The Mac Weekly

Friday, February 29, 2008

News

• Google Apps for Education to replace OCS
• Student employees see new timekeeping sytem, possible increases in wages
• IGC Student Council organizes three-week Iraq War Series
• Mayors' Forum format expanded, participants discuss education reform
• Yearbook financial collapse explained
• All Around the Liberal Arts
• IGC national advisory committee set for first campus meeting March 7
• Graffiti strikes MARC
• Students to lobby for state grant program at Capital
• The Green Beat
• New group "As Is" provides forum for students to discuss sexual, gender identities
• IGC construction to alter pedestrial traffic near dorms
• Employee embezzled $20,860, according to police report
• Mac security guards opt out of their union's one-day strike
• Oh, the places he goes
• Power outage disrupts campus Sunday night

Features

• Connecting Cultures: Ua Ke brings Hmong culture to Mac
• Festival features music, films and fair trade fun
• Traipsing Around Town: Creativity and Comfort Combine at Jakeeno's Pizza and Pasta
• Cat Man Do is a "Cat Man Don't"

Sports

• Women's track and field compete against DI competition
• Hot men's and women's tennis teams winning early, often
• No playoffs this time, but women's basketball here to stay
• Dome sweet Dome: Scots play at Twins' home

The Arts

• "My Fair Lady" at the Orphem: an old musical given new life
• "Who's Michael Clayton? I've never heard of him"
• Oscar contender "Persepolis" will draw you in
• Coheed and Cambria steal the show at the Xcel Center

Opinion

• Think protest is 'distasteful and innapropriate?' Try war
• Faculty missed chance to walk their talk on war
• Speaking out on eating disorders
• Instant Runoff Voting would strengthen democracy, St. Paul
• MacAwkward College: A survivor's guide
• Increasingly elitist aid policy cheats us all
• The Oscars come but once a year: Winton, save the tux and help us afford the Pill
• Letter to the Editor
• Staff Editorial: Printing body counts serves as reminder
• Staff Editorial: IGC: It's generally confusing

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