The Mac Weekly

Friday, February 23, 2007

News

• Conference explores race through art, science
• Students mugged at gunpoint on Mac Street
• Students are consultants for creation of Eco House
• Fight sparked with U students
• First-year applications reach all-time high of 4,940
• Student Affairs seeks new staffers
• Revised committee reviews party case

Features

• Learning to Evolve: Becoming a Scientologist
• A radical post office for those who can wait
• N.Y. Hearts G.K.
• Bean Factory promises good coffee and community
• Put On Your Pajamas

Sports

• Track boasts three player of week honors
• Mac baseball calls Metrodome home for first games
• Men's, women's tennis expecting...berths

The Arts

• Hip-hop's mid-life crisis
• Consciousness: the ultimate story
• Talib Kweli, Madlib team up for a hip-hop revolution
• Gallimaufry

Opinion

• Dialogue and admissions of guilt need to be coupled with community engagement
• Staff Editorial: Thumbs up, Thumbs down
• Letters to the Editor
• Keep the change coming
• Understanding the power and importance of forgiveness
• End Macalester's war on art

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