Sick Students Isolated
Both residence and off-campus students have been isolated in their rooms in response to the H1N1 influenza, according to David Sterritt, director of Housing and Conference Services.
Scott McNeil, who is in his third year of journalism, was one student who complied with the suggested isolation.
After going to the Carleton’s Health and Counselling Services with a high fever, McNeil said he was diagnosed with “some kind of flu.” McNeil was isolated for eight days over Halloween, from Oct. 28 - Nov. 4.
Student found dead
Carleton student Will Chabot MacLean, 27, died peacefully Oct. 28, according to an obituary published in the Louisville, Ky. newspaper the Courier-Journal.
MacLean was born in Louisville, but resided in Maniwaki, Que., the obituary said.
“You were always hilarious and never in a bad mood. We could all learn from that. We miss you dearly here in Louisvile [sic],” commented Todd Burks from Louisville, Ky., on the online version of the obituary.
DC++ Disconnected
The two Carleton students responsible for running DC++ have thrown in the towel, shutting down the file-sharing program beloved by hundreds of Carleton’s residence students.
The two DC++ administrators, who did not want to be identified by name for liability reasons, have been running the program since the fall of 2006.
They were first-year computer science students living in residence when the previous administrators called it quits, so they decided to take over control of the program.
Green youth activists fill the hill for Power Shift
More than 1,000 Canadian youth gathered on Parliament Hill Oct. 24 to send a clear message to the Canadian Government: immediate action to stop climate change and to create new green jobs must be taken.
This marked the largest youth gathering for climate change in Canadian history as part of Power Shift 2009, a four-day environmental conference of intensive social and ecological justice education, hosted by the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.
An American Radical at Carleton
Carleton Cinema Politica (CCP) presented American Radical, a film on Norman Finkelstein’s trials in life, just two weeks after his lecture at Carleton.
The documentary, directed by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier, was viewed in the Kailash Mital Theatre on Oct. 28.
