The Mac Weekly: September 19, 2003 Headlines

Benanav housing plan debated at forum by Phil Chen, Sarah Nelson, and Lizzie Tannen Macalester, St. Thomas, and Hamline students joined neighborhood residents and landlords Monday night for a community forum in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall with St. Paul City Councilmember Jay Benanav to discuss his proposal to regulate off-campus student housing. {more}


Downloading music: will the RIAA sue Macalester students? by Herschel Nachlis When the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a trade group representing U.S. record companies, announced this summer that it would start suing individuals who use “peer-to-peer” file-sharing programs such as Kazaa and Limewire to share copyrighted music files, Macalester’s Computer and Information Technology office knew Macalester students could end up being targeted. {more}


CIT battles virus, hackers to improve network speed by Nick Malecek Since early August a new wave of computer viruses has been exploiting flaws in personal computers and computer networks across the country, Macalester’s network included. Still recovering from this summer outbreak, the Macalester department of Computer and Information Technology (CIT) has been aggressively fighting to improve campus-wide internet and e-mail service. {more}

College offers new program abroad in South Africa by Tiffany Smith This spring, Macalester will offer a new study abroad program called “Globalization and the Natural Environment: South Africa.” {more}


Student opinions vital to tenure board decisions by Véronique Bergeron “It’s probably the most important personnel decision that the college makes. You’re making a lifetime commitment, so it’s going to affect students for a long time,” said Mark Davis, biology professor and chair of this year’s tenure review committee about the tenure process. {more}

When East Meets West...

By ERIK MORALES

“All Latinos in the United States can be said to share some characteristics besides the imposed need to identify ourselves with names we may like or agree with.” {more}

U.S. must re-evaluate policy toward Africa By GRAHAM RAVDIN We’ve all heard plenty of discussion about U.S. involvement in Iraq. I find myself glossing over the topic each time it arises, my mind and emotions saturated with two equally noxious thoughts: first, images of horrific violence. Second, the endless politcal bickering, insulated from the violence by thousands of miles of sterile distance. My interest renewed, however, when I overheard two former Navy men discuss their strong support of invading Iraq, and their blasé dismissal of even minor intervention in Liberia. Why is it easy for Americans to view the dignity of human populations in Africa and outside of Africa so differently? How is this tied into our foreign policy, and what ramifications will this have for the United States? {more}

Women’s Soccer Blitzes St. Mary’s 6-0; Men Win Conference Opener By DHRUVA JAISHANKAR The men’s and women’s soccer teams posted big victories last week against Bethel and St. Mary’s respectively. On Tuesday, the women’s team gave John Leaney his 400th win as head coach with a one-sided 6-0 victory at home against St. Mary’s. The Scots dominated the game, outshooting their opponents 35 to 0. Meghan Leahey ’06 scored two goals while Katie Pastorius ’06 contributed a goal and two assists. Sarah Oviatt ’04, Maddy Ruegg ’07 and Annie Borton ’07 also added one apiece. The Scots posted their sixteenth consecutive conference shut-out. {more}


Volleyball team wins California tourney By DHRUVA JAISHANKAR The Scots won the Pacific Coast Classic in Claremont, Calif. on Saturday after four solid 3-0 wins. The Scots swept Whittier, Calif., Widener, Pa., Concordia, Wis. and Pomona-Pitzer, Calif. {more}


Depth generates success for golf teams By JON LENTZ In its first conference tournament this season, the Macalester men’s golf team put up one of its best finishes in years to place eighth out of 16 teams. {more}

Women’s cross country finishes fifth at Luther meet By BO RYDZE After logging three to five hundred miles on the road this summer and a solid month of practice, the Macalester Women’s Cross Country team had an impressive showing at the Luther Invitational last Saturday. Despite the loss of front-runner Caroline Barnes ’06 to mononucleosis, the Scots placed 5th out of 14 teams and scored 120 points, which surpassed last year’s 206-point 9th place finish. This marked improvement is a testament to the greater depth of this year’s team, which boasts 14 first-year runners. {more}


Men’s cross country finds success under new coach By ANNA GORDON and EMILY STAFFORD The men’s cross country team debuted Saturday in Decorah, Iowa with promising individual and team results against a competitive field at the Luther College All-America Race. {more}

Julia Eagles: All about building a movement with primal screams By EILEEN FITZPATRICK Julia Eagles ’06 and I are sitting in her Veggie Co-op triple, in the midst of Bob Marley and Miles Davis posters,. I am dressed in Gap jeans and a Banana Republic shirt. It’s a cute place, but then, I’m in no situation to complain, since the gracious Veggie just saved me from another sad dinner at Café Mac, where currently the toaster is broken. {more}


And now, deep thoughts... By MICHAEL BARNES A word to the class of 2007: You are standing at the cliff’s edge, looking out, arms spread, lifting your head and leaning, but not falling; wrapping yourself in the winds that lift all about you, bouncing on the tips of your toes, and you do—leap! {more}


Depardieu me By KATHERINE TYLEVICH Oh, Pinocchio Depardieu (the adoptive son of celebrated French actor, Gerard Depardieu)... Pinocchio, kind but naive in nature, was only 19 years old (in lumber years) when he first dialed Ms. Cleo’s Psychic Hotline. “I was so young,” he reminisced. “I had just graduated from high school and was headed for a promising career in the world of dentistry… I just wanted to know what the future held in store for me. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.” At this point in the interview, a nearly hysterical Pinocchio had to pause and recollect his cool, as he was on the verge of shedding real, wooden tears. {more}

The word on the street By RÓSA GÍSLADÓTTIR Nicknames and oranges Do you know the feeling of watching a movie and not being able to concentrate on the story because you become completely preoccupied with an interesting word, drifting off into the wonderful world of syntax and slang? No? Well, unfortunately I do. By now, my friends close their ears as soon as I start babbling and shush me (they don’t want to risk a popcorn attack from our cinema neighbors). Which brings me to this column. I am hoping that this will be my solution; a place to vent a little, brainstorm, and maybe inspire (hey, that’s interesting... a lot of “air circulation” in these words! To vent, storm, inspire... ) {more}


I’m glad I wasn’t a doomed baby By CHARLES CAMPBELL I’d imagine most people my age would leave their first year of college invigorated with the freedom that came with it, only to return home frustrated by re-imposed curfews and other such if-you’re-going-to-live-in-this-house kinds of rules. But the heated arguments I had with my mom weren’t over what time I had to have the car home; instead, we argued over what color the trim on the new house was going to be. Did allagash green really marry the sienna brown window frames with the juniper shingles, or was this a hasty elopement doomed for aesthetic failure? My stepdad would back away from these discussions and for good reason: my mom and I both stand so staunch in our design opinions that criticism quickly becomes unconstructive and defenses are raised. But underlying these frivolous debates are the remnants of past arguments upon which the dust has never completely settled. In the past I used to wonder how things may have been had I been raised by my biological parents as opposed to being adopted. Perhaps the road would not have been so bumpy. I worried that I would never share one of those moments with my mom when, 10 years down the line on a crisp fall day, the two of us meet in a cozy coffee shop, nestle into armchairs and laugh about the endearing quirks of the men in our lives as we eye each other knowingly over our lattés. {more}

…To know which way the wind blows: New film profiles the Weather Underground

By DANIEL BURGESS

In the late 1960s and throughout the 70s, a small but dedicated group of revolutionaries known as the Weathermen orchestrated a string of bombings throughout the United States. Among their targets were New York City Police Headquarters, the Capitol Building and the Pentagon. Their goal: to overthrow the United States government. {more}

The Raveonettes’ Chain Gang of Love: The Danish Invasion?

By MAURA McANDREW

The first song on The Raveonettes’ debut album, Chain Gang of Love, concludes its last verse with the lines “Girl where were you on that day/ when hearts were handed out/ and young girls/ found pretty lover boys.” The Raveonettes, a righteously cool Danish boy/girl duo, are trying to make this question irrelevant. The musical purpose of band members Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo is to take us back to that time when music was light but driving—when it wasn’t a crime to write about escape and silliness. Chain Gang of Love is a slice of British invasion from before the Beatles grew beards. {more}

Pretty Girls Make Graves releases solid sophomore effort

By AURA CESAFSKY

In today’s world of emo-rock, it can seem that everyone is a victim. Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend’s toolbox and examining them one by one. Diatribes on the smothering effect of society abound. And even if bands aren’t lyrically wounded, they can fall victim to that particularly brutal monster, formulaic musical sterility. {more}

Ward 4 City Councilmember Jay Benanav discusses his controversial student housing plan with Daniel Unger ’04 and Nick Fagerland ’05 in John B. Davis Lecture Hall. Photo by Lizzie Tannen.

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