The Mac Weekly: April 4, 2003 Headlines

Ten new iMacs stolen from chemistry lab By JON LENTZ Ten new iMac computers were stolen from the Chemistry computer lab in Olin-Rice Hall last Friday. The crime cost Macalester $16,000 and has effectively shut down the lab for the rest of the semester. {more}


Those with military ties feel alienated by protests By BRENT HECHT The small contingent of the Macalester community with intimate ties to the military is feeling isolated by the recent rise in anti-war activism on campus. {more}


Student Government to consider instant runoff voting next Tuesday By DAVID McKENNA Macalester College Student Government's Legislative Body will vote on the use of instant runoff voting (IRV) in student government elections at its meeting next Tuesday. {more}


Macalester students reflect on studying abroad during wartime By LIZZIE TANNEN While Congress legislates against fries called French, Katie Lazelle '04 plans to spend this summer in Strasbourg, France continuing an internship she began during her semester abroad in Fall 2002. She recalled the response of her supervisor when she joked with him about supposed anti-American sentiment in France: "Europeans are always in favor of any American that is currently choosing not to live in America," he said. {more}

United Nations ambassador speaks at Mac By ROLAND McKAY Ambassador of Ecuador to the United Nations Luis Gallegos Chiriboga came to campus last week to speak on the viability of the international organization during and after the war in Iraq. {more}


Residents of 'Peace Camp' roughing-it, anti-war style By MICHAEL BARNES A dozen tents and a barrage of colorful anti-war signs fan out beside a raised U.S. flag bearing a large white peace symbol, filling the normally vacant space between the Campus Center and the Chapel. The peace camp cannot be ignored. {more}


Spotlight finally printed, delivered to mailboxes By BRENT HECHT Usually delivered in October, Spotlight, Macalester's traditional student directory, finally made in into students' mailboxes last Friday. {more}

Japanese poetry and the Indigo Girls By MEGAN BAYLES At the risk of sounding superdyke, I fill this week's Queer Space with Haiku dedicated to the Indigo Girls, to whose music I will forever be indebted. Forgive me as I embrace the bad poetry that so often escapes my fingertips. {more}


MCSG needs you : Run to represent the student body By HARIS AQEEL "Ah well! I am their [representative], I must follow them"-Anonymous {more}

Earth Day in perspective: environmental destruction and social justice By BERNADETTE MILLER As we enter the 21st century, the challenges facing our world may often seem overwhelming. We are bombarded daily with images and information about serious problems including poverty, inequality, malnutrition, disease, violence, racism and cultural imperialism. In the face of such urgent issues, what relevance can be ascribed to the celebration of Earth Day and Earth Week at Macalester? Is it not a luxury to be able to reflect upon environmental issues when so many people in the world are struggling to survive? {more}


War Is Always Waged On Women's Bodies By MARTA RUOHONIEMI and ALEX KENDALL While war rages on in Iraq, war is also being waged in the U.S. against basic human rights. This year, bills have been introduced in the National Legislature and the Minnesota State Legislature that would limit a woman's right to choice and access to reproductive rights. {more}

Softball splits doubleheader with Carleton

By EMILY ANDERSON

The Macalester softball team began its conference play Wednesday by splitting a doubleheader with Carleton. Though the Scots dropped the first game 8–0, they came back strong in the second game to beat the Knights 4-0. {more}

Sports Round-up

By ELIZABETH SWANEY

Men's Baseball:

4–12, 0–2 MIAC {more}

Spotlight shines on Suman Ambwani and friends By JAMES HAMILTON *It's ten o' clock on Wednesday night and Suman Ambwani '03 is about to go to the Tap. I would go—but The Mac Weekly has ruined my life.* {more}


Chimpan-zee ya, I'm taking a walk on the wildside By KATHERINE TYLEVICH Hallelujah! I said, a- Hall-e-lujah! Prom season is upon us, and I am eagerly awaiting Johnny High-school's call for courtship. My chariot awaits at the Summit entrance of Dupre and I feel like Cinderella as I make a politically-loaded statement in my gown, composed entirely of recycled waste and the very charcoal that is famous for the oft-cited green-house gas effect! Go Fighting Scots! I plan to make a proclamation and I plan to make a difference, damn it. A difference in my social life, that is. If the large-breasted floozy in her designer duct-tape bustier can get attention, then why can't I? Because she's so adorably Middle Ages, and because I'm so tediously last year. Mercy. {more}

The Trial By SAM FISHLEDER In the red room with wavy walls, my eyes are puddles of blue angel honey powder. The judge sees me as something sinister, but stays fair and states the state sanction: {more}


Self-proclaimed foodies visit Freedom Meadow Café By EMILY HUME and Contributing Writers Upon initial inspection, the napkins at the French Meadow Bakery are made of pristine white cloth, but when pressed to your lips they reveal themselves to be nothing more than heavy-duty paper. This is the FMBC: chic on the outside, soulless on the inside. {more}

A beautiful mind? Some thoughts on Cronenberg's Spider

By BEN SACHS

Spider seems to have been made in a style that director David Cronenberg has been working towards his entire career: Every image is essential to the narrative development or emotional impact, while every image is somehow strange, unfamiliar. Like all of the Canadian filmmaker's best work (Crash, Naked Lunch), but only more so, each detail is presented with such gravity that everything seems to operate on the level of allegory, even though the allegory itself remains obscure and perhaps non-existent. {more}

New complex, same theater: Guthrie to invigorate downtown

By Sarah Peterson

Although it will be difficult for many to watch the old Guthrie building go, the construction of a new facility on the Mississippi River will offer expanded facilities for the nationally-recognized theater. {more}

Lonely ballads and drinkin' songs: sadness is chic again

By MAURA McANDREW

Nada Surf, Let Go

(Barsuk) {more}

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While the pro-war effort to counter the "Peace Camp" in front of Bateman Plaza was a little sparse this week, the "Liberation Camp" will see the light of day tomorrow, when the Mac Republicans will camp out and cook out. Mac Republicans will sell "Freedom Burgers" and "Liberty Dogs" at cost. Photo: Ben Johnson.

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