Disbanded yearbook leaves legacy of unsold books, financial woes
by Zac Farber in News
Macalester College Student Government allocated $14,996 to the publisher of the Macalester's yearbook on Tuesday, taking responsibility for The Mac's overly optimistic estimate of its popularity as well as for financial troubles caused by lackadaisical sales of the 2006-07 book.
by Zac Farber in News
More than 10,000 Sudanese refugees fled to Chad this week, after another spate of violence in the Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed since 2003. A few international corporations have helped finance the industrial violence that has become a hallmark of the Darfur conflict.
by Tom Lisi in News
On Wednesday life-long social activist Angela Davis addressed a packed audience in Kagin Ballroom, where she spoke passionately about everything from prison reform to what it feels like to be on the F.B.I.'s Most Wanted list. Davis was brought to Macalester as a part of a new speaker series called S.
by Annie Flanagan in News
After a two-year search to fill the empty slot of a culture, technolgy and media professor, the International Studies department has hired global media scholar Amanda Ciafone to take over the interdisciplinary professorship that links International Studies with Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies.
Info Desk will disribute half-price bus passes to encourage student use of mass transit
by Zach Selke in News
Macalester is taking a step toward becoming more ecologically friendly by subsidizing bus passes to encourage students to take public transport.
Macalester's location along two of St. Paul's largest thoroughfares makes public transportation a logical choice for many members of the Macalester community, but students frequently fail to take advantage of this opportunity, said Molly Brown '10, a member of the President's Climate Commitment Committee.
by Mari Mejia in News
Soon Macalester will join the growing number of schools in the Twin Cities that incorporate text message alert systems into their security policy.
The college hopes to have the system up and running some time this week. A contract signed in the summer of 2007 with Omnilert, a company that specializes in alert message listservs for mobile phones, initiated the process of developing a text message alert system at Macalester.
by Amy Ledig in News
A recent knifepoint robbery and a sexual assault in the area have set the Macalester community on edge. The two incidents, which occurred amidst a flurry of robberies and assaults at other local schools, have raised concern.
The robbery occurred at 1:30 a.
by Colleen Good in News
The job posting for the open provost position will ideally be released today, Jan Serie, co-chair of the provost search committee, said. The private search firm Witt/Kieffer is responsible for releasing the ad, and will oversee many other aspects of the search process.
by Peter Wright in News
In his second visit to Macalester this school year, Al Franken spoke to members of MacDems and other students on Thursday, Feb. 7, criticizing the Bush administration and touting his own funny-man appeal as a prospective Minnesota senator.
The appearance was one of his first since the Super Tuesday precinct caucuses, which the Franken campaign is claiming as a victory.
by Katy Petershack in News
There is a buzz around campus surrounding events celebrating Black History Month, sponsored in part by the Black Liberation Affairs Committee, Afrika and Caribbean Students Association.
"This month is an extremely collaborative process," Tinbete Ermayas '08, co-chair of Black History Month at Macalester, said in an e-mail, "The three main Black Diasporic groups on campus all have events planned.
2008 Woodie Awards
