The Carleton College women’s basketball team will travel to Thailand, June 12-29, to compete against Thai university teams, conduct basketball clinics and provide humanitarian assistance to villagers in the country’s northern hill tribe communities.

The Journal of Japanese Gardening has named Carleton College’s Japanese garden one of the 10 highest-quality gardens outside of Japan. In an effort to determine the gardens most worth visiting, the journal surveyed 39 Japanese garden specialists in Europe, North America and Australia, and Carleton’s garden was ranked number seven among more than 300 public gardens.

As Carleton College’s celebration of Pride Month 2000 draws to a close, a new, brightly-colored mural hangs in a campus building as a permanent reminder of the College’s ongoing support of acceptance for all.

The Carleton College Great Hall will be transformed into an English parlor on Friday, April 14, with country dance music from the mid 1600s, guests floating around in empire-waist gowns and breeches, and cucumber sandwiches aplenty.

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.”