Minnesota Fringe Festival Features 'TONS' of Macalester Alumni

The Minnesota Fringe Festival is an annual eleven-day festival of live stage performance and visual arts, including theater, dance and performance art, puppetry, spoken word, storytelling and more. This year two shows include 'tons' of Macalester alumni. Go "fringing" and support your fellow alumni.

My Brother's Pacifier and Other Shorts: A Dance Show at Karaoke Night
produced and choreographed by Emily Potter '04
featuring: Blythe Staley '01, Nell Saunders-Scott '04, Clare Daniel '04,
Cara Delavallade '05, Monica Thomas '05, Theresa Madaus '05, and Anne-Marie '06

Modern dance and karaoke come to battle in a spectacle that just keeps repeating itself.

Intermedia Arts, Saturday, August 6 at 10 p.m.; Sunday, August 7 at 2:30 p.m.; Monday, August 9 at 7 p.m., Wednesday, August 10 at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, August 13 at 1 p.m.

Bourbon & Butter
featuring: Jesse Ruuttila '05, John Knefel '05, Maggie Sandford '05, Elliot Stapleton '05, and Adrian Kozlow '05

Leading the comic insurgency in the Twin Cities, the FG9 Theater presents a synthesis of live and video sketches that is too hysterical to live and too strange to die.

Red Eye Theater, Saturday, Aug. 6 at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 7 at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 10 p.m., Friday, Aug. 12 at 10 p.m., Aug. 14 at 2:30 p.m.

Alumni Awards
Alumni awards were presented to eight alumni during Reunion 2005.
Read their profiles...

And then, take a moment to nominate someone for 2006 who has done noteworthy work.

Nominate an alumnus/alumna

Professor Emerita Patricia Lanegran Kane dies
Patricia Lanegran Kane, an English professor at Macalester for more than 40 years and the first woman to serve as chair of the English Department, died Saturday, July 9. She was 79 and lived in Roseville. more>>

President's articles published on national site
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) has published two of President Brian Rosenberg's articles on their web site.   article 1 | article 2

Macalester has been named "college with a conscience"
Macalester has been named one of 81 "colleges with a conscience" by Princeton Review and Campus Compact. A profile of Macalester will appear in the newest college guide Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement, which is intended for students interested in colleges that foster civic engagement both on and off campus. Macalester was chosen from a pool of over 900 institutions nationwide.

To see the rankings of the 81 colleges chosen, click here (*pdf) . To read Macalester's profile, click here (*pdf).

Macalester names new athletic director
Travis Feezell, the athletic director and former baseball coach at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., has been named athletic director at Macalester. more>>

This summer, Macalester
invites you to tilt at the windmills...
If you always meant to read Don Quixote, but

• don't know Spanish
• think it's too hard
• wish for reading companions?

here's the incentive! You can join others in the Macalester community and celebrate this delightful work's 400th anniversary by reading the accessible and marvelous new translation by Edith Grossman. Start with the first 10 chapters and ponder the provocative questions.

Enjoy informal discussion in August and September. more>>

Alumni in the news
An article appeared in the Star Tribune July 4 about a 24-foot bus emblazoned with photos by Alison Quito Ziegler's '98. The photos show Somali immigrants to descendants of German farmers. "Minnesota is changing for good, and we have to acknowledge that things are going to be different and figure out how we can make Minnesota the most welcoming place it can be," Ziegler said. more (*pdf)>>
Visit the Intermedia Arts web site.

Amazon River Journey

Join the Alumni Office for the adventure of a lifetime on a cruise down the Amazon to explore the vast rainforests and untamed waters of one of the world's most exotic and mysterious natural realms. more>>

The journey takes place in 8 months. Start planning now. Contact Carol Polk in the Alumni Office for more information.