by Anna Waugh in News
This year's keynote commencement speaker will be Peter Berg '84, writer, producer, actor and Emmy-nominated director for the television show "Friday Night Lights."
"We are very pleased to have one of our own return to campus to help send our senior class on their next journey," President Brian Rosenberg wrote in an April 1 College Relations press release.
by Zac Farber in News
Eight Macalester students lashed themselves together with PVC pipes fortified by duct tape and chicken wire while two students used U-shaped bike locks to fasten their necks to the entrances of army and navy recruiting centers on Washington Avenue near the University of Minnesota campus.
by Zac Farber in News
The Religious Studies department saw the departure of three tenure-track professors in the 2006-07 year, bringing the department to two full-time professors, the minimum number required for status as a core academic department.
While the department is now on the road to recovery-two of the positions will be filled by the beginning of the fall semester and the hiring process will begin for the third-the paucity of full-time professors forced the department to juggle personnel to find creative staffing solutions and inconvenienced religious studies majors who found themselves with new advisors who could not replace the old ones.
by Amy Lieberman in News
Twenty-five years and one New York Times best-selling novel later, Anthropology professor Jack Weatherford will retire after this semester. An interim professor will replace him next year, before the department hires a new full-time professor, ideally a cultural anthropologist, anthropology professor Dianna Shandy said.
by Mari Mejia in News
President Brian Rosenberg and Institute for Global Citizenship Dean Ahmed Samatar will explain how the Instiute for Global Citizenship was developed, and what it can do for the community at a question and answer session and introductory presentation, "The Institute for Global Citizenship: What is it?" at 4:30 p.
by Peter Wright in News
Applications are in, and the candidates for Macalester College Student Government executive office now have less than a week before the election, which will be held on Wednesday, April 9 in the Campus Center from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Henrik Hakonsen '09, Alison Tray '09 and Kevin Williams '09 are running for the presidency.
by Matt Day in News
Macalester is in the midst of an unprecedented turn toward sustainability.
The college hired Suzanne Savanick-Hansen in February to fill the newly created position of Sustainability Manager. Macalester is only months away from breaking ground on the IGC building, which will achieve LEED platinum certification, one of the highest ratings for energy efficiency.
by Matt Day in News
A steady rain was falling as a group of Macalester students bedded down in tents on the banks of the Buffalo River in Arkansas on March 18. When they looked out the next morning, the downpour had turned into a flood.
The riverbank where they were camped was now an island surrounded by a rapidly rising river.
by Zach Selke in News
Political scientist Alexander Wendt spoke on the inevitability of a world state as part of the Mitau Lecture series sponsored by the Political Science department on Wednesday night. Wendt, a Macalester alumnus, has reshaped the field of international studies and was voted by his collegues as the third most influential figure in IS.
by Katy Petershack in News
Macalester's Fine Arts departments are in for a big change.
After Macalester renovates the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center in Summer 2009 or 2010, students can expect to see a new two-story gallery that overlooks campus, a new dance performance stage, flex theatre and a complete renovation of the existing theatre.
Changes would apply to the reference section, journal section, periodicals and student spaces
by Tressa Versteeg in News
The DeWitt Wallace Library is celebrating its 25th birthday this year and the library staff feels that some changes are in order.
"I think we are looking forward to the 25th anniversary and at 25 years old or 25 years young, where do we want to be?" Associate Library Director Dave Collins asked.
by Matt Day in News
Almost two months after the beginning of the delegate selection process for the Minnesota senate race, the race shows no signs of stopping before the state DFL?nominating convention.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party's pool of candidates vying for the party's nomination was cut down to two following the withdrawal of St.
by Anna Waugh in News
As of Tuesday, five of seven of the Twin Cities metro area counties had voted yes to support a fourth of a cent increase in sales tax to support a broad based transportation bill. Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota and Washington counties have all voted in favor of the tax, opting into a Joint Power Association which will determine how the tax revenue will be spent.
Plagarism and technology: It's progress, people
by Amy Ledig & Anna Waugh in News
University of Texas at San Antonio
Students at this central Texas university have taken cheating to a whole new level by plagiarizing in their honor code. Apparently, the words match Brigham Young University's code to a T, without any citation. They even plagiarized the definition of plagiarism.
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