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4/23/10

• Despite sustainability pledge, Mac still burning sludge

3/5/10

• Chile earthquake felt at Mac

11/20/09

• Personnel Committee recommends all six eligible faculty for tenure

11/13/09

• ID cards go online, add fee

10/9/09

• MCSG approves new budget

9/25/09

• Entenza returns to Old Main

9/18/09

• H1N1 likely on campus

9/11/09

• City Council approves
  Snelling median

4/24/09

• As grant ends, Lilly programs face cuts

3/13/09

• RNC Fallout: Police raid dorm room

3/6/09

• Bus passes back on track, for now
• Minnick talks Academic Programs

2/27/09

• Bus passes takes a back seat
• Economy freezes pay, not hope

2/13/09

• Staff, students remember King Bell
• Where have all the dishes gone?

2/6/09

• MCSG proposes financial aid for textbooks

12/5/08

• HOURCAR gets second car

11/14/08

• Recount: Mac students volunteer time and eyes, raffle a date in support of Al Franken

11/7/08

• Obama wins, campus erupts

10/24/08

• Michelle Obama rallies 4,500 in Leonard Center
• Trustees vote on cooling system

10/10/08

• College begins to court small donors in Capital Campaign
• It's getting hot in here

9/26/08

• Students film Macalester in $12,500 contest

9/19/08

• All around liberal arts

9/5/08

• Six students pepper-sprayed at Republican Convention protest

Issue Summary

Food and Drank

• Chino Latino: Dangerously trendy, definitely worth it during Happy Hour

News

• Fall convocation speaker: Health activist and Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer
• Tobacco Task Force helps Mac prepare for a smoke-free campus
• Kentucky Derby runner has Macalester connections
• Summer job shortage dire for some international students
• Changes at Springfest:Program Board shifts to outdoor BBQ, indoor concert after negative feedback

Features

• Kirk Basement Lab: Pragacz's lair
• Mac Snap shot: Spencer Retelle '11
• If you give a boy a cupcake...
• Professor book reviews: "Nightshade" by Andrea Cremer
• Professor book reviews: "The House of Tomorrow" by Peter Bognanni
• Professor book reviews: "Africa's Freedom Railway" by Jamie Monson

Sports

• Athletics Department continues hard push for results, excellence
• Macalester goes shoeless for Grassroot Soccer
• Women's frisbee team moving on to regionals
• Twins off to fast start: Liriano returns to form

The Arts

• reSites: Senior Art Exhibition opening today
• Spring Dance concert is worth seeing twice
• A capella's interview innuendos: The Trads
• A capella's interview innuendos: The Sirens

Opinion

• Hate crimes at Macalester
• Frag-ments: Be queer for the revolution
• Sweatshop labor on tour
• The favor of a response
• Staff Editorial: The year in review
• Ode to the Class of 2010

Spotlight

• A science of friendship