The Mac Weekly

Friday, April 25, 2008

News

• Add-drop period to drop to 2 weeks
• Visa rule change to prompt more math, science majors
• Christiansen to take new post
• EPAG drafts uniform absence policy
• John Parker, English prof., receives early tenure
• Provost finalists to visit campus in May
• NPR correspondent speaks about national security in Kagin
• Alumni, students and an administrator discuss all-gender housing options for fall 2008
• The Green Beat
• RPC considers shortening faculty sabbatical cycle

Features

• In her own words
• Will Chow: student organizer, music junkie, "gangsta"
• Traipsing Around Town: Taking on the True Deli Experience at Cecil's
• Creative Writing Corner

Sports

• Prolonged winter limits track and field to fewer meets
• Aussies Rule: football the way it's played down under

The Arts

• "A Midsummer Night's Dream" goes punk
• Summer reading recommendations from your friends at The Mac Weekly

Opinion

• Thanks to Rosenberg, congrats to Morgensen on appeal, award
• Na've anti-choice moralizing denies rights of born people
• Reusable bags save carbon, money
• Eat local? No, eat global.
• Letters to the Editor
• Staff Editorial

Spotlight

• Olivia Provan and Reilly Pruitt

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