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Speaker discusses future of enviroment
By REBECCA DEJARLAIS
In the upcoming elections, each vote cast will not only support a particular candidate but the positions that the candidates stand behind. Many of the issues are controversial, with the potential to dramatically impact the future. Environmental bills are currently progressing through the levels of the House and Senate with varying results. "In the balance of power, the environment is hanging by a very thin thread," said national Sierra Club president Jennifer Ferenstein.
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Focus on Student Life Task Force
By LIZZIE TANNEN
The Student Learning Experience Task Force, led by Geography Department Chair David Lanegran, was created by President McPherson last fall to examine the experience of Macalester students outside the classroom – a perspective that, according to Lanegran, has been long overlooked.
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Trustees discuss renovation and housing
By REBECCA DEJARLAIS
Macalester's board of trustees met last Friday and Saturday for the first time since May. The conference, which marked the conclusion of the previous day's subcommittee meetings, covered a wide spectrum of issues that concern students, faculty, and administration.
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Comic View?
By MIKE MANIGAULT
It's been a hectic week y'all. My computer died on me while I was writing a 12-page paper, and you guessed it: I didn't back it up on a disk. So I slaved away past four in the morning, went to Dupre's computer lab so as to not disturb my roommate's sleep, mind you, I still had reading and work in my other classes—you figure the last thing I need in my life is a racial confrontation, right? Right. Well, let's say life threw me a curve ball, cause that's what I got anyway. If you're thinking about a black entourage staring down a cackling group of white students, you couldn't be more wrong. I wasn't even the main person involved.
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Blessed to have a choice
By PATRICK MALONE, SJ
Most of earth's inhabitants work to get by. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much—this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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R-E-C-Y-C-L-E: I'll tell you what it means to me
By SARA JOHNSON
This morning, as the sun rose outside my tiny slice of a window in Dupre, I printed my Human Geography essay on both sides of the paper. Afterwards, I grabbed the bottles lining my desk, marched to the kitchen with a sense of duty and purpose, rinsed out my soda can and threw it in the recycle bin labeled "cans." Later, after checking my SPO and seeing the letter my mother sent me snuggled against an International Male catalog, I threw the letter in the paper recycling bin and headed off with International Male tucked under my arm.
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Green Party members, not Wellstone, abiding to principles
By SAM WORLEY-EKSTROM and JESSE MORTENSEN
Thank you, Andrew Riely, for accusing the Green Party of betraying its principles. It is an honor to know that even detractors acknowledge that we have them, compared to the Democratic Party which, for practical consideration, does not.
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Get involved with Wellstone
By DANNY SCHWARTZMANN
You don't have to read President McPherson's advertisement in The New York Times to know that Macalester students are generally civically engaged. Students participate in the community lots of ways: they volunteer, follow the news, participate in demonstrations and vote. Compared to the vast majority of colleges in the country, we are a very engaged campus. But as a community we can do much more. Now is the time for us to be fully engaged.
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Overlooked human rights abuses in Australia
By ZIA TAYEBJEE
I am writing this piece as a plea to the Macalester community to stand up against an atrocious violation of human rights. Since 1999 the Australian government has instituted a policy under which immigrants who do not have the correct papers to enter the country are placed in "mandatory detention" for an indefinite period of time while their visa applications are processed. These rules apply to political and economic refugees and no exceptions are made for children.
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