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College begins to court small donors in Capital Campaign
Where the money is going: Clockwise starting at 43 - Scholarships, endowed professorships, Fine Arts Center, Leonard Center, Annual Fund, IGC. Numbers are in millions of dollars.
This evening's Step Forward Campaign kick-off event in the Leonard Center is the largest event the Capital Campaign-the college's initiative to increase the size of its endowment by $150 million-has held so far, but it is actually more of a mid-way point as the campaign shifts its focus.…
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It's getting hot in hereBoard may spend $7.5 million on new cooling system
An emergency measure on the agenda for this week's Board of Trustees meeting has sparked unrest among some Macalester students about their role in the school's decision making. The measure would allocate $7.5 million to be spent on a new air conditioning system, but members of the Macalester Conservation and Renewable Energy Society, or MacCARES, are questioning the transparency of the process.…
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SDS founder talks of radicals and liberals
Tom Hayden joined a panel of Mac students to speak about "Activism Then and Now."
Political activist Tom Hayden discussed the differences between social movements during the Vietnam War era and modern movements at Wednesday's panel, "Activism: Then and Now."
Moderated by Jane Rhodes, the dean of race and ethnicity, student activists Kyera Singleton '11, Thuto Thipe '10, Peter Valelly '11 and David Seitz '10 began the discussion by detailing their involvement in various organizations including Students for a Democratic Society, Black Liberation Affairs Committee, Feminists in Action-Students Together Against Rape and Sexual Assault.…
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