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Nothing big comes to mind, but I had kind of forgotten that Carleton had athletes when I came. It was weird to observe the cultural disconnect between some varsity sports teams and the rest of campus. To me, it seemed that many of the athletes were from MN, politically more conservative, career-minded econ majors, occasionally ******y at Mai Fetes (tossing kegs in the lake), and sometimes contemptuous of the rest of the hippy dippy student body. For some reason, I hadn’t expected that Carleton football players and the like would be that different from non-athletes, but then I learned that not everyone chose the school because they were interested in top liberal arts colleges with a reputation for weirdness. Some just go because it’s a good school not too far from home.</p>