Macalester Geology publicized in Star-Tribune, Pioneer Press

This weekend, both the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and The St. Paul Pioneer Press featured articles about the Macalester Geology department and its chair, Ray Rogers.

Both articles highlighted Rogers along with his wife, Kristi Curry Rogers, who is the curator of paleontology at the Science Museum of Paleontology.

The couple made the front page of Sunday’s Star Tribune, in an article detailing this past summer’s dinosaur dig in the Missouri Breaks. The month-long dig was the first organized dinosaur dig in Montana since 1852, although Rogers said that the bounty and accessibility of the bones has made poaching frequent practice over the past 150 years. Brady Foreman ’04, Mara Brady ’05 and Chris Dwyer ’05 participated in the dig as well. Brady and Foreman were quoted in the newspaper article.

(Managing Editor Lizzie Tannen)
 

Cara Haberman ’06 spotlighted by Michael Moore at speech

Cara Haberman ’06 was spotlighted when she attended Michael Moore’s speech last Saturday night at the University of Minnesota’s Sports Pavilion.

In an attempt to reinforce his point that Americans are self-centered, ethnocentric and “stupid” while Canadians are “nice and smart,” Moore asked for a “stupid Canadian” and “smart American” to answer questions.

“I was sitting right near the stage and, being a Canadian, I volunteered,” said Haberman, who grew up in Montreal. Moore asked Haberman who the president of the United States was and then asked the American student who the prime minister of Canada.

“I knew the answer to my question but the other person didn’t know the answer so I tried to whisper it to him,” Haberman said, “but my trying to help the other guy out only made Moore more convinced of his point.”

(Managing Editor Bry Longley-Postema)