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.

Feb. 20, 1953- A majority of Macalester students were opposed to the idea of requiring faculty to take an oath stating that they were not members of the Communist party. The Mac Weekly conducted the poll this week, which showed 56 percent of students were opposed to the oath, 33 percent were in favor of it, and 11% had no opinion. “Most of those who commented favorably upon the oaths mentioned the fact that professors have much influence over the impressionable minds of students. Some disliked the oaths because of the danger to individual freedom of thought.” One student who opposed the oath said, “The procedure would be ineffective because Communists would falsify their reports.”

Feb. 17, 1961- Sixty-five Macalester students demonstrated at two local theaters in “protestation” [sic] of their parent company’s segregation of customers in the South. The students picketed in front of the theaters for three hours holding signs and sandwich boards. Several of the signs read, “We Protest ABC Paramount’s Jim Crow Theaters in the South,” “Think Again Before You Go In” and “Boycott For Integration.” In contrast to the violence of some southern protests, the Macalester students’ boycott was orderly and occurred with the permission of the St. Paul police.