By BRENT HECHT, LIZZIE TANNEN and VERONIQUE BERGERON
For many Macalester students, feeling sad about the election results was simply not enough.
About forty students took their anger about the presidential election and the war in Iraq to the intersection of Grand and Snelling Avenues, which they physically blocked during a protest on Wednesday evening.
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Actors Josh Hartnett and Sharon Stone spoke to over 100 Macalester students at a John Kerry rally in front of Bateman Plaza Tuesday morning. After giving brief speeches, Hartnett and Stone led the audience to vote at Macalester-Plymouth United Church on Macalester Street.
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The first of several candidates for the position of Dean of the Study of Race and Ethnicity is on campus this week.
Jane Rhodes, associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will be delivering a public lecture entitled “Black Power Across the Black Atlantic” today at noon in Humanities Room 401. The lecture will focus on the influence of 1960s figures such as Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael and the Black Panther Party on the later British Black Power movements.
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Long after Election Day had turned into election night, a keg party in the basement of a Wheeler St. duplex was turning into a political funeral. A dozen people sat in virtual silence, gathered around a television flashing an election map of the United States presidential race as it turned increasingly red.
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“Need-blind admissions” is not part of Adam Witt’s vocabulary, and he is okay with that.
Over the past decade, numerous liberal arts colleges have re-examined their need-blind policies. One such school is Carleton College, where Witt is a junior.
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Dean of Multicultural Life Joi Lewis left on Monday for a two-month long administrative sabbatical in South Africa, where she will study issues affecting Macalester students studying abroad at the University of Cape Town.
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The Small is Beautiful Committee of the St. Paul Green Party has been working on a proposal to present to the community that would limit the size of future stores opening up in the Twin Cities to anywhere between 40,000 and 70,000 square feet. This project resulted from frustration with Wal-Mart’s complete dismissal of a community campaign to demand that their new St. Paul store meet higher, community-set standards.
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I fully believe that adherence to values need never be compromised for want of financial resources. It is this belief that I carry forward in the discussion on tuition revenue.
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When I was growing up, my parents always cautioned me to remember that there are two sides to every story. Over the past year I feel that there has been a lot of information about Coca-Cola, Inc. floating around Macalester. However, I feel that the stories that get the most press are the ones that demand action without actual examination of the Coke Company, or the situation that exists in Colombia. I grew up in Georgia, the Coke capital of the world, and I feel that I can expound intelligently on some aspects of the company that many people have not thought about, or have purposely ignored.
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Battling a muddy, wet and windy course, the women’s cross country team was not able to keep up with stiff competition at last Saturday’s MIAC championship meet, dashing hopes of winning what would have been the first team title in the program’s history.
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Women’s soccer will battle the Concordia-Moorhead Cobbers tonight, at stake is the MIAC crown, and the automatic entry into the NCAA national tournament.
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In its final game of the season, the volleyball team narrowly lost to Bethel 2-3 last Wednesday. The closeness of the defeat in many ways characterized the Scots’ season, which ended with a 5-6 MIAC record and 11-16 overall record.
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Although sometimes forgotten by Macalester students, the Presidential election proved that Republicans do, in fact, exist. This week, I tracked down Kramer Lawson ’05 to find out first-hand what life is like for a Republican Mac student. I felt a bit sheepish about choosing a Spotlight subject based solely on his voting persuasion, but as I quickly learned, Kramer is a very good sport about being constructed as the Political Other.
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We were nice enough to hold a sÈance and bring Benjamin Franklin back to life for our book club costume party, and all he did was totally rain on our parade. And it wasn’t one of those summertime drizzles made of confetti, rice and high spirits, either. It was more like scattered showers of extreme geezer discontent. I turned to my BFFs and I was like, “Beep, beep, beep . . . Severe Blunder-Storm Warning, we totally pulled a blooper inviting this bloke’s spirit to our happening bash. He’s totally gonna cramp our steeze in front of the fellas.”
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I’ve been trying to trace the origin of the word hobo. I think it’s safe to assume that the word is a combination of two. I originally thought it was a derivation of homeless bum, but then I realized we would be calling them hobu’s instead.
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Throughout November, The Babylon Art and Cultural Center will be presenting an exhibit entitled “Return to Babylon.” The exhibit will coincide with the Seward Art Crawl as well as the screening of the documentary “The Fourth World War.”
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COLIN: When I bumped into a friend this morning, I found him advocating nihilism. Not that I agreed with him, but I could understand how he felt: I woke up today, and the first thing I thought was ‘I want to see blood.’ But then I realized it was just one of the seven stages.
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“Showgirls”
The Minneapolis/St. Paul LGBT Film Festival opens for its 15th year this Thursday, Nov. 11. “Showgirls” will kick off the festival, and the screening will be accompanied by an analysis from Seattle writer and performer David Schmader. An opening night premiere party will follow the screening, and all films will show at the Oak Street Cinema.
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For vanity’s sake we should all pretend that celebrities and musicians help swing undecided voters just as we pretend that they’re our moral guidance. It’s a healthy naivetÈ.
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It is official: Wilco’s controversial folk album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has gone gold! And what better day to celebrate than when Wilco themselves perform a concert at our very own Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis.
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