The Mac Weekly

Friday, March 14, 2008

News

• Question and Answer session with Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
• Macalester gives banquet, honorary degree to philanthropist Shelby Davis
• Loss of yearbook and Spotlight leaves visual gap in Alumni Office's records
• Facilities Management appreciated at student-organized event
• College to switch to Google Applications 'as soon as possible'
• Students hit Capitol to lobby for State Grant program
• Board approves budget, discusses IGC
• Embezzlement probe ongoing
• FIA-STARSA initiates discussion of college's sexual assault policy
• IGC board meets for first time
• The Green Beat

Features

• The brains behind the brain: A closer look at Mac's neuroscience department
• Founders' Day offers music, food and fun
• Restraint
• Homemade Pizza a Don't in the Dorms
• Traipsing Around Town: Home Cooking and a Small Town Vibe at Key's 'Original' Cafe

Sports

• Women's Tennis suffers first loss; resets for spring trip
• Four school records set at track and field Indoor Championships
• Mac baseball looking for early season consistency
• Shall we dance? Mac's ballroom soccer experiment

The Arts

• The Black Crowes make good old rock'n'roll sound fresh
• Free your mind: life and how to live it

Opinion

• Nelson-Pallmeyer gives idealists a voice
• Students issue call to protest War in Iraq
• Students make voices heard in Trustee committees
• OCS long overdue for replacement
• Staff Editorial

Spotlight

• Daniel Liu

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