Legacy
Articles
Flipping back the pages to the Charlatan’s wildest headlines through the decades
As Carleton University’s independent student-led publication, the Charlatan has covered thousands of news stories over 80 years of publishing.
While the news section has published local, national and international issues of historical significance, it has also reported on many stories featuring baffling, silly and downright random events...
How Canada’s oldest student-led theatre company forges legacies
Lindsey Keene didn’t land the first Sock ‘n’ Buskin role she auditioned for.
At the time, Keene was a second-year public affairs and policy management student at Carleton University, and had done local theatre throughout her high school years and even over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic...
The colourful stories and legacies of Carleton’s tunnel art
It’s hard to imagine what a walk through Carleton University’s humid and dimly lit tunnels would be like without the vibrant, handpainted murals brightening its walls.
The tunnel art stretches underneath popular buildings like Nideyinàn and the Canal Building, all the way to residence buildings like Grenville, Stormont and Dundas...
How Carleton brought sports like football back from the dead — with women leaders behind it all
Celebrating at the Panda Game, watching varsity men’s and women’s hockey or rugby on the weekend and participating in adaptive sports like wheelchair basketball: This year’s graduating class of Carleton University students have known nothing else.
But 20 years ago, Carleton’s recreation and sports landscape was wildly different from today’s reality — for students and athletes alike...
