Macalester College Student Government held elections for next year’s positions and two amendments last Thursday.
The student body elected Michael Barnes ’06 as president and Cara Haberman ’06 as vice president in last Thursday’s elections.
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Macalester students hosted 115 prospective first-years (PFs) overnight on April 15 and 16 as part of the annual Spring Sampler. Another 165 PFs are on campus today.
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Minnesota State Senator Scott Dibble, the only openly gay member of the Minnesota Senate, spoke to Macalester students on Thursday, April 1. Macalester Democrats sponsored the event.
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This Saturday, Macalester will host the annual Springfest, a festival featuring five local bands, three bands from out of town and several Macalester musical acts. The event will take place from noon to 9 p.m., making it longer than past Springfests, which typically lasted seven hours.
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U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum spoke to dozens of Macalester students and community members on April 15.
McCollum, who represents the fourth congressional district that includes St Paul and some surrounding suburbs, spoke for approximately 20 minutes before fielding questions from the audience.
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Harvard Sociology Professor and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Orlando Patterson delivered a lecture entitled “Black-White Relations in Europe and the Americas: Four Modes of Ethnic Stratification” in Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel on Thursday, April 15.
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Last week, Michael Barnes wrote a very fair and informative article for The Mac Weekly about the situation regarding Campus Program’s shutting down of WMCN over the summer months. However, I would like to clarify WMCN’s argument, as well as reveal further developments regarding the issue of summer broadcasting that need to be brought to the Macalester student community.
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At Macalester, our lives are dictated by choice. We pick everything, from classes to culinary delights. This is a fundamental continuity for most students as we pass through an endless series of options: we chose to say “peace” to the womb and ever since we form our identity in a constant stream of precious agency. As picking and choosing becomes living and breathing, everyone becomes caricatures of themselves—made the same by the ability to be different. In turn, our whims and moods become intimately tied to issues of power, love and death—the stuff of politics. It is this choice that makes us slaves and makes others casualties of our leisure.
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Three and a half years into his term of office, Bush had his third prime-time press conference on Tuesday, April 13. Although he knew all but one of the questions in advance, per his requirement, he still managed to avoid answering most of them. The rest of this piece is basically a response to some of his introductory comments and what I will charitably call his “responses” to questions posed by the press.
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Megan Stevenson and Luce Guillén-Givins have raised some valid points about the Coke boycott in well-written articles, and I really respect them for dealing with this issue on such an ethical basis. I’m learning every day. Apathy, not opposition, is our common enemy. Are our actions congruent with protecting people? After reading last week’s Mac Weekly I’m beginning to feel like Condoleezza Rice in front of the 9-11 committee (although, in this case, a particularly nice, yet equally impassioned, committee). So I would like to clarify my argument and address some assertions that have been made. Unfortunately, I have a limited amount of space, so I’ll primarily address Stevenson’s article.
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In the wake of the Bush administration’s most recent diplomatic blunders—Jordan, Spain and duh, Iraq—and the ongoing intellectual debate between interventionists and isolationists, it may be time to look at how all of this impacts the sporting world.
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The women’s water polo team traveled to Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., and dominated the Heartland Regional Championship this past weekend, winning all of its games and taking home the regional title. This year marks the sixth time the Scots have won this championship in the past seven years.
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Macalester men’s rugby football club had its sole home game of the year this past Saturday. We played Bethel College. Though Macalester lost, it was still a great game for us. Three years ago, the team went into a decline and has just begun picking back up again. Last semester we won our first game since I was a first-year. Just this semester, Bethel won a tournament that included large state schools such as North Dakota. Short two starters, we handled ourselves well. In addition, there are only three four-year players: Michael Ying ’04, Gitch Onsongo ’04 and myself.
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Sarah McColl is an English major and art history minor. She’s from Delaware Township, N.J. Sarah thinks chips and salsa are a legitimate meal. Andrew Yeoman is a biology major from Houghton, Mich. and Bath, England who recently learned that cigarettes make you cooler. Katie LaZelle is a political science major and French minor from an eastside suburb of Seattle, Wash. She likes things sweet. Sarah, Andrew and Katie went out to drinks at the Turf Club on Tuesday night. Andrew ordered a gin and tonic (which glowed in the black lights), Sarah ordered a vodka and soda, and Katie ordered a whiskey sour.
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Most believe that I’m the illegitimate bastard child of Benjamin Franklin, but some swear that I was conceived overseas in England, and carried to the United States in the early 1700s. Blame my tumultuous upbringing. Blame me, for all I care, but I never learned to love. Not until I met the sweet gaze of the video camera.
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1. “Unfortunately, ‘the death of the Author’ has led to the implicit dismissal of ‘value’ as a criterion. We have been taught to look for ‘the rules of classical narrative,’ for genre patterns, motifs, recurring iconography, to study works ‘scientifically’ as cultural products (which of course they are). This discipline has been of great importance: it has greatly increased our awareness of the basic raw materials upon which a genre defines itself and out of which individual films are built. But beyond it remains, or should remain—must remain if we are to retain any belief in human creativity and if works are to mean more to us than mere specimens for dissection—the question of value, and that question hinges inevitably on notions of personal authorship.”
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Of all musical styles under the sun, country music is perhaps the most misunderstood. What you hear on the radio and think of as country is further from country’s origins than the young punks snarling in their parents’ garages. The country what you hear on the radio is rather pathetic. The Nashville recording industry is not so much evil as terrible. Listen to new-traditionalist country on the radio and you hear one song after another with the same slick production and wholesome normative leanings. No one really ruffles feathers in Nashville and no one really goes out of style either, which makes Nashville the most stagnant, tightly controlled and profitable in the music industry. The most remarkable aspect of Nashville is how it’s able to create pop culture to that other half of America, the culture urbanites and most suburbanites don’t often see outside of an interstate rest stop, but they’re everywhere.
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The jazz-opera Forgotten, which will be performed at Macalester next Friday night, is not the sort of musical you encounter everyday. It is a mix of jazz music, a murder mystery and a telling story from labor history.
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