The Mac Weekly

Friday, December 9, 2005

News

• As Institute takes form, diversity questions persist
• After rough Fall, some want MCSG reforms
• Midnight breakfast returns after three years
• Attendance at Diversity Weekend events lower than anticipated
• Founders Day budget cut by two-thirds for 2006
• Religious students find acceptance, skepticism at Macalester
• LB approves $77,000 operating budget for spring semester
• Katrina relief trip planned for J-term
• All Around the Liberal Arts

Features

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR
• (Not a lot of) Sex & the Cities
• Natalie Lind writes it all down for posterity #13
• Crossing the Rio Snelling
• Pigeon of Peace
• MacCARES works toward carbon-free college
• This Whole God Thing is Getting Old
• Senior Spotlight

Sports

• Men still confident despite early-season struggles
• Bolstered by newcomers, women focus on basics
• Lendway, Swanson lead the way for swim teams
• First-year reflections
• Four years after `rebirth,' football still looking for answers

The Arts

• "Toeing the Line" to showcase student choreography
• Silver Jewvy
• You have god-awful taste, and only I can help you
• Either you're in, or you're out
• Andy Warhol's SUPERNOVA explodes at the Walker

Opinion

• On Representation in the Macalester International Organization (MIO) Cultural Show
• Face of politics co-opted by conservatives
• White privilege alive and well
• Schultz's puzzling argument
• Addressing unequal opportunity
• Connecting the dots
• On Representation in the Macalester International Organization (MIO) Cultural Show
• Debate on Patrocollo went astray
• A tradition worth keeping

More Issues

Issue Summary

News

• College begins to court small donors in Capital Campaign
• It's getting hot in here
• SDS founder talks of radicals and liberals
• Step Forward weekend kicks-off campaign
• Roundtable participants discuss global development
• Prof Talk: Julie Dolan, Poli Sci, on the Vice Presidential Debate
• New grant encourages political life
• CDC starts initiative to attract sophomores

Features

• Featured Org of the Week
• Pre-college "gap years"were anything but empty, takers report
• What I Learned in Bed
• Nearly Symmetrical

Sports

• Slurs at water polo game spark calls for resolution
• Golf season finishes with ups and downs at MIACs
• Mudry, Eckstrom shine for men's cross country
• Women's cross country looking to restore confidence
• Kicking and digging: soccer and volleyball unite for the cause
• Say it 'aint so, Kimbo

The Arts

• 90 minutes in heaven: "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"
• Argentine songwriter Juana Molina: palatable but adventurous
• Truth at 24 frames per second

Opinion

• Staff Editorial: Trustees: Cool it on chiller purchase
• College should put a freeze on chiller purchase
• Students: Step up for campaign
• A call for Cafe Mactiquette
• Letters to the Editor