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Kaaren Williamsen, who came to Carleton in 1999 as the college’s first LGBT adviser and went on to become founding director of the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) in 2001, is leaving Carleton this summer to become Title IX coordinator at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Peter Barron ’17 and Vayu Rekdal ’15 created Carltography, a project to collect and display campus experiences shared through personally drawn maps. Together with Jackson Vanfleet Brown ’15 they’re distributing blank Carleton maps and showcasing submissions on their website.

The facilities department provides separate waste streams for compostable and recyclable materials, but students are still more likely to send their trash to the landfill. Each weekend during the 2013–14 academic year, student waste monitors Jackson Vanfleet Brown ’17 and Anthony Hill-Abercrombie ’14 would sort the trash in Carleton residence halls by floor and compile the data.

Recently named vice president for external relations, Tommy Bonner says he’s looking forward to “having a lot of fun at Carleton.”

St. Olaf’s Buntrock Commons student center nearly split its seams when it hosted the inaugural Northfield Area Climate Summit in January.

Amelia Campbell ’16 broke the NCAA Division III all-time record in the pentathlon at the 2014 MIAC championships and won the national title a few weeks later.

People around the world tune in for Carleton Connects, a webinar program put on by the alumni relations office for anyone who seeks the intellectual stimulation of a college lecture.

Religion major Kassie Maxeiner ’14 is completing a comps project on Al-Jumuah, a Muslim American magazine.

Stewart Ramsey cofounded Krochet Kids International, a nonprofit that teaches women from impoverished nations to crochet and sew, exports their goods, and returns proceeds from the sales to the women. He delivered the February 28, 2014, convocation address.

Dante Stephensen ’58 was nearly expelled from Carleton his first year—for keeping a coyote on campus. “I saved him from a Minneapolis animal fair,” Stephensen explains. “His living conditions were…