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Students at Carleton College recently hosted an “all-gender” rendition of The Vagina Monologues in an effort to eschew the play’s roots in a “cisgender lens.” While productions of The Vagina Monologues have been a mainstay of campus feminist groups since its debut in 1996, the play has often been criticized by college students for its lack of focus on people of color and trans students.

PELL CITY — A Jefferson County Criminal Court judge dismissed a case Wednesday against a man accused of murdering his father. “The defendant having met its burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that he is entitled to the immunity provisions of Alabama Code 13A-3-23 (d) and (e), his motion to dismiss on the issue of immunity is hereby granted and the indictment is hereby dismissed,” Circuit Judge Tommy Nail wrote in his order dismissing the murder indictment of Robert “Bob” Carleton, 48, of Pell City. Nail made his ruling after hearing evidence and testimony during a motion...

Embarrassed Carleton students are getting closer to ousting the members of their student council responsible for a cystic fibrosis gaffe that garnered national attention. Frustrated by their student council's recent decision to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser because the disease "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men," Carleton students are attempting to clear their school's name with a petition to impeach their union president. The motion to change the frosh week charity passed the Carleton University Students' Association council almost unanimously earlier this week, but a national...

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Al Franken didn't exactly leave 'em laughing in Northfield. Earlier this month Franken was at Carleton College, where the late Sen. Paul Wellstone was a professor, for a student rally related to a special election in the state Senate District 25. After the rally in the great space of Sayles-Hill some students crowded around to take photos with the "Saturday Night Live" alum. Franken's spokesman Andy Barr said via e-mail Tuesday that Al "remembers having a spirited convo w/ College GOPer at the urging of some of the kid's College Dem pals. Seemed like everyone...

NORTHFIELD, MINN. -- Paul Wellstone taught for 20 years at Carleton College, but there's no statue or even a plaque on a wall to mark the fact. Dave Holman thinks that's just fine. Holman and seven other students have created a living memorial to the former Minnesota senator in the Wellstone House of Organization and Activism (WHOA)...