| Here's your news for February
from on and off campus.
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Don't let the snow and ice fool you: even in the depths of winter, Carleton is as busy as ever. The Cowling Arboretum is full of human and natural activity (check out these updates from our student naturalists), and the campus has taken another step towards sustainability with the Integrated Science Complex's LEED Platinum certification. The Humanities Center has launched a new podcast, Humanities Centered, and world-class music faculty member Gao Hong is premiering a new work with the Minnesota Orchestra this weekend. Track star Clara Mayfield '23 just set two new school records, and you can compete this winter too—just sign up for Snow Much Fitness. Our alumni aren't slowing down either; Marnie Jorenby '91 has just published a novel in Japanese. Read on for more news from the ever-lively Carleton community.
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Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Update
The Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Strategic Plan Steering Committee has published the Draft IDE Plan and invites feedback from the Carleton community. This draft is the product of five separate working groups that have been generating strategies to accomplish the goals and objectives that were shared in September. The plan touches the learning, living, and working experience of all members of the Carleton community and nearly every aspect of the college's functions and activities. Comments on this draft can be submitted throughout the month of February via the IDE Steering Group feedback form. Alumni are also welcome to participate in an online town hall dedicated to discussion of the draft. The town hall will be held on Tuesday, February 22, at 11:00 a.m. Central; registration is required, and the event will be recorded and made available for later viewing.
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Black at Carleton: 1966-1979 A Celebration of the Black Student Experience
Exhibit Opens
This new on-campus display of photos and artifacts celebrates the Black student experience from a pivotal time in Carleton's history. The exhibit, curated by the Office of Intercultural Life, will be on view in Upper Sayles-Hill during Black History Month, February 4-28.
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Q&A with Michael Caplan ’80 on Nelson Algren
Taking the nationwide civil rights protests of 2020 as his frame, Caplan reconsiders American writer Nelson Algren’s legacy and the lessons we can draw from his work. Read on for the full story.
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500 Cupcakes for 500 Wins
Men's Basketball Coach Guy Kalland, his family, and members of the community recently celebrated his 500th career win with 500 cupcakes in Sayles-Hill.
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Jaren Yambing ’22 Awarded Prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Senior geology major Jahmaine Renzo (Jaren) Yambing ’22 from Rosemount, Minnesota, is the recipient of a Churchill Scholarship, a prestigious award that funds a year of study at the University of Cambridge in select science, mathematics, and engineering programs. Created at the request of Sir Winston Churchill, the scholarship is widely considered the most prestigious post-undergraduate STEM research award. Yambing is the seventh Carleton student to win the award in its 58-year history. Read on for the full story.
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In person: Friday, February 4
10:50 a.m. Central
Skinner Memorial Chapel Toni Carter: Creating Healthy Communities
Toni Carter ’75 serves on the Board of Commissioners for Ramsey County, the second-most populous county in Minnesota. She is the first African American to serve on a county board in Minnesota, and her interest in public service was sparked during her first year at Carleton, in 1971. She joined a busload of Carls on a trip to Mississippi, where they participated in a voter registration drive. The profound impact of that trip laid the foundation for her ongoing commitment to work for communities that are typically excluded from the democratic process.
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Virtual: Tuesday, February 8
12:00 p.m. Central Carleton Connects: The Joy of Knotty Words
Crafting crafty challenges is a challenge in itself. Join computer science professor David Liben-Nowell, software engineer Sophia Maymudes ’20, and current student Billy Bratton ’25 for a conversation about the art of puzzle-making and -solving, the role of teamwork, and the place for puzzles in a Carleton education.
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Virtual: Thursday, February 10
8 a.m. Central Breakfast Club with Janet M. Davis '86: Sharkmania! A Cultural History
Americans are obsessed with sharks. Popular productions such as Jaws, Shark Week, and “Baby Shark” are ubiquitous cultural references and reliably profitable. Janet M. Davis ’86 will discuss her current book project, a transnational American cultural history of human and shark entanglements from the Age of Sail to the Age of Internet Sharks. “Sharkmania” is an enduring cultural barometer of trauma, fear, fascination, and (depending on cultural context) veneration.
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Virtual: Friday, February 11
7:00 p.m. Central Faculty Recital: Matthew McCright
Faculty pianist Matthew McCright performs a program entitled “Postcards from the Edge,” featuring the premiere of Dorothy Hindman’s To Spill Oneself Away, a work of perpetual motion that comes to grips with the exhaustion of giving one’s all. Alongside the blues styling of Laura Caviani, McCright also enters the jazzy/psychedelic world of Terry Riley’s take on The Beatles and concludes with the epic sweep of North American Ballads by Frederic Rzewski, whose recent death left a void in the world of contemporary music.
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Alumni affinity groups Affinity groups are a great way to connect with other alumni who share your interests and experiences.
Out After Carleton (OAC) exists to mobilize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Asexual and Allied (LGBTQA+) alumni, students, and friends of the college as a community to support Carleton's overall educational, admission, careers, and fundraising programs and objectives, especially as they relate to and affect LGBTQA+ students, alumni, faculty, staff, and allied friends of the college. For more info, check out the Out After Carleton winter newsletter.
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The Multicultural Alumni Network (MCAN) supports alumni efforts on behalf of students and alumni who identify as persons of color. The purpose of MCAN is to broaden and support the college's overall educational, admissions, career, and fundraising programs, particularly as these programs relate to the enrichment of its students and alumni of color. Allies to these endeavors are welcomed. For more info, check out the MCAN winter newsletter.
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Serve on the Alumni Council
Interested in serving on the Alumni Council? Council members help to build alumni community and connections to Carleton and to foster volunteering and stewardship throughout the entire network of the Alumni Association. This April, the Alumni Council will elect four new at-large members to four-year terms. To nominate someone (including yourself), visit the Alumni Council site.
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Call for Reunion 2023 Volunteers
If your class will be celebrating a Reunion in 2023 and you are interested in helping plan Reunion or your class's gift effort, please complete the Reunion Volunteer form. Anyone is welcome to join.
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Call for Affinity Reunion Volunteers
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