The Mac Weekly

Friday, September 28, 2007

News

• Editorial Insight: 'Macalester should be so lucky'
• Carbon emissions down, goals remain high
• Macalester's relationship with MPR brings journalists to campus
• WMCN digitization near complete
• Former director of human resources dies
• Financial aid numbers dip for a second year
• Mac grad '07 awarded Fulbright Scholarship
• Local CBS affiliate revisits security holes
• Chapel names new Protestant, Jewish chaplains
• Lack of funds, student interest push yearbook off the edge
• Amphitheater in works on Shaw Field

Features

• Common Roots offers uncommon dining experience
• S.O.B. Workshop heals hurt, gives hope
• A beginner's guide to Lyndale: Where to window shop
• Good food, planetary conscience: A review of Lynlake's Galactic Pizza
• Meet Kevin Williams: Superman, global citizen
• Macalester students order cheap, overstay, and Grand Avenue businesses...like it?
• Shish owner Leo Judeh values quality food and welcoming atmosphere

Sports

• First-year heavy men's soccer looks for footing in MIAC
• Tough-luck women's soccer just wins; streak hits six
• Life on the road for Mac's vagabond volleyball team
• The highest we ever got

The Arts

• From Sweden with love: Peter Bjorn and John stop by the Twin Cities
• At the Guthrie, a tale of macabre beauty
• A rabid new novel from "Fight Club" author Palahniuk
• New Chamillionaire album worth a million
• Dälek: Postindustrial rap for de-industrialized America
• The National: subdued, sincere, and sublime

Opinion

• Rising tuition, Samatar, elitism: Macalester isn't all it should be
• Staff Editorial: Ten Wonderful Macalester Events for the Beatific New Amphitheater
• Mac International Student Orientation lags behind peers
• Burning Questions
• It's students that create divisions, not orientations
• Is this really how we should treat guests?
• Kirk segregation is the best solution
• Fighting fear: End repression in Burma
• IN THE YEAR 3000: Pornography

Spotlight

• Julia Reardon answers the question: Why is she so angry?

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