The Mac Weekly

Friday, October 20, 2006

News

• Latino Studies offerings persist despite program's unclear future
• Laptop theft costs college $12,000
• Student reps still needed on campus committees
• Activists discuss environmental future of Middle East water resources
• Roundtable considers future of UN
• Advisory group assesses capital campaign goals
• New hall councils give students input in dorm life
• Babel to print first issue in Nov.
• Healthcare, sustainability and "a lot of good times"
• All Around the Liberal Arts

Features

• Ask Alice
• The ITS Inbox

Sports

• The NBA Eastern Conference Season Preview
• Men's and Women's golf best MIAC finish in years
• Fall Sports wrap up

The Arts

• DuProjects: Rockin' like a hurricane-proof dorm
• Kilimanjaro titties, dyslexic pedophiles, and Bo Jackson: The Lackluster Life of Jackson Plotz
• Freak Show, like actual freaks, fall short of expectations
• I wanted to touch them into words

Opinion

• Our Minnesota needs saving
• Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
• Letters to the Editor
• Vote candidates who live their values
• Vote your conscience, not your reflex
• Mac Weekly: propaganda machine?
• Keeping up with the Compassion Joneses
• Democrats and their problematic privilege
• Don’t sell your vote to the DFL

Spotlight

• Big and Little Dan Tell All

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