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Really?

There are over 5 miles of sidewalk and about 3,000 doors to help you get from point A to point B on Macalester's 53-acre campus.


There are 135 restaurants within 2 miles of campus featuring a variety of world cuisines.

Afghan
Chinese
Ethiopian
Finnish
French
Greek
Irish
Itanlian
Japanese
Jewish deli
Korean
Mediterranean
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Russian
Thai
Tibetan/Nepalese
Turkish
U.S. heartland
Vietnamese
...and more

quiz

1. Which of these Minnesota Public Radio programs was first broadcast from Macalester?

a. Sound Money
b. Savvy Traveler
c. Prairie Home Companion
d. Comedy College

2. Macalester athletic teams are known as the Fighting Scots ...

a. in honor of one-time Saint Paul resident F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. because we're big Mel Gibson fans
c. because our founders were of Scottish descent (and the Fighting Presbyterians just didn't sound right)
d. because the sound of bagpipes playing has been known to distract opponents

3. Which will you not find on the Macalester campus?

a. a state-of-the-art heart-transplant unit
b. a swing set
c. a foundry
d. a laser spectroscopy laboratory

4. Which of the following is the title of a Macalester class?

a. Geomorphology
b. Phonology
c. Wittgenstein
d. All of the above

5. Which of these spoke at Macalester recently?

a. Thomas Friedman, Spike Lee and Garrison Keillor
b. CNN's terrorism expert Peter Bergen...one of the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden
c. Authors Toni Morrison and Tim O'Brien
d. All of the above

 

 

Answers:
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. d

 

 

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