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Students seek role in tenure process
By JONATHON LENTZ
The Legislative Body of Macalester College Student Government (MCSG) unaminously passed a resolution on Tuesday, Feb. 25 that calls for "greater [student] understanding of, and inclusion in" the tenure, or faculty hiring, process.
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Activist, Author Filmmaker Tariq Ali Speaks on Iraq
By MICHAEL BARNES
Longstanding activist, author, and filmmaker Tariq Ali spoke in the John B. Davis lecture hall Wednesday, Feb. 27 at noon. The lecture, entitled "War, Peace and Empire," centered on the recent United States drive for war against Iraq.
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One Unitarian's journey towards ministry
By ANNE GRIFFITHS
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have always considered being a minister. I am not sure what drew me to this career. I grew up Catholic, but left the church before my confirmation. This decision was partially based on the lack of leadership roles for women within the Catholic Church. I spent the next few years looking for a new church within the community, but I never found a real home. Every time I found a minister I respected, that person would take a position elsewhere, retire or get fired for "inappropriate behavior," as the church bulletin so delicately phrased it. In many senses, I did not have a home for my spirituality.
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Where's the rest of your team? Mac athletics face a grim future
By EMILY KOLLER
Let me put it bluntly. Many of the athletic programs at Macalester are barely getting by. They can hardly put enough players on the court or the field to play a game. Lack of numbers affects women's basketball, tennis, softball and golf. I can't tell you how many times the referee asked me in the captain's meeting before basketball games this year, "Where's the rest of your team?"
The women's varsity basketball team ended the season playing with six players, five taped sprained ankles and no fouls to give. The women's varsity fastpitch softball team is gearing up for their season opening with twelve healthy players. They need ten to field a team. They have one pitcher and they consistently play double-headers. The women's varsity tennis team now has seven with the addition of one of the six basketball players. But because of other obligations from two of their players, the leftover team of five will not be making the usual spring break trip to South Carolina.
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'Dining for Demining': Don't just talk—make a difference
By MARTINS BLUMS and TRICIA GONWA
We have been told that Macalester students talk, picket and protest, but are too lazy to work for any meaningful change. Observing the majority of students at Macalester, it seems difficult to dismiss this. We tried to come up with things that our friends did outside of class to make the world a better place. A few volunteer at non-profits; we were not exactly sure what they did there, and unfortunately had never really cared. Others are members of student organizations. They join because they want to change things, yet despite their weekly meetings, it doesn't seem as if much is accomplished in those settings either. We were determined to find a genuine cause to pursue and actually do something about it.
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More than a feeling: humane slaughtering methods
By KRISTEN SHAW
I am writing in response to Alex Koles' article "Do chickens have feelings, too?," The Mac Weekly, Feb. 21, 2003.
First, I'd like to say that I normally find PETA's methods and arguments to be ridiculous and, to say the least, extreme, but Mr. Koles misinterpreted the spirit and the goals of the KFC boycott. PETA does not argue that animals have feelings in the sense that they have emotions or "intelligence," but simply that they feel pain. The current method of slaughtering chickens, slitting their throats using electric shock, PETA argues, is inhumane in itself, but that is not the group's main concern. In the meat processing plants that the fast food industry patronizes, speed is of essence in slaughtering. Animals are half-killed by hurried, sloppy workers, and are processed alive. "Humane slaughter," as legally defined for most species, requires that animals be rendered unconscious before being killed.
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The only city I recognize is my Circuit City
By KATHERINE TYLEVICH
Let's face it, ladies and gentlemen, when I enter an online chatroom, I steal the cyber-spotlight. My inter-friends virtually reach out to me; they type in all caps in an effort to cry out for me to "stop playing cyber-God! These are people's online lives that you're toying with! Get a hold of yourself, man." To hell with them, I say. A popular man was never without enemies. When I sign on as my internet-persona, I literally spring to life—my fingers pluck at the keyboard at practically the speed of light, and my online-abbreviations are so accurate and so timely, that even the co-founder of America Online once asked to shake my hand … in part to congratulate me for the contributions I had made to the online world of Greco-Roman conversationalism, and in part, to feel me just so that he could convince himself that I am really human. Has any mortal ever reached the level of my cyber-wisdom and stamina? Dare I say, I have yet to meet him.
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Food, Sturgis and snow are nice
By JOSHUA NISSENBOIM
You missed me. I know it. It's a lie. You never cared. And I didn't either so it is fair. This time I…
This time I went with Rob, Helen and Tanya to Bryant Lake Bowl. It is on Lake and Bryant. It is where Kung Fu Hamlet in which some Mac students/grads are performing. I didn't know that at the time. I have been in a very corresponded conversation with Taavo where we really deeply remember very funny things that have happened in our past. I miss Taavo. He is in the show and you should go see it. I didn't, I told you I didn't, it was because I just didn't know.
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Macalester Diver Liz Fitzgerald '04 does some serious aerial acrobatics off of the one meter diving board at last week's MIAC conference championships. Macalester Women's Swimming and diving teams excelled at the meet, performing better than any past Macalester squad. Full story
Photo: Barbara Gnagy
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