The Mac Weekly

Issue Summary

News

• Special Report: 7 years later, a Rosenberg Retrospective
• Chile earthquake felt at Mac
• Spoken word artist tells story of incarceration, community action
• Assessing the need-aware switch
• Rosenberg on self-confidence, defining Macalester
• Textbook scholarships may run out of funds
• Million-dollar donations put Step Forward on track
• Pedro Noguera gives keynote address at American Studies conference
• Program Board considers bands, new food and activities for Springfest
• Former Macalester president JBD reminisces in JBD
• Department of Education policy changes affect Mac security

Features

• Chatroulette: shot in the head or savior of society?
• Lost and Founder's Day
• Green Beat: is Café Mac sustainable?

Sports

• Leonard Center open to wider community, for a fee
• Nordic team skis with the best at the Birkebeiner race
• Seven seniors to lead Scot squad into 2010 season
• Dominant pitching has Mac baseball off to hot 4-0 start

The Arts

• Freshman combines professional ballet and the liberal arts
• Physics major makes an impact with the Mac Orchestra
• Macalester students to compete at the College Unions Poetry Slam competition
• Celebrating International Women's Day with art, activism
• Twin Cities ear: four bands to watch out for in 2010

Opinion

• Explaining the 2010 Senior Class Gift
• Smoking isn't private
• Frag-ments
• In Commemoration of 51 years of Tibetan Resistance to Chinese Rule
• Letters to the Editor
• Going nuclear

Spotlight

• Cruising Together

Food & Drank

• The classy option: Meritage wows
• The close option: The Grandview Grill gets the job done, with a wait