The Mac Weekly

Friday, February 22, 2008

News

• Capital campaign enters faculty stage
• The Green Beat
• Macalester in the clear after Senate endowment regulation defeated
• All Around the Liberal Arts
• Music of the Black Diaspora concert explores music from calypso to rap
• Trustees visit Café Mac for dinner, questions
• Colleges debate use of grants compared to loans for financial aid packages
• Geology professor talks dinosaur birds and bees
• Age requirement keeps students from utilizing Hourcar
• Capital Campaign proceeds despite recession
• MCSG approves divestment proposal
• World Press Institute officially breaks ties with Mac, seeks new home
• Applications up .8 percent from last year's figures

Features

• Coffee Talk: A Caffeine Junkie's Review of Local Coffee Bars
• Traipsing Around Town: Traveling Back in Time at 50's Grill
• Dying to be Thin: Eating disorders exposed
• Lipstick on Bathroom Mirrors

Sports

• Young wins twice at MIAC; first men's champ in decades
• Women swim and dive to 7th at MIAC
• Disco, Déjà Vu: Mac Intramural Dodgeball takes you back

The Arts

• Clipse swagger but stumble on latest mixtape
• "Bad Monkeys": Pretty cool book, totally rad cover
• Out of the classroom, on to the stage: Shakespeare's "Henry V"
• Denmark: home to Vikings, frikadeller and funeral doom metal
• Mika turns up the heat, takes it off at First Avenue

Opinion

• Calling on Weekly to print Iraq death tolls, actualize scope of occupation
• Staff Editorial: Macalester, journalism lose in World Press Institute departure
• Living on campus? Relax, it could be worse
• Letters to the Editor

Spotlight

• Matthew Doyle Olson

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