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Carleton College
Motto:	Declaratio Sermonum Tuorum Illuminat (Latin) (The revelation of your words illuminates)
Established:	November 14, 1866
Type:	Private liberal arts college
Endowment:	US $650 million
President:	Robert A. Oden, Ph. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For the film of this title see Private School (film. Private schools, or Independent schools are Schools not administered Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The word million In standard English, the -lli- in million is pronounced with an l-sound followed by a University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Robert A Oden Jr (pronounced "oh-dean" is the current president of Carleton College. D.
Faculty:	198
Undergraduates:	1,958
Postgraduates:	0
Location:	Northfield, Minnesota, USA
Campus:	Rural, 1040 acres
Colors:	Maize and Blue
Nickname:	"Carls" or "Knights"
Mascot:	Carleton Knight
Affiliations:	MIAC
Website:	www.carleton.edu

Coordinates: 44°27′43″N 93°9′13.6″W / 44.46194, -93.153778 Carleton College is an independent, non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the US state of Minnesota. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a University or College within the United States is the name officially adopted by The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common History On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was born with Carleton College Gustavus A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Sectarianism is Bigotry, Discrimination, Prejudice or Hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the US state of Minnesota. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The school was founded on November 14, 1866, by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches as Northfield College. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1871, its name changed to Carleton College in honor of benefactor William Carleton of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who donated US$50,000 to the fledgling institution. William Carleton (1797 &ndash 1876 was a prosperous manufacturer of brassware from Charlestown Massachusetts. Charlestown is a part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts located on a peninsula north of Boston proper According to current U.S. News and World Report rankings, Carleton College is the #5 liberal arts college in the United States. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D ^[1] The College currently enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. Robert A. Oden is the current President. Robert A Oden Jr (pronounced "oh-dean" is the current president of Carleton College.

Defining features

Academically, Carleton is nationally recognized as a leading undergraduate institution. It is consistently ranked in the U.S. News and World Report's college rankings within the top ten U. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D S. liberal arts schools (tied for fifth place with Middlebury College in 2007-08). Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The most recent middle 50 percent of admitted students received 1330-1490 on the SAT Critical Reading and Math Sections, with over three quarters ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating classes. The SAT Reasoning Test (formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test) is a standardized test for College admissions in the Carleton consistently enrolls more students in the National Merit Scholarship Program than any other liberal arts college in the country [1] and its Class of 2011 includes seventy-nine National Merit Scholars (which includes both Carleton sponsored and external National Merit Scholars) of its 512 students. The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic Scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit The College is a leading source of PhD recipients,^{[2] [3]}and is also recognized for sending an unusually large number of female students to graduate programs in the sciences. ^[4] Alumni giving, a measure of alumni satisfaction with the College, was 64% in 2006, the highest among liberal arts colleges. Carleton leads all baccalaureate colleges in the number of its students awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowships for graduate study from 1990-99. Carleton competes in quizbowl and has won the National Academic Quiz Tournaments undergraduate championship twice--1999 and 2007. Quizbowl (also known as Quiz Bowl, Scholastic Bowl, Brain Bowl, Academic Team, Academic Varsity Bowl, Academic Challenge National Academic Quiz Tournaments LLC is a question-writing and Quizbowl organizing company founded by former players in 1996. In 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2004, the team from Carleton received Best Delegation at the Harvard World Model United Nations competition.

Extracurriculars at Carleton are an integral part of student life. Although the Carleton student body consists of fewer than two thousand undergraduates, the school's nearly 150 active student organizations include three theatre boards (coordinating as many as ten productions every term), longform and shortform improv groups and a sketch comedy troupe, seven a cappella groups, four choirs, at least seven specialized instrumental ensembles, five dance interest groups, two auditioned dance companies, a successful Mock Trial team, a nationally-competitive debate program, seven recurring student publications and a student-run KRLX radio station employing more than 200 volunteers each term. A cappella (Italian or Latin "From the chapel/choir" Music is Vocal music or Singing without instrumental Accompaniment KRLX is a student-run Format-free, Non-commercial FM Radio station Broadcasting from Northfield, Minnesota.

Carleton is committed to environmentally conscious initiatives, and in October 2007, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, organization involved in research on the sustainability of higher education endowments, recognized Carleton as a leader in overall college sustainability for its environmentally sound practices and endowment transparency. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. In the College Sustainability Report Card 2008, which evaluates the 200 colleges and universities with the largest endowments in the United States and Canada, Carleton received the highest evaluation grade of A-, putting the College in the category of College Sustainability Leader with Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont and University of Washington. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The University of Vermont is a national public research university and the state of Vermont's land-grant university See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University The Report Card also cited Carleton as an Endowment Sustainability Leader, along with Dartmouth College and Williams College ^[5]. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Carleton also receives approximately 40% of its energy from a wind turbine located near the college.

Athletics

Carleton has numerous athletic opportunities for students, including 19 varsity teams, 23 club teams, and dozens of intramural teams forming every term. In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a College, University, High Intramural sports or intramurals are recreational Sports organized within a school Carleton competes in NCAA Division III, meaning it offers no athletic scholarships. Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. An athletic scholarship is a form of Scholarship to attend a College or University awarded to an individual based predominantly on his or her ability to Its men's and women's cross country teams are generally strong, with numerous all-Americans and one national championship (men's, 1980). Cross Country running is a Sport of running Compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain faster than other teams Additionally, the Women's Swimming and Diving program is a perennial Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) conference power. History On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was born with Carleton College Gustavus In 2005, the women's volleyball team posted a 22-5 record, a runner-up finish in the MIAC. Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 active players (5 normal players and one 'libero' are separated by a net that is usually four feet This was Carleton's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1985. In 2006, the men's basketball team tied the University of St. Thomas for the MIAC 1st place banner, received an at large bid to the NCAA tournament, but later lost in the first round of tournament play. In 2007, the women's golf program sent its first individual qualifier in history to the Division III Women's Golf NCAA Tournament in Florida.

Club sports at Carleton are very active; turnout for teams like men's and women's rugby will often exceed 40 players per team. Rugby football (usually just " rugby " may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of Football developed at Rugby School Of the club teams, the student-run Ultimate clubs have had the most competitive success; most notably, the Carleton (Men's) Ultimate Team (CUT) and women's team Syzygy have been national contenders every year. Ultimate (often called Ultimate Frisbee in reference to the trademarked brand name) is a non-contact Team sport played with a 175 gram Flying CUT qualified annually for nationals from 1990 to 2005 and won the National Championship in 2001. Syzygy qualified for nationals fifteen of sixteen years (1989-2002, 2004-2005), winning the National Championship in 2000 and taking second place in 1998, 1999 and 2004.

Campus

Gould Library

The college campus was created in 1867 with the gift of two ten-acre parcels, one from Charles Goodsell and the other from Charles Augustus Wheaton. Charles Augustus Wheaton (1809 &ndash 1882 was a major figure in the central New York state Abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad.

The Cowling Arboretum, created from lands purchased in the 1920s during difficult financial times by then president Donald J. Carleton College Cowling Arboretum (also referred to as the Arb) consists of approximately 880 acres (360 hectares of land adjacent to Carleton College. Cowling, was first called "Cowling's Folly" and, later, his legacy. It consists of approximately 880 acres (3. 6 km²) of forest, field, and floodplain, and it includes many miles of trails. Also, the conceptual framework of the arboretum was based on the works of Christopher Williams (artist), a notable Grinnell College alumnus. Christopher Williams (born 1956 Los Angeles) is an American conceptual artist and photographer. Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in

Carleton built a new 80,000 square-foot Recreation Center in 2000, with a full indoor fieldhouse located above a state-of-the-art fitness center complete with a climbing wall and bouldering wall. A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet used for Climbing.

Historic sites

Skinner Memorial Chapel. Skinner Memorial Chapel is a Chapel and historic building on the Campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Several of Carleton's properties have been recognized for their historic value. The National Register of Historic Places lists Willis Hall (1868), Goodsell Observatory (1887), Scoville Memorial Library (1896), and Skinner Memorial Chapel (1916). The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Willis Hall is a historic building on the Campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Goodsell Observatory is a building on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota. Scoville Memorial Library is a Library and historic building on the Campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Skinner Memorial Chapel is a Chapel and historic building on the Campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Traditions

Carleton's history has given rise to several notable traditions. Many of these are pranks, such as painting the college's water tower. Most notably, a remarkably accurate likeness of President Clinton was painted the night before his commencement speech in 2000, and painted over by college maintenance very early the following morning. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Administrative attitudes toward this particular phenomenon have changed over time. For liability-related reasons, even climbing the water tower is now considered a grave infraction. Streaking also remains a ubiquitous phenomenon, even and most impressively in winter temperatures that average about 15°F (-9°C), and occasionally reach lows around -25º (-32°C). Streaking is the act of taking off one's clothes and running naked through a public place

President Emeritus Laurence Gould is briefly reunited with the bust of Schiller in this undated archive photo from The Carletonian

More perplexingly, a bust of Friedrich Schiller, known simply as "Schiller", appears frequently, though briefly, at large campus events. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller krɪstɔf friːtʁɪç fɔn ʃɪləʁ/ʃɪlɐ (10 November 1759 9 May 1805 was a German Poet, Philosopher The tradition dates back to 1957, when a student appropriated the bust from an unlocked storage area in the new Gould Library, only to have the bust stolen from him in turn, an exchange which soon escalated into a high-profile conflict that eventually took on by necessity a high degree of secrecy and strategy. These days, Schiller's appearance, accompanied by the shout "Schiller!", is a tacit challenge to other students to pursue in an attempt to capture the bust (which has, understandably, been replaced at least once; the currently circulating bust of Schiller was retrieved from Puebla, Mexico in the summer of 2003). Is a Mexican state located in the center east of the country to the east of Mexico City. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. In 2006, students created an online scavenger hunt, made up of a series of complex riddles about Carleton [2], ultimately leading participants to Schiller's hidden location. The bust was subsequently stolen from the winner of the scavenger hunt. At Commencement in 2006 the holders of the bust arranged for Schiller to "graduate. " His name was called at the appropriate moment during the awarding of diplomas, the bust was pulled from the podium and prominently displayed.

Finally, a softball game known as Rotblatt, in honor (or open mockery) of player Marvin Rotblatt, is held every spring. Marvin Rotblatt (born October 18, 1927 in Chicago Illinois) nicknamed "Rotty" is a former Left-handed pitcher in Major League The day-long celebration features free t-shirts and a good deal of requisite drinking, and the number of innings played coincides with the College's current anniversary. In 1997, Sports Illustrated honored Rotblatt in its "Best of Everything" section with the award, "Longest Intramural Event. Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. "

Alma Mater

O, Carleton, our Alma Mater,

We hail the Maize and Blue;

Thy name is ever dearest

Thy children ever true. Maize (ˈmeɪz ( Zea mays L. ssp mays) known as corn in some countries is a cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica Blue is a Colour, the Perception of which is evoked by

O, Carleton, our Alma Mater,

To thee we sing our praise;

For thee we fight,

To thee we pledge

The strength of all our days!

Trivia

• The nation's oldest student-run pub, The Cave, was founded at Carleton in 1927 in the basement of Evans Hall, and continues to host live music shows and other events several times each week. The Cave is the oldest student-run Pub in the United States and is a favorite gathering place for students at Carleton College and is one of a limited number
• The College's format-free student-run radio station, KRLX, founded in 1947 as KARL, was recently ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's ten best college radio stations. KRLX is a student-run Format-free, Non-commercial FM Radio station Broadcasting from Northfield, Minnesota. KRLX broadcasts continually when school is in session.
• The popular early computer game The Oregon Trail was first created, and later developed, by students at Carleton in 1971. The Oregon Trail is an Educational Computer game developed by Don Rawitsch Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC
• The Chicago Reader, one of the first alternative weeklies, was founded in 1971 by a small group of recent Carleton graduates. The Chicago Reader is an Alternative newsweekly in Chicago, Illinois, USA An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns They later started the Los Angeles Reader (no longer published) and the Washington City Paper. Los Angeles Reader was a weekly paper established in 1978 and distributed in Los Angeles, USA. The Washington City Paper is a US Alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington D In July 2007, the founders sold the Reader to Creative Loafing.
• The Reformed Druids of North America was founded at Carleton in 1963, initially as an effort to be excused from attending the then-required weekly chapel service, and later as legitimate spiritual exploration. The Reformed Druids of North America, or RDNA, was formed at Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota, in 1963, and marked the start of the American
• Peter Tork of The Monkees was a student of English at Carleton for three years until he dropped out to pursue music full-time. Peter Tork (born Peter Halsten Thorkelson February 13, 1942) is an American Musician and Actor, best known as a member For the group's self-titled album see The Monkees (album. For the TV series see The Monkees (TV series. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
• Popular PBS and National Geographic TV zoology host Chris Kratt received his BA in biology from Carleton. Christopher F "Chris" Kratt (born July 19, 1969 in New Jersey) is an American host of children's television programs Kratts' Creatures
• Carleton hosted the first and only NCAA-sponsored metric football game in 1977. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations The game was dubbed the "Liter Bowl" and was measured in meters instead of yards. Carleton lost the game to St. Olaf by a score of 42-0.
• The world premiere production of Bertolt Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle was performed in 1948 at Carleton's Nourse Little Theater. (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. The Caucasian Chalk Circle ( German: Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a 1944 play by Bertolt Brecht.
• The popular indie band Tapes 'N Tapes formed at Carleton in the winter of 2003. Tapes 'n Tapes is an Indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• The school's all-male a cappella group, The Carleton Singing Knights, performed a version of Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. A cappella (Italian or Latin "From the chapel/choir" Music is Vocal music or Singing without instrumental Accompaniment " Harder Better Faster Stronger The video([3] on Youtube has received over a million views. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees
• A scene from the movie D3: The Mighty Ducks was filmed in Carleton's Great Hall.

Notable alumni

See also Category:Carleton College alumni

• Thorstein Veblen, class of 1880, American economist and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 &ndash August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book first published in 1899 by the American Economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the
• Pierce Butler, class of 1887, Supreme Court Justice from 1923 to 1939. Pierce Butler ( March 17, 1866 &ndash November 16, 1939) was an American Jurist who served as an Associate Justice The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary.
• Ernest Lundeen, class of 1901, U. Ernest Lundeen ( August 4, 1878 &ndash August 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and Politician. S. Representative from 1917-1919 and from 1933-1937. U. S. Senator from 1937 until his death in 1940.
• Karl E. Mundt, class of 1923, U. Karl Earl Mundt ( June 3, 1900 – August 16, 1974) was an American educator and a Republican member of the United S. Representative from 1938 to 1948 and U. S. Senator from 1948 to 1973.
• Robert K. Greenleaf, class of 1926, corporate management expert, the founder of the Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
• Warren P. Knowles, class of 1930, governor of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1971. Robert K Greenleaf (1904-1990 was the founder of the modern Servant leadership movement Warren Perley Knowles ( August 19, 1908 - May 1, 1993) born in River Falls Wisconsin, was an American lawyer and
• Sheldon B. Vance, class of 1939, U. Sheldon Baird Vance ( January 18, 1917 – November 12, 1995) born in Crookston, Minnesota, was the U S. ambassador to Zaire
• Melvin R. Laird, class of 1942, President Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973. Melvin Robert (Bom Laird (born September 1, 1922) is an American politician and writer
• Anthony Downs, class of 1952, author of An Economic Theory of Democracy. Anthony Downs is a noted scholar in Public policy and Public administration, and since 1977 is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington An Economic Theory of Democracy is a Political science treatise written by Anthony Downs, published in 1957
• Hal Higdon, class of 1953, runner and writer
• Michael Armacost, class of 1958, former Under Secretary of State (Policy), former ambassador to Japan and the Philippines, president of the Brookings Institution from 1995-2002, and current chairman of the board of trustees. Hal Higdon is an American writer and runner He has contributed to Runner's World magazine longer than any other writer Michael H Armacost is a fellow at Stanford University 's Institute for International Studies The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington D
• Michael Gartner, class of 1960, journalist. Michael Gartner (born October 25, 1938, in Des Moines Iowa) is an American Journalist and Businessman.
• Jack Barnes, class of 1961, the leader of the Socialist Workers Party (USA). Jack Whittier Barnes (born in 1940 is an American Communist and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The Socialist Workers Party, or SWP, is a Communist Political party in the United States.
• Garrick Utley, class of 1961, journalist, former host of Meet the Press. Garrick Utley (born November 19, 1939, Chicago Illinois) is an American TV journalist
• Walter Alvarez, class of 1962, geologist credited with the theory that an asteroid impact was the likely cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. For his grandfather the American doctor see Walter C Alvarez.
• Donella Meadows, class of 1963, lead author of Limits to Growth
• Thomas Mengler, Dean of Law at University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and former dean of the University of Illinois College of Law
• James Loewen, class of 1964, historian and author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Barrie M. Osborne, class of 1966, producer of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Donella "Dana" Meadows ( March 13, 1941 Elgin Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering Limits to Growth is a 1972 book modeling the consequences of a rapidly growing World population and finite resource supplies commissioned by the Thomas Mengler, an expert in Procedure and complex Litigation, is dean of the law school at the University of St The University of St Thomas (also known as UST or simply St Thomas) is a coeducational archdiocesan Roman Catholic institution of The University of Illinois College of Law, or UIUC College of Law is a law school school located in Champaign, Illinois. James (Jim W Loewen (b February 6, 1942) is a sociologist Professor, and author whose best known work is Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James Loewen. Barrie M Osborne (born February 7, 1944 in New York, New York) is a movie producer, Executive producer, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy consists of three Live action Fantasy Epic films The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001
• Mary-Claire King, class of 1967, human geneticist
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., class of 1970, U. Mary-Claire King (1946-) is an American human geneticist She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the Genetics and interaction of Rush Dew Holt Jr (born October 15 1948, Weston West Virginia) is an American Democratic Party Politician and the S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district since 1996.
• Kai Bird, class of 1973, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize -winning Author and Columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism,
• Jane Hamilton, class of 1979, novelist and winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. This article is about the American novelist For the adult film director and actress see Veronica Hart.
• John F. Harris, class of 1985, Editor-in chief of The Politico
• Stephen Six, class of 1988, Kansas Attorney General
• Clara Jeffery, class of 1989, Editor of Mother Jones magazine
• Jonathan Capehart, class of 1989, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist. John F Harris is Editor in Chief for the The Politico, a Washington DC based newspaper about politics which launched on January 23 2007 This article is about the newspaper For the description of a person see Politico. Stephen N Six (born December 11, 1965) is an American Attorney and former Judge from Kansas. The Attorney General of Kansas is a statewide elected official responsible for providing legal services to the state government of Kansas. Clara Jeffery (born August 25 1967 in Baltimore Maryland) is the co-editor of Mother Jones magazine. Mother Jones is an independent Nonprofit Magazine rooted in liberal political values and known for its Investigative reporting
• Tomkin Coleman, class of 1991, national advocate for gay marriage
• Christopher Kratt, class of 1992, TV and film producer and host. Reverend Tomkin Coleman (born March 28 1969 in Mankato, Minnesota) is the founder of Unity Services the former moderator of the Evangelical Christopher F "Chris" Kratt (born July 19, 1969 in New Jersey) is an American host of children's television programs Kratts' Creatures
• Laura Veirs, class of 1997, singer/songwriter. Laura Veirs (born 1973 is an American Singer-songwriter. Biography Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs Colorado, where she often
• Masanori Mark Christianson, class of 1998, musician/art director. Masanori Mark Christianson (born Masanori Shirota, January 18, 1976 in Ōmori, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese American
• Parker Palmer, class of 1961, author. Parker J Palmer (born 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an author educator and activist who focuses on issues in education community leadership spirituality

Notable faculty

• Ian Barbour, professor emeritus, 1989–91 Gifford lecturer on religion and science, and winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Ian Graeme Barbour (b 1923 Beijing, China) is an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion The Gifford Lectures were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (died 1887) The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities is a prize given out annually by the Templeton Foundation.
• David Bryn-Jones, biographer of U. David Bryn-Jones (1883- was an Historian, Educator, Baptist minister, and Biographer of U S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, taught history, economics, and international relations at Carleton from 1920 to 1951.
• John Bates Clark, a famous American economist, was a professor at Carleton, and taught Thorstein Veblen. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 &ndash August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist
• Frank Daniel, Czech Born writer, producer, director, and teacher; developer of the sequence paradigm of screenwriting. Frank (František Daniel ( 14 April 1926 – March 29, 1996) was a Film director, producer and Scriptwriter
• Burton Levin, Former United States Consul General to Hong Kong and US Ambassador to Burma from May 1987 to September 1990, is currently the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy. Burton Levin is the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy at Carleton College. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders An ambassador is the highest ranking Diplomat who represents their country Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar ( pjìdàunzṵ mjàmmà nàinŋàndɔ̀ is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia.
• Laurence McKinley Gould, who was second-in-command to Richard E. Byrd on his first landmark expedition to Antarctica, served as a professor of geology at Carleton and later as College President from 1945-1962. Laurence McKinley Gould ( August 22 1896 - June 21 1995) was an American Geologist, Educator, and Polar Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN ( October 25, 1888 &ndash March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar Geology (from Greek γη gê, "earth" and λόγος Logos, "speech" lit
• Roy Grow, Kellogg Professor of International Relations and the director of the International Relations, is a former military interpreter and analyst in Asia. Professor Roy Grow is the Kellogg Professor of International Relations and the director of the International Relations program at Carleton College. He is often heard on programs such as Minnesota Public Radio's Midday.
• Howard Swearer, Carleton's president for several years in the 1970s, later became president of Brown University. Howard Robert Swearer ( March 13, 1932 - October 19, 1991) was a U Brown University is a highly esteemed private University located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of the Ivy League.
• Paul Wellstone, a U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1991 until his death in 2002, was a professor of political science at Carleton from 1969 to 1990. Paul David Wellstone ( July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was a two-term U The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers
• Reed Whittemore, acclaimed American poet who taught English at Carleton

Points of interest

• Carleton College Cowling Arboretum
• Goodsell Observatory
• KRLX
• The Cave

References

External links

• Carleton College
• CarlWiki - An unofficial student-run wiki
• Northfield Visitor Information
• Carleton College featured in the Donga Daily (Korean Newspaper)