.
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Roger Lasley (Registrar) releases acoustic guitar CD.
24 March 2003Roger Lasley, registrar, has released a CD of acoustic guitar music titled “Walking Backwards.” Lasley has performed on radio shows such as “A Prairie Home Companion” and “Live from Studio One.” Lasley’s CDs are available from the Carleton Bookstore and River City Books.
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As 77 Carleton students prepare to embark on spring off-campus study programs, the College is reiterating precautionary measures for travel during a time of war.
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Roy Grow (political science) quoted in Star Tribune.
19 March 2003Roy Grow, the Frank B. Kellogg Professor of International Relations, was quoted in the March 16 Star Tribune. In a story titled “A world safe for democracy, or perpetual war?” Grow said that the North Koreans have certainly interpreted the ‘axis’ language, the U.S. refusal to negotiate with them and other U.S. moves as evidence that Washington is contemplating an attack.
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Carleton DVD Fest 2003 featured in MacCentral and Mac Observer news releases.
18 March 2003The Carleton DVD Fest 2003 was featured in the March 18 Web news releases of MacCentral and The Mac Observer. Over 75 percent of Carleton students participated in the event with almost 40 teams contributing entries. The finalists can be viewed at http://www.dvdfest.org.
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Quy T. Ton ’95 and Kao Yang ’03 awarded Soros Fellowship for New Americans
18 March 2003Quy T. Ton ’95 and Kao Yang ’03 have been awarded 2003 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The purpose of fellowship is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. Ton is a first year medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He previously earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Ton was born in Saigon, but when he was 18 months old his family fled Vietnam; they now live in Mansfield, Penn. Ton received both a Larson International Fellowship and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study East Asian medicine in Vietnam, China, Japan, and Korea. Following his graduate work in public health, he was hired by Partners in Health in Boston. At the University of Minnesota, he has been president of the Medical School chapter of Physicians for Human Rights and co-chair of the American Medical Students Association chapter. Yang is a Hmong-American senior at Carleton. She was born in Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand, where her family had fled to escape the ethnic cleansing of the Hmong, a preliterate highland tribal people who fought with the American soldiers during the Vietnam War. After six years in the refugee camp, the family moved to St. Paul, Minn., where they have lived since. At Carleton, Yang has focused on broadening her experience and exposure to the liberal arts rather than on refining her fiction writing. She is majoring in American studies, with minors in cross-cultural and women’s and gender studies. Yang received the Page Foundation awards for excellence three years in succession, the Gilman Scholarship for International Study, and the Freeman in Asia Scholarship for international study in Asia.
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Nancy Wilkie (Archaeology) honored with AIA endowment.
13 March 2003Nancy Wilkie, the William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology and the Liberal Arts, has been honored with the creation of an lectureship endowment in her name by the Archeaeological Institute of America (AIA). The endowment will fund the Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaelogical Heritage and honors Wilkie’s contributions as a former president of AIA.
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We Speak celebrates Black experience
7 March 2003We Speak is a student-run program coordinated by the Black Student Alliance (BSA). It is the final event of Black History Month, at the end of a long line of activities stretching throughout February.
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Carleton’s ‘slush fund’ highlighted in Star Tribune.
7 March 2003Carleton’s David K. Hildebrand Endowed Fund for Ice and Snow Removal, also known as the “slush fund,” was highlighted in a March 4 front page story in the Star Tribune. The story also appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, on ABC’s “Nightline,” and on CNN.
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