When she discovered the summer job choices in her hometown of Eugene, Ore., didn’t fit her interests of environmental advocacy, community building, and education, Ani Kameenui sacrificed fast cash for a worthier cause. Together with a high school friend, the Carleton College junior founded, organized and now oversees Whole Earth Kids (WEK), a grassroots, non-profit organization that runs free summer camps about environmental issues for children primarily from low-income families.

The student body at Carleton College will be treated to its first new indoor recreational space in 35 years when the College opens its state-of-the-art $15 million Recreation Center on April 3, 2000. The 80,000 sq. ft. building creates a new recreational environment for the campus and provides a much-needed facility for Carleton’s active students, 75 to 90 percent of whom participate in recreational, club and varsity athletics during any given term.

The bells atop Carleton’s Willis Hall can once again be heard chiming the hour, thanks to the generous gift of Charles and Sarah Schilling, 1936 graduates of the College who have fond memories of the bells during their years on campus.

Carleton College was one of 130 colleges that participated in this
year’s V-Day College Initiative, which centered around simultaneous performances of Eve Ensler’s off-Broadway, Obie award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues.” Presented by Carleton’s female activist group, the Collective for Women’s Issues (CWI), the series of monologues was performed on Valentine’s Day by 15 female students and Ruth Weiner, professor of theater arts and English, before a packed house at The Cave, Carleton’s student nightclub. The event raised $150, which was donated to the Women’s Safe Center in Faribault, Minn.

Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Andersen Hulings died Saturday, March 11, 2000, at her home in Bayport, Minn. She was 85. Mrs. Hulings served for 60 years as a director of the Andersen Corporation, the window manufacturing business founded in 1903 by her grandfather, Hans Jacob Andersen. She and her husband, A.D. “Bill” Hulings, were two of Carleton College’s most steadfast benefactors, and were uncommonly generous in support of the College and many other organizations throughout the Midwest.

Mary Savina doesn’t believe lectures are the most effective way of teaching her students the practical applications of a computer-based tool called Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Rather, the professor of geology at Carleton College takes a more hands-on approach-her students are using GIS to work on solving community problems, with “real-life consequences.”

In two Carleton College classrooms recently, more than 50 students witnessed a personal testament to the transformative power of the written word when author Patricia Weaver Francisco visited the College to discuss her latest book, Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery.

The Carleton College Department of Music welcomes the McLain Family Band to campus on Friday, March 3, 2000, for a morning convocation, an afternoon round-table discussion and an evening concert. The evening event will feature the McLain Family Band with the Carleton Orchestra, under the direction of Hector Valdivia, S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Orchestra. The program will include selections by the McLain Family Band, Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven, and Concerto for Bluegrass Band and Orchestra, written for the McLains by Phillip Rhodes, Carleton’s Composer-in-Residence. The events are in honor of Rhodes’ 25th anniversary at Carleton and his 60th birthday.

As we become increasingly more dependent on newer and faster computers, a computer is considered “outdated” soon after it leaves the store, and after a couple of years, many computers are relegated to the attic or set out on the curb. Often, those of us who rely on these machines don’t quite know what to do with an old computer once we’ve purchased its replacement.

In “Biology of Global Change,” a new course at Carleton College, students study the serious impact modern human existence is having on the environment. Outside of class, they are doing something about it.