The Nordic ski team will compete in three more races as a varsity team before being demoted to a club sport next year, the Athletic Department announced in a press release Feb. 5.
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This weekend, Macalester College will host the fifth annual African American Studies Conference.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Fifty Years Since Brown v. Board of Education: Where Are We Now?”
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The nations of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were the focus of a recent Macalester symposium entitled “The Future of Central Asia: Global Issues in a Regional Context.”
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This January, student groups went on two-credit trips to Tunisia, the Greek islands of Crete and Santorini and Rome with the Geography, Geology and Classics departments, respectively.
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Mac Book Swap, a student-run textbook trading web site, has become increasingly popular this semester as students looked for alternatives to buying from Macalester’s textbook store and from national online merchants.
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Staff Writers
As the inches of snow add up to feet, students have had to deal with the inconveniences of a harsh winter. Some of the costliest of these winter burdens are snow emergency car towings.
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Feb. 16, 1951- Kirk Hall held its annual open house and dance to choose the hall’s official “sweetheart.” Eight young ladies were candidates for the position. The president of Kirk Hall crowned the sweetheart in the intermission of the dancing between 9:30 and 12 p.m.
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Get this: the average consumer will spend more than $99 to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, according to the Indianapolis Star. This is amazing. What is that money spent on? Hey, average consumer, could you maybe spend some of that V-Day money on some of our textbooks, or maybe some long underwear?
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“I try to be responsible to what I'm photographing, and I draw lines, but sometimes the lines get blurry. There are photographs I took that I think are powerful that will not be included in this public exhibit.”
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I write to inform you that the Board of Trustees has set the total for tuition, room and board, and fees at Macalester for 2004-2005 at $34,156. Tuition will be $26,638, room and board $7,350 and the activity fee $168. This represents an increase of 6.9 percent over the 2003-2004 total of $31,944.
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A few weeks ago, I was dancing with some very sassy ladies whom I am privileged to call my friends at one of our favorite bars, Lucy’s. For those of you who don’t already know, Lucy’s is a dyke bar in St. Paul. There are many good qualities about this bar, such as relatively cheap drinks, Top-40’s-ish music that is wicked fun to dance to and it’s 18-and-up, so you can drag along underage friends and make them drive you home.
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Last week, Sam Worley-Ekstrom’s opinion piece, “No more liberal compromises: we need more than just a new president,” made two claims. First, the anybody-but-Bush crowd is hypocritical in their opposition to the Iraq war because they did not vocally oppose earlier American foreign policies. Second, “too many liberals compromise themselves and their causes into oblivion,” through passionless and overly civil politics.
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“Very few people surprise me,” says Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. “You’re lucky,” Julia Roberts responds, “Most of’em shock the hell out of me.”
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Buses rolled away from the Fieldhouse in the early hours of the morning Saturday, Feb. 7 as the Macalester men’s and women’s indoor track teams traveled to Decorah, Iowa to compete in the Luther College Alumni Meet. Featuring a larger number of participants than past years, the Scots made the three-hour trip to stretch their legs against a solid Luther team and some top Luther alumni. The trip proved to be an excellent early season measuring stick as Macalester athletes put in strong performances for both the men’s and women’s teams in what was their second meet of the indoor season. Participants improved their marks in almost all events over those from the meet at Gustavus Jan. 29. Macalester athletes combined for four first-place finishes (two for the men and two for the women) and 13 second-place finishes (five for the men and eight for the women).
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The Scots entered Saturday’s home game with St. Mary’s seeking to rebound from a tough loss to Gustavus three days before and exact revenge for a 66-57 loss to St Mary’s on Jan. 7.
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Rick Lechowick is a senior from the Irish part of Los Feliz, CA. He’s tall and has strawberry-blonde hair. He says he frequently is told he smells like freshly fallen dew on sweet clovers. I found it to be true.
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First we should introduce ourselves. We are Danny and Tanzeen, The Mac Weekly’s “greatest” restaurant reviewers. During the coming weeks we will search out affordable, accessible, good food cooked by good people (or maybe not—we’ll find out the real story). We’ll tell you about the food and the story behind the food. Before we get to our first restaurant review, some basic information about us.
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I wanted to be tickled pink last Valentine’s Day; instead I was tickled a shade of brown and thrown a salt lick. I’m a camel, yes. But I’m also a lady camel, and I deserve to be treated with a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. And don’t you forget it.
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Cont’d from last week…
… As Johnny began to inch towards the soapy scientist, licking his lips in anticipation, he wondered whether he was making a terrible mistake. As if in answer to his question, Dr. Jewels stretched out his arm beckoning Johnny forward. “I’ve noticed your well-formed contributions in anatomy class, Johnny. You must have such a big…brain. How ‘bout a sneak preview of next week’s lesson…?” Johnny hesitated. His mind flashed back to that fateful night at pickle-ball camp—the whipped cream, the dildo…the horror. He came back to the reality that was the steamy shower room and said, “I…I’m not sure we should do this.” Dr. Jewels cackled throatily. “But Johnny…How can something that’s wrong feel soooo right?” Johnny couldn’t argue with this logic. His legs seemed to melt beneath him until he found himself on his knees, staring down 10 inches of un-cut destiny straight into its one little slit of an eye. His mouth watering with a hunger he had never felt before, Johnny grabbed hold of Dr. Jewels’ pulsing man-meat and prepared to feast. It was then he realized that he had no idea what he was doing…
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Pardon my rant, but thanks to Landmark Theater’s baffling marketing strategies, Robert Altman’s new film The Company has opened at the far-off Edina theater. This seems to be becoming a pattern with Landmark (also owners of the Lagoon and Uptown theaters), who fated several other larger-name foreign/independent/art-house films to languish in the suburbs, far from patrons, after last-minute switches and delays from their popular Uptown locations (Gus Van Sant’s controversial Palme d’Or winner Elephant is another notable example).
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In the past few weeks, walking into the student lounge to play a game of pool you may have been surprised to see a bunch of bras hanging against the wall. The bras, ranging in size, shape and color, were put up as part of an exhibit entitled “Images of Women” which aims to raise awareness and celebrate womanhood. The exhibit consists of a laundry line from which hang works of art, poetry, personal reflections and bras replete with statistics about sexual abuse, eating disorders and genital mutilation. “Images of Women” invites its audience to add their own contributions and comments.
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You can tell a lot about a people by scanning their CD shelf. Superficial it may be, but take time and talk to them about their music collection and closets open, offering glimpses into their youth, intellect and personal history. To wax philosophical, music permeates our daily life, pandering to the moods, rhythms and complexity of our nature. Music is as complementary to our mirth and misery as it is to hips and asses. The motivation in talking to Macalester administration and faculty about their musical tastes is as much its universality as it is our curiosity. I found, in fact, that Macalester faculty can talk as much, if not more, about their musical palate than their given academic specialty.
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I narrowly missed seeing Metric play at the Fine Line last Monday night. With radio airplay in some of the nation’s hipper cities and a recent write-up in that springboard to momentary indie rock fame, Spin magazine (the headline: “44 Bands You Need to Hear Now!”), it was not unreasonable that I assumed Metric had top billing. But Metric were already back in the van when we arrived at the Fine Line, and dropped $12 for a 45-minute set from British popsters South. The four blokes of South combined plaintive Brit Pop, Sonic Youth-like distortion and electronic noise into a musical package that was, well, confusing. And as I fretted over how I was going to pick up the pieces of my disappointing evening and mold them into a story about South’s performance, I finally decided to screw journalistic convention and write about the band that I didn’t see. Metric’s first full-length, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, may be old news—it was released over five months ago—but it’s my article and I like them, so I am making them new news.
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Jungle: (n) a genre of electronic music hailing from the United Kingdom circa 1989, when it first branched off from the old skool-rave sound. Syncopated beats and melody, 180 beats-per-minute breakbeats and lo-fidelity bass are the staples of the style.
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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.”
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Can you remember the last time you used a penny? Or even the last time you saw a penny? Of course you can, because everything in this fucking country costs like 99 cents and then you get stuck with the worthless penny. When we were kids we kept a penny jar and we saved so much that we were able to buy “The Legend of Zelda” for Nintendo, and then pennies were awesome. But now they suck. If you keep a change purse then your pennies just overtake everything else and if a situation arises where you need an actual unit of currency, like, say, a quarter, then you have to wade through all of the pennies you've amassed until you eventually find the one quarter hidden at the bottom.
And you know what else? Most countries don't even have pennies. They just round their prices off. And sometimes Tanya has soooo many pennies that she just throws them in the garbage. She just has sooo many.
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Some people like to read poetry on their free time. Others like to watch movies or have sex. Me? I think that playing Madden and drinking beer is the most fun ever. It's not that those other activities aren't good. They are. I like sex as much as the next guy. But beer is so much more wholesome. And delicious. Take something simple like Budweiser. It tastes great, and then it also makes you feel happier and more able to do other activities successfully, like play video games or drive. But Budweiser is only the tip of the iceberg. You can go lower-shelf and drink deliciousness like Landmark for $9.99 a 24-pack. Good times. Or you can get a six-pack of something amazing, like St. Pauli’s. So good. What fun you can have with beer.
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Now, on to the true matter at hand. The real problem with cell phones is the way that they only ring when you’re busy doing something else. If I had a dollar for every time I got a call on my cell phone while I was sitting about waiting for one, I’d be poorer than you. Logically, the best times to get phone calls are while you’re in class, while you’re playing a sport, or while you’re fending off marine life, hoping they don’t kill you. And in all of those situations, the ring is annoying. “Switch your phone to vibrate,” they say. But we all know that isn’t really an option. Nine times out of ten, cell phone vibrations are mistaken for pacemaker failures and have resulted in 39 percent of modern geriatric deaths. And while murdering old people is all well and good, it doesn’t aid society in any capacity… so clearly the... wait, murdering old people DOES aid society. In EVERY way. Go cell phones!
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