The Mac Weekly

Friday, May 2, 2008

News

• Web Exclusive: A professor and an administrator reflect on the careers of Henry West and Ellen Guyer
• Trustees prepare for 'a lighter meeting'
• EPAG, faculty solidify increasing number of concentrations' place in academic offerings
• Guyer, West to retire after this semester
• Five faculty enroll in semi-retirement program
• Visiting profs balance teaching, dissertations
• Time capsule to be buried
• Both full-time Art History professors to go on sabbatical next semester
• Many summer fellowships seek social change
• Senior Week to feature river cruise, picnic

Features

• Traipsing Around Town: Ten Ways to Enjoy a Minnesota Summer
• Creative Writing Corner

Sports

• Tennis ushers in a new era after breakthrough season
• Feezell reflects on athletics at Mac before departure
• Lose the Shoes fights AIDS
• Rock on: fists of fury meet for ultimate RPS championship

The Arts

• Thinking of seeing "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"? Forget it.
• You don't want Rambo, you want his son

Opinion

• Schukman's article not an ethical solution
• Rape: A true story
• Biofuels may do more harm than good
• Applauding the fight against the clap, et al.
• Think lobally, act locally: Save neuroscience at Mac
• The oh-so-substantial final staff editorial: Thumbs up, thumbs down
• An open letter to Ola Switala

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