by Matthew Stone and Colleen Good in News
Members of Macalester's Board of Trustees arrived on campus yesterday and will continue until the end of the day today with a schedule of committee meetings, a luncheon with new faculty members, and a group photograph, among other activities.
"It'll be a pretty quiet meeting," President Brian Rosenberg said in an interview last week.
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Professors will take up motion next Wednesday
by Matthew Stone in News
Posted on Oct. 10 at 7:56 p.m. CST. Faculty members avoided the greater part of a potentially charged debate at their monthly meeting Wednesday afternoon by adjourning before voting on a motion that proposed suspending classes for a day next month as a protest against the war in Iraq.
Macalester RAs compare pay to peer institutions, find gaps
by Tom Lisi in News
Residential Assistants Matt Ecklund '09 and Megan Ritchie '09 attended a conference in late 2006 that focused on Residential Life programs of Minnesota colleges and universities. At the conference they discovered that they were among the lowest paid RAs in the Twin Cities region.
by Zac Farber in News
The mayor of Minneapolis, R.T. Rybak, and an Iraq War veteran touted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as the best candidate to be the next president of the United States. But five anti-Obama students stole the spotlight Tuesday afternoon at a rally co-sponsored by the Obama campaign and Mac for Obama, a student organization.
by Anna Waugh in News
More than three years after the installation of a median along the portion of Grand Avenue that cuts through the Macalester campus, the High Winds Fund is exploring the possibility of installing another median along Snelling Avenue, stretching from Grand to St.
by Hannah Haley in News
Brian Stephenson '10 wants to ensure this year that every student at Macalester College knows what the acronym MCSG stands for. Stephenson, vice president of the Macalester College Student Government, said that he wants to make student government more visible and to increase student input and initiative.
Students form panel, answer questions about
by Proma Sen in News
Since it was created in Fall 2005, the Institute for Global Citizenship has been quietly carrying out its stated mission of educating members of the Macalester community on the virtues of being an "ethical global citizen-leader," as outlined in its founding mission statement.
by Matthew Stone in News
Offering administrator, faculty, and student perspectives, President Brian Rosenberg, Biology professor Jan Serie and Blythe Austin '08 will deliver remarks to the Board of Trustees this afternoon on the "State of the College." In separate interviews with The Mac Weekly over the past week, the speakers offered previews of their remarks, which they will deliver during the Board's plenary session this afternoon.
by Tressa Versteeg in News
Speaking about their own professional challenges, personal dangers, and, most importantly, the need for medical care throughout the third world, four members of the French-based, but internationally committed, medical organization Doctors Without Borders' members of the Macalester community and the public last Wednesday in Kagin Ballroom.
by Hattie Stahl in News
Duke University professor Bruce Lawrence gave a lecture Thursday, Sept. 27, titled
"Lessons from Osama bin Laden." Lawrence, one of the nation's leading experts on contemporary Islam, was brought to Macalester through the annual Arnold Lowe Lectureship in Religious Studies.
by Tatiana Crane in News
This year, the DeWitt Wallace Library is trying to re-vamp its image in appealing to students past their immediate academic needs, and to look more toward both recreational and non-Macalester educational activities.
Library Director Teresa Fishel said she wants the library to be seen as more than just a place to study.
by Matthew Stone in News
Editor's note: This article is one in a series of community-oriented columns written by Mac Weekly editors.
The talk was all about breaking down boundaries on Wednesday as a group of panelists mused over the virtues and meanings of global citizenship during a meeting intended to introduce the Student Council of the Institute for Global Citizenship.
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