Carleton College will be the site for a traditional Native American Pow Wow on Saturday, May 15, beginning at 1 p.m. on the Bald Spot, the open grassy area in the center of campus. Usually held in the spring, a Pow Wow is a celebration honoring the earth, with drumming and dancing as the centerpiece. Native American crafts also will be on display and food items will be available to sample. The event is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Academic Quiz Team reached its ultimate goal last weekend by capturing the undergraduate national title at the 1999 National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) Intercollegiate Championships, held April 9-10 on the campus of the University of Michigan.

The elegance and splendor of 19th-century English life will be revived as Carleton College celebrates its second annual Regency Ball on Sunday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Severance Great Hall.

Ralph Fjelstad, emeritus professor of government at Carleton College, died on Tuesday, March 2, 1999. He was 83.

Bill Hillsman, the man behind the creative award-winning campaign ads for U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, will speak at Carleton College’s Friday Convocation on Feb. 26, 1999, at 10:50 a.m. in Skinner Memorial Chapel. He will discuss the influence of money and the media on the political process, and how the growing partisanship of the major parties is driving voters away from participating in the election process.

Carleton College President Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., has announced he will take a sabbatical from January to March 1999 as approved by the College’s Board of Trustees. Dean of the College Elizabeth McKinsey will serve as acting president during his absence. McKinsey will continue to serve in her current position as well.

Carleton College has been awarded two grants totaling $695,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York. $445,000 will be used to support four two-year postdoctoral fellowships and $250,000 will strengthen the College’s faculty development program.

Gary Grant, the founding president of the National Black Farmers and Agriculturists Association and director of the National Land Loss
Fund, will speak at Carleton College on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., in Skinner Memorial Chapel, which is located near the main entrance to Carleton on the corner of College and First streets.

The explosive thrills of American vaudeville theater will be featured this Friday at Carleton College, as Greg Palmer, the award-winning producer of the PBS documentary “Vaudeville,” and father of Carleton sophomore Ira Palmer, presents the College’s weekly convocation at 10:50 a.m. in the Concert Hall.

For Carleton College senior Melissa Salzman, participation in a recent off-campus studies program turned into the experience of a lifetime. She spent 12 weeks last winter in Nicaragua, where she was awakened each morning at six by the shouts of a street vendor. While her classmates slept in, Salzman left her host family’s apartment in Managua to volunteer at the only public children’s hospital in the nation’s capital.