Illustration by Sanae Sugimoto
Logo: Carleton College Voice, SPRING 2026
Illustration by Sanae Sugimoto
Logo: Carleton College Voice, SPRING 2026
Memorial to Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street corner

ICE Lab

A Carl in Minneapolis considers the lessons of Operation Metro Surge.

Illustration of students and faculty plus a couple of cranes flying through the scene

Illuminating Japan

For generations of Carls, studying the country’s culture, language, and history has cast light not just on East Asia, but the broader world.

Pedro Reyes sculpture

Gun/Culture

How Pedro Reyes uses art to recast tools of violence

Julia Scatliff O’Grady ’85 in a classroom

A Classroom in (and of) the Community

How, over 40 years, Carleton’s embrace of civic engagement has evolved

A man with a megaphone leads a brass band on a winter street

Making the Revolution Irresistible

Alsa Bruno ’12, ICE, and the soundtrack for community

Drew Holmen ’14 and others running a 62-mile footrace through the Alps

Such Great Heights

Drew Holmen ’14 races up mountains, proving to be on of the world’s best—and nicest—ultrarunners.

Headshots of four members of the Carleton community

Four Ways to Reduce Gun Violence

Four members of the Carleton community offer their advice.

Bald Spot: News from Around & Beyond Campus

Professor Michael Kowalewski holds a football and a book

Poetry in Motion
English professor Michael Kowalewski celebrates 25 years in the Laird press box.

Antavia Paredes-Beaulieu and others at Migizi

Community Partnership in the Viewfinder
A CAMS course offered students a lens into community building and intercultural exchange.

Professors Bill North, Rika Anderson, and Marty Baylor

Common Time
Three faculty members share stories about how students have taught them a lesson or two.

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Class Notes

Claire McFadden '13

Spring ’26 Class Notes
See the latest news from your classmates.

President Alison Byerly

Laird 100
President Byerly’s column

Carleton student mailboxes

One North College
Readers write back

Three Carleton football players link arms

Contact Sheet
Carls in portrait