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A note from the editor on race, Spotlight and The Mac Weekly

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In the opinion section this week, Celeste Prince raises questions about how The Mac Weekly selects which students to profile in its Spotlight section and how the paper addresses issues of race. These questions merit a response.

I believe, and the Mac Weekly staff believes, that representing the entire Macalester community is integral to the role The Mac Weekly plays on campus, and we always welcome feedback about the inclusion of the complex and diverse identities of the student body....

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dany

posted 11/11/09 @ 12:20 PM CST

the mac weekly has been a hostile environment for students of color for as long as I can remember-- 6 years now? This is cyclical and culutral. Sure, Zak, you may not be willing to interrogate that in a public forum, but I would really really really recommend some internal work. There are a ton of resources on campus (people & otherwise) that are available to you. Please use them to help make democracy in the student body more effective and powerful by incorporating a more legitimate representation of the student population at Mac.


Question: How are you defining students of color in your research? Macalester doesn't include non-white international students in that 18%. So, if you're including them in your count of the spotlight, you might want to reconsider the numbers.
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