We bring you another weekly installment of our “Week in Pictures.” Winter term at Carleton is in full swing, and we have images of the weekly convocation series by the Wall Street Journal’s Doug Blackmon, photos from “Volunteer from Carleton” and the Lunar New Year celebration, hosted by Carleton’s Asian Students in America. We also have images from the Knights’ home men’s and women’s basketball contests, as well as some swimming images from the Knights’ Carleton Mini-Invite.

During the second week of winter term Carleton hosted a number of exciting events including a convocation with Melissa Harris-Lacewell, the Doh Burma Community social, and a men’s basketball game.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, held at Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel on Monday, Jan. 19, is now available for viewing via streaming video. The event featured guest speaker Mary Easter, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Dance and the Performing Arts, emerita, as well as musical performances by the Northfield Youth Concert Choir and Jamaal Magee ’10 (Chicago). The event was co-sponsored by the Northfield Human Rights Commission, which presented its 2009 Human Rights Award to Cherif Keita, professor of French and Francophone studies, as part of the evening’s celebration.

Carleton sophomore Michelle Hesterberg was quoted in a Star Tribune article that examined what colleges and univerisities (and its students) are doing to fight rising text book costs. Hesterberg elected not to purchase one of her text books as an “e-book,” as the paper copy appeals to her. “I still really like having that paper copy,” she said. You can read the entire article on the Star Tribune website.

In this week’s installment of our new “Photo Feature” segment, we have photos of the convocation by the inventor of Rollarblades, the Carleton Trustee dinner where George Cassat ’46 was honored for his incredible support of Carleton, and the jazz concert.

This week at Carleton, our student photographers captured images from the football team’s exhilirating win over nationally-ranked Augsburg for Homecoming, “A Solider’s Tale” musical performance and the weekly convocation series given by Joseph Melrose, who served three decades in the Foreign Service, including a stint as the U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone.