The Mac Weekly

Friday, March 28, 2008

News

• College will not press charges in employee embezzlement case
• STAND to host Darfur benefit concert Friday night
• Second annual IGC Civic Forum to focus on 'big normative issues' in society
• Momentum program is college's newest attempt to address leadership at the college
• Kirk to have new all-gender housing
• Former United Nations official addresses need for humanitarian aid during stop on book tour
• Bob Garfield speaks about the future of journalism and 'brave new world' of ads
• All Around the Liberal Arts
• Study abroad apps lag
• Two students receive Watson fellowships
• Chinese house to be located in George Draper Dayton in Fall 2008
• The Green Beat
• Lily Project sponsors spring retreat

Features

• Nintendo, Atari, and retro couches...oh my!
• Traipsing Around Town: Coconuts and Curry at Hoa Bien

Sports

• Forever Young: freshman earns All-American honors
• Athletic Director won't stay to MARC his spot

The Arts

• Go crazy for Gus Van Sant's new "Paranoid Park"
• London can take it: "Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day"
• He's Bossy: Bruce Springsteen rocks the Xcel Center
• If your life is missing something this article will tell you what it is
• Meet the "Jersey Boys" and fall in love with each of them
• Attention! "The Drowsy Chaperone" will wake you up

Opinion

• Participate in civil disobedience to protest war
• About me: Quitting Facebook
• Macalester should support clean energy solution for Rock Tenn
• Staff Editorial: Meeting on Institute represents responsiveness, opportunity

Spotlight

• Co-Captains of Team Cray-Cray

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