Winter is coming, sure, but it's not here yet! Campus and the Arb are still sporting some radiant color, and there's enough left of the fall term for students to finish (or perhaps start?) their final projects and papers. Varsity teams are wrapping up their schedules; the women's cross country and soccer teams are MIAC champs yet again, and men's cross country and soccer are both runners-up as well. Other projects will bear fruit in years to come. Did you know about Carleton's digital recreation of Viking longships? Did you know that Shigeo Yamada '89 is Japan's new ambassador to the United States, and Jack Lew '76 is the new U.S. ambassador to Israel? Did you know that the rest of this newsletter is filled with highlights too? Read on and find out.