This semester The Mac Weekly has revamped the Backpage with two new editors who aren’t afraid to “tell it like it is” or to “be controversial” or to “not give a shit what anyone else thinks about the page because we’re seniors who are leaving soon and we’re just doing this for kicks anyway.” But before we go into that, let us first assure you that we won’t follow the long tradition of Macalester students “being different” by being exactly the same as everyone else. This page will not bore you to tears with clichéd Mac-isms such as semi-veiled references to marijuana smoking. We will not force you to read articles entitled, “Bush Sux and Here’s Why!” nor will we submit you to any political diatribes against America, war, imperialism and capitalism or argue that these terms are all one and the same. There will be no “cutesy” humor articles mocking other local colleges and universities like “sHamline” or “St. O-Laughs.” We’ll not publish lengthy opinion articles decrying the state of injustice in the world today or the prejudice that takes place even on Macalester’s very own campus!!” I promise you won’t have to read another article on how much we hate homework or “advice guides for freshmen on how to deal with school life.”

No, rather than use flowery prose or tap into mainstream Macalesterism, your new editors prefer to go for the jugular. Every week one or the other of us will GUARANTEE to put in at least an hour’s work into this page to make it enjoyable, humorous and topical for YOU, the valued reader. Whatever is happening, we’ll bring it up where the news pages are too scared to do anything more than “report the facts.” If someone is suing the school, we’ll write, “What the hell are you thinking?” If some middle school kids jump and rob a Macalester student, we’ve no problems asking, “How the hell did you get beat up by 6th graders? How!?!?” If the campus center lounge is named ‘Kofi’s Korner’ only we will write, “Holy shit how many of you are incapable of spelling the word ‘corner?’” This, dear friends, is our pledge to you and we hope you enjoy this page until we are kicked off of it in the very near future for “telling it like it is” and “being controversial” and “not giving a shit what anyone else thinks about the page because we’re seniors who are leaving soon and we’re just doing this for kicks anyway.”