The Mac Weekly

Friday, September 21, 2007

News

• Kirk ends gender-blind bathrooms
• Venezuelan ambassador speaks to students, community members
• Res. life changes create jobs, opportunities
• Commentary: Macalester as a middle ground
• Bacterial infection spreads across campus
• Human rights concentration in talks
• Fine Arts preparations underway
• Mid East leaders address future
• New English hires could add stability to department
• Ecological-themed house takes root on language row
• Behind the Summit with Andy Overman
• 'Fight as politicians and live as friends'
• Amphitheater in works on Shaw Field
• Lack of funds, student interest push yearbook off the edge

Features

• Meet Timothy Den Herder-Thomas, campus sustainability activist
• Graduates and graffiti: A look at the Philosopher's Garden
• What the heck happened to Domino's?
• Where has all the hotdish gone?
• Online dating: For more than just the desperate
• Staff picks: TV Guilty Pleasures

Sports

• If you fix it, they will come; Mac foosball culture
• Mac's top golfers shoot for MIAC title, national berth

The Arts

• Rilo Kiley at First Ave
• A classic novel of love and aging, revisited
• Animal Collective's latest: selling out or getting better?
• Thinking green: Folk artists bike all day, play all night
• Spiritual Bonerz and buttcheek tattoos: Devendra Banhart at First Avenue
• Fall TV: Wednesday night is ladies' night
• Fall TV: Wednesday night is ladies' night

Opinion

• Play it right: use the "wrong" bathrooms, even when you're stone cold sober
• Staff editorial: Students must be brought into decision-making process on Kirk bathrooms
• A 'gay-friendly' Macalester leaves much to be desired
• Food for thought
• What Mr. Holbrooke failed to mention
• International Orientation: Who needs it?
• In defense of Richard Holbrooke and America's active role in world affairs

Spotlight

• Phong Tran: Macalester's Own Paparazzi

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