Senior dinner and dance to be held in May

The senior dinner and dance, held in February the last few years, has been moved back to its original time in May. This year the dance will take place on May 17 and will be held in conjunction with Reunion Weekend. This will be the first senior-alumni event and “will be great for the seniors to interact with the alumni since at that point they are alumni,” said Kim Gregg, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations. The Senior Week Committee is in the process of planning a senior dance for March 8 in Kagin.

(Bryanna Longley-Postema)

Kendrick Brown featured on BET.com

Professor of Psychology Kendrick Brown will be regularly featured throughout February in a series on slavery on BET.com, the online site for Black Entertainment Television, the national cable television network. Brown will be quoted on a variety of issues about the vestiges of slavery, including skin-tone bias.

(Staff Reports)

Mac grad receives Rhodes Scholarship

Christian Campbell ’99, currently a graduate student in English at Duke University, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Campbell will study the history and oral traditions of poetry in the Caribbean at Oxford University in England. He says the program at Oxford will help in writing his dissertation on Caribbean writers when he returns to Duke where he is pursuing his doctoral degree. The 22-year-old Bahamian graduated from Macalester with a degree in Communication Studies and English. Nine students have received the Rhodes Scholarship while enrolled at Macalester.

(Bryanna Longely-Postema)

Raymond Robertson secures $40,000 grant

Professor of Economics Raymond Robertson recently secured a $40,000 grant for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which will allow the agency to ease some of the environmental stresses caused by tourism in Mexico.

The grant will go toward the filming of a documentary explaining how to make composting toilets, a natural alternative to those used in hotels and resorts which send sewage into the groundwater and eventually to the ocean, killing reefs and other sea life. Copies of the documentary will be distributed to communities along the coast of Mexico.

Last year, Robertson wrote a grant proposal on behalf of the Centro Ecologico Akumal (CEA), a non-profit organization in the tourist haven of Akumal, Mexico that researches the impact of tourism on the environment. The $10,000 grant contributed to their Turtle Program, which utilizes volunteers to locate and mark turtle eggs, guard them from poachers, and help the newly-hatched turtles find their way to the water.

(Danielle Maestretti)